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What amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery?
13th
What African American scientist was know for his work with the peanut?
George Washington Carver
What blind and deaf woman met every Unites States president from Grover Cleveland to John F. Kennedy?
Helen Keller
What is the only American state to have been ruled by kings and queens?
Hawaii
What 20th Century escape artist was know as the Master of Illusion?
Harry Houdini
What street in New York is famous for its theaters?
Broadway
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
John Hancock
On what month and date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice?
Sandra Day O’Connor
Where was the first successful settlements by Englishmen in the U.S.?
Jamestown, V.A.
Who was the first Vice President of the United States?
John Adams
What American statesman said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”?
Patrick Henry
Who was supposedly “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen”?
George Washington
Who is credited with creation of the first U.S. flag on the request of Congress?
Betsy Ross
Who was the British king during the American Revolution?
King George III
What French military officer served with General George Washington?
Marquis de Lafayette
Where were the battles that were the turning point of the American Revolution?
Saratoga
What American general during the American Revolution turned traitor and joined the British?
Benedict Arnold
What was the 1770 event when the British army fired on a group of rioting colonists, killing 5 people?
The Boston Massacre
What 1773 act made British tea cheaper then the Dutch tea normally used in the American colonies?
Tea Act
during what event did the American colonists, disguised as Indians, board British ships and dump 342 chests of tea in Boston harbor?
Boston Tea Party
On July2, 1776, 12 of the 13 colonial delegations voted for independence from England. Which delegation abstained (did not cast a vote)?
New York
Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
What Indian chief, who defeated General Custer, later became an attraction in the Buffalo Bill Wild West show?
Sitting Bull
Wild Bill Hickok, a folk hero of the American Old West, was shot while playing a hand of poker. What is the nickname given to the cards he was holding as he was shot?
Dead Man’s Hand
aces & eights - all black
What Shoshone woman accompanied Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Sacajawea
What famous American author was also the first woman to register to vote in her hometown of Concord, Massachusetts?
Louisa May Alcott
In what year did the Civil War begin?
1861
