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In what year did Columbus land in the New World
1492
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What colony is known as "The Lost Colony"
Roanoke
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What was the first successful English colony
Jamestown
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The friendship between what Indian Princess and English captain made this colony successful
Pocahontas and John Smith
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What was the same of the colony established by the Separatists/Pilgrims for religious freedom
Plymouth
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What ship brough the Separatists/Pilgrims to the New World
Mayflower
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What group organized the boycotts to protest British Taxes
Sons of Liberty
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What was the colonists' slogan protesting the Stamp Act
No taxation without representation
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What was Patrick Henry's famous line in his speech to the Virginia Convention
Give me liberty or give me death
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where were the opening shots of the American Revolution fired
Lexington and Concord
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Who famously rode through the countryside sounding the alarm that the regulars were coming
Paul Revere
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on what date was the declaration of independence adopted? Who was the primary author
July 4, 1776, and Thomas Jefferson
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What was the famous line of the Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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What are the first ten amendments to the US constitution called
Bill of Rights
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Who led the exploration of the Louisiana purchase?
Lewis and Clark
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Who was the Native American Women who helped guide them
Sacagawea
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Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key
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What was the name for the forced march of the Cherokee to reservations in Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
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Who invented the Cotton Gen
Eli Whitney
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What was the goal of the abolitionist movement
end slavery
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What former slave became a famous abolitionist, even writing an autobiography of his life
Frederick Douglass
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Where was the first women's rights convention
Seneca Falls, New York
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Who was the most famous women's rights leader
Susan B. Anthony
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What was the most famous battle of the Texas war for Independence
Alamo
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Who led the Mormons to Utah
Brigham Young
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What were the Mormons famous (and scorned) for practicing
Polygamy
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In what year was the California Gold Rush
1849
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Where were the opening shots of the Civil War fired
Fort Sumter
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What battle was the turning point of the Civil War, causing the confederate troops to retreat from Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
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Who was the commander of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
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Who was the commander of the confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
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Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
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What amendment freed the slaves
13th
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What amendment defined citizenship as being born in the US
14th
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What even was the last great victory for the Native Americans? What nickname was this battle given
Battle of Little Bighorn, Custer's last stand
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What was the entry point for immigrants coming from Europe
Ellis Island
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What was the first mass produced car
Model T
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Who developed the first successful motorized airplane? Where did the first successful flight take place
Wright Brothers, Kitty Hawk North Carolina
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What was the nickname for the laws that enforced segregation
Jim Crow Laws
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what was the nicknames for the battleships teddy roosevelt sent on a goodwill cruise around the world
Great White Fleet
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What was wilsons idealistic case for war in ww1
Make the world safe for democracy
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what was the area between trenches in ww1
No mans land
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What was the nicknames for the US soldiers in WW1
Doughboys
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On what date and time did the armistice of ww1 go into affect
Nov. 11, 1918, 11 am
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What was the name of Wilson's plan for peace following ww1
Fourteen points
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What ammendment prohibited the making, selling, and transporting of alcohol
18
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what was the nickname for people who sold alcohol in the 1920s
bootleggers
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what was the nicknames for the illegal bars in the 1920s
speakeasies
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Who was the first women to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean
Ameilia Earhart
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What was the nickname for the rebellious women of the 1920s
Flappers
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What word refers to the right to vote
suffrage
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What ammendement granted women the right to vote
19
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What date did the stock market crash? What nickname was given to that day
Tuesday Oct. 29, 1929, Black Tuesday
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What was the nicknames given to the series of drought and wind storms that swept the Great Plains in the 1930s
Dust Bowl
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What nickname was given to the homeless villages during the great depression
Hoovervilles
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What nickname was given to FDR's radio broadcasts
Fireside Chats
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What was the name of FDR's plan to end the Great Depression
New Deal
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what event brought the US in WW1? On what date did that event occur
Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941
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What nations made up the axis powers in WW2
Germany, Italy, Japan
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What nickname was given to the women who worked in factories during ww2
Rosie the Riveter
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Who was appointed Supreme Allied Commanderin WW2
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What area of Northern France was invaded on D-day? On what date did D-day take place
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