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1.

What year did the American Revolution begin?

Answer: 1775
2.

What was the name of the first successful English settlement in North America?

Answer: Jamestown
3.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson
4.

What was the name of the first president of the United States?

Answer: George Washington
5.

Who was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms?

Answer: Grover Cleveland
6.

What state is known as the "Lone Star State"?

Answer: Texas
7.

What year did the Civil War begin?

Answer: 1861
8.

What was the name of the ship that carried immigrants to Ellis Island?

Answer: The Statue of Liberty
9.

What woman is known as the "Mother of the Confederacy"?

Answer: Jefferson Davis' wife, Varina Davis
10.

Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin", a powerful anti-slavery novel?

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
11.

What state was the first to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote?

Answer: Wyoming
12.

What significant event took place on December 7, 1941?

Answer: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
13.

What was the name of the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court?

Answer: Sandra Day O'Connor
14.

What was the name of the first man to walk on the moon?

Answer: Neil Armstrong
15.

What year did the Vietnam War end?

Answer: 1975
16.

What event led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon?

Answer: The Watergate Scandal
17.

What is the name of the largest city in the United States?

Answer: New York City
18.

What state is known as the "Golden State"?

Answer: California
19.

What was the name of the first African American to be elected president of the United States?

Answer: Barack Obama
20.

What important event took place on September 11, 2001?

Answer: Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
21.

What is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States?

Answer: Mount Whitney
22.

What is the name of the battle that marked the end of the American Revolution?

Answer: The Battle of Yorktown
23.

Who was the author of the famous Gettysburg Address?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln
24.

What year did the United States declare independence from Great Britain?

Answer: 1776
25.

What was the name of the first colony in North America?

Answer: Roanoke
26.

What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Answer: Jamestown
27.

Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer: Samuel Adams
28.

What was the name of the first battle of the American Revolution?

Answer: The Battle of Lexington and Concord
29.

What was the name of the treaty that ended the American Revolution?

Answer: The Treaty of Paris
30.

What was the name of the first written constitution of the United States?

Answer: The Articles of Confederation
31.

What was the name of the first capital of the United States?

Answer: New York City
32.

What was the name of the first Supreme Court Chief Justice?

Answer: John Jay
33.

What was the name of the first national bank of the United States?

Answer: The First Bank of the United States
34.

What was the name of the first major war fought by the United States after independence?

Answer: The QuasiWar with France
35.

What was the name of the famous trail that led to the West?

Answer: Oregon Trail
36.

What was the name of the event that led to the annexation of Texas?

Answer: The Texas Revolution
37.

What was the name of the event that led to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War?

Answer: The Annexation of Texas
38.

What was the name of the event that led to the end of the Mexican-American War?

Answer: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
39.

What was the name of the event that led to the outbreak of the Civil War?

Answer: The Election of Abraham Lincoln
40.

What was the name of the event that led to the end of the Civil War?

Answer: The surrender of the Confederate Army
41.

What was the name of the event that led to the end of Reconstruction?

Answer: The Compromise of 1877
42.

What was the name of the first president to be impeached?

Answer: Andrew Johnson
43.

What was the name of the event that led to the Spanish-American War?

Answer: The sinking of the USS Maine
44.

What was the name of the event that led to the end of World War I?

Answer: The Treaty of Versailles
45.

What was the name of the event that led to the Great Depression?

Answer: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
46.

What was the name of the event that led to the outbreak of World War II?

Answer: The invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany
47.

What was the name of the event that led to the end of World War II?

Answer: The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
48.

What was the name of the event that led to the Cold War?

Answer: The end of World War II
49.

What was the name of the event that led to the end of the Cold War?

Answer: The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union
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