History - Places
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Name the first permanent settlement and who started it.
St. Augustine; Spanish
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Name the first permanent English settlement.
Jamestown
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Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at ____.
Yorktown
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Where was Washington’s winter quarters?
Valley Forge
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When did Alabama become a state?
1819
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Indians were moved from southeast to ___.
Oklahoma
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The Mormons moved to ______.
Utah
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Where was gold discovered?
Sutter’s Mill, California
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The North got rich from _______.
Factories
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The South got rich from ______.
Farming
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_____ got its independence from Mexico.
Texas
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Andrew Jackson defeated Indians at _____.
Horseshoe Bend, Alabama
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Francis Scott Key wrote _____ at _____ during War of 1812.
“The Star Spangled Banner”; Fort McHenry
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act said the people of these states could _____.
Vote on whether to be slave or free
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Name the first state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
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Where did the Southern states meet to create the Confederacy?
Montgomery, AL
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Name the capital of the Confederacy.
Richmond, VA
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Which county seceded from Alabama?
Winston
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Several counties seceded from Virginia and created _____.
West Virginia
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When Grant captured this city, it split the South.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
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What was the turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
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Lee surrendered to Grant at _____.
Appomattox Courthouse, VA
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The _____ connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Panama Canal
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Japan invaded _____ and started WWII.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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D-Day was when Allied forces invaded _____.
Normandy (France)
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Germany invaded _____ and started WWII.
Poland
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Where were the atomic bombs dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Name the turning point of the American Revolution and who came to our aid.
Saratoga; France
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