Founding · Civil War trivia

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• Who called for armed resistance on the eve of the War of Independence with the speech 'Give me liberty, or give me death'?Founding · Civil War
• Which novel, published in 1852, brought the horrors of slavery to a wide public and inflamed the conflict between North and South?Founding · Civil War
• Who, as the first secretary of the treasury of the United States, laid the foundations of federal finance and a national bank?Founding · Civil War
• Who earned the nickname 'Moses' by leading escaped slaves north along the secret network known as the Underground Railroad?Founding · Civil War
• In which battle of 1775 were the first shots of the American War of Independence fired?Founding · Civil War
• Which Founding Father of the United States is also famous for flying a kite to show that lightning is electricity?Founding · Civil War
• Which country sold Alaska to the United States in 1867?Founding · Civil War
• What was the main reason English Puritans left home for North America in the early seventeenth century?Founding · Civil War
• Which text contains the phrase 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'?Founding · Civil War
• Where did the colonies that formed the United States at independence lie?Founding · Civil War
• Thanksgiving in the United States is said to go back to a feast at which early settlers gave thanks for their first harvest.Founding · Civil War
• Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 as the candidate of the Democratic Party.Founding · Civil War
• 'No taxation without representation' was a slogan raised by the southern states during the Civil War.Founding · Civil War
• The story that the young George Washington cut down a cherry tree and honestly owned up to it is regarded as a biographer's invention.Founding · Civil War
• Texas broke away from Mexico and existed as a republic before it was annexed by the United States.Founding · Civil War
• During the War of 1812, British troops entered the capital of the United States and burned the president's residence and the Capitol.Founding · Civil War
• The American War of Independence was fought by colonists to break free from Spanish rule.Founding · Civil War
• Lincoln was one of the Founding Fathers who signed the United States Declaration of Independence.Founding · Civil War
• George Washington was commander in chief of the colonial army in the American War of Independence.Founding · Civil War
• Lincoln was born in a log cabin and rose to become president.Founding · Civil War
• From which country did the United States buy the Louisiana territory in 1803?Founding · Civil War
• Who was president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War?Founding · Civil War
• Which document did Lincoln issue to declare free the enslaved people of the Confederate states?Founding · Civil War
• Who was the first president of the United States?Founding · Civil War
• Who is best known as the principal drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence?Founding · Civil War
• Who was president of the Union during the American Civil War?Founding · Civil War
• What is the capital of the United States?Founding · Civil War
• What is the title of the national anthem of the United States?Founding · Civil War
• What was the 1773 event in which colonists threw tea into the water in protest at the British tax on it?Founding · Civil War
• In which city was the 1787 convention that framed the United States Constitution held?Founding · Civil War
• The Boston Tea Party was an event at which colonists urged one another to buy more British tea.Founding · Civil War
• The United States Bill of Rights means the first ten amendments to the Constitution.Founding · Civil War
• The Louisiana Purchase took place while Thomas Jefferson was president.Founding · Civil War
• The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in 1863, during the American Civil War.Founding · Civil War
• The United States Declaration of Independence was issued in 1787.Founding · Civil War
• The first president of the United States was Abraham Lincoln.Founding · Civil War
• The American Civil War was fought between the Union in the North and the Confederacy in the South.Founding · Civil War
• The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States.Founding · Civil War
• The United States Constitution was drawn up on the same day in 1776 as the Declaration of Independence.Founding · Civil War
• The side that finally won the American Civil War was the Confederacy.Founding · Civil War