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100

Who is the inventor of the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

100

What are the 3 branches of government? 

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

100

This is the name of the first automobile model that the average American family could own?

The Model T

100

What is the name of the 2 sides which fought each other in WW2?

The Axis and Allied powers.

100

What year did the US land on the moon?


July 20, 1969


200

Where is the Declaration of Independence was signed?

What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania inside Independence Hall (the former state house).

200

What invention is Thomas Edison famous for?

Light bulb 💡

200

This was the term for the catastrophic event of 1929, where America's money system crashed?

The Great Depression

200

What date was the White House built?

1792-1800

200

Opened in 1936, this Dam was the biggest engineering project of its time, standing a colossal 726 feet (221m) high and creating much-needed post-Depression jobs for 21,000 workers.

Hoover Dam

300

What is the name of the island where recent immigrants arrived in America (New York) for processing?

Ellis Island

300

What is the name of the famed inventors of the modern aircraft, having designed and piloted the world’s first successful engine-powered plane?

The Wright Brothers

300

This was Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to create programs to "jump start" the economy after the economic crash of 1929?

The New Deal

300

What is the name of the presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War?

Emancipation Proclamation

300

What is the name of the Philadelphia seamstress who created the first official flag, adopted in 1777, featured 13 stars arranged in a circle, representing the original colonies.

Betsy Ross

400

What is the name of the famous statue that greets those who arrive in New York's harbor? 

What is The Statue of Liberty

400

What is the name of the act enacted in 1862, which opened western lands for free settlement and gave each homesteader 160 acres?

The Homestead Act

400

What is the name of the event in which Farmers leached all the nutrients out of the soil in the prairie lands and caused a natural disaster? 

The Dust Bowl

400

What is the name of the speech Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.



I Have a Dream

400

What is the name of the president that was forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal?

Richard Nixon 

500

What is the name of the African American man who was born into slavery and became the first leader of The Tuskegee Institute. 

 Booker T Washington

500

What are the names of the men that drafted the Declaration of Independence?

  • John Adams

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • Robert Livingston

  • Roger Sherman

500

This event precipitated the United States to join WWI?

Pearl Harbor

500

Rosa Parks is best known for her refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow laws, which sparked the which boycott?  

Montgomery Bus Boycott

500

The Cold War was waged between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. Due to what ideological differences?




The main ideologies were Capitalism (US) vs. Communism (USSR).