1600s (& Earlier)
1700s
1800s
1900s
2000s
100

Historians estimate the first settlers arrived on what is now American soil more than ______ years ago.

What is more than 12,000 years ago?

100

The number of British Colonies in America.

What is 13?

100

The first president to declare war

Who is James Madison?

100
The year American women were granted the right to vote

What is 1920?

100

This state's electoral votes ultimately decided the 2000 presidential election

What is Florida?

200

Scholars believe they walked over a land bridge between Asia and Alaska.

What is Indigenous Tribes?

200

On December 16, 1773, colonists dumped a shipment of tea into the harbor

What is the Boston Tea Party?

200

The State that succeeded from Virginia in 1863

What is West Virginia?

200

The last state admitted to the union

What is Hawaii?
200

Hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005

What is Hurricane Katrina?

300

Most historians agree this explorer did not land in what would later become the United States.

What is Christopher Columbus?

300
The first president to live in the White House

Who is John Adams?

300

The year the first U.S. dollar was printed

What is 1862?

300

The first man on the moon

Who is Neil Armstrong?

300

The first Black President

Who is Barack Obama?

400

The first American colony.

What is Jamestown?

400

The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War

What is the Treaty of Paris?

400

This country gifted the U.S. the Statue of Liberty

What is France?

400

They refused to give up their bus seat, sparking national civil rights protests

Who is Rosa Parks?

400

The year of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression

What is 2008?

500

The Pilgrims' ship

What is the Mayflower?

500

The first capital of the United States.

What is New York City?

500

The assassin of President Abraham Lincoln

Who is John Wilkes Booth?

500

A father and son who have both served as presidents

Who are George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush?

or Who are John Adams and John Quincy Adams?

500

The former Vice President who won a Nobel Peace Prize

Who is Al Gore?