1) The Pilgrim Fathers came to the USA in order to a) escape religious persecution b) escape political persecution c) make money 2) The British King during the American revolution was a) George I b) George II c) George III 3) War against Britain broke out in a) 1774 b) 1775 c) 1776 4) The Declaration of Independence was signed on a) 4th July 1776 b) 3rd July 1776 c) 4th July 1775 5) During the Boston tea party some colonists threw a) a cargo of meat into the sea b) a cargo of vegetables into the sea c) a cargo of tea boxes into the sea 6) Independence became official with the a) Treaty of Washington b) Treaty of Versailles c) Treaty of Paris 7) The original thirteen colonies were located a) on the Atlantic coast b) on the Pacific coast c) in the Central Plains 8) The American President during the Civil War was a) Jefferson b) Lincoln c) Washington 9) The Confederation was formed by a) the northern states b) the southern states 10) The war began in a) 1860 b) 1761 c) 1861 11) The Emancipation Proclamation freed a) 2 million slaves b) 3 million slaves c) 3 thousand slaves 12) Gold was found in California in a) 1789 b) 1861 c) 1848 13) This led to a mass immigration towards the a) South b) North c) West 14) The USA entered WW1 in a) 1914 b) 1916 c) 1917 15) Ellis Island was a) a seaside resort b) an immigration station c) an American state 16) Roosevelt's New Deal was meant to a) improve the economic crisis b) improve the political situation c) help the poor 17) The USA enetered WW2 after a) Pearl Harbour was attacked b) Washington DC was attacked c) San Francisco was attacked 18) M.L. King was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in a) 1963 b) 1954 c) 1964 19) Mount Rushmore shows carvings of a) Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington,Roosevelt b) Truman, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln c) Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson 20) Barack Obama was elected in a) 2007 b) 2009 c) 2006

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