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The inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
100
What did Thomas Edison invent?
Light bulb
100
What was the name of the first automobile that the average American family could own?
The Model T
100
What were the 2 sides fighting each other in WW2 called?
Axis and Allies
100
What year did the United States land on the moon? Double points if you know the month and day.
1969
July 20
200
What was a home called that was built out of sod blocks? They built these houses because there were not many trees around from which they could get wood.
Sod house
200
Who were the inventors of flight?
The Wright Brothers
200
What was the catastrophic event of 1929, where America's money system crashed, called?
The Great Depression
200
What was the period from the end of the Civil War to 1877 called?
Reconstruction
200
When slaves crossed the Atlantic Ocean, what was this journey called?
Middle Passage
300
The island where immigrants into America had to stop at for processing?
Ellis Island
300
Where did the Wright Brothers have their first flight?
Kitty Hawk NC
300
What was Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to create new programs to "jump start" the economy during the Great Depression called?
The New Deal
300
In 1866, former Confederate soldiers formed a secret organization to suppress blacks. What was this organization called?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
300
What Indian showed the Pilgrims how to plant corn and squash?
Squanto
400
What famous structure, which was a gift from France, stands in New York Harbor?
The Statue of Liberty
400
What act of 1862 opened western lands for free settlement and gave each homesteader 160 acres?
The Homestead Act
400
Farmers leached all the nutrients out of the soil in the prairie lands and caused the area to be called this?
The Dust Bowl
400
Who was the first black child to integrate into a white school in New Orleans, Louisiana?
Ruby Bridges. 
400
This President is the only one to resign their Presidency.
Richard Nixon 
500
A famous black man, who was born a slave, and ended up as the first principle of the black school the Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T Washington.
500
What caused America to join the Great War (WW1)?
The Germans sunk the Lusitania, a passenger ship with American people on board.
500
What event caused America to join World War 2?
Attack on Pearl Harbor. 
500
Name 2 famous people from the Civil Rights Movement?
Rosa Parks
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
500
The 1st Amendment ensures what 5 freedoms?
Religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.