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This is the war where we fought the British for our Independence?
What is the Revolutionary War?
100
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in...?
What is 1492?
100
Taking place in Salem, Massachusetts this span of time was prominent with accusations of others dealing in witch craft therefore forced to death.
What is the Salem Witch Trials
100

A series of reforms enacted by the FDR administration between 1933 and 1942

What was the New Deal?

100

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

200
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The first colony that the pilgrims set up was called
What is Plymouth or Plymouth Rock?
200
An incident where British redcoats killed five civilian colonists. Took place in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200

Act offered farmers 160 acres of public land in the West for free

What was the Homestead Act?

200

A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry.

What was the Dust Bowl?

300

This was the year of the first 4th of July.

What is 1776?

300
Christopher Columbus sailed for Portugal but was actually from....?
What is Italy?
300

The removal of Native Americans from the southeast United States was known as the Trail of what?

What is The Trail of Tears?

300

An 1887 act that regulated land rights on tribal lands

What was the Dawes Act?

300

A series of riots in L.A. California during WWII

What were the Zoot Suit Riots?

400

He was King of Britain when we declared Independence?

Who is King George III?

400
What Native American group helped the pilgrims in the first Thanksgiving? Sioux Wampanoag Cherokee
Who are the Wampanoag?
400
This was the year the stock market crashed and started the Great Depression.
What is 1929?
400

A 1935 Act that granted rights to unions and allowed collective bargaining

What was the Wagner Act?

400

1876 Sioux victory over U.S.army troops led by George Custer

What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?

500
The city where Congress met to draft and adopt the Declaration of Independence.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
500
An explorer for the Vikings that was said to have discovered North America before Columbus.
Who is Leif Ericson?
500
The name of the camps that held Japanese-Americans that were considered a threat after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
What is Japanese-American Internment Camps?
500

Laws passed in 1941 by the U.S. allowing us to give aid to our Allies in early WWII

What was the Lend-Lease Act?

500

US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.

What was the Battle of Wounded Knee?