Tuesday, March 19, 2024

US History Trivia Questions and Answers

US Trivia Questions and Answers are about the history of the superpower U.S.A, you will learn a lot about the important events of the U.S.A with this trivia.

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Q1. American protesters throw the British East India Company's tea here in 1773.
Hudson River
Boston Harbor
San Francisco Bay
Mississippi River

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Q2. ___________ gave a speech in 1775 proclaiming, "Give me liberty or give me death".
James Madison
Patrick Henry
Nathan Hale
George Washington

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Q3. The Pilgrims lived here right before they sailed to Massachusetts.
Belgium
The Netherlands
France
Egypt

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Q4. ___________ dispute between the British government and American colonists helped lead to the Revolutionary War.
Settling the western frontier
Slavery
The Alamo
Women's suffrage

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Q5. _________ president said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall".
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
Gerald Ford

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Q6. General George Washington cross the Delaware River in December 1776 to __________.
To escape.
To get provisions.
To surprise the enemy.
To surrender.

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Q7. French colonists produce wealth in "New France" by __________.
Farming
Fur trading
Gold and silver mining
Spice trading

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Q8. _________ foods wasn't served by the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving dinner in 1621.
Pumpkin pie
Maize
Venison
Fowl

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Q9.  __________'s arrest sparked the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Meredith
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X

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Q10. _________ Supreme Court decision helped lead to the Civil War.
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Roe v. Wade

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Q11. _________ Civil War battle climaxed with Pickett's Charge.




Vicksburg
Antietam
Gettysburg
Charlotte

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Q12. In ________, an invading army capture and burn the nation's capita.




1778
1777
1776
1775

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Q13. ________ was the last of the 13 colonies to be founded.
Georgia
Rhode Island
Florida
Pennsylvania

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Q14. _________ commanded the crew that struck back after Pearl Harbor by bombing Tokyo in 1942.
Douglas MacArthur
James Doolittle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charles Lindbergh

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Q15. __________ led an armed slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
Nat Turner
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Ulysses S. Grant

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Q16. _______ president signed legislation curbing speech critical of the government.
Andrew Jackson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
William Howard Taft

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Q17. _________ in the Continental Congress first introduced the motion for independence.
Richard Henry Lee
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin

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Q18. The French and Indian War was part of this larger conflict.
Hundred Years' War
World War I
American Civil War
Seven Years' War

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Q19. _________ was the first case in which the Supreme Court overturned an act of Congress.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Brown v. Board of Education
Marbury v. Madison
Arizona v. United States

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Q20. _________ decrypted secret message drove the U.S. to enter World War I.
The Balfour declaration
The "Enigma" code
The Pumpkin papers
The Zimmerman telegram

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Q21. Name the president who got a 1,400-pound (635-kilogram) cheese wheel as a gift from a supporter.
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
Abraham Lincoln

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Q22. The U.S. get _______ much land from France in the Louisiana Purchase.
100 million acres
230 million acres
300 million acres
530 million acres

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Q23. _________ was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
Ophelia Wyatt Caraway
Tammy Baldwin
Nancy Pelosi
Carol Moseley Braun

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Q24. __________ president won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping end the war between Russia and Japan.
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
William McKinley

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Q25. ___________ was the first U.S. president to win election while losing the popular vote.
George W. Bush
Rutherford B. Hayes
John Quincy Adams
Ronald Reagan

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US HISTORY TRIVIA QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:

US History Trivia Questions and Answers are about the history of the most important country in the world.

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