Colonial Period and Independence

Question 1

What is one reason colonists came to America?

Answer 1

freedom

Question 2

Why did the colonists fight the British?

Answer 2

▪ 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 3

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 3

Jefferson

Question 4

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Answer 4

July 4, 1776

Question 5

There were 13 original states. Name three.

Answer 5

▪ Massachusetts
▪ Connecticut
▪ New York

Question 6

What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 6

The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

Question 7

When was the Constitution written?

Answer 7

1787

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Hamilton

Question 9

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

Answer 9

started the first free libraries

Question 10

Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

Answer 10

Washington

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Civil War

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Civil War

Question 13

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

Answer 13

slavery

Question 14

What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

Answer 14

freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)

Question 15

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 15

freed slaves in most Southern states

Question 16

What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Answer 16

▪ fought for women’s rights

▪ fought for civil rights

Question 17

Who was President during World War I?

Answer 17

Woodrow Wilson

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Roosevelt

Question 19

Who did the United States fight in World War II?

Answer 19

Japan, Germany, and Italy

Question 20

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

Answer 20

World War II

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Communism

Question 22

What movement tried to end racial discrimination?

Answer 22

civil rights (movement)

Question 23

What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?

Answer 23

▪ fought for civil rights

▪ worked for equality for all Americans

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Terrorists attacked the United States.

Question 25

Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

Answer 25

Cherokee

Question 26

Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.

Answer 26

Mississippi