This early colony was established by the Virginia Company in the hopes of discovering gold and was populated mainly by adventurous gentlemen.
What is Jamestown?
100
The Germans confessed that they would have kept fighting had they known these were NOT the terms of their surrender.
What are Wilson's 14 Points?
100
"Ike" sent military protection for the Little Rock Nine and warned America about the consequences of "the military-industrial complex."
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
This state prides itself in being the first to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
100
He sold the Luisiana Territory to the United States in order to pay for the troops needed for his nest campaign in Europe.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
200
Only five people died in this squabble between protestors and job-stealing British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
President Kennedy inherited this failed invasion plan from his successor, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
200
He was in the White House when the Bonus Army, which he believed was made of Communists and not doughboy veterans arrived in Washington D.C.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
This Civil War amendment states determines who is a citizen of the United Sates.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
After the Civil War, the "Angel of the Battlefield" used her innovative new medical practices to found the Red Cross.
What is Clara Barton?
300
This colony's peaceful relationship with the Native Americans was made possible by the pacifistic nature of its founder's faith.
What is Pennsylvania?
300
One of the main reasons for the United State's involvement in WWI, it was intercepted by British intelligence.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
300
He expanded suffrage to more white males than before, but was known by Native Americans as "Long Knife" because of his harsh removal policies toward them.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
This amendment ended Prohibition by nullifying the 18th amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?
300
He was the pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima from a plane named after his own mother.
Who is Paul Tibbets?
400
A buffer colony between English and Spanish territory, it was populated by debtors rescued from English prisons by James Oglethorpe.
What is Georgia?
400
This battleship's painstakingly slow journey from the American West Coast to Cuba during the Spanish-American War proved to Theodore Roosevelt that the Panama Canal was needed.
What is the USS Oregon?
400
The first president after WWI promised the "return of normalcy," and died before investigators could connect him to the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
400
This amendment established the electoral college months before the election of 1804.
What is the 12th Amendment?
400
One of the main writers for the "Federalist Papers" and the man who proposed the establishment of a national bank as part of his plan to bring America out of debt. He was killed in a duel with Aron Burr.
Who Alexander Hamilton?
500
This German-born printer's trial over weather publishing controversial but truthful information in newspapers was legal helped form the basis for the first amendment.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
500
One of the only Japanese "attacks" on the Continental U.S. occurred when six people were killed by a balloon bomb near this town.
What is Medford, Oregon?
500
He passed the Embargo Act in 1807 in order to retaliate against British impressment of Americans.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
Under the constitution, congress was prohibited from taking any action to control slavery until this year.
What is 1808?
500
Brown's lawyer was also the first African American on the Supreme Court.