Checkpoints 'Events that made American History'

Questions:

Revolution:

1)

There were 13 colonies by the time of the French and Indian War.

2)

The slogan of the protesters in Boston was ''taxation without representation.

3)

The Revolutionary War began in Lexington.

4) The colonies declared their independence Philadelphia and it happend on July 4th, in year 1776.

5)

Slavery and the Civil War:

1)

The first African slaves arrived in the New World as early as 1619.

2)

The importation of new slaves was made illegal in the year 1807.

3)

Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860.

4)

His victory lead to that South Carolina left the Union and was followed by 10 other states.

5)

The role the Emancipation Proclamation played was to free the slaves.

The USA in WW 1 and WW 2

1)

We call Woodrow Wilsons policy in the first part of WW 1 isolationism.

2)

The US entered the war because one of their boats got attacked in 1917.

3)

The purpose of the League of Nations was to secure peace.

4)

The US entered WW 2 in year 1941.

5) Harry S. Truman was the president that was responsible for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

6)

The wars changed life for American women with that American women entered the workplace to play their part in the war effort. They started to work.

The cold War

1)

It was a surprise that the US and the USSR did not work together after WW 2 because because they had been working toghter under WW 1 and had fellow enemies.

2) 

Soviets was the first country in the space in 1957.

3)

Neil Armstrong said: ''A small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind''.

4)

The two men that was central in the process of ending the Cold War was Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.