Geography
People
Places
Events
Miscellaneous
100
This is the continent on which America and Canada exist.
What is North America?
100
This was the first president of the USA?
Who is George Washington?
100
This was the mother country of the USA before it was independent.
What is England/Britain/The UK?
100
This event in Boston before the Revolutionary War was not as brutal as it sounds, as the outnumbered British Redcoats were hit with rocks and sticks and just defending themselves.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
Doing this regularly is the is the number one way to increase your tests scores and grades in school.
What is reading?
200
This is the ocean to the East of the USA, separating the Americas from Europe and Africa.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
This explorerer was actually Italian, even though he sailed for Spain, and motivated other white guys to sail across the Atlantic.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
This is the nation's capital, agreed upon to be in South as a compromise deal, and is technically not a state.
What is Washington D.C.?
200
This is the name commonly given to the American colonies fight with Britain for independence.
What is the Revolutionary War / American War for Independence?
200
This is a document for a country that has all of the rules written down for how the government works.
What is the Constitution?
300
This is massive the ocean to the West of the USA, separating Asia from the Americas.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
This founding father drafted the constitution and became the third president of the USA after Washington and Adams.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
This city in Massachusetts was the site of many conflicts during the Revolutionary war, including a "massacre" and a "tea party."
What is Boston?
300
This document officially broke America away from Britain and served as an important example of the job of governments. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This is another name for our central, or national, government.
What is federal/federalism?
400
This river cuts through the middle of the USA, acting as a border for many states.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
This French solider volunteered to fight with the Patriots during the Revolutionary War, earning mad respect for being on the front lines.
Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
400
This was the location of the final, major battle of the civil war, with George Washington laying siege to General Cornwallis, who was stuck between the water and an army.
What was the Siege of Yorktown?
400
This early rebellion by farmers because the government seized their farms showed the weakness of the Articles of the Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
These are the two houses in the legislative branch in America's federal, and state, governments - they pass laws and its members are elected by the people.
What are the senate and house of representatives?
500
These states in the Northeastern USA are called this, since they were some of the first when England ruled the USA.
What is New England?
500
This is the name of the Native woman who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Who was Sacagawea?
500
When the thirteen of these were under the rule of England before independence, they were not called states, but ________________.
What are the thirteen colonies?
500
This war between France and Britain in North America involved the colonies and Native Americans as well. 
What is the French and Indian War?
500
This was the name of the first constitution of the USA that did not work, as it had to judicial branch and had a weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?