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200

The first president of the United States, who also fought for the British in the French and Indian War.

Who was George Washington?

200

The first African-American justice appointed to the Supreme Court.

Who was Thurgood Marshall?

200

The year the American Revolutionary War began with the "shot heard 'round the world" in Lexington, Massachusetts.

What is 1775?

200

The political party of the current president, Donald Trump.

What is Republican?

200

The deadliest war in American history measured by American deaths.

What is the American Civil War?

400

The sixteenth president of the United States, who was a leading member of the newly-formed Republican Party.

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

400

The first female justice to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

Who was Sandra Day O'Connor?

400

The war that resulted in significant territorial gains for the United States in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming.

What is the Mexican-American War?

400

The American political party that was founded in 1828 and is now the world’s oldest active political party.

What is the Democratic Party?

400

The year that the first slaves were brought to what would later become the United States.

What is 1619?

600

The only man to ever serve as both the president and the chief justice.

Who was William Howard Taft?

600

The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Who was John Jay?

600

The year in which Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the United States Civil War.

What is 1861?

600

The only United States president to not be a member of a political party.

Who was George Washington?

600

The 9/11 flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, rather than its intended target.

What is United Airlines Flight 93?

800

The official name of the speech delivered by Theodore Roosevelt on April 23, 1910, commonly called "The Man in the Arena."

What is "Citizenship in a Republic?"

800

The first Catholic appointed to the Supreme Court.

Who was Roget B. Taney?

800

The war in which Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" fought in Cuba.

What is the Spanish-American War?

800

The last United States president to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican.

Who was Millard Filmore?

800

The battle that caused the deadliest single day in American history measured by American deaths.

What is the Battle of Antietam?

1000

The first president of the United States to ever be elected without having any prior military experience nor holding any prior elected office.

Who was Herbert Hoover?

1000

The first case ever docketed with the Supreme Court.

What is Van Staphorst v. Maryland (1791)?

1000

The first war in which American soldiers were sent abroad for the express purpose of defending foreign soil.

What is World War One?

1000

The only president to be a member of the Federalist party.

Who was John Adams?

1000

The five tribes that were expelled from the south eastern United States and forced west on the Trail of Tears.

What are the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and/or Choctaw?