1. Belgium
   Egypt
2. the Netherlands

Fleeing religious persecution, the Pilgrims left England and resettled briefly in the Netherlands before sailing to the New World in 1620.

1. Jimmy Carter
   Ronald Reagan
2. Gerald Ford

President Ronald Reagan urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall in a 1987 speech in West Berlin.

1. to escape
   to get provisions
2. to surprise the enemy

Washington led his troops in boats across the icy Delaware to defeat the Hessians in Trenton, New Jersey.

1. James Madison
   Patrick Henry
2. Nathan Hale

Patrick Henry gave a speech at the Virginia Convention in 1775, in which he uttered the famous rallying call, "Give me liberty, or give me death."

1. pumpkin pie
   venison
2. Indian corn

The Pilgrims couldn’t have served pumpkin pie because they lacked sugar and the ingredients to make crust.

1. Hudson River
   Boston Harbor
2. Mississippi River

American protesters tossed the East India Company's tea into Boston Harbor to protest its monopoly on tea imports. This act became known as the Boston Tea Party.

1. 1814
   1778
2. 1863

British troops captured and burned the Capitol and White House in 1814.

1. World War I
   Seven Years' War
2. Hundred Years' War

The French and Indian War, which lasted from 1754 to 1763, was part of the Seven Years' War.

1. Plessy v. Ferguson
   Dred Scott v. Sandford
2. Roe v. Wade

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) barred Congress from blocking slavery in the territories and helped lead to the Civil War.

1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
   James Meredith
2. Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give her seat to a white person, which triggered the boycott.

1. Vicksburg
   Antietam
2. Gettysburg

In Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, 12,000 Confederate soldiers failed to break through the center of the Union line.

1. settling of the western frontier
   slavery
2. women's suffrage

The colonists wanted to settle the western frontier, while the British government sought to limit expansion.

1. Douglas MacArthur
   James Doolittle
2. Charles Lindbergh

Lt. Col. James Doolittle led an air attack on Tokyo in April 1942.

1. the Balfour declaration
   the Pumpkin papers
2. the Zimmerman telegram

German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman sent a telegram to Mexico proposing an alliance against the U.S.

1. Nat Turner
   Frederick Douglass
2. John Brown

Nat Turner lead an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1831 and was captured and executed.

1. Abraham Lincoln
   Andrew Jackson
2. John Quincy Adams

In 1835, Col. Thomas S. Meacham sent Jackson the cheese wheel, which the president served at a White House reception two years later.

1. farming
   religious
2. trading

Unlike the English, who wanted land for farming, the French mainly wanted to trade with Native Americans for furs.

1. Richard Henry Lee
   Thomas Jefferson
2. Benjamin Franklin

Richard Henry Lee introduced the motion in June 1776, and soon Thomas Jefferson drafted a declaration of independence .

1. Ophelia Wyatt Caraway
   Carol Moseley Braun
2. Hillary Clinton

Ophelia Wyatt Caraway elected to the U.S. Senate in 1932.

1. 10 Dutch guilders
   60 Dutch guilders
2. 800 Dutch guilders

The Dutch paid with goods worth 60 Dutch guilders, which is about $780 today. Dollars didn't yet exist.

1. Theodore Roosevelt
   Woodrow Wilson
2. William McKinley

President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese conflict.

1. Andrew Jackson
   John Adams
2. William Howard Taft

In 1798, President John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which restricted criticism of the government.

1. North Carolina
   Virginia
2. New York

Roanoke Island, aka the Lost Colony, vanished between 1588 and 1590 while the settlement's governor, John White, went to England for supplies.

1. Christopher Columbus
   Juan Ponce de León
2. John Cabot

The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, who reached Florida in 1513, traditionally has been recognized as the first European to visit what is now the U.S.

1. 100 million acres
   530 million acres
2. 750 million acres

The U.S. acquired 530 million acres from the French for $15 million in 1803.

1. John F. Kennedy
   Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Ronald Reagan

President John F. Kennedy proclaimed the virtue of negotiating in his 1961 inaugural address.

1. $5,000
   $50,000
2. $25,000

Congress voted to pay Washington $25,000 a year, a presidential salary that went unchanged until 1873.

1. Brown v. Board of Education
   Dred Scott v. Sandford
2. Marbury v. Madison

In 1803, Marbury v. Madison established judicial review, the power of the Supreme Court to overturn Congressional legislation.

1. Georgia
   Pennsylvania
2. Rhode Island

Georgia was founded in 1732.

1. Rutherford B. Hayes
   John Quincy Adams
2. George W. Bush

In 1824, the House of Representatives awarded John Quincy Adams the victory, even though he got fewer electoral and popular votes than Andrew Jackson.