Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
(Franklin) Roosevelt
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
freed the slaves • freed slaves in the Confederacy • freed slaves in the Confederate states • freed slaves in most Southern states
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What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
the Louisiana Territory
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When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
July 4, 1776
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
(Thomas) Jefferson
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What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
US diplomat, oldest member of the Constitutional Convention, first Postmaster General of the US, writer of Poor Richard’s Almanac, started first free libraries
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There were 13 original states. Name three.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georg
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Who did the United States fight in World War II?
Japan, Germany, and Italy
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What did Susan B. Anthony do?
fought for women’s rights • fought for civil rights
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Why did the colonists fight the British?
because of high taxes (taxation without representation) • because the British army stayed in their houses (quartering)• because they didn’t have self-government
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What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation) • saved (or preserved) the Union • led the United States during the Civil War
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What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
