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1. In elementary school we learned "In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue". But do you remember where he landed?
2. Saint Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied city in the continental United States. What European nation established it?
3. What was the name of the rock, according to legend, where a group of religious pilgrims first set foot in what is now Massachusetts in 1620?
4. The history of the Salem Witch Trials is a solemn story. Of the twenty victims were found guilty of witchcraft, how many were burned at the stake?
5. Eli Whitney patented the Cotton Gin in 1793. What was the effect on slavery in the United States?
6. General Antonio López de Santa Ana of Mexico declared victory at the Alamo on March 6, 1836. Who were the co-commanders of the Texas defenders?
7. John Brown was a dynamic and devoted abolitionist. Unlike many abolitionists, who thought that the issue could be settled peacefully, Brown felt that it could only be achieved by force. At what site in 1859 did he make his most famous attack?
8. On 19 February 1909 Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Archibald Grimke (among others) met in Baltimore, MD to form what organization?
9. Rosa Parks, when directed to give up her seat to a white bus passenger, refused. The 12/1/1955 event was a critical event in the campaign for civil rights in the United States. In what city did this occur?
10. Americans were stunned by the terrorist's attacks of 9/11. What was the year this occurred?
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