Colonial Period and Independence
This group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves.
What are Africans?
Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
▪ slavery
▪ economic reasons
▪ states’ rights
Name two wars the US Won in the 1900s.
▪ World War I
▪ World War II
▪ Korean War
▪ Vietnam War
▪ (Persian) Gulf War
This happened on September 11, 2001.
What is 911?
With about 190 countries in the world, the US has over 1,000 of these in over 80 countries.
What is a military base?
Why did the colonists fight the British?
▪ because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
▪ because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
▪ because they didn’t have self-government
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
▪ freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
▪ saved (or preserved) the Union
▪ led the United States during the Civil War
Name one Indian tribe from Utah.
What are the Utes, Paiutes, Shoshone, Navajo?
This act of legislation granted the federal government the ability to suspend many civil liberties in the name of national security.
What is the Patriot Act?
Publicly unmatched since 1976, this US Spy aircraft holds the air speed record for traveling 3.5 times the speed of sound.
What is the SR-71 Blackbird?
This man or woman wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This woman or man is known for fighting for women's rights.
Who is Susan B Anthony?
This man or woman is famous for fighting for civil rights.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
After a close and contested election, the Supreme Court decided that this person was the rightful next president.
Who is George Bush?
While Russia claims to have produced 22 stealth fighter jets, the US have produced more than 1,000 of this stealth fighter (that actually works).
What is the F35?
This was the year that the US Constitution was written.
What is 1787?
This territory was bought from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
This man or woman was president during the Great Depression and World War II.
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
The quality of US infrastructure was called into question when this event destroyed levies and dams meant to protect Louisiana.
What was Hurricane Katrina?
Since 2014, US Navy ships have been defending themselves with this type of directed energy weapons system.
What is LaWS: Laser Weapons System?
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
▪ (James) Madison
▪ (Alexander) Hamilton
▪ (John) Jay
▪ Publius
What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
▪ U.S. diplomat
▪ oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
▪ first Postmaster General of the United States
▪ writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
▪ started the first free libraries
The United States became the first country to put a man on the moon during this year.
What is 1969?
In 2015 this company became the first to perform a propulsive landing of an orbital rocket.
What is SpaceX?
By Federal Law U.S. Code § 8062, the US Navy MUST operate at least this many aircraft carriers.
What is 11?