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- Complete the sentence about History of the United States with the correct year: In June ______, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army and unanimously selected George Washingā¦
- Complete the sentence about Jamestown, Virginia with the correct year: In ______, West Indies tobacco was successfully cultivated, leading to an economic boom for the colony and England.
- Complete the sentence about Jamestown, Virginia with the correct year: The year ______ had three seminal events: the first legislative assembly in the New World, a labor strike, and the first recordedā¦
- Complete the sentence about Jamestown, Virginia with the correct year: In ______, Jamestown was deliberately burned during Bacon's Rebellion, though it was rebuilt.
- Complete the sentence about Plymouth Colony with the correct year: The colony was ultimately merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other territories in ______ to form the Province of Massachuseā¦
- Complete the sentence about Plymouth Colony with the correct year: In ______, Archbishop Tobias Matthew raided homes and imprisoned several members of the congregation.
- Complete the sentence about Plymouth Colony with the correct year: The congregation left England in ______ and moved to the Netherlands, settling first in Amsterdam and then in Leiden.
- Complete the sentence about Thirteen Colonies with the correct year: The first of the colonies, Virginia, was established at Jamestown in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Thirteen Colonies with the correct year: In ______, King James I of England granted charters to both the Plymouth Company and the London Company for the purpose of establisā¦
- Complete the sentence about Thirteen Colonies with the correct year: The London Company established the Colony of Virginia in ______, the first permanently settled English colony on the continent.
- Complete the sentence about Salem witch trials with the correct year: At the 300th anniversary events held in ______ to commemorate the victims of the trials, a park was dedicated in Salem and a memorā¦
- Complete the sentence about French and Indian War with the correct year: Britain and France had been officially at peace following the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in ______, but tensions over trade contā¦
- Complete the sentence about French and Indian War with the correct year: In May ______, this led to the Battle of Jumonville Glen, when Virginia militia led by George Washington ambushed a French patrā¦
- Complete the sentence about French and Indian War with the correct year: In ______, Edward Braddock, the new Commander-in-Chief, North America, planned a four-way attack on the French.
- Complete the sentence about French and Indian War with the correct year: In accordance with the ______ Treaty of Paris, France ceded its Canadian possessions to Britain, along with its claim to territā¦
- Complete the sentence about Stamp Act 1765 with the correct year: George Grenville became prime minister in April ______ after the failure of the short-lived Bute Ministry, and he had to find a way toā¦
- Complete the sentence about Boston Tea Party with the correct year: The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest that took place on December 16, ______, during the American Revolution.
- Complete the sentence about Boston Tea Party with the correct year: Parliament responded in ______ with the Intolerable Acts, which, among other provisions, ended local self-government in Massachusettā¦
- Complete the sentence about Boston Tea Party with the correct year: The first, which occurred in April ______, in Weare, New Hampshire, was the Pine Tree Riot, in which colonists protested heavy finesā¦
- Complete the sentence about Boston Tea Party with the correct year: In ______, the English Parliament granted the East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea.
- Complete the sentence about Boston Tea Party with the correct year: Until ______, the East India Company paid an ad valorem tax of about 25% on tea that it imported into Great Britain.
- Complete the sentence about Boston Massacre with the correct year: On June 10, ______, customs officials seized Liberty, a sloop owned by leading Boston merchant John Hancock, on allegations that theā¦
- Complete the sentence about American Revolution with the correct year: The Second Continental Congress, as the provisional government, established the Continental Army and appointed George Washingtonā¦
- Complete the sentence about American Revolution with the correct year: Discontent with British colonial rule began shortly right after the end of the French and Indian War, which ended in ______.
- Complete the sentence about American Revolution with the correct year: Representatives from several of the Thirteen Colonies convened in New York City for the Stamp Act Congress in ______.
- Complete the sentence about American Revolution with the correct year: In ______, though the Stamp Act was repealed, tensions increased again following Parliament's passing of the Townshend Acts.
- Complete the sentence about American Revolution with the correct year: In an effort to quell the mounting rebellion, King George III deployed British troops to the colony of Massachusetts, where thereā¦
- Complete the sentence about Second Continental Congress with the correct year: The Congress constituted a new federation that it first named the United Colonies of North America, and in ______, renameā¦
- Complete the sentence about Second Continental Congress with the correct year: On July 6, ______, Congress approved a Declaration of Causes outlining the rationale and necessity for taking up arms inā¦
- Complete the sentence about United States Declaration of Independence with the correct year: The American Revolutionary War commenced in April ______ with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: The British monarch, King George III, proclaimed them to be in rebellion on August 23, ______.
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: Jefferson largely wrote the Declaration between June 11 and 28, ______.
- Complete the sentence about Thomas Jefferson with the correct year: Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence largely alone, and the document was unanimously passed by the Congress in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Thomas Jefferson with the correct year: Secretary of State by President George Washington in ______, helping administer Washington's policy of neutrality in European confliā¦
- Complete the sentence about Thomas Jefferson with the correct year: Running against Federalist Party candidate John Adams in ______, Jefferson finished with the second-highest number of votes and becaā¦
- Complete the sentence about George Washington with the correct year: When the American Revolutionary War against the British began in ______, Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Contineā¦
- Complete the sentence about George Washington with the correct year: Washington and his army achieved an early victory at the Siege of Boston in March ______ but were forced to retreat from New York Cā¦
- Complete the sentence about George Washington with the correct year: Ultimately Washington led a combined French and American force to a decisive victory over the British at Yorktown in ______.
- Complete the sentence about George Washington with the correct year: In the resulting Treaty of Paris in ______, the British acknowledged the sovereign independence of the United States.
- Complete the sentence about George Washington with the correct year: Washington then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in ______, which drafted the current Constitution of the Uniteā¦
- Complete the sentence about John Adams with the correct year: Adams was the primary author of the Massachusetts Constitution in ______, which, with his other political writings, influenced the Unitedā¦
- Complete the sentence about John Adams with the correct year: John Adams died on July 4, ______ ā the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
- Complete the sentence about Alexander Hamilton with the correct year: In ______, he advocated in support of the Jay Treaty under which the U.S. resumed friendly trade relations with the British Empireā¦
- Complete the sentence about James Madison with the correct year: In ______, strongly opposed to British taxation, Madison joined with the Patriots.
- Complete the sentence about James Madison with the correct year: Although the war ended inconclusively in ______, many Americans viewed it as a successful "second war of independence" against Britainā¦
- Complete the sentence about California Gold Rush with the correct year: Gold was discovered in California as early as March 9, ______, at Rancho San Francisco, in the mountains north of present-day Loā¦
- Complete the sentence about Missouri Compromise with the correct year: Tensions resumed in the 1840s and the Compromise of ______ only briefly defused the situation.
- Complete the sentence about Compromise of 1850 with the correct year: In early ______, Clay proposed a package of eight bills that would settle most of the pressing issues before Congress.
- Complete the sentence about Compromise of 1850 with the correct year: In March ______, a skirmish broke out on the northern side of the Rio Grande, ending in the death or capture of dozens of Americanā¦
- Complete the sentence about Compromise of 1850 with the correct year: In August ______, Polk asked Congress for an appropriation that he hoped to use as a down payment for the purchase of California iā¦
- Complete the sentence about Compromise of 1850 with the correct year: In September ______, an American army under the command of General Winfield Scott captured the Mexican capital in the Battle for Mā¦
- Complete the sentence about Dred Scott v. Sandford with the correct year: In ______, after the Union's victory, the Court's ruling in Dred Scott was superseded by passage of the Thirteenth Amendment tā¦
- Complete the sentence about Dred Scott v. Sandford with the correct year: Constitution, which outlawed slavery, and by Congress with the Civil Rights Act of ______ conferring full citizenship and equaā¦
- Complete the sentence about Dred Scott v. Sandford with the correct year: During the ______ United States elections, Republicans rejected the ruling as being corrupted by partisanship and non-bindingā¦
- Complete the sentence about Abraham Lincoln with the correct year: Lincoln won the ______ presidential election, becoming the first Republican president.
- Complete the sentence about Abraham Lincoln with the correct year: On January 1, ______, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the slaves in the states "in rebellion" to be free.
- Complete the sentence about Abraham Lincoln with the correct year: On November 19, ______, he delivered the Gettysburg Address, which became one of the most famous speeches in American history.
- Complete the sentence about Abraham Lincoln with the correct year: Following his re-election in ______, he sought to heal the war-torn nation through Reconstruction.
- Complete the sentence about American Civil War with the correct year: The South saw slavery as threatened because of the election of Abraham Lincoln as US president in ______ and the growing abolitionā¦
- Complete the sentence about American Civil War with the correct year: Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Lincoln, a Republican who opposed slavery's expansion, won the ______ presā¦
- Complete the sentence about American Civil War with the correct year: The war began on April 12, ______, when the Confederacy bombarded Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
- Complete the sentence about American Civil War with the correct year: To the west, the Union first destroyed the Confederacy's river navy by the summer of ______, then much of its western armies, andā¦
- Complete the sentence about American Civil War with the correct year: The successful ______ Union siege of Vicksburg split the Confederacy in two at the Mississippi River, while Confederate general Roā¦
- Complete the sentence about American Civil War with the correct year: Grant's western successes led Lincoln to promote him to command of all Union armies in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Battle of Gettysburg with the correct year: On July 1, ______, as Lee's forces moved on Gettysburg in the hopes of destroying the Union army, the two armies encountered eacā¦
- Complete the sentence about Emancipation Proclamation with the correct year: On January 1, ______, Lincoln issued the Final Emancipation Proclamation.
- Complete the sentence about Emancipation Proclamation with the correct year: The United States Constitution of ______ did not use the word "slavery" but included several provisions about unfree personā¦
- Complete the sentence about Emancipation Proclamation with the correct year: Article I, Section 9 allowed Congress to pass legislation to outlaw the "Importation of Persons", but not until ______.
- Complete the sentence about Gettysburg Address with the correct year: The tradition began in ______ when Justice Joseph Story delivered a lengthy dedication address at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridā¦
- Complete the sentence about Reconstruction era with the correct year: Radical Republicans swept to power in the ______ midterm elections, gaining majorities in both houses of Congress.
- Complete the sentence about Reconstruction era with the correct year: Grant, Radical Republicans enacted additional legislation to enforce civil rights, such as the Ku Klux Klan Act and Civil Rights Aā¦
- Complete the sentence about Reconstruction era with the correct year: The ______ presidential election was marked by Black voter suppression in the South, and the result was close and contested.
- Complete the sentence about Reconstruction era with the correct year: An Electoral Commission resulted in the Compromise of ______ which awarded the election to Republican Rutherford B.
- Complete the sentence about Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution with the correct year: Texas was the last Confederate slave state, where enforcement of the proclamation was declaredā¦
- Complete the sentence about Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution with the correct year: In the slave-owning areas controlled by Union forces on January 1, ______, state action was usā¦
- Complete the sentence about Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution with the correct year: The exceptions were Kentucky and Delaware, where chattel slavery and indentured servitude wereā¦
- Complete the sentence about Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution with the correct year: From its inception in ______, the United States was divided into states that allowed slavery aā¦
- Complete the sentence about Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution with the correct year: On April 8, ______, the Senate passed an amendment to abolish slavery.
- Complete the sentence about Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution with the correct year: After one unsuccessful vote and extensive legislative maneuvering by the Lincoln administratioā¦
- Complete the sentence about Ulysses S. Grant with the correct year: Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the United States Military Academy in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Ulysses S. Grant with the correct year: In ______, shortly after the Civil War began, Grant joined the Union Army.
- Complete the sentence about Ulysses S. Grant with the correct year: In ______, he led the Vicksburg campaign that gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River and dealt a major strategic blow toā¦
- Complete the sentence about Ulysses S. Grant with the correct year: In ______, President Andrew Johnson promoted Grant to General of the Army.
- Complete the sentence about Ulysses S. Grant with the correct year: A war hero, drawn in by his sense of duty, Grant was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party and elected president in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Robert E. Lee with the correct year: Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in June ______ during the Peninsula campaign following the wounding of Joseph E.
- Complete the sentence about Robert E. Lee with the correct year: After his death in ______, Lee became a cultural icon in the South and is largely hailed as one of the Civil War's greatest generals.
- Complete the sentence about Robert E. Lee with the correct year: Robert Edward Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Henry Lee III and Anne Hill Carter Lee onā¦
- Complete the sentence about Jefferson Davis with the correct year: After leaving the army in ______, Davis married Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of future president Zachary Taylor.
- Complete the sentence about Jefferson Davis with the correct year: In ______, President Franklin Pierce appointed him Secretary of War.
- Complete the sentence about Jefferson Davis with the correct year: After Pierce's administration ended in ______, Davis returned to the Senate.
- Complete the sentence about Assassination of Abraham Lincoln with the correct year: On April 14, ______, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot in the head while attendingā¦
- Complete the sentence about Transcontinental railroad with the correct year: The first concrete plan for a transcontinental railroad in the United States was presented to Congress by Asa Whitney in __ā¦
- Complete the sentence about Transcontinental railroad with the correct year: The first transcontinental railroad was the much shorter Panama Railroad of ______, now part of the country of Panama.
- Complete the sentence about Transcontinental railroad with the correct year: The strike began with the Summer Solstice in June, ______ and lasted for eight days.
- Complete the sentence about Homestead Acts with the correct year: For a number of years individual Congressmen put forward bills providing for homesteading, but it was not until ______ that the firstā¦
- Complete the sentence about Homestead Acts with the correct year: The Homestead Act of ______ passed in Congress but was vetoed by President James Buchanan, a Democrat.
- Complete the sentence about Homestead Acts with the correct year: Jewish homesteaders were largely Russian Jews fleeing pogroms in the Russian Empire. ______ settled in North Dakota.
- Complete the sentence about Theodore Roosevelt with the correct year: Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt became president after McKinley's assassinatā¦
- Complete the sentence about Theodore Roosevelt with the correct year: Roosevelt served as the assistant secretary of the Navy under McKinley, and in ______ helped plan the successful naval war againstā¦
- Complete the sentence about Theodore Roosevelt with the correct year: Returning a war hero, Roosevelt was elected New York's governor in ______.
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