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In 1752, during a thunderstorm over Philadelphia, this man flew a kite to prove that lightning is electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
Two eastern states have major cities named Charleston. Name both of them.
What is South Carolina and West Virginia?
100
This famous poem about the American Revolution beings, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear...?
What is "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
100
The president that is pictured on the American's quarter and dollar bill?
Who is George Washington?
100
These were the large estates where Southerners grew rice, cotton or tobacco?
What is a plantation?
200
In the early 1800s, these two men led an expedition that covered 4,000 miles of the American West.
Who is Lewis and Clark? (Merriweather Lewis and William Clark)
200
This state is spread out across the tops of old volcanoes.
What is Hawaii?
200
This book by Laura Ingalls Wilder, tells aobut a family starting a new life in Kansas.
What is Litte House on the Prairie?
200
This National Holiday honors the American worker.
What is Labor Day? (In September)
200
The date in 2001 where America was attacked by foreign terrorists.
What is September 11, 2001?
300
The race through the French mountains that Lance Armstrong won for America - six times?
What is Tour de France?
300
This mighty river carved the Grand Canyon
What is the Colorado River?
300
"My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty..." Which patriotic song begins with these words?
What is "America"?
300
The four main branches of the U.S. Armed Forces
What is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines?
300
This famous bell rang out in 1776 at the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Liberty Bell?
400
This Michigan man didn't invent the automobile, but his Model T started a whole new industry.
Who is Henry Ford?
400
The Great Lakes form part of our border with Canada. Name all 5 of them.
What is Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior?
400
Who wrote the tale of a city boy who faces the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a hatchet to help him?
Who is Gary Paulsen?
400
The monument in Washington, D.C. that shows an America President sitting in a huge armchair?
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
400
It's December 16, 1773 and colonists are dumping something into the harbor. What is this moment in history?
What is Boston Tea Party?
500
This famous American led the civil rights march from Selma to Mongtomery, Alabama
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
500
Which American city is called "the City of Brotherly Love"?
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
500
In the song,"America the Beautiful," where re the "purple mountain majesties?"
What is "above the frutied plain?"
500
The amendment in the Bill of Rights that guarantees freedom of speech.
What is the First Amendment.
500
Put these Presidents in chronological order: Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, George Bus, Jimmy Carter.
What is Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George Bush?