Colonial Era
The people living in America before Europeans arrived
Who are the Native Americans? (American Indians)
The war fought in America between the North and South
What is the Civil War
President during the Great Depression and WWII
Who is Franklin Roosevelt? (FDR)
The date the Declaration of Independence was adopted
What is July 4, 1776?
The father of our country
Who is George Washington
A reason colonists came to America
What is Religious Freedom?
(Also Correct: Freedom, Political Liberty, Economic Opportunities, Escape Persecution)
The territory the U.S. bought from France in 1803
What is Louisiana?
The main concern of America during the Cold War
What is Communism?
The event that happened on September 11, 2001
What is "Terrorists attacked the United States"
What Martin Luther King Jr. is famous for
What is "Fought for Civil Rights"
The person who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
What the Emancipation Proclamation did
What is Freed the Slaves in the Confederacy
The 3 countries fought by the U.S. in WWII
What are Japan, Germany, and Italy
The president during WWI
Who was Woodrow Wilson
What Abraham Lincoln was famous for
What is "Freed the Slaves"
Also Correct:
Saved the union
Led the U.S. in the Civil War
The 3 writers of the Federalist Papers
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
(Publius also counts)
A problem that lead to the civil war
What is Slavery? (States Rights)
Before he was president, the war in which Eisenhower served as a general
What is WWII?
A reason the colonists fought the British
What is "Because of high taxes"
Also Correct:
Because the British army stayed in their houses
Because they didn't have self-government
What Susan B. Anthony was famous for
What is "Fought for Women's rights"
The year the Constitution was written
What is 1787?
A war fought in the 1800's that is NOT the Civil War
What is the War of 1812
Also Correct:
Mexican-American War
Spanish-American War
The movement that tried to end racial discrimination
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
3 Native American tribes in the United States
what are the Hopi, Navajo, and Cherokee
Also Correct:
Sioux, Chippewa, Choctaw, Pueblo, Apache, Iroquois, Creek, Blackfeet, Seminole, Cheyenne, Arawak, Shawnee, Mohegan, Huron, Oneida, Lakota, Crow, Teton, Inuit
What Benjamin Franklin is famous for
what is "Was a U.S. Diplomat"
Also Correct:
Oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
First Postmaster General
Started the first free libraries
Writer of "Poor Richard's Almanac