American History

Question 1

What is ONE reason colonists came to America?

Answer 1

Religious Freedom

Question 2

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

Answer 2

Native Americans

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Africans

Question 4

Why did the colonists fight the British?

Answer 4

Because of high taxes, because the British army stayed in their houses and because they didn’t have self-government

Question 5

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson

Question 6

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Answer 6

July 4th, 1776

Question 7

There were 13 original states. Name THREE.

Answer 7

Massachusetts, New York, Maryland

Question 8

What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 8

The Constitution was written by the Founding Fathers

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 writters.

Answer 10

Alexander Hamilton

Question 11

What is ONE thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

Answer 11

U.S. Diplomat

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

Louisiana

Question 15

Name ONE war fought by the United States in the 1800s

Answer 15

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

Saved the Union

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 civil rights

Question 21

Name ONE war fought by the United States in the 1900s

Answer 21

World War II

Question 22

Who was President during World War I?

Answer 22

Woodrow Wilson

Question 23

Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?

Answer 23

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 24

Who did the United States fight in World War II?

Answer 24

The Axis Powers - Japan, Germany and Italy

Question 25

Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?

Answer 25

World War II

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

The Civil Rights movement

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

Navajo