历史 Flashcards
- What is one reason colonists came to America?
Freedom
Political liberty
Religious freedom
Economic opportunity Practice their religion Escape persecution
- Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
American Indians
Native Americans
- What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
Africans
People from Africa
- Why did the colonists fight the British?
Because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
Because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering) Because they didn’t have self-government
- Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
(Thomas) Jefferson
- When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
July 4, 1776
- There were 13 original states. Name three.
New Hampshire。 Massachusetts。Rhode Island。Connecticut
New York。New Jersey。Pennsylvania 。Delaware。
Maryland 。Virginia。
North Carolina 。South Carolina 。Georgia
- What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
The Constitution was written.
The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
- When was the Constitution written?
1787
- The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers. 联邦党人文集
(James) Madison
(Alexander) Hamilton
(John) Jay
Publius
- What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
U.S. diplomat
Oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
First Postmaster General of the United States
Writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
Started the first free libraries
- Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
(George) Washington
- Who was the first President?*
(George) Washington
- What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
The Louisiana Territory
Louisiana
- Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
War of 1812
Mexican-American War
Civil War
Spanish-American War
- Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
The Civil War
The War between the States
- Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
Slavery
Economic reasons
States’ rights
- What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?*
Freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
Saved (or preserved) the Union
Led the United States during the Civil War
- What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? 废奴宣言
Freed the slaves
Freed slaves in the Confederacy
Freed slaves in the Confederate states
Freed slaves in most Southern states
- What did Susan B. Anthony do?
Fought for women’s rights
Fought for civil rights
- Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.*
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War (Persian) Gulf War
- Who was President during World War I?
(Woodrow) Wilson
- Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
(Franklin) Roosevelt
- Who did the United States fight in World War II?
Japan, Germany, and Italy
- Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
World War II
- During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
Communism
- What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
Civil rights (movement)
- What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?*
Fought for civil rights 争取民权
Worked for equality for all Americans 为全美平等而努力
- What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
Terrorists attacked the United States.
- Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
[USCIS Officers will be supplied with a list of federally recognized American Indian tribes.]
Cherokee Navajo Sioux Chippewa Choctaw Pueblo
Apache Iroquois Creek Blackfeet Seminole Cheyenne Arawak Shawnee Mohegan Huron Oneida Lakota
Crow Teton Hopi Inuit
