American History

Question 1

What is one reason colonists came to America?

Answer 1

freedom
political liberty
practice their religion

Question 2

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

Answer 2

Native Americans

Question 3

What group of people were taken to America and sold as slaves?

Answer 3

Africans

Question 4

Why did the colonists fight the British?

Answer 4

high taxes
didn’t have self-government
British army stayed in their houses

Question 5

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson

Question 6

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Answer 6

July 4 1776

Question 7

There were 13 original states. Name three.

Answer 7

PA
NY
NC
SC
NJ
MD
VA

Question 8

What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 8

The Constitution was written

Question 9

When was the Constitution written?

Answer 9

1787

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Alexander Hamilton

Question 11

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

Answer 11

older member of the Constitutional Convention

writer of Poor Richard’s Almanac

Question 12

Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

Answer 12

George Washington

Question 13

Who was the first President?

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Louisana

Question 15

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

Answer 15

War of 1812

Civil War

Question 16

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

Answer 16

the Civil War

Question 17

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

Answer 17

slavery

Question 18

What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

Answer 18

freed the slaves

Question 19

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 19

freed the slaves

Question 20

What did Susan B Anthony do?

Answer 20

fought for women’s rights

fought for civil rights

Question 21

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.

Answer 21

WW1
WW2
Korean War
Vietman War

Question 22

What was President during World War 1?

Answer 22

Woodrow Wilson

Question 23

What was President during the Great Depression and World War 2?

Answer 23

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 24

Who did the United States fight in World War 2?

Answer 24

Japan, Germany and Italy

Question 25

Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general, what was was he in?

Answer 25

WW2

Question 26

During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?

Answer 26

communism

Question 27

What movement tried to end racial discrimination?

Answer 27

civil rights

Question 28

What did Martin Luther King Jr do?

Answer 28

fought for civil rights

Question 29

What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States?

Answer 29

Terrorists attacked the United States

Question 30

Name one American Indian tribe in the United States?

Answer 30

Cherokee
Navajo
Iroquois
Inuit