History Cycle 3

Question 1

Tell me about Columbus.

Answer 1

In 1492, Columbus made the first of four trips to the Caribbean on three Spanish ships named the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

Question 2

Tell me about the Pilgrims.

Answer 2

In 1620, the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England and signed the Mayflower Compact before founding Plymouth Colony in North America.

Question 3

Tell me about the Boston Tea Party.

Answer 3

In 1773, colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped tea from the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor.

Question 4

Tell me about the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 4

In 1776, the Continental Congress published the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, announcing the colonists’ intent to separate from England.

Question 5

Tell me about George Washington.

Answer 5

In 1789, in New York, George Washington was granted the full powers and responsibilities of the presidency by the U.S. Constitution.

Question 6

Tell me about the Louisiana Purchase.

Answer 6

In 1803, the purchase of Louisiana from France prompted westward exploration by pioneers such as Lewis and Clark and Congressman Davy Crockett.

Question 7

Tell me about the Monroe Doctrine.

Answer 7

After victory in the War of 1812, the United States wrote the Monroe Doctrine, which warned Europeans not to attempt to colonize the Americas.

Question 8

Tell me about the Missouri Compromise.

Answer 8

In 1820, Henry Clay worked out the Missouri Compromise, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Question 9

Tell me about the secession of the Southern states.

Answer 9

The Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Dred Scott decision preceded the secession of the Southern states.

Question 10

Tell me about Manifest Destiny.

Answer 10

President Polk believed that the Mexican War and the Gadsden Purchase in the mid-1800s affirmed America’s manifest destiny to spread across the continent.

Question 11

Tell me about the Civil War.

Answer 11

In 1861, the Civil War began when President Abraham Lincoln went to war with the Southern states that had seceded from the Union.

Question 12

Tell me about General Robert E. Lee.

Answer 12

In 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

Question 13

Tell me about the Fourteenth Amendment.

Answer 13

In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment made all former slaves U.S. citizens and paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement.

Question 14

Tell me about tycoons.

Answer 14

During the late 1800s, tycoons like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Swift fueled the nation’s Industrial Age by developing American resources.

Question 15

Tell me about immigrants coming to America.

Answer 15

From 1820 to 1930, more than 37 million immigrants came to America, seeking freedom and the opportunity to increase their personal wealth.

Question 16

Tell me about the United States and World War I.

Answer 16

In 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to enter World War I against the Central Powers two years after German U-boats sank the Lusitania, killing American citizens.

Question 17

Tell me about the Nineteenth Amendment.

Answer 17

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led the women’s suffrage movement in the United States, resulting in the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 that granted women the right to vote.

Question 18

Tell me about Pearl Harbor.

Answer 18

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing the United States to join the Allies in World War II.

Question 19

Tell me about NATO.

Answer 19

In 1949, the United States and its allies formed NATO to resist the spread of Soviet communism.

Question 20

Tell me about Brown v. Board of Education.

Answer 20

In 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of public schools by race is unconstitutional.

Question 21

Tell me about U.S. astronauts.

Answer 21

In 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon.

Question 22

Tell me about September 11, 2001.

Answer 22

On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four airplanes. They flew two into the World Trade Center in New York City and one into the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The fourth plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field.

Question 23

Tell me the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 23

We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Question 24

Tell me the Bill of Rights.

Answer 24

1. Freedoms
2. Own guns
3. Quartering soldiers
4. Warrants
5. Cannot testify against self
6. Right to a speedy trial
7. Right to a jury
8. Cruel, unusual punishment
9. People’s rights
10. States’ rights