The West
This months-long journey was how hundreds of thousands made their way West.
What was the Oregon Trail?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this Fort by the Confederates.
What was Sumpter?
He was the first Republican president.
Who was Lincoln?
The bay on the East Coast which touches five states' coastlines.
What is Chesapeake?
The length of the longest shutdown in US government history.
What is 42 days?
This President ensured the US would be "from sea to shining sea" by adding California.
Who was Polk?
Wilmer Maclean's house was destroyed in this, the first major battle of the War.
Who are the Adams?
The farthest west of the Great Lakes.
What is Lake Superior?
The name of our current Secretary of State.
Who is Marco Rubio?
This woman helped the first official expedition which charted the way west, helping them navigate unknown lands.
Who was Sacagawea?
This battle was the bloodiest day in American history, with more than 20K men killed.
What was Antietam?
Who was Monroe?
What is Pennsylvania?
The country which has largely funded Hamas and is developing nuclear weapons.
What is Iran?
This compromise established popular sovereignty in two Midwest states, whose populations would decide the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
He was President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Davis?
Four of our first five Presidents were from this state.
What is Virginia?
Ulysses Grant and four other US presidents came from this state.
What is Ohio?
The name of the president of Venezuela.
Who is Maduro?
This slave state was added at the same time as California to balance the latter being free.
What was Texas?
The location of the capital of the Confederacy for most of the war, not far from DC.
What is Richmond?
Who was Jackson?
The largest lake in the south, and in Florida.
What is Okeechobee?
The number of US presidents (how many have been elected)?
What is 47?