C.L Test 21-35

Question 1

Those who flocked to California in 1849 in search of gold.

Answer 1

Who were the forty-niners?

Question 2

This group was in search for gold.

Answer 2

What were the forty-niners searching for?

Question 3

John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington are all this.

Answer 3

Who are the founding fathers?

Question 4

A general name for a American male patriot during the revolutionary war.

Answer 4

What kind of name is founding fathers?

Question 5

A patriot, diplomat, author, printer, scientist, and inventor of the 18th century.

Answer 5

What was Benjamin Franklin?

Question 6

This man demonstrated that lightning was electricity by flying a kite in a thunder storm and allowing it to be struck by lightning.

Answer 6

What did Benjamin Franklin demonstrate?

Question 7

This battle was fought in south central Pennsylvania in 1863.

Answer 7

Where was the battle of Gettysburg fought?

Question 8

This battle ended in a major victory for the north.

Answer 8

How did the battle of Gettysburg end?

Question 9

This speech was delivers by the 16th president Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 9

Who delivered the Gettysburg address?

Question 10

This speech was given at the dedication of a soldiers cemetery at he site of the battle of Gettysburg.

Answer 10

Where did Abraham Lincoln say the Gettysburg address?

Question 11

A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time.

Answer 11

Who is a indentured servant?

Question 12

This person is not paid but in exchange for a free passage to a new country.

Answer 12

How is a indentured servant paid?

Question 13

This town was founded in 1607 in Virginia.

Answer 13

When was Jamestown founded?

Question 14

Jamestown was given to this man.

Answer 14

What was named for king James the first?

Question 15

A French pirate of the early 19th century.

Answer 15

Who was jean lafitte?

Question 16

An aid for general Andrew Jackson.

Answer 16

Wo did jean lafitte aid for?

Question 17

There full names are meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

Answer 17

What are Lewis and Clark’s names?

Question 18

This expedition started in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved up e Missouri River and down the Columbia river to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 18

Where did Lewis and Clark’s expedition start?

Question 19

The battle of Lexington and concord.

Answer 19

What battle was the first battle of the revolutionary war?

Question 20

This battle was fought in Massachusetts on April 19th, 1775.

Answer 20

When was the battle of Lexington and concord fought?

Question 21

The boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Answer 21

Where is the Mason-Dixon Line?

Question 22

Done by two English surveyors, Charles mason and Jeremiah Dixon.

Answer 22

Who laid out the mason Dixon line?

Question 23

The ship that carried the pillgrams to America?

Answer 23

Who used the mayflower?

Question 24

This ship permanently landed near Plymouth Rock?

Answer 24

Where did the mayflower permanently land?

Question 25

An agreement reached among the pillgrams while still on the ship.

Answer 25

What is the mayflower compact?

Question 26

This ship bounded the pillgrams.

Answer 26

Who did the mayflower bound?

Question 27

Armed american civilians.

Answer 27

Who are the minutemen?

Question 28

This group was active during the revolutionary war.

Answer 28

When were the minutemen active?

Question 29

This man invented the telegraph.

Answer 29

What did Samuel F. B. morse invent?

Question 30

He transmitted “ what hath God wrought”.

Answer 30

What did Samuel F. B. Morse transmitt through the telegraph?

Question 31

A tribe of native Americans.

Answer 31

Who were the Navajos?

Question 32

Forced to move by United States troops under command of kit Carson.

Answer 32

Who forced the Navajos to move?