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• What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

  freed the slaves
• Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

  slavery
• Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

  the Civil War
• Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.

  Civil War
• What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

  Louisiana
• Who was the first President?

  George Washington
• Who is the “Father of Our Country”?

  George Washington
• What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

  U.S. diplomat
• The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers

  Alexander Hamilton
• When was the Constitution written?

  1787
• What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

  The Constitution was written.
• There were 13 original states. Name three.

  New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware
• When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

  July 4, 1776
• Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

  Thomas Jefferson
• Why did the colonists fight the British?

  because of high taxes
• What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

  Africans
• Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

  Native Americans
• What is one reason colonists came to America?

  freedom
• When must all men register for the Selective Service?

  at age eighteen
• When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms

  April 15