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100

It required this many states to amend the Articles of Confederation. 

What is 13?

100

The Jamestown colony finally became profitable by growing this crop.

What is tobacco?

100

This person is on the one dollar bill.

Who is George Washington?

100

This was the first state to ratify the new U.S. Constitution.

What is Delaware?

100

He and his kite are credited with discovering electricity. 

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

200

The "supremacy clause" is found in this article of the U.S. Constitution.

What is Article VI (6)?

200

This nation colonized Louisiana.

What is France?

200
This person is on the 5 dollar bill.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

200

This Frenchman directed the sale of the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. 

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte? 

200
He created a new kind of work pants for miners during the CA Gold Rush.

Who is Levi Strauss?

300

This many delegates at the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence.

What is 56?

300

This was the first attempt at establishing an English colony in the New World. 

What is Roanoke?

300

This person is on the 10 dollar bill.

Who is Alexander Hamilton?

300

Whigs, Greenbacks, Free Soilers, and Know Nothings are all types of these. 

What are political parties?

300

An avid inventor, Thomas Jefferson created a prototype of this type of chair. 

What is a swivel chair?

400

This amendment abolished slavery.

What is the 13th Amendment?

400

This Native American nation helped Plymouth survive its first winter.

Who are the Wampanoag?

400

This person is on the 20 dollar bill.

Who is Andrew Jackson?

400

The "The Star-Spangled Banner," the U.S. National Anthem, was written during this war.

What is the War of 1812?

400

He invented the telegraph system.

Who is Samuel Morse?

500

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote this many Federalist Papers essays.

What is 85 essays?

500

This is the oldest Spanish settlement in Florida. 

What is St. Augustine?

500

This person is on the 50 dollar bill.

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

500

He was the first president to be impeached.

Who is Andrew Johnson?

500

This invention closed the West's "open range" and effectively ended long cattle drives.

What is barbed wire?