Who Did What in
American History?
#1
Commander of the Continental Army and
1st US President?
A: Benedict Arnold
B:
Thomas Jefferson
C: Benjamin Franklin
D:
George Washington
D: George
Washington
#2
Name of joint stock organization that colonized
Virginia in 1607?
A: The Puritans
B:
King George’s Group
C: Virginia Company
D:
British East India
Company
C: Virginia
Company
#3
Religious Group who signed Mayflower Compact
And settled in Massachusetts?
A: Quakers
B:
C: Puritans
D:
Shakers
Pilgrims
D: Pilgrims
#4
French military expert who helped in
American Revolution?
A: Jean Laffite
B: Marquis de Lafayette
C: Charles L’Enfant
D:
Jean Jacques
Rousseau
B: Lafayette!
#5
1st Casualty in the Boston Massacre
A: Crispus Attacks
B:
Paul Revere
C: Nat Turner
D:
John Paul Jones
A: Crispus
Attucks
#6
Stove, bifocals, diplomat to France, behind the
Scenes compromiser during American Independence and
The ratification of the US Constitution – just to name
A few of his accomplishments?
A: Thomas Jefferson
B:
Benjamin Franklin
C: Thomas Paine
D:
Frederick Douglass
B: Franklin
#7
Wrote Constitution?
A:
John Jay, James
Madison, and
Alexander Hamilton
C: John Adams and
Benjamin Franklin
B:
Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton,
D: Benjamin Franklin, and
Thomas Jefferson
A: John Jay,
James Madison,
Alexander Hamilton
#8
Loser of popular vote election
but winner in Congress?
A: John Quincy Adams
B:
Thomas Jefferson
C: Andrew Jackson
D:
Abraham Lincoln
A: John Quincy
Adams
#9
Birdwoman was her name –
helped Lewis and Clark
Travel west?
A: Sojourner Truth
B: Sacajawea
C: Harriett Tubman
D:
Florence Nightingale
B: Sacajawea
#10
Slave who gained national renown for
His public speaking ability and dedication to abolition?
A: Crispus Attucks
B:
Nat Turner
C: Frederick Douglass
D:
Eli Whitney
C: Frederick Douglass
#11
Responsible for
The removal and subsequent
death of thousands of
Cherokee and Choctaw Indians along the Trail of Tears.?
A: John Adams
B:
C: Thomas Jefferson
D:
Andrew Jackson
John Calhoun
B. Andrew
Jackson
#12
Supreme Court Justice who ruled in the famous
Marbury v. Madison case and made the Supreme
Court an equal branch of government to the executive
And legislative branches?
A: John Jay
B:
John Marshall
C: Thurgood Marshall
D:
Ulysses S. Grant
B: John
Marshall
#13
Leader of Seneca Falls Convention and advocate
For women’s suffrage?
A: Elizabeth Cady
B:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
D:
Sara Grimke
Stanton
C: Harriet Tubman
A: Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
#14
Famous for beginning Red Cross during Civil War
A: Angelina Grimke
B:
C: Sojourner Truth
D: Clara Barton
Emily Dickinson
D: Clara Barton
#15
Who wrote the words…”a government for the people,
By the people.”
A: Thomas Jefferson
B:
Abraham Lincoln
C: Thomas Paine
D:
Henry David Thoreau
B: Abraham Lincoln
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