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100
He was the first man elected President of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
100
This woman wrote the letter to her husband reminding him to "remember the ladies."
Who is Abigail Adams?
100
This was a secret system of escape designed to help slaves leave the south and live a life of freedom in the Northern states.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This man was the oldest member of the Constitutional Convention. He was an inventor, scientist, and author.
Who is Ben Franklin?
100
This man is the current vice presidential candidate for the Republican party.
Who is Paul Ryan?
200
These were the three main "inalienable rights" written about in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
200
These were the two main reasons women at the Lowell Mills were protesting.
What are lower wages and longer hours?
200
The invention of this machine by Eli Whitney revolutionized the cotton industry and created an even larger demand for slaved.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This man is considered the Father of the Constitution since he wrote the majority of the document.
Who is James Madison?
200
This is the date of Election Day (you don't have school).
What is November 6th?
300
This was the first act of violence by the British towards the colonists. Shots were fired into a group of protesting colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
This was the name of the convention that women activists held in New York.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
300
This man was President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
This man was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This man is the current governor of Pennsylvania.
Who is Tom Corbett?
400
This man was the first killed in violence in America.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
400
These two women organized the first convention designed to further equality for women.
Who were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
400
This controversial law was one of the main parts of the Compromise of 1850. It made it illegal for African Americans to be free in the Northern states and for white people to help a freed slave.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
400
Before the Constitution, this document was America's first government. It was changed because it was too weak.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
400
This novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It had a decidedly anti-slavery slant and was able to generate sympathy and energy for the anti-slavery movement in the North before the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
500
This is the first phrase of the Declaration of Independence?
What is "When in the course of human events..."
500
This was the name of the document that was generated at the first convention designed to fight for equality for women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiment?
500
This document, written by Abraham Lincoln, freed all African American slaves in the states that were rebelling against the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
These are the three branches of government established by the Constitution of the United States.
What are the legislative (congress makes the laws), the executive (president, enforces the laws), and judiciary (courts, check the constitutionality of the laws).
500
After the southern states broke apart from the United States, they named the new country they formed this.
What is the Confederate States of America?