Cycle 3 History Sentences fill in Dates (WK1-22)

Question 1

In _______, Columbus made the first of four trips to the Caribbean on three Spanish ships named the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

Answer 1

1492

Question 2

In ______, the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, and signed the Mayflower compact before founding Plymouth colony in North America.

Answer 2

1620

Question 3

In _____, colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped tea from the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor.

Answer 3

1773

Question 4

In _____, the Continental Congress published the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia announcing the colonists’ intent to separate from England.

Answer 4

1776

Question 5

In _______, in New York, George Washington was granted the full powers and responsibilities of the presidency by the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 5

1789

Question 6

In ______, the purchase of Louisiana from France prompted westward exploration by pioneers such as Lewis and Clark and Congressman Davy Crockett.

Answer 6

1803

Question 7

After victory in the War of _____-, the United States wrote the Monroe Doctrine, which warned Europeans not to attempt to colonize the Americas.

Answer 7

1812

Question 8

In _____, Henry Clay worked out the Missouri Compromise, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Answer 8

1820

Question 9

The Compromise of _______, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Dred Scott decision, preceded the secession of the Southern States.

Answer 9

1850

Question 10

President Polk believed that the Mexican War and the Gadsen Purchase in the ______-_- affirmed America’s manifest destiny to spread across the continent.

Answer 10

mid-1800s

Question 11

In _____, the Civil War began when President Abraham Lincoln went to war with the Southern States that had seceded from the Union.

Answer 11

1861

Question 12

In _____, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

Answer 12

1865

Question 13

In _______, the Fourteenth Amendment made all former slaves U.S. citizens and paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement.

Answer 13

1868

Question 14

During the _______, tycoons like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Swift fueled the nation’s Industrial Age by developing American resources.

Answer 14

late 1800s

Question 15

From ________, more than 37 million immigrants came to America, seeking freedom and the opportunity to increase their personal wealth.

Answer 15

1820 to 1930

Question 16

In ______, President Wilson asked Congress to enter World War I against the Central Powers two years after German U-boats sank the Lusitania, killing American citizens.

Answer 16

1917

Question 17

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led the women’s suffrage movement in teh United States, resulting in teh Nineteenth Amendment in ______ that granted women the right to vote.

Answer 17

1920

Question 18

On ______________, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing the United States to join the Allies in World War II.

Answer 18

December 7, 1941

Question 19

In _____-, the United States and its allies formed NATO to resist the spread of Soviet communism.

Answer 19

1949

Question 20

In _____, in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of public schools by race is unconstitutional.

Answer 20

1954

Question 21

In ______, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon.

Answer 21

1969

Question 22

On ________, terrorists hijacked four airplanes. They flew two into the World Trade Center in New York city and one into the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The fourth plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field.

Answer 22

September 11, 2001

Question 23

We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Answer 23

Tell me the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

Question 24

1. Freedoms
2. Own guns
3. Quartering soldiers
4. Warrants
5. Cannot testify against self
6. Right to speedy trial
7. Right to a jury
8. Cruel, unusual punishment
9. People’s rights
10. State’s rights

Answer 24

Tell me about the Bill of the Rights.