1.

Name the British Exile who was a patriot in the beginning of the War of
independence but turned to British after being assigned a low position in
which he thought was humiliating. He ended up spying and planning to
sabotage West Point.
a. Benedict Arnold
2. Name the person who turned her home into patriot meeting place and was
the sister of James Otis.
a. Mercy Otis Warren
3. On this day in history 2,400 troops crossed Delaware River to attack the
German Hessian forces in a surprise attack on their Headquarters in Trenton
NJ.
a. December 25, 1776
4. This was the place that General Burgoyne Surrendered on October 18, 1777.
a. Saratoga
5. Name the encampment of General Washingtons troop during the winter of
1777.
a. Valley Forge
6. Name the highest ranking British Officer during the War of Independence.
a. General Cornwallis
7. After this major battle the British surrendered.
a. In Yorktown
8. In 1787 this Ordinance prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territories and
provided the model for the incorporation of future territories into the union as
co-equal states.
a. Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
9. This state was the first state to abolish slavery in 1777.
a. Vermont
10.The first ten amendments to the US Constitution were called what?
a. The Bill of Rights
11.Who was the only President to be elected without a presidential party.
a. George Washington
12.Which President served the least amount of time in office?
a. William Henry Harrison

13.Name all the US Presidents that were assassinated.

a. Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy
14.This act passed in 1798 by Congress provide fines for anyone convicted of
writing, publishing, or speaking out against the government or its officers.
a. Sedition Act
15.This invention was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793?
a. Cotton Gin
16.This large land mass was sold to the US after Napoleon Bonaparte was
defeated at Waterloo.
a. Louisiana Purchase
17.This act of Congress in 1820 admitted Missouri to the Union as a Slave state
and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the Northern Louisiana
Purchase Territory.
a. Missouri Compromise.
18.The US ended its participation in the international slave trade in this year.
a. 1808.
19.This War Hero from the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 was
elected as the 7th President.
a. Andrew Jackson
20.What was the Road that was finished in 1808 and stretched from
Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois called?
a. National Road
21.This Canal linked New York City and the Great Lakes.
a. Erie Canal
22.This German arrived in America Penniless and made a vast fortune in fur
trade and New York Real-estate
a. John Jacob Aster
23.From 1845 to 1849 1.5 million people emigrated from this Country because of
a Potato Famine.
a. Ireland
24. Which nationality made up 90% of the workers on the Union Pacific Railroad
in California?
a. Chinese

25.What was the first convention for womens equality in legal rights that was
held in upstate New York in 1848?
a. Seneca Falls Convention
26.This Doctrine, First expressed in 1845, that the expansion of white Americans
across the continent was inevitable and ordained by God.
a. Manifest Destiny.
27.I am remembered for the slogan 5440 or Fight, I was also the 11 th President
of the United States. What is my name?
a. James Polk.
28.Name the Author of the book that shed light on the inhumanity of slavery
that helped justify the anti-slave movement that led up to the Civil War?
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
29.On October 16, 1859 this person and his sons slaughtered unarmed
proslavery men in Tansas in 1856.
a. John Brown
30.This was the first state to secede from the Union.
a. South Carolina
31.This battle at Charleston harbor marked the beginning of the Civil War.
a. Fort Sumter
32.I was Lincolns Secretary of State who purchased Alaska from the Russians.
a. William Seward
33.This Law passed by Congress in May 1862 providing 160 acres of free land in
exchange for improving the land within five years or the grant.
a. Homestead Act
34.I was the President of the Confederacy.
a. Jefferson Davis
35.

The General Robert E. Lee Surrendered at this Location.

a. Appomattox Court House.

36. Who shot President Lincoln?

a. John Wilkes Booth
37.This Bill enacted in 1866 gave full citizenship to African Americans.
a. Civil Rights Bill

38.This was the forced march in 1838 of the Cherokee Indians from their
homelands in Georgia to the Indian Territory in the West.
a. Trail of Tears
39.During the westward expansion this animal was hunted to near extinction.
a. Buffalo or Bison
40.This was the First National Park.
a. Yellowstone
41.This great feat of engineering was completed in 1869 and allowed citizens to
travel from the East Coast to West Coast.
a. Transcontinental Railroad.
42.This Company started by railroad workers selling pocket watches, and
eventually became a major department store. (Hint: You may find this store in
a Mall)
a. Sears
43.I was the man who found The Standard-Oil Company.
a. John D. Rockefeller
44.This steel tycoon made his wealth by using new technology rather than
trickery and ended up being remembered as the Greatest Philanthropist of
the Gilded Age.
a. Andrew Carnegie
45.The use of this mode of transportation in large cities reduced the amount of
horse waste on the streets.
a. Electric Trolley
46.A mass movement of the 1890s formed on the basis of the Southern Farmers
Alliance and other reform organizations.
a. The Grange
47. I made this quote Speak softly and carry a big stick, and youll go far
a. Theodore Roosevelt.
48.Who wrote the book The Jungle.
a. Upton Sinclair.
49.I founded the Hull House in 1889.
a. Jane Addams
50.Who was President during World War I?

a. Woodrow Wilson
51.Before the 2nd World War, the First World War better known as what?
a. The Great War.
52.This act established the military draft for WWI.
a. Selective Service Act
53.Who was the commander of the American Expeditionary Force?
a. General john J. Pershing
54.This organization was created after WWI to ensure world stability.
a. League of Nations
55.This viral infection killed 21 million people from 1918 to 1919.
a. Influenza.
56.Name the place where Treaty of Versailles was signed not the Country or the
city.
a. Hall of Mirrors.
57.During the First World War soldiers suffered from this condition that was
caused from being in wet trenches for extended period of time.
a. Trench Foot
58.Which Amendment prohibited the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of
alcoholic beverages?
a. 18th
59.Tuesday October 29th 1929 is better known as
a. Black Tuesday
60.This President had Polio
a. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
61.During the year leading up to WW2 this Country Captured Ethiopia in 1935.
a. Italy
62.The National Socialist Party is better known as
a. Nazi Party
63.On this day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
a. December 7, 1941

64.This soldiers that were dropped behind enemy lines to cut off the
reinforcement of enemy soldiers on D-Day are known as what?
a. Paratroopers
65.This president made the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan.
a. Harry S. Truman.
66.This island at the midway point between North America and Asian was of
strategic Importance to both sides of the War.
a. Midway Island
67.The VE in VE-Day is an acronym of what?
a. Victory in Europe
68.How many soldiers were died from injuries suffered during battle during the
Cold War?
a. ZERO
69.What Parallel separated North Korea and South Korea?
a. 38th Parallel
70.This trail was a logistic supply chain that ran the Laos and Cambodia during
the Vietnam War.
a. Ho Chi Minh Trail
71.This woman is remembered as The First lady of the Civil Rights.
a. Rosa Parks
72.Who was President Kennedys Vice President?
a. Lyndon B. Johnson
73.Who was the oldest President to be elected to office?
a. Ronald Reagan
74.Who was the only President to be elected to 4 terms in Office?
a. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
75.Which two Presidents died on July 4th, 50 years after the signing of the
Declaration of Independence?
a. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.