C.L. Test 1-20

Question 1

A concentration camp established by the nazis

Answer 1

What was Auschwitz?

Question 2

They were put into gas chambers and suffocated to death

Answer 2

What were the ethnic groups at Aschwitz?

Question 3

It was a prison in Paris

Answer 3

What was Bastille?

Question 4

They attacked the prison Bastille on July 14th

Answer 4

Who were common workers?

Question 5

A fort that used to be a chapel

Answer 5

What was the Alamo?

Question 6

Davy Crockett

Answer 6

What legend did General Santa Anne kill?

Question 7

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 7

What ended the American civil war?

Question 8

The war of “brother against brother”

Answer 8

What was the civil war termed

Question 9

A black soldier killed in the Boston massacre

Answer 9

Who was Crispus Attucks?

Question 10

The struggle for liberty

Answer 10

What did Attucks die for?

Question 11

An African American man of the early 19th century

Answer 11

Who was Benjamin Banneker?

Question 12

Calculus and trigonometry

Answer 12

What did Banneker teach himself?

Question 13

The first ten amendments of the American constitution

Answer 13

What is the bill of rights?

Question 14

Freedoms of speech, religion, assembly, and the press

Answer 14

What does the bill of rights protect?

Question 15

A clash of British troops and townspeople of Boston

Answer 15

What was the Boston massacre?

Question 16

In 1770 before the revolutionary war

Answer 16

When did the Boston massacre take place

Question 17

An act of defiance toward the British government

Answer 17

What was the Boston tea party?

Question 18

In 1773 before the revolutionary war

Answer 18

When did the Boston tea party take place?

Question 19

The first great battle of the revolutionary war

Answer 19

What was the battle of bunker hill?

Question 20

Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes

Answer 20

What was the famous phrase said by William Prescott?

Question 21

The war fought in the United States between the north and south states

Answer 21

What was the civil war?

Question 22

The “ war between the states “

Answer 22

What was the civil war also known as?

Question 23

The fundamental law of the United States

Answer 23

What is the constitution?

Question 24

Philadelphia

Answer 24

Where was the constitution drafted?

Question 25

A Spanish explorer of the 16th century

Answer 25

Who was Francisco Coronado?

Question 26

The seven gold cities of Cibola

Answer 26

What was Coronado searching for?

Question 27

A 19th century reformer

Answer 27

Who was Dorothea Dix?

Question 28

Protested the confining of putting mentally ill people in prison

Answer 28

What did Dix do?

Question 29

A political leader of the 19th century

Answer 29

Who was Stephen Douglas?

Question 30

The hand of the same woman in marriage

Answer 30

What did both men sought for

Question 31

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 31

Who wrote the emancipation proclamation?

Question 32

It applied only to rebellious areas that the government couldn’t control

Answer 32

Why didn’t the proclamation free any slaves?

Question 33

The first article of the bill of rights

Answer 33

What is the first amendment?

Question 34

Congress cannot tamper with the known freedoms

Answer 34

What does the first amendment forbid?

Question 35

The union army

Answer 35

Who wore blue uniforms in the civil war?

Question 36

The confederate army

Answer 36

Who wore gray uniforms in the civil war?

Question 37

An American frontier settler

Answer 37

Who was Daniel Boone?

Question 38

Exploration of Kentucky

Answer 38

What is Boone known for?

Question 39

The assassin of Lincoln

Answer 39

Who was John Wilkes Booth?

Question 40

By a self inflicted bullet wound

Answer 40

How did Booth die?