histroy test 12 finial

1630

founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

1861

beginning of the Civil War

1991

Operation Desert Storm

1898

Spanish-American War

1973

last US combat troops withdrawn from Vietnam

1929

stock market crash on Black Tuesday

1783

Treaty of Paris (War for Independence)

2011

space shuttle program ended

1588

defeat of the Spanish Armada

2001

World Trade Center attacked

1877

end of Reconstruction

1776

Declaration of Independence

1917

America entered Word War I

1941

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

1803

Louisiana Purchase

2017

mass shooting in Las Vegas

1823

Monroe Doctrine

Jamestown*

What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

Battle of Saratoga*

What battle was the turning point in the American War for Independence?

Benedict Arnold*

Who agreed to surrender West Point to the British during the War for Independence, thus betraying his counrty?

Noah Webster*

Who wrote the Blue-Backed Speller?

Sam Houston*

Who was the first president of the Republic of Texas?

Wounded Knee, SD*

Where was the las major conflict between Native Americans and federal troops?

James Madison*

Who is considered the Father of the Constitution?

Jefferson Davis*

Who was president of the Confederacy?

Federalists*

What group of Founding Fathers supported the Constitution without a Bill of Rights?

Woodrow Wilson*

Who was the US president during World War I?

Adoniram Judson*

Who is remembered as the Father of American Missions?

Battle of Gettysburg*

What battle was the turning point of the Civil War?

Amerigo Vespucci*

After whom was the New World named?

Missouri Compromise*

What compromise temporarily settled the slavery issue in 1820?

James J Hill

Who built the Great Northern railroad?

Roe v Wade

What court decision legalized abortion in 1973?

Robert C Weaver

Who was the first black-American Cabinet member?

Saddam Hussein

Whom did the US capture in Iraq in 2003?

Sandra Day O'Connor

Who was the first female justice to serve on the Supreme Court?

Benjamin Franklin

Who has been aptly called the first American?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Douglas MacArthur

What American general was sent to fortify the Philippines against a Japanese invasion during World War II?

Iran

In what country were sixty-three Americans taken hostage in 1979?

Henry A Kissinger

Who was the spokesman for detente during the Nixon Administration?

Horace Mann*

\______________ promoted the ideas of the public primary schools for all children.

Daniel Webster*

\______________ gave the famous Seventh of March Speech.

Eighteenth*

The \______________ Amendment granted women the right to vote.

Samuel de Champlain*

\______________ was the Father of New France.

Charles G Finney*

The best-known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening was \______________ .

Marshall Plan*

The \______________ extended credit to Europe to help with recovery after World War II.

Jonathan Edwards*

\______________ preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

Jamestown*

Captain John Smith saved \______________ from destruction.

Stamp Act*

The \______________ was the most hated part of Grenville's program for the colonies.

Wesleyan College*

\______________ became the first college for women only.

James Madison

president during the War of 1812

John F Kennedy

launched the New Frontier

Abraham Lincoln

issued the Emancipation Proclamation

Warren G Harding

elected the twenty-ninth president in 1920

William McKinley

president during the Spanish-American War

Andrew Jackson

criticized for his Kitchen Cabinet

Herbert Hoover

president on Black Tuesday

Harry S Truman

launched the Fair Deal

Grover Cleveland

only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms

James K Polk

adopted the slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight"

Ronald Reagan

stood against Communism and helped stabilize the economy in the 1980s

George Washington

only president elected by unanimous vote

Franklin D. Roosevelt

launched the New Deal

George W Bush

president during the 9/11 attacks

Bill Clinton

sent American pilots to Bosnia to fly air strikes in 1995

Twenty-First*

What amendment repealed Prohibition?

Model T*

What did Henry Ford introduce in 1908?

Apollo II*

Which space mission was the first to successfully land a man on the moon?

Walter Cronkite*

Whose journalism during the Cold War earned him the title of "the most trusted man in America"?

Great Society*

What was the name for Lyndon B Johnson's liberal government program?

Jimmy Carter*

Which president helped negotiate the Camp David Accords?

Dr. James Dobson*

Who was the host of the radio program Focus on the Family?

Oliver North*

Who was put on trial for the Iran-Contra Affair?

Dream Team*

What was the name given to the US basketball players who dominated the 1992 Olympics?

Newt Gingrich*

Who led the drive for a "Contract with America"?

Osama bin Laden*

Who was the leader of al-Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks?

J Christopher Stevens*

What US ambassador was killed in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012?

US Patriot Act*

What act was created to provide more security to the American people after the 9/11 attacks?

No Child Left Behind*

What was the name of President Bush's education reform plan?

Condoleeza Rice*

Who became the highest-ranking black-American woman in the US government as secretary of state?

Edward Snowden*

What NSA contractor leaked over one million files detailing surveillance programs of the US and her allies?

Arab Spring*

What was the name for the uprisings in Middle Eastern countries against their dictators?

Barack Obama*

Who won the 2008 presidential election?

One World Trade Center (or Freedom Tower)*

What was opened to the public in New York City in 2014 along side the two National 9/11 Memorial pools?

William Bradford

Who wrote History of Plymouth Plantation?

Ronald Reagan

Who was known as the Great Communicator?

Dwight D Eisenhower

Who was the supreme Allied commander of the forces at D-Day?

Nikola Tesla

Who developed alternating current (AC) and became Thomas Edison's biggest rival?

nuclear power

What industry did the government regulate heavily after the Three Mile Island incident?

slaves were considered property, and Congress could not deprive a citizen of his property, meaning that some previous national compromises which had prevented conflict were unconstitutional

Why did the Dred Scott case create so much division among the states?

The US would support any effort to depose or prevent a Communist regime

Describe Ronald Reagan's foreign policy:

oil*

John D Rockefeller became a leader in the \_________ industry

Northwest Ordinance of 1787*

The \_________ provided for the gradual development of self-government in the Northwest Territory

Mao Zedong*

The leader of the Communist Chinese was \_________

Watergate affair*

President Nixon resigned as a result of the \_________

Maryland*

\_________ was founded as a haven for Catholics

mercantile theory*

The economic theory that argues that the measure of a nation's wealth lies in how much gold and silver she possesses is the \_________

Six-Day War*

The \_________ erupted in 1967 when Egypt, Jordan, and Syria prepared to attack Israel

Mark Twain*

\_________ was the best known of the local color writers.