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2025/2026 Guide
Who was the first President?
- Correct Answer - (George) Washington
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
- Correct Answer - -the Louisiana Territory
-Louisiana
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
- Correct Answer - -War of 1812
-Mexican-American War
- Civil War
-Spanish-American War
Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
- Correct Answer - -the Civil War
-the War between the States
,Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
- Correct Answer - -slavery
-economic reasons
-states' rights
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
- Correct Answer - -freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
-saved (or preserved) the Union
-led the United States during the Civil War
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
- Correct Answer - -freed the slaves
-freed slaves in the Confederacy
-freed slaves in the Confederate states
-freed slaves in most Southern states
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
- Correct Answer - -fought for women's rights
-fought for civil rights
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
- Correct Answer - -World War I
,-World War II
-Korean War
-Vietnam War
-(Persian) Gulf War
Who was President during World War I
- Correct Answer - (Woodrow) Wilson
Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
- Correct Answer - (Franklin) Roosevelt
Who did the United States fight in World War II?
- Correct Answer - Japan, Germany, and Italy
Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he
in? - Correct Answer - World War II
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
- Correct Answer - Communism
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
- Correct Answer - civil rights (movement)
, What is the supreme law of the land? - Correct Answer - the Constitution
What does the Constitution do? - Correct Answer - -sets up the
government
-defines the government
-protects basic rights of Americans
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution.
What are these words? - Correct Answer - We the People
What is an amendment? - Correct Answer - -a change (to the
Constitution)
-an addition (to the Constitution)
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
- Correct Answer - the Bill of Rights
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
- Correct Answer - -speech
-religion
-assembly