1. AMERICAN HISTORY PRETEST

2. WHO IS CREDITED WITH DISCOVERING AMERICA?

3. WHO IS AMERICA NAMED AFTER?

4. IN THE STORY OF THE FIRST THANKSGIVING, WHICH GROUP WHO WROTE THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT ATE WITH THE NATIVE AMERICANS?

5. HOW MANY ORIGINAL COLONIES WERE THERE IN AMERICA?

6. WHICH NATION FIRST CONQUERED FLORIDA?

7. WHO DID THE UNITED STATES WIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE FROM DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR?

8. WHO WAS THE GENERAL OF THE VICTORIOUS CONTINENTAL ARMY DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR?

9. WHAT ARE THE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT IN THE US?

10. WHICH GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT DID THE CONSTITUTION REPLACE?

11. WHAT ARE THE FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS ON THE US CONSTITUTION REFERRED TO AS?

12. WHO DID THE U.S. FIGHT AGAINST DURING THE WAR OF 1812?

13. WHICH U.S. PRESIDENT STARTED INDIAN REMOVAL AND SENT THE CHEROKEE NATIVE AMERICANS ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS?

14. WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?

15. WHY DID THE SOUTHERN STATES DECIDE TO SEPARATE FROM THE UNITED STATES?

16. WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA?

17. WHAT DID ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION DO?

18. WHAT IS THE PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR KNOWN AS?

19. WHO ASSASSINATED ABRAHAM LINCOLN?

20. WHICH TERRORIST GROUP STARTED IN THE SOUTH IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR?

21. DURING TIME OF INDUSTRIAL CHANGE, WHO STARTED THE ASSEMBLY LINE?

23. NAME ONE COUNTRY THE UNITED STATES FOUGHT AGAINST DURING WWI.

24. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE TREATY THAT ENDED WORLD WAR I?

25. AFTER WWI, THE ECONOMY CRASHED, TAKING THE UNITED STATES INTO A PERIOD REFERRED TO AS WHAT?

26. WHICH COUNTRY ATTACKED THE UNITED STATES AT PEARL HARBOR?

27. WHO WAS THE UNITED STATES’ PRESIDENT DURING MOST OF WORLD WAR II?

28. NAME ONE COUNTRY WHO WAS ON THE SAME SIDE AS THE US DURING WORLD WAR II?

29. WHO WAS THE DICTATOR OF ITALY DURING WORLD WAR II?

30. THE UNITED STATES FORCED JAPAN TO SURRENDER IN WORLD WAR II BY DOING WHAT?

31. WHO WAS THE UNITED STATES INVOLVED WITH DURING THE COLD WAR?

32. WHO ASSASSINATED JOHN F. KENNEDY?

34. WHAT IS SPUTNIK?

35. NAME ONE CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.

36. WHO WAS ON THE SIDE OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE VIETNAM WAR?

37. WHAT IS CONSCRIPTION?

38. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CONCERT FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK THAT BECAME A LANDMARK DURING THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT?

39. NAME ONE KEY FIGURE IN THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT AT ANYTIME THROUGHOUT US HISTORY.

40. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SCANDAL THAT FORCED THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON?

41. WHAT WAS RONALD REAGAN’S ECONOMIC PLAN CALLED?

42. WHAT WALL IN GERMANY GOT TAKEN DOWN IN 1990?

43. WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL NAME OF OBAMACARE?

44. LETS GO OVER THE ANSWERS….

45. WHO IS CREDITED WITH DISCOVERING AMERICA? Christopher Columbus

46. WHO IS AMERICA NAMED AFTER? Amerigo Vespucci

47. IN THE STORY OF THE FIRST THANKSGIVING, WHICH GROUP WHO WROTE THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT ATE WITH THE NATIVE AMERICANS? The Pilgrims

48. HOW MANY ORIGINAL COLONIES WERE THERE IN AMERICA? 13

49. WHICH NATION FIRST CONQUERED FLORIDA? Spain

50. WHO DID THE UNITED STATES WIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE FROM DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR? Great Britain

51. WHO WAS THE GENERAL OF THE VICTORIOUS CONTINENTAL ARMY DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR? George Washington

52. WHAT ARE THE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT IN THE US? Legislative, Executive, Judicial

53. WHICH GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT DID THE CONSTITUTION REPLACE? The Articles of Confederation

54. WHAT ARE THE FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS ON THE US CONSTITUTION REFERRED TO AS? The Bill of Rights

55. WHO DID THE U.S. FIGHT AGAINST DURING THE WAR OF 1812? Great Britain

56. WHICH U.S. PRESIDENT STARTED INDIAN REMOVAL AND SENT THE CHEROKEE NATIVE AMERICANS ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS? Andrew Jackson

57. WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD? Harriet Tubman

58. WHY DID THE SOUTHERN STATES DECIDE TO SEPARATE FROM THE UNITED STATES? Disagreements between state rights, about slavery, and about commerce

59. WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA? Jefferson Davis

60. WHAT DID ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION DO? Freed slaves in areas of Confederate occupation

61. WHAT IS THE PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR KNOWN AS? Reconstruction

62. WHO ASSASSINATED ABRAHAM LINCOLN? John Wilkes Booth

63. WHICH TERRORIST GROUP STARTED IN THE SOUTH IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR? Ku Klux Klan

64. DURING TIME OF INDUSTRIAL CHANGE, WHO STARTED THE ASSEMBLY LINE? Henry Ford

66. NAME ONE COUNTRY THE UNITED STATES FOUGHT AGAINST DURING WWI. Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Germany

67. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE TREATY THAT ENDED WORLD WAR I? Treaty of Versailles

68. AFTER WWI, THE ECONOMY CRASHED, TAKING THE UNITED STATES INTO A PERIOD REFERRED TO AS WHAT? The Great Depression

69. WHICH COUNTRY ATTACKED THE UNITED STATES AT PEARL HARBOR? Japan

70. WHO WAS THE UNITED STATES’ PRESIDENT DURING MOST OF WORLD WAR II? Franklin Delano Roosevelt

71. NAME ONE COUNTRY WHO WAS ON THE SAME SIDE AS THE US DURING WORLD WAR II? Soviet Union, France, Great Britain

72. WHO WAS THE DICTATOR OF ITALY DURING WORLD WAR II? Benito Mussolini

73. THE UNITED STATES FORCED JAPAN TO SURRENDER IN WORLD WAR II BY DOING WHAT? Dropping the atomic bombs – Hiroshima, Nagasaki

74. WHO WAS THE UNITED STATES INVOLVED WITH DURING THE COLD WAR? Soviet Union

75. WHO ASSASSINATED JOHN F. KENNEDY? Lee Harvey Oswald

77. WHAT IS SPUTNIK? First satellite launched into space – Soviet Union

78. NAME ONE CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. NAACP, CORE, SNCC, SCLC

79. WHO WAS ON THE SIDE OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE VIETNAM WAR? South Vietnam, France

80. WHAT IS CONSCRIPTION? Forced military draft

81. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CONCERT FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK THAT BECAME A LANDMARK DURING THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT? Woodstock

82. NAME ONE KEY FIGURE IN THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT AT ANYTIME THROUGHOUT US HISTORY. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan

83. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SCANDAL THAT FORCED THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON? Watergate

84. WHAT WAS RONALD REAGAN’S ECONOMIC PLAN CALLED? Reaganomics

85. WHAT WALL IN GERMANY GOT TAKEN DOWN IN 1990? Berlin Wall

86. WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL NAME OF OBAMACARE? Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act