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100
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
100
The names of two goods that Parliament passed taxes on.
What were...(tea, government documents, paper, glass, paint, wine, fruit)?
100
The first battles of the Revolutionary War were the battles of _____________
What are/were Lexington and Concord?
100
The number of branches of the US federal government.
What is three?
100
The name of the US president who was a hero of the War of 1812, held a rager in the White House to celebrate being inaugurated, and allowed Georgia to illegally drive out the Cherokee and take their lands.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
100
The name of the US president whose election prompted the South to secede.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
The third president of the United States.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
200
3 things that were introduced to the Old World (Europe, Africa, & Asia) by Columbian Exchange.
What are...numerous possible responses, such as;
Tomatoes, Squash, Beans, Potatoes, Peppers, Cacao, Cassava, Manioc
200
The name of the incident where British soldiers shot and killed several residents of Boston during a confrontation.
What was the Boston Massacre?
200
The river that Washington and the Continental Army crossed on Christmas to catch the celebrating Hessian mercenaries off guard.
What is the Delaware River/Delaware?
200
The only house of Congress that can create new taxes.
What is the House of Representatives?
200
The purchase of France's claims to a large area of land west of the Mississippi by president Thomas Jefferson.
What was the Louisiana purchase?
200
The ultimate, primary cause of the Civil War.
What was Slavery?
200
The name of the president who ran on a platform of expanding the US, provoked a war with Mexico in order to steal California, New Mexico, Arizona, and more, and then declined to run for re-election because he'd accomplished his whole platform.
Who was James K. Polk?
300
The expensive war (fought in both North America and Europe) which led the British government to increase taxes on the colonies.
What was the 7 Years War/French and Indian War?
300
The names of 7 of the original 13 colonies.
What are (Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, & Georgia)?
300
The young French aristocrat who served with the Continental Army and helped win French support for the 13 colonies.
Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
300
What was the name of the first government the 13 colonies created, before the US constitution?
What were the Articles of Confederation
300
The invention that made growing cotton (and as a result, slavery) into the South's most profitable business.
What was the Cotton Gin?
300
The executive order Lincoln issued in 1863, after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The name of the Senator from Kentucky who promoted his plan of the "American System" and really really wanted to be president, but never won. (Though he did help John Quincy Adams get elected.)
Who was Henry Clay?
400
The Powhatan woman who was married to Englishman John Rolfe as part of a peace treaty between the English and the Powhatan tribe in Virginia.
Who was Pocahontas?
400
The term for the acts of parliament that closed the port of Boston, revoked Massachusetts' colonial charter, and allowed royal officials to send colonists back to England for trial for certain crimes.
What were The Intolerable Acts?
400
The nickname of the woman who took over swabbing and loading a cannon for her husband, who was suffering from heat stroke.
Who was Molly Pitcher?
400
Name 4 rights protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
What are (freedom of speech, the press, religion, assembly, right to petition)
400
The abolitionist who was born into slavery, escaped, led over a dozen missions to rescue enslaved people, and later worked as a spy and a scout for the Union army during the civil war.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
400
The name of the t̶e̶r̶r̶o̶r̶i̶s̶t̶ HERO who seized the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859, with the goal of convincing enslaved people to join together in a massive revolt.
Who was John Brown?
400
The method of execution used on the 'Witches' convicted in the Salem Witch Trials.
What is hanging?
500
The series of wars waged against the Powhatan tribe by the English colonists of Jamestown.
What were the Anglo-Powhatan Wars?
500
The the incident in which colonists in Rhode Island set a British customs ship on fire as an act of protest.
What was the Gaspee Affair/burning of the Gaspee?
500
The name of the gay Prussian officer who trained the Continental Army.
Who was Baron von Steuben?
500
The supreme court decision that established the court had the power to declare things unconstitutional.
What was Marbury v. Madison?
500
The idea that new states should be allowed to vote on whether to be free states or slave states, ignoring the Missouri compromise.
What was Popular Sovereignty?
500
The second regiment of Black troops raised by the Union Army, whose story made it to the silver screen in the 1989 film Glory.
What was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
500
The name of the paramilitary Republican youth group who supported Abraham Lincoln's 1860 presidential campaign.
Who were the Wide Awakes?
