Revolution/Westward Expansion
The Declaration of Independence adopted on what day?
July 4th, 1776
What is the name of the trail that led over 400,000 travelers to the east coast?
Oregon Trail
What is the name of the theatre that President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
Ford Theatre
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
What is the name of the canal that was built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean to lower distance and cost for cargo ships?
Panama Canal
The oldest signer of the constitution and declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin
Who was the President during the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
President Abraham Lincoln gave a message that all enslaved people were free.
Emancipation Proclamation
Who invented the telephone
Alexandar Graham Bell
This President came into office after McKinley was assassinated and a stuff bear is named after him.
Theodore Roosevelt
Who was the only President to not live in the White House?
George Washington
The Oklahoma Land Rush was a result of two acts. One broke up the tribal lands and allot them to individual Native American. The other opened unassigned land to settlers.
Dawes Act or Indian Appropriation Act
What supreme court case cause outrage and even more divide between the North and the South and resulted in Civil War?
Dred Scott Case
What was the main reason for the Spanish-American War?
Independence of Cuba
What year did Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully fly the first airplane?
1903
How many men signed the US Constitution
39
People who entered and claimed the Oklahoma lands before the official opening on April 22, 1889.
Sooners
Name at least two reasons for the Civil War
Slavery, States Rights, Economics.
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War?
Treaty of Paris
Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line in what year?
1913