Colonial America
What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?
Jamestown
What territory was purchased from France in 1803?
Louisiana
What territory did gold seekers rush to in 1849?
California
Who invented the reaping machine?
Cyrus McCormick
Which president had an economic program called the New Deal?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which president challenged the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall?
Ronald Reagan
Which president moved the embassy to Jerusalem?
Donald Trump
What organization was formed to promote peace among the nations of the world after World War II?
United Nations
What country uses a missile defense system called the Iron Dome?
Israel
Who gave the Atlanta Compromise speech?
Booker T. Washington
In 2017, where did the deadliest shooting in U.S. history take place?
Las Vegas
What colony founded by Roger Williams set a precedent for religious freedom?
Rhode Island
What form of government was established by the Constitution?
Federal republic
What Indigenous nation called their forced removal the Trail of Tears?
Cherokee
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who was the leader of Italy during World War II?
Benito Mussolini
Which president resigned from office?
Richard M. Nixon
Which president was remembered for the Whitewater affair?
Bill Clinton
What name was given to the countries that sided with Germany during World War II?
Axis powers
In 2018, President Trump met with Kim Jong-Un, dictator of what country?
North Korea
What amendment lowered the voting age to eighteen?
Twenty-sixth Amendment
Who was the chief medical advisor to the president during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Who wrote History of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
What document established the first government of the United States?
Articles of Confederation
Who established a large American settlement in Texas?
Stephen Austin
Who made the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean?
Charles Lindbergh
Which president ordered the atomic bomb attack on Japan?
Harry S. Truman
Which president was assassinated in 1963?
John F. Kennedy
Which president created the Department of Homeland Security?
George W. Bush
What was the ideological war between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II called?
Cold War
What policy, in response to the 9/11 attacks, promoted moving against enemies of freedom on foreign soil rather than waiting for domestic attacks?
Bush Doctrine
What was the first state to give full political privileges to women?
Wyoming
What is a company that has complete control of its market called?
Monopoly
What was the most widely used textbook in colonial America?
New England Primer
What government policy prohibited future European colonization of the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine
What act further opened the Great Plains to settlement?
Homestead Act
What new service branch was created to ensure American space authority while keeping space open to scientific study and free from international conflict?
Space Force
Which president was remembered as the Great Humanitarian?
Herbert Hoover
Which president allowed military experts to direct Operation Desert Storm?
George H. W. Bush
Which president visited Cuba in 2016?
Barack Obama
Whose assassination led to the beginning of World War I?
Franz Ferdinand
Who was the U.S. ambassador killed in the Benghazi attacks?
John Christopher Stevens
Who was known as the Father of American Missions?
Adoniram Judson
What idea promotes the government controlling all resources on behalf of the people?
Socialism
Where did Christopher Columbus make his first landing in the New World?
San Salvador
What was the final major battle of the War for Independence?
Battle of Yorktown
What was the most decisive battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
Who revolutionized the steel industry and became one of the wealthiest men in the 1890s?
Andrew Carnegie
Who proposed the League of Nations after World War I?
Woodrow Wilson
Which president negotiated the surrender of the Panama Canal to Panama by 1999?
Jimmy Carter
Who was the first female vice president?
Kamala Harris
What legislation allowed the Allies to purchase American weapons and food during World War II?
Lend-Lease Act
What nation did Saddam Hussein invade in 1990?
Kuwait
What influential civil rights leader promoted nonviolent demonstrations to end discrimination?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What act created a government fund for unemployment and old-age insurance?
Social Security Act
In what year did the Treaty of Paris end the French and Indian War?
1763
What amendment outlawed slavery in America?
Thirteenth Amendment
In what year was the Wright brothers’ first successful powered flight?
1903
Which president was involved with the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Warren G. Harding
Who was the first female Speaker of the House?
Nancy Pelosi
What was the turning point in the battle to control the Pacific during World War II?
Battle of Midway
At the Camp David Accords, Israel signed a peace treaty with what country?
Egypt
Who was the first Black Supreme Court justice?
Thurgood Marshall
In what year was the Spanish-American War fought?
1898
In what year did the Civil War end?
1865
What was the name of the first space shuttle launched by the United States?
Columbia