Question 1

What is one reason colonists came to America?

Accepted Answer

freedom; political liberty; religious freedom; economic opportunity; practice their religion; escape persecution

Question 2

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

Accepted Answer

American Indians; Native Americans

Question 3

What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

Accepted Answer

Africans; people from Africa

Question 4

Why did the colonists fight the British?

Accepted Answer

because of high taxes (taxation without representation); because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering); because they didn’t have self-government

Question 5

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

(Thomas) Jefferson

Question 6

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Accepted Answer

July 4, 1776

Question 7

There were 13 original states. Name three.

Accepted Answer

New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia

Question 8

What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

Accepted Answer

The Constitution was written.; The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

Question 9

When was the Constitution written?

Accepted Answer

1787

Question 10

The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

Accepted Answer

(James) Madison; (Alexander) Hamilton; (John) Jay; Publius

Question 11

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

Accepted Answer

U.S. diplomat; oldest member of the Constitutional Convention; first Postmaster General of the United States; writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”; started the first free libraries

Question 12

Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

Accepted Answer

(George) Washington

Question 13

Who was the first President?

Accepted Answer

(George) Washington

Question 14

What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

Accepted Answer

the Louisiana Territory; Louisiana

Question 15

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.

Accepted Answer

War of 1812; Mexican-American War; Civil War; Spanish-American War

Question 16

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

Accepted Answer

the Civil War; the War between the States

Question 17

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

slavery; economic reasons; states’ rights

Question 18

What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

Accepted Answer

freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation); saved (or preserved) the Union; led the United States during the Civil War

Question 19

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Accepted Answer

freed the slaves; freed slaves in the Confederacy; freed slaves in the Confederate states; freed slaves in most Southern states

Question 20

What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Accepted Answer

fought for women’s rights; fought for civil rights

Question 21

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.

Accepted Answer

World War I; World War II; Korean War; Vietnam War; (Persian) Gulf War

Question 22

Who was President during World War I?

Accepted Answer

(Woodrow) Wilson

Question 23

Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?

Accepted Answer

(Franklin) Roosevelt

Question 24

Who did the United States fight in World War II?

Accepted Answer

Japan, Germany, and Italy