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1. How did the first
inhabitants of North
America get here?
2. Besides gold and
riches, what were
many of the early
European explorers
searching for?
3. Whose crew
was the first to
circumnavigate
the globe?
4. Who
conquered the
Aztecs?
5. What three
alliterative words
explain why the
conquistadors went
to America?
6. What is the oldest
European settlement
in the present-day
U.S.?
7. Other than superior
technology, what
decimated the Native
American population?
8. Why were the
first English
colonies founded?
9. What was the
first permanent
English
settlement?
10. What commodity
allowed Virginia to
become economically
successful?
11. Why did the
Puritans come to
America?
12. What colony
was to be a “city
upon a hill?”
13. What was
New York before
it was New York?
14. Name the man
who established
Pennsylvania and
his religion.
15. What colony
was originally
founded as a haven
for Catholics?
16. What colony
was most
associated with
religious
freedom?
17. What was the
last English
colony to be
established?
18. For many years the
English neglected their
American colonies, thus
fostering a spirit of selfgovernment here in
America. What was this
English policy called?
19. What did the
economic theory of
mercantilism base a
country’s power on?
20. England tried to restrict
her colonies’ trade to only
allow them to trade within
the British Empire. What
was the name of the acts
which controlled colonial
trade?
21. How did
American colonists
try to get around the
restrictive trade
laws?
22. Which colonies
had a diverse
economy of farming
and trading?
23. Which colonies
had an economy
based on land and
slaves?
24. What movement
during the colonial
period emphasized the
importance of reason?
25. What religious
revival stressed the
importance of the
individual?
26. What economic
activity drew French
traders to North
America?
27. In what war did
the French lose its
North American
empire?
28. How did the
British plan to pay
the debt from this
war?
29. Why did
American colonists
oppose British
taxation?
30. What was the first
direct tax placed on
the colonists that
taxed virtually all
printed material?
31. How did the
Sons of Liberty
react to the Tea
Act?
32. Who said, “Give
me liberty, or give
me death?”
33. Who was king
of England during
the American
Revolution?
34. Where were the
first shots of the
American
Revolution fired?
35. Who wrote
most of the
Declaration of
Independence?
36. According to the
Declaration of
Independence, from
what source does the
authority for the
government come from?
37. According to the
Declaration of
Independence, what did
citizens have a right to
do if a government was
unjust?
38. What was the
turning point of the
American
Revolution?
39. What was the
name of the United
States’ first
governing
document?
40. What legislation
provided for a system
of governing new
territories and
admitting them as
states?
41. What do you call a
government in which
citizens rule through
their elected
representatives?
42. What meeting was
convened to create a
new system of
government that would
have a stronger central
government?
43. What called for
three-fifths of slaves
to be counted for tax
and representation
purposes?
44. What was the name
of the compromise that
settled the way that
states would be
represented in the new
Congress?
45. What was the name
given to the series of
essays written to urge
the adoption of the
Constitution?
46. What is the name of
the power given to the
courts to determine if
acts violate the
Constitution?
47. What name is
given to the 55
delegates who created
the Constitution of the
United States?
48. What is the name of
the system whose
purpose it is to prevent
any branch of
government from
becoming too strong?
49. What is a
tariff?
50. What determines
the number of U.S.
Representatives that a
state will have?
51. What body holds
the legislative power
of the national
government?
52. What are the
first ten
amendments to the
Constitution better
known as?
53. What was the
name given to
George
Washington’s group
of advisors?
54. Who set about to
restore the credit of the
United States through
his financial program as
the first Secretary of the
Treasury?
55. What was the name of
the plan for the national
government to assume the
states’ debts in order to get
the support of the citizens
of every state?
56. Name the first
two political parties
in the U.S.
57. What rebellion’s
suppression during
Washington’s
presidency illustrated
the power of the federal
government?
58. Which political
party wanted a
strong federal
government?
59. Which party
supported the interests
of small farmers, the
ideas of the French
Revolution, and the Bill
of Rights?
60. What is the name for
the right of a state to
refuse to obey a federal
law it considers
unconstitutional?
61. From what country
did the U.S. buy
Louisiana?
62. Who shot and
killed Alexander
Hamilton in a duel?
63. What was the
practice by which the
British forced
Americans to serve in
the British Navy?
64. What pair of
explorers led an
expedition along the
Missouri River to reach
the Rocky Mountains?
65. What was the
major reason for
going to war with
Great Britain in 1812?
66. Who was
President during
the War of 1812?
67.Who was the hero
of the Battle of New
Orleans?
68. Where did
manufacturing first
take root in the
United States?
69. Who is most
associated with the
unifying ideas of the
American System?
70. What was Eli
Whitney’s most
important
contribution to mass
production?
71. Who was President
during the “Era of Good
Feelings”, when there
was only one political
party in existence?
72. What declared that
the Western Hemisphere
was no longer open to
further European
colonization?
73. What kept the
balance of free and slave
states, but prohibited
slavery for any states in
the Louisiana Territory
above the 36 30”
parallel?
74. Who was
known as the
Great
Compromiser?
75. Who created a new
Democratic movement
named for him that had
central beliefs that office
holding should be open to
as many ordinary citizens
as possible?
76. What was the
practice of Andrew
Jackson and others of
rewarding political
supporters with jobs
known as?
77. What was the end
result of Jackson’s
policies concerning
the Native
Americans?
78. What was the belief
that the United States
was destined to extend
its territory to the
Pacific Ocean?
79. Who was
President during
the Mexican War?
80. Where did the
discovery of gold in
1848 lure “fortyniners?”
81. Who tried to save
the Union by
negotiating the
Compromise of 1850?
82. What Act caused
antislavery families from
the North to rush to Kansas
to try to gain a majority
over the proslavery
families and repealed the
Missouri Compromise?
83. What new
political party
developed from many
antislavery forces in
the 1850s?
84. What was the
main goal of this
new party?
85. What was the
policy of favoring
native-born
Americans over the
foreign born called?
86. What Supreme Court
decision declared the
Missouri Compromise
unconstitutional because it
restricted the movement of
property?
87. Who became
President in 1860,
sparking the secession
of many Southern
states?
88. What was the name
of the argument that the
secessionist states cited
as their reason for
leaving the Union?
89. Where were the
first shots of the Civil
War fired?
90. What was the
turning point of the
Civil War?
91. What was the
name of the period
after the Civil War?
92. Who was impeached,
but acquitted by one vote
for his failure to cooperate
with the Radical
Republicans and violating
the Tenure of Office Act?
93. What was the name
of the compromise that
ended military
occupation of the South
in 1877?
94. What industry was
first regulated by the
federal government as a
result of the Interstate
Commerce Act?
95. What concept was used
to justify the existence of
poverty, the success of big
business, and the power of
millionaire industrialists?
96. What laws were
passed in the South to
separate whites and
blacks in private and
public places?
97. What is separating
people on the basis of
race known as?
98. What Supreme
Court decision ruled
that separating the
races in public places
was legal?
99. What African
American leader argued
that blacks should not
insist on full legal
equality?
100. What African
American leader demanded
legal equality immediately,
and later became a
founding member of the
NAACP?
101.What was the name of
the movement from 19001917 that sought to solve
the political and social
problems created by
industrialism?
102. What was the name
given to journalists who
tried to inform the
public about abuses in
business and corruption
in politics?
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103. What did the
Amendment make
possible?
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104. What did the
Amendment allow
for?
105. What did the
Amendment
establish?
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106. What did the
Amendment grant?
107. What was the
name of Teddy
Roosevelt’s domestic
program?
108. What was the
name given to Teddy
Roosevelt’s action of
eliminating certain
large businesses that
limited competition?
109. What was set up
to control the nation’s
money supply and
interest rates?
110. What led to
America’s
participation in the
Spanish-American
War?
111. What was the name
of the regiment of
volunteers led by Teddy
Roosevelt during the
Spanish-American War?
112. What is the name of
the policy in which
stronger nations extend
their economic, political,
or military control of
weaker nations?
113. What was the
name of the policy
pursued by the U.S. to
keep China’s markets
open?
114. What name was
given to Teddy
Roosevelt’s type of
foreign policy?
115. What was the name of
the addition to the Monroe
Doctrine that established
the practice of the United
States policing countries in
the Western Hemisphere?
116. What type of
warfare characterized
the Western Front in
WWI?
117. Who were the
two leading nations
of the Central
Powers in WWI?
118. What did Germany
use to stop neutral
countries from trading
with Great Britain?
119. What President’s
presidential campaign
slogan was “a return
to normalcy?”
120. What plan was
established by many
businesses as the American
economy grew during
1920s and 1930s to allow
consumers to “buy now,
pay later”?
121. What did the
st
21 Amendment
repeal?
122. What trial concerning
the teaching of evolution in
public schools was a clash
of ideas and values
between science and
religion?
123. What is the name
used to describe the
stock market when it
is rising?
124. What event
marked the
beginning of the
Great Depression?
125. In addition to the
financial crisis, what was
the name of the natural
disaster that further hurt
farmers during the
Depression?
126. As farmers lost their
farms during the
Depression, many headed
to California to find new
opportunities. What was
the name given to these
migrants?
127. What was the
name of FDR’s
program to deal with
the Depression?
128. What were the
three general goals of
the New Deal, known
as the Three R’s?
129. What New Deal
program established
old-age and disability
insurance?
130. What pulled
the United States
out of the Great
Depression?
131. What is the name
of the type of
government that teaches
that the individual exists
to serve the
government?
132. Where was the
first government like
this established?
133. What three
nations formed the
Axis Powers in
WWII?
134. What is the name
of the policy of giving
into an aggressor’s
demands to avoid war?
135. Following WWI,
how would you
describe the United
States foreign policy?
136. WWII officially
started after Germany
invaded what
country?
137. What was the name
given to hide-and-seek
game between American
convoys trying to supply
Great Britain and the
German U-boats trying to
prevent it?
138. What event
brought the United
States into WWII?
139. What was the name
for the deliberate
murder of over 11
million people across
Europe during WWII?
140. In what year
did WWII end?
Answers
• 1. Bering Land Bridge
• 2. The Northwest Passage
• 3. Magellan
• 4. Cortez
• 5. “God, Gold, and Glory”
• 6. St. Augustine
• 7. Disease
• 8. Financial reasons / profits
• 9. Jamestown
• 10. Tobacco
• 11. Religious freedom
• 12. Massachusetts Bay Colony
• 13. New Netherlands or New
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Amsterdam
• 14. William Penn, Quaker
• 15. Maryland
• 16. Rhode Island
• 17. Georgia
• 18. Salutary neglect
• 19. Wealth
• 20. Navigation Acts
• 21. Smuggling
• 22. Northern colonies
• 23. Southern colonies
• 24. Enlightenment
• 25. The Great Awakening
• 26. The fur trade
• 27. French and Indian War
• 28. Tax the American colonists
• 29. “no taxation without
representation”
• 30. Stamp Act
• 31. Boston Tea Party
• 32. Patrick Henry
• 33. George III
• 34. Lexington
• 35. Thomas Jefferson
• 36. The people
• 37. Abolish it
• 38. Saratoga
• 39. Articles of Confederation
• 40. Land Ordinance of 1787
• 41. Republic
• 42. Constitutional Convention
• 43. Three-Fifths Compromise
• 44. The Great Compromise
• 45. The Federalist Papers
• 46. Judicial review
• 47. Framers
• 48. Separation of powers
• 49. A tax on imported goods
• 50. The state’s population
• 51. Congress
• 52. Bill of Rights
• 53. Cabinet
• 54. Alexander Hamilton
• 55. Assumption
• 56. Federalists and Republicans
• 57. The Whiskey Rebellion
• 58. Federalists
• 59. Republicans
• 60. Nullification
• 61. France
• 62. Aaron Burr
• 63. Impressment
• 64. Lewis and Clark
• 65. Freedom of the seas
• 66. Madison
• 67. Andrew Jackson
• 68. New England towns
• 69. Henry Clay
• 70. Interchangeable parts
• 71. Monroe
• 72. Monroe Doctrine
• 73. The Missouri Compromise
• 74. Henry Clay
• 75. Andrew Jackson
• 76. The spoils system
• 77. Their removal to west of the
Mississippi River
• 78. Manifest Destiny
• 79. James K. Polk
• 80. California
• 81. Henry Clay
• 82. Kansas-Nebraska Act
• 83. Republican
• 84. The stop the spread of
slavery
• 85. Nativism
• 86. Dred Scott decision
• 87. Abraham Lincoln
• 88. States’ rights
• 89. Fort Sumter
• 90. Gettysburg
• 91. Reconstruction
• 92. Andrew Johnson
• 93. Compromise of 1877
• 94. Railroad
• 95. Social Darwinism
• 96. Jim Crow laws
• 97. Standard Oil
• 98. Segregation
• 99. Plessy v. Ferguson
• 100. Booker T. Washington
• 101. W.E.B. duBois
• 102. Progressive Movement
• 103. Muckrakers
• 104. An income tax
• 105. The direct election of
senators
• 106. Prohibition
• 107. Women’s suffrage
• 108. Square Deal
• 109. Trustbusting
• 110. Federal Reserve System
• 111. The explosion of the USS
Maine in Havana
• 112. Rough Riders
• 113. Imperialism
• 114. Open Door Policy
• 115. Big stick diplomacy
• 116. Roosevelt Corollary
• 117. Trench warfare
• 118. Germany and AustriaHungary
• 119. Submarine warfare
• 120. Warren G. Harding
• 121. Installment plan
• 122. Prohibition
• 123. Scopes Trial
• 124. Bull market
• 125. Stock Market Crash of
1929
• 126. Dust Bowl
• 127. Okies
• 128. New Deal
• 129. Relief, recovery, and
reform
• 130. Social Security
• 131. U.S. entry into WWII
• 132. Fascism
• 133. Italy
• 134. Germany, Italy, Japan
• 135. Appeasement
• 136. Isolationist
• 137. Poland
• 138. Battle of the Atlantic
• 139. Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor
• 140. Holocaust
• 141. 1945
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