United States History

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  1. Complete the sentence about United States presidential election with the correct year: Presidential elections occur every four years on Election Day, which since ______ has been the first Tuesday afte…
  2. Complete the sentence about Louisiana Territory with the correct year: The terms were later confirmed by the March ______ Treaty of Aranjuez.
  3. Complete the sentence about Louisiana Territory with the correct year: In ______, the territorial legislature created the District of Arkansas from lands ceded by the Osage Nation.
  4. Complete the sentence about Louisiana Territory with the correct year: On March 11, ______, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Gen.
  5. Complete the sentence about Alaska Purchase with the correct year: Seward and Steckel agreed to a treaty for the sale on March 30, ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Alaska Purchase with the correct year: Nearly all Russian settlers left Alaska in the aftermath of the purchase; Alaska would remain sparsely populated until the Klondike G…
  7. Complete the sentence about Alaska Purchase with the correct year: In ______, Tsar Alexander I issued an edict declaring Russia's sovereignty over the North American Pacific coast north of the 51st pa…
  8. Complete the sentence about Alaska Purchase with the correct year: Seeking favorable relations with the U.S., Alexander agreed to the Russo-American Treaty of ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Annexation of Texas with the correct year: The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Annexation of Texas with the correct year: Through secret negotiations with the Houston administration, Tyler secured a treaty of annexation in April ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Annexation of Texas with the correct year: Senate for ratification, the details of the terms of annexation became public and the question of acquiring Texas took center sta…
  12. Complete the sentence about Annexation of Texas with the correct year: Pro-Texas-annexation southern Democratic delegates denied their anti-annexation leader Martin Van Buren the nomination at their p…
  13. Complete the sentence about Annexation of Texas with the correct year: In December ______, lame-duck President Tyler called on Congress to pass his treaty by simple majorities in each house.
  14. Complete the sentence about Texas Revolution with the correct year: Texians and Tejanos disagreed on whether the ultimate goal was independence or a return to the Mexican Constitution of ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Texas Revolution with the correct year: In March ______, a second political convention declared independence and appointed leadership for the new Republic of Texas.
  16. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Alamo with the correct year: The Texians defeated the portion of the Mexican Army led by Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Alamo with the correct year: The Alamo church, which had been purchased by the state in ______, was designated an official Texas State Shrine.
  18. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Alamo with the correct year: The Alamo has been the subject of numerous non-fiction works, the first of which were produced in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Sam Houston with the correct year: With the support of Jackson and others, Houston won election to the House of Representatives in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Sam Houston with the correct year: In ______, after divorcing his first wife, Houston resigned and moved to the Arkansas Territory to live with the Cherokee again.
  21. Complete the sentence about Sam Houston with the correct year: In ______, Houston settled in Mexican Texas, amidst rising tensions between U.S. immigrants and the Centralist government of Mexico.
  22. Complete the sentence about Oregon Trail with the correct year: By ______, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idah…
  23. Complete the sentence about Oregon Trail with the correct year: On the return trip in ______, they traveled from the Columbia River to the Snake River and the Clearwater River over the Lolo Pass again…
  24. Complete the sentence about Oregon Trail with the correct year: Upon arriving at the river in March ______, the Tonquin crew began building what became Fort Astoria.
  25. Complete the sentence about Oregon Trail with the correct year: Because of the War of ______ and the lack of U.S. fur trading posts in the Pacific Northwest, most of the route was unused for more than…
  26. Complete the sentence about Pony Express with the correct year: During its 18 months of operation beginning in ______, the Pony Express reduced the time for messages to travel between the east and wes…
  27. Complete the sentence about Pony Express with the correct year: After gold was discovered there in ______, thousands of prospectors, investors, and businessmen made their way to California, at that ti…
  28. Complete the sentence about Pony Express with the correct year: In ______, they took on a new partner, Alexander Majors, and founded the company of Russell, Majors & Waddell.
  29. Complete the sentence about Wounded Knee Massacre with the correct year: Historian Jeffrey Ostler wrote in ______: "Wounded Knee was not made up of a series of discrete unconnected events.
  30. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Little Bighorn with the correct year: Most battles in the Great Sioux War, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, were on lands those natives had taken f…
  31. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Little Bighorn with the correct year: Already in ______, Crow chief Blackfoot had called for U.S. military actions against the native intruders.
  32. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Little Bighorn with the correct year: In ______, fur trader François Antoine Larocque reported joining a Crow camp in the Yellowstone area.
  33. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Little Bighorn with the correct year: Louis-based fur trader Manuel Lisa built Fort Raymond in ______ for trade with the Crow.
  34. Complete the sentence about Sitting Bull with the correct year: George Armstrong Custer on June 25, ______, annihilating Custer's battalion and seeming to fulfill Sitting Bull's prophetic vision.
  35. Complete the sentence about Sitting Bull with the correct year: Sitting Bull refused to surrender, and in May ______, he led his band north to Wood Mountain, North-West Territories, now Saskatchewan.
  36. Complete the sentence about Sitting Bull with the correct year: In ______, his Lakota family exhumed what were believed to be his remains, reburying them near Mobridge, South Dakota, near his birthpla…
  37. Complete the sentence about Sitting Bull with the correct year: In ______, Sitting Bull's great-grandson asserted from family oral tradition that Sitting Bull was born along the Yellowstone River, sou…
  38. Complete the sentence about Crazy Horse with the correct year: Army detachment, and the ______ Battle of the Little Bighorn, where he helped lead the combined Native forces that defeated the 7th Caval…
  39. Complete the sentence about Crazy Horse with the correct year: Oral history accounts from relatives on the Cheyenne River Reservation place his birth in the spring of ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Crazy Horse with the correct year: In keeping with oral claims, the late native Lakota speaking author, actor, and educator Joseph Marshall likewise affirmed Crazy Horse's…
  41. Complete the sentence about Sacagawea with the correct year: The authors cite a ______ oral history told by a man who claimed to be her grandson, Bulls Eye, that was supported by contemporary elders i…
  42. Complete the sentence about Sacagawea with the correct year: In April ______, the expedition left Fort Mandan and headed up the Missouri River in pirogues and Sacagawea carried young Jean Baptiste on…
  43. Complete the sentence about Sacagawea with the correct year: On May 14, ______, Sacagawea rescued items that had fallen out of a capsized boat, including the journals and records of Lewis and Clark.
  44. Complete the sentence about Sacagawea with the correct year: The corps commanders, who praised her quick action, named the Sacagawea River in her honor on May 20, ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Harriet Tubman with the correct year: In ______ Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, only to return to Maryland to rescue her family soon after.
  46. Complete the sentence about Harriet Tubman with the correct year: After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in ______ in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her agi…
  47. Complete the sentence about Abolitionism in the United States with the correct year: In Colonial America, a few German Quakers issued the ______ Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, which marke…
  48. Complete the sentence about Abolitionism in the United States with the correct year: Between the Revolutionary War and ______, laws, constitutions, or court decisions in each of the Northern states pr…
  49. Complete the sentence about Abolitionism in the United States with the correct year: In ______, Rhode Island made it illegal for any person, black or white, to be "bound" longer than ten years.
  50. Complete the sentence about Abolitionism in the United States with the correct year: The law, however, was widely ignored, and Rhode Island became involved in the slave trade in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Uncle Tom's Cabin with the correct year: Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared as a 40-week serial in The National Era, an abolitionist periodical, starting with the June 5, ___…
  52. Complete the sentence about Uncle Tom's Cabin with the correct year: The final installment was released in the April 1, ______, issue of Era.
  53. Complete the sentence about John Brown with the correct year: John Brown, a Continental Army officer of English descent who died from illness on September 3, ______, in New York during the American Re…
  54. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Frederick, identified by Owen as his sixth son, was born in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about John Brown with the correct year: In ______, the family moved, again, to Hudson, Ohio, in the Western Reserve, which at the time was mostly wilderness; it became the most a…
  56. Complete the sentence about John Brown with the correct year: John's mother Ruth died a few hours after the death of a newborn girl in December ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Sherman's March to the Sea with the correct year: Sherman's "March to the Sea" followed his successful Atlanta campaign of May to September ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Sherman's March to the Sea with the correct year: Sherman, Military Division of the Mississippi Special Field Order 120, November 9, ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Jim Crow laws with the correct year: Public education had essentially been segregated since it began during the Reconstruction era after ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Plessy v. Ferguson with the correct year: The underlying case began in ______ when Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man, deliberately boarded a whites-only train car in New Orlea…
  61. Complete the sentence about Plessy v. Ferguson with the correct year: Despite its infamy, the decision has never been overruled explicitly; however, beginning in ______ with Brown v.
  62. Complete the sentence about Plessy v. Ferguson with the correct year: In ______, the Louisiana State Legislature passed a law called the Separate Car Act, which required separate accommodations for bl…
  63. Complete the sentence about Ku Klux Klan with the correct year: Federal Enforcement Acts and prosecutions beginning in ______ significantly weakened this iteration.
  64. Complete the sentence about Ku Klux Klan with the correct year: In ______, the second Klan was founded atop Stone Mountain, Georgia, by William Joseph Simmons.
  65. Complete the sentence about Harlem Renaissance with the correct year: The origins of the Harlem Renaissance can be dated back to ______, when the American Civil War ended.
  66. Complete the sentence about Harlem Renaissance with the correct year: In ______, a large block along 135th Street and Fifth Avenue was bought by various African-American realtors and a church group.
  67. Complete the sentence about Susan B. Anthony with the correct year: In ______, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
  68. Complete the sentence about Susan B. Anthony with the correct year: In ______, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in th…
  69. Complete the sentence about Susan B. Anthony with the correct year: Anthony and Stanton began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage in ______ on what eventually grew into the six-volume History of Woman Su…
  70. Complete the sentence about Seneca Falls Convention with the correct year: In ______ the first in a series of annual National Women's Rights Conventions met in Worcester, Massachusetts.
  71. Complete the sentence about Seneca Falls Convention with the correct year: By the time of the National Women's Rights Convention of ______, the issue of women's right to vote had become a central tene…
  72. Complete the sentence about Seneca Falls Convention with the correct year: In ______, Reverend Charles Grandison Finney began allowing women to pray aloud in gatherings of men and women.
  73. Complete the sentence about Social Security Act with the correct year: The Social Security Act of ______ is a law enacted by the 74th United States Congress and signed into law by U.S. president Frank…
  74. Complete the sentence about Social Security Act with the correct year: By ______, the United States was one of the few industrialized countries without any national social security system.
  75. Complete the sentence about Social Security Act with the correct year: The Supreme Court upheld the act in two major cases decided in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Social Security Act with the correct year: The law was later amended by acts such as the Social Security Amendments of ______, which established two major healthcare progra…
  77. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Since ______, the Federal Minimum Wage has held steady at $7.25 per hour.
  78. Complete the sentence about Taft–Hartley Act with the correct year: The ______ mid-term elections left Republicans in control of Congress for the first time since the early 1930s.
  79. Complete the sentence about McCarthyism with the correct year: Truman's Executive Order 9835 of March 21, ______, required that all federal civil-service employees be screened for "loyalty".
  80. Complete the sentence about McCarthyism with the correct year: In ______, a high-level State Department official was convicted of perjury in a case of espionage, and the Soviet Union tested a nuclear…
  81. Complete the sentence about McCarthyism with the correct year: In a March ______ address to Congress, Truman enunciated a new foreign policy doctrine that committed the United States to opposing Sovie…
  82. Complete the sentence about Space Race with the correct year: Public interest in space travel originated in the ______ publication of a Soviet youth magazine and was promptly picked up by US magazines…
  83. Complete the sentence about Space Race with the correct year: The competition began on July 29, ______, when the United States announced its intent to launch artificial satellites for the Internationa…
  84. Complete the sentence about Space Race with the correct year: The competition gained Western public attention with the "Sputnik crisis", when the USSR achieved the first successful satellite launch, S…
  85. Complete the sentence about Space Race with the correct year: Kennedy's Moon landing goal was achieved in July ______, with the flight of Apollo 11.
  86. Complete the sentence about Apollo 11 with the correct year: Kennedy in May ______, who had challenged the United States to land a man on the Moon and return him safely before the end of the decade.
  87. Complete the sentence about Neil Armstrong with the correct year: Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, which was selected in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Neil Armstrong with the correct year: Apollo 11 was a major U.S. victory in the Space Race, by fulfilling a national goal proposed in ______ by President John F.
  89. Complete the sentence about Sputnik 1 with the correct year: Aerodynamic drag caused it to fall back into the atmosphere on 4 January ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Sputnik 1 with the correct year: The signals continued for 22 days until the transmitter batteries depleted on 26 October ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Berlin Wall with the correct year: Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Berlin Wall with the correct year: After ______, the deadly force associated with the Wall prevented almost all such emigration.
  93. Complete the sentence about Berlin Wall with the correct year: After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November ______ that all GDR citizens could visit the FRG…
  94. Complete the sentence about Berlin Wall with the correct year: The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which formally took place on 3 October ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Berlin Wall with the correct year: The Warsaw Pact's largest military engagement was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, its own member state, in August ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Berlin Wall with the correct year: In May ______, Stalin lifted the blockade, permitting the resumption of Western shipments to Berlin.
  97. Complete the sentence about NATO with the correct year: Founded in the aftermath of World War II, NATO was established with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about NATO with the correct year: Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in ______, the alliance adapted.
  99. Complete the sentence about NATO with the correct year: In ______, NATO intervened in the Libyan civil war, with a UN mandate to enforce a no-fly zone and protect civilians.
  100. Complete the sentence about NATO with the correct year: Following the Russian annexation of Crimea in ______, NATO suspended co-operation and deployed a tripwire force in the east.

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