Presidents
This was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This state, added in 1959, is the largest state in geographic territory.
What is Alaska?
This ship made a landing in Cape Cod in 1620 with a group of religious separatists known as the Pilgrims.
What is The Mayflower?
Mount Rushmore is located in this state.
What is South Dakota?
This man was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This person became the fourth president of the United States after Thomas Jefferson
This river was involved in an episode during the Revolutionary War in which General George Washington led a famous retreat in order to out maneuver British forces.
What is the Delaware River?
This was a violent uprising in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. It was a response to a debt crisis and the state government's efforts to collect taxes.
What is Shays Rebellion?
This was the name for a Dutch settlement in the 17th century that is now New York City.
What is New Amsterdam?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by this pen name, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
Who is Mark Twain?
This president was ultimately unsympathetic to the needs of the African American community during Reconstruction. He vetoed many pieces of legislation that would have been beneficial to the cause.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These mountains are a range in eastern to northeastern North America. The term refers to several different regions associated with the mountain range, and its surrounding terrain
What are the Appalachian mountains?
This was a violent confrontation between British soldiers and a crowd of colonists in Boston, Massachusetts on March 5, 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This state, while small in stature, was the first state to ratify the US Constitution.
What is Delaware?
This man was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. He led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This president was responsible for many of the "imperialist" notions that the United States held in the early 1900's. He was also assassinated by an anarchist in 1901.
Who is William McKinley?
The Battle of Saratoga, a turning point in the American Revolutionary War, was fought on the upper stretch of this river.
What is the Hudson?
Bleeding Kansas was a period of violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in the Kansas Territory from 1854 to 1861. The violence was a result of this act of 1854, which allowed Kansas voters to decide if the territory would be a free or slave state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This southeastern city was a main hub and area for trading and commerce in the early colonies. It mostly prospered under the trade of rice, tobacco, and other cash crops of the early colonial period and in 1750, it was the wealthiest city south of Philadelphia.
What is Charleston?
This man was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was partially abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This president had a difficult relationship with Native Americans in the 19th century. In his First Annual Message to Congress, delivered December 6, 1881, he laid out the vision for relations between the Federal Government and Indigenous population which was not well received by the Native Americans.
Who is Chester A. Arthur?
The Black Hills, Wounded Knee, and other important indigenous history locations lie just West of an important river that runs directly through both North and South Dakota.
What is the Missouri river?
This event occurred on May 4, 1886, when a labor protest rally near a prominent square in Chicago turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day.
What is the Haymarket riot?
The Battle of this city was a battle fought on January 8, 1815 between the United States and Britain. The battle was the final major battle of the War of 1812.
What is New Orleans?
The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. It was written by this woman.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?