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From the Colonies to Today

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  1. What is one reason colonists came to America?
  2. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
  3. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
  4. Why did the colonists fight the British?
  5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
  6. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
  7. There were 13 original states. Name three.
  8. What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
  9. Who was the first president?
  10. What did Thomas Jefferson do as president?
  11. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
  12. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
  13. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
  14. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
  15. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
  16. What did Susan B. Anthony do?
  17. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
  18. Who was president during World War I?
  19. Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?
  20. Who did the United States fight in World War II?
  21. Before he was president, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
  22. During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
  23. What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
  24. What did Martin Luther King Jr. do?
  25. What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
  26. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
  27. Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.
  28. What was the main purpose of the Louisiana Purchase?
  29. What was the Underground Railroad?
  30. Which president is on the five-dollar bill?
  31. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
  32. What was the Great Depression?
  33. What did the Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican-American War and the Gold Rush have in common?

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