This person rode at midnight to warn of the British invasion - "one if by land, two if by sea".
Who is Paul Revere?
100
This is a movement to rid the country of slavery.
What is Abolition?
100
This colony was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681.
What is Pennsylvania Colony?
100
This general was famous for his leadership during the Revolutionary War and became the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
100
Famous for his leadership during the Revolutionary War. He became the first president.
Who is George Washington?
200
This event caused the British to blockade Boston Harbor through the passage of the intolerable/coercive acts.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
This legally changes the constitution if ratified.
What is an Amendment?
200
Founded by Roger Williams.
What is the Rhode Island Colony?
200
He was the 16th president of the US and gave famous speech, "The Emancipation Proclamation".
He was featured in a recent Spielberg movie.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
He was the greatest Confederate general of the Civil War.
Who is Robert E Lee?
300
The "heard 'round the world" was fired here at this battle.
What is Lexington and Concord?
300
This term is Latin for "before war" and refers particularly to the South before the Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
300
This was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
300
He is currently in office.
Who is Barack Obama?
300
He was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) following his highly successful role as a war general in the second half of the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
The French joined the American colonists at this turning point battle.
What is Saratoga.
400
A fort in Texas where a massacre occurred. We must never forget this.
What is the Alamo.
400
The first permanent European settlement in New England, this was founded by a group of religious separatists who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620.
What is Plymouth Bay?
400
He was elected in 1800 and helped write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
Nicknamed "stonewall".
Who is Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson?
500
A movie starring Mel Gibson dramatizing the Revolutionary War, also starring Heath Ledger.
What is "The Patriot"?
500
This was a Southern jail during the civil war with some of the worst living conditions.
What is Andersonville?
500
This was the English colony in North America that existed briefly during the 16th century, and then continuously from 1607 until the American Revolution (as a British colony after 1707). Its name was first applied by Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth I in 1584.