Can You Pass This U.S. History Quiz?

Question 1/62

What was the Jamestown settlement?

The first permanent English settlement in the Americas
The location of the first Thanksgiving celebration
The lost colony of British settlers, who were never heard from again

Question 2/62

Which state was the first to secede from the Union before the start of the Civil War?

South Carolina
Tennessee
Mississippi

Question 3/62

What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?

1776
1802
1812

Question 4/62

Who was the president during the war of 1812?

John Adams
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson

Question 5/62

What amendment ended prohibition?

13th
18th
21st

Question 6/62

Which of the following events led the United States to officially enter WWII?

Attack on Pearl Harbor
Sinking of the Lusitania
Bombing of London

Question 7/62

What did the Navajo Code Talkers do for the U.S. military?

Native Americans who created an unbreakable communication code
Native Americans who translated for soldiers on Indian reservations
Army units made up of Native-American fighter pilots

Question 8/62

What year did the Vietnam War officially end?

1969
1971
1975

Question 9/62

Which president served three terms in office?

Grover Cleveland
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman

Question 10/62

Which journalists broke the Watergate Scandal?

Woodward and Bernstein
Cronkite and Donaldson

Sawyer and Brokaw

Question 11/62

Which of the following was NOT one of the original 13 colonies?

Massachusetts Bay
Providence Plantations
Florida Coast

Question 12/62

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from which country?

France
Spain
Russia

Question 13/62

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
George Pickett

Question 14/62

What were the Jim Crow laws designed to do?

Enforce racial segregation
Provide work for sharecroppers
Rebuild the south

Question 15/62

Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglas
Thomas Paine

Question 16/62

What prompted the U.S. to become involved in WWI?

German submarines began attacking U.S. ships
France requested the help of the U.S.
The invasion of Canada by Germany

Question 17/62

How many days were the U.S. hostages in Iran held for?

244
344
444

Question 18/62

Who was the first African-American woman to become a U.S. senator?

Shirley Chisholm
Carol Mosely Braun
Kamala Harris

Question 19/62

Who did the U.S. fight against in the War of 1812?

France
Great Britain
Spain

Question 20/62

How many states seceded from the Union during the Civil War?

7
9
11

Question 21/62

What year did California become a state?

1835
1840
1850

Question 22/62

What was Manifest Destiny?

The belief that the United States is the greatest superpower
The belief that United States settlers were destined to expand across North America
The belief that each state is destined to determine its own fate and laws

Question 23/62

Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor of the Great Depression?

The Dust Bowl
The Stock Market Crash
World War II

Question 24/62

Which city hosted the Columbian Exhibition?

Chicago
New York
Los Angeles

Question 25/62

Where did the Mayflower Pilgrims land?

Jamestown
Plymouth Rock
Roanoke Island

Question 26/62

Which of the following is NOT a U.S.-held territory?

Guam
Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic

Question 27/62

What year was Martin Luther King assassinated?

1964
1966
1968

Question 28/62

What state was Ronald Reagan the governor of before becoming president?

Arizona
New Mexico
California

Question 29/62

Where were the first shots of the American Revolution fired?

Boston, Massachusetts
Lexington, Massachusetts
Dover, Delaware

Question 30/62

What did the Monroe Doctrine pledge the United States would do?

That the U.S. would oppose European colonialism in the Americas
That the U.S. would not interfere in foreign wars
That the U.S. would not supply troops to enemies if Europe

Question 31/62

What year was the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War signed?

1776
1783
1785

Question 32/62

The Indian Removal Act led to which dark chapter in U.S. history?

The slave trade with the West Indies
The Trail of Tears
The French-Indian war

Question 33/62

The southern economy depended on slave labor to produce which of the following crops?

Opium
Cotton
Potatoes

Question 34/62

Who invented the moving assembly line?

Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Jonas Salk

Question 35/62

In what year did U.S. women earn the right to vote?

1916
1918
1920

Question 36/62

What was the Mayflower Compact?

The first governing document of the Plymouth Colony
A declaration of freedom from England for the 13 colonies
A letter to King James asking for more supplies for the colonists

Question 37/62

What are the first 10 amendments of the Constitution called?

The Preamble
The Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence

Question 38/62

What year did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

1863
1865
1867

Question 39/62

Which of the following Founding Fathers was never president?

John Adams
Ben Franklin
George Washington

Question 40/62

Who is considered to be the Father of the Constitution?

James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin

Question 41/62

What does the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution guarantee?

The right to a jury trial in civil suits
The right to a fair and speedy trial
The right to freedom of religion

Question 42/62

Who invented the cotton gin?

Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Eli Whitney

Question 43/62

Which president was the capital of Liberia named after?

James Monroe
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson

Question 44/62

Which of the following presidents was NOT assassinated while in office?

William McKinley
William Howard Taft
William Henry Harrison

Question 45/62

Who was the only president never to marry?

James Buchanan
Andrew Jackson
Teddy Roosevelt

Question 46/62

What was the goal of the Temperance Movement?

Ban the consumption of alcohol
Promote peace in bars and taverns
Limit drinking to Sundays at home

Question 47/62

Which president established social security benefits?

Franklin Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
William McKinley

Question 48/62

In what year did the United States annex Hawaii?

1898
1901
1913

Question 49/62

Which of the following has NOT served as a capital of the United States?

Washington D.C.
Philadelphia, PA
Rochester, NY

Question 50/62

Which of the following tribes was NOT involved in the Battle of Little Bighorn

Cherokee
Lakota
Arapaho

Question 51/62

What was the Gadsden Purchase?

The acquisition of Louisiana
The acquisition of southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico
The annexation of California

Question 52/62

Who warned revolutionaries that the British were coming?

John Paul Jones
Paul Revere
Sam Adams

Question 53/62

What year did Congress establish Independence Day unpaid holiday for federal employees?

1870
1912
1932

Question 54/62

Which of the following presidents did NOT die on the 4th of July?

Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
George Washington

Question 55/62

What did the U.S. government due to alcohol during Prohibition to prevent people from drinking?

Put warning labels on it
Poisoned it
Stored it at Fort Knox

Question 56/62

What did the Three-Fifths Compromise state?

Each new immigrant would receive three-fifths of an acre of land
Each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person
Each woman's vote would count as three-fifths of a man's

Question 57/62

Which amendment guarantees the right to free speech?

First
Fifth
Seventh

Question 58/62

Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

Ford's Theater
The White House
Gettysburg

Question 59/62

Which of the following presidential candidates lost his election but won the popular vote?

Bill Clinton
Ronald Reagan
Al Gore

Question 60/62

Which of the following presidents was impeached?

Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford

Question 61/62

Who was Ruby Bridges?

The first African-American child to attend an all-white grade school in Louisiana
The first African-American child to get a police escort to school
The first African-American child to speak out publicly against George Wallace

Question 62/62

Which two cities did the U.S. drop atomic bombs on at the end of WWII?

Tokyo and Iwo Jima
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Kyoto and Osaka

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