Early Exploration
Who sponsored Columbus' voyage to the New World?
Who is Ferdinand II & Isabella I of Spain (will accept Spain for full points).
What was the first colony in America?
What is Jamestown.
Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Native Americans & dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. What was this event called?
What is the Boston Tea Party.
Who was the President during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
What war did Reconstruction follow?
What is the Civil War.
What Viking explorer was credited with discovering America before Columbus?
Who is Leif Ericksson.
What Native American group was part of the first Thanksgiving?
Who are the Wampanoag.
Where did the first Continental Congress take place (in 1774)?
Where is Philadelphia.
Who is Harriet Tubman.
Who "won" the Civil War?
Who is the North.
Who first explored China in 1254?
Who is Italian explorer Marco Polo.
This original colony was known for its religious tolerance. (Hint: it was founded by Roger Williams)
What is Rhode Island.
Who was the first man killed in the Boston Massacre?
Who is Crispus Attucks.
What was the biggest threat to soldiers during the Civil War (two thirds were killed by this)?
What is disease.
This decision, posed in front of the US Supreme Court, denied black people their right to claim American citizenship.
What is the Dredd-Scott decision.
Who is America named after?
Who is Amerigo Vesspuci.
This woman was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for questioning Puritan ideology.
Who is Anne Hutchinson.
This famous American general betrayed the American army and defected to the British army in 1781.
Who is Benedict Arnold.
Who was the President of the South during the Civil War?
Who is Jefferson Davis.
Was Reconstruction a success or failure for black Southerners?
What is failure.
What was vital in Hernando Cortes' conquering of Aztec civilization (in Mexico)?
What is horses.
Name the original thirteen colonies.
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Name three of the five men who drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston.
What was the dividing line between Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia called? (Hint: slaves needed to cross this line into the North in order to be considered free from Southern slave owners).
What is the Mason Dixon Line?
The 13th amendment was ratified December 6, 1865, to achieve what?
What is establish black freedom.