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Question 1

Vikings led by Leif Erickson found Vinland in Newfoundland

Answer 1

1000

Question 2

Columbus discovers America

Answer 2

1492

Question 3

John Cabot reaches Newfoundland

Answer 3

1497

Question 4

Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain

Answer 4

1513

Question 5

Jacques Cartier explores Canada

Answer 5

1536

Question 6

Hernando de Soto explores the South

Answer 6

1539-41

Question 7

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado reaches New Mexico

Answer 7

1540-42

Question 8

Roanoke

Answer 8

1585

Question 9

Jamestown, Virginia

Answer 9

1607

Question 10

Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec

Answer 10

1608

Question 11

The Mayflower

Answer 11

1620

Question 12

The English capture New Amsterdam and Fort Orange

Answer 12

1664

Question 13

William Penn founds Pennsylvania

Answer 13

1681

Question 14

New Orleans founded by the French

Answer 14

1718

Question 15

James Oglethorpe founds Savannah in Georgia

Answer 15

1733

Question 16

Vitus Bering discovers Alaska

Answer 16

1741

Question 17

French and Indian War

Answer 17

1754-63

Question 18

Battle of Quebec

Answer 18

1775

Question 19

Treaty of Paris

Answer 19

1783

Question 20

Boston Massacre

Answer 20

1770

Question 21

Boston Tea Party

Answer 21

1773

Question 22

American War of Independence

Answer 22

1775-83

Question 23

Declaration of Independence

Answer 23

1776, July 4th

Question 24

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 24

1777

Question 25

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 25

1781

Question 26

Treaty of Paris

Answer 26

1783

Question 27

Northwest Ordinance

Answer 27

1787

Question 28

The United States Constitution signed

Answer 28

1787

Question 29

Bill of Rights

Answer 29

1791

Question 30

Cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney

Answer 30

1793

Question 31

Washington D.C. becomes the capital

Answer 31

1800

Question 32

Marbury vs. Madison

Answer 32

1803

Question 33

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 33

1803

Question 34

Lewis and Clark expedition

Answer 34

1804-06

Question 35

Second War of Independence

Answer 35

1812-15

Question 36

The Star-Spangled Banner written

Answer 36

1814

Question 37

Battle of New Orleans

Answer 37

1815

Question 38

Acquisition of Florida

Answer 38

1819

Question 39

Missouri Compromise

Answer 39

1820

Question 40

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 40

1823

Question 41

Indian Removal Act

Answer 41

1830

Question 42

Battles of Alamo, San Jacinto, Texas becomes a republic

Answer 42

1836

Question 43

Texas joins the Union

Answer 43

1845

Question 44

Mexican War

Answer 44

1846-48

Question 45

Oregon Treaty

Answer 45

1846

Question 46

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Answer 46

1848

Question 47

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 47

1854

Question 48

American Civil War

Answer 48

1861-65

Question 49

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 49

1863

Question 50

Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg

Answer 50

1863

Question 51

The Reconstruction

Answer 51

1865-77

Question 52

Alaska Purchase

Answer 52

1867

Question 53

Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone

Answer 53

1876

Question 54

Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 54

1876

Question 55

Wounded Knee Massacre

Answer 55

1890

Question 56

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 56

1896

Question 57

Spanish-American War

Answer 57

1898

Question 58

Annexation of Hawaii

Answer 58

1898