Creating Washington DC

Who designed Washington DC?

• Edwin Hull Vaudevillian

• Pierre Charles L’Enfant

• Fenton Salas Guthrie

• Zane Aldred Farmer

Who designed the White House?

• Hudson Fulton

• Marius Klein

• James Hoban

• Giles Martin

Who designed the Capitol Building?

• Mack Driscoll

• Nathan Gill

• Gage Redfern

• William Thornton

What year was Washington DC founded?

• 1789

• 1790

• 1791

• 1792

What two states ceded land to create Washington DC?

• Maryland and Virginia

• Virginia and North Carolina

• Maryland and Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania and Delaware

Slaves built the White House and Capitol Building.

• True

• False

In what war was Washington DC burned and had to be rebuilt?

• American Revolution

• War of 1812

• Mexican-American War

• Spanish-American War

The sources used are

https://washington.org/dc-information/washington-dc-history#:~:text=Founded%20on%20July%2016%2C%201790,line%20at%20the%20National%20Archives. https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-house/ https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/buildings-grounds/capitol-building/history https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/white-house-was-fact-built-slaves-180959916/