A. American History: Colonial Period and Independence & B. American History: 1800s

Question 1

58. What is one reason colonists came to America?

Answer 1

• freedom
• political liberty
• Religious freedom

Question 2

59. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

Answer 2

• Native Americans

Question 3

60. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

Answer 3

Africans

Question 4

61. Why did the colonists fight the British?

Answer 4

• Because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
• because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
• because they didn’t have self-government.

Question 5

62. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson

Question 6

63. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Answer 6

July 4th, 1776

Question 7

64. There were 13 original states. Name three.

Answer 7

• New York * New Jersey * Pennsylvania * North Carolina * South Carolina

Question 8

65. What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 8

• The Constitution was written.
• The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

Question 9

66. When was the Constitution written?

Answer 9

1787

Question 10

67. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

Answer 10

• James Madison
• Alexander Hamilton
• John Jay

Question 11

68. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

Answer 11

*U.S. Diplomat
*started the first free libraries

Question 12

69. Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

Answer 12

George Washington

Question 13

70. Who was the first President?

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

71. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

Answer 14

The Louisiana Territory

Question 15

72. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.

Answer 15

Choose one:

• War of 1812* Mexican American War * Civil War* Spanish-American War

Question 16

73. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

Answer 16

the Civil War

Question 17

74. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

Answer 17

• slavery
• economic reasons
• states’ rights

Question 18

75. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

Answer 18

• freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
• saved (or preserved) the Union
• led the United States during the Civil War

Question 19

76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 19

freedom of slaves in most Southern states

Question 20

77. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Answer 20

• fought for women’s rights
  and for civil rights