Fun U.S. History Review

What was the South's largest export in the 19th century?

Who was the founder of Standard Oil?

Who invented and patented the first telephone? 

What amendment made people citizens of their state and the U.S. at large?

Who wrote the influential pamphlet The American Crisis?

This was the capital of the Confederate States of America

Which of these men supported and promoted with Radical Reconstruction? 

Who was the leading Calvary Officer for the Army of Northern Virginia?

True or False: In the 1840s, railroads replaced trails & roads as the main way to move out West

Which of the following Presidents were NOT assassinated? 

President who established hundreds of wildlife reserves and national parks

Which President was the only one to serve two non-consecutive terms?

What is considered the "high water mark" of the Civil War?

The last battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought at...

What doctrine states the U.S. will stay out of Europe & Europe should stay out of the Americas?

The Dred Scott Supreme Court Case ruled in favor of...

Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

Which President became a leader of the Progressive Party?

Which Civil War General said, "I only know 2 tunes; one is Yankee Doodle, the other is not."

The Civil War General fought for the Confederacy but died at Chancellorsville by friendly fire

According to the Constitution, who has the power to declare war?

Which of the following is NOT associated with the War of 1812?

Where did John Brown attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859?

The Compromise of 1850 did all of the following EXCEPT...

What is the period following the Civil War of trying to "put the country back together" called?

What did Theodore Roosevelt prefer to be called?

President who was a General in the Mexican-American war & called "old rough-and-ready"

Who shot William McKinley?

What precedent did Marbury v. Madison establish for the Supreme Court?

Amendments: What amendment gave women the right to vote in elections?

Man who published a photo book in 1901 called "How the Other Half Lives" exposing urban poverty

Plan in the Constitutional Convention that called for one house with equal representatives

This Civil War General's "March to the Sea" destroyed Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah

This man was a banker and investor who bought Carnegie Steel and Edison Electric 

Woman who served as a Civil War nurse and later founded the American Red Cross

The "Great Compromise" in the Constitutional Convention involved what issue?

Who helped Lewis & Clark in their journey westward?

The only family where the grandfather-grandson both held the office of President

Supreme Court case that ruled "the power to tax is the power to destroy"

Amendments: What amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?

Who was President during World War I?

The majority of immigrants from 1890-1910 came from what part of the world?

A business that sells shares of stock and is publicly traded is called a....

What is the official name of this flag?

Engineer for the Army Corps who is credited with taming the Mississippi & saving St. Louis