Top 40

Question 1

Pre-Columbus

Answer 1

Native Americans

Question 2

1492

Answer 2

Columbus arrives in the Western Hemisphere

Question 3

1607

Answer 3

Jamestown founded

Question 4

1619

Answer 4

First group of blacks brought to Virginia

First legislative assembly meets in Virginia

Question 5

1620

Answer 5

First Pilgrims in Plymouth

Question 6

1630s - 1640s

Answer 6

Great Puritan Migration to Massachusetts Bay

Question 7

1756 - 1763

Answer 7

French and Indian War

Question 8

1773

Answer 8

Boston Tea Party

Question 9

1775 - 1783

Answer 9

American Revolutionary War

Question 10

1776

Answer 10

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Declaration of Independence (Jefferson, Adams, Franklin)

Question 11

1781

Answer 11

Articles of Confederation ratified

Question 12

1789

Answer 12

U.S. Constitution (Madison and Hamilton)
George Washington Becomes President
French Revolution Begins

Question 13

1791

Answer 13

Bill of Rights

Question 14

1803

Answer 14

Louisiana Purchase (Jefferson, Lewis and Clark)
Marbury v. Madison

Question 15

1823

Answer 15

Monroe Doctrine

Question 16

1845

Answer 16

Texas Annexation

Question 17

1846-1848

Answer 17

US/Mexican War

Question 18

1840s

Answer 18

Maifest Destiny
Telegraph and railroads create a communications revolution

Question 19

1850

Answer 19

Compromise of 1850
California admitted to the union
Fugitive Slave Law strengthened

Question 20

1854

Answer 20

Kansas - Nebraska Act
Republican Party formed

Question 21

1861-1865

Answer 21

Civil War
(Lincoln)

Question 22

1869

Answer 22

Transcontinental Railroad completed

Question 23

1876

Answer 23

End of Reconstruction
Battle of Little Big Horn

Question 24

1883

Answer 24

Railroad companies divide nation into four time zones
Pendleton Civil Service Act

Question 25

1890

Answer 25

Sherman Anti- Trust Act Massacre at Wounded Knee

Question 26

1898

Answer 26

War with Spain Hawaii annexed

Question 27

1904-1914

Answer 27

Panama Canal Built

Question 28

1914-1918

Answer 28

World War 1 U.S. troops occupy Vera Cruz

Question 29

1920s

Answer 29

Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties

Question 30

1920

Answer 30

Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote First radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh

Question 31

1929-39

Answer 31

Great Depression

Question 32

1939-45

Answer 32

World War ll

Question 33

1947-91

Answer 33

Cold War - Korea (1950-53) - Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) (JFK) - Arms Race, Space Race (Man on moon by 1969) - Vietnam (1954-1973) (Johnson)

Question 34

1954

Answer 34

Brown v Board of Education

Question 35

1955 - 65

Answer 35

Civil Rights Movement

Question 36

1972 - 74

Answer 36

Watergate - (Nixon)

Question 37

1979 - 81

Answer 37

Iran Hostage Crisis (Carter)

Question 38

1820

Answer 38

Missouri Compromise

Question 39

1849

Answer 39

California Gold Rush

Question 40

1906

Answer 40

Pure Food and Drug Act