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US History

Which amendment states that "no person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice"?22nd amendment
What is a two wheeled ammunition wagon or a chest for holding ammunition?Caisson
Give the year of the presidential election in which the GOP was divided by a Bull Moose to equal a Democratic victory?1912
Who are the only US Presidents to ever receive the Noble Peace Prize?Theodore Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter
Name the American Hostage that was held in Lebanon in the late 70's for three years. He was the longest civilian hostage held in captivity. Name himTerry Anderson
Who was the socialist leader who organized the Pullman Strike in Chicago?Eugene Debs
Who is the Director of Homeland Security?Michael Chertoff
In August of 1992, Hurricane Andrew made landfall with winds of 165 mph, making it only the third category 5 hurricane on record to strike the continental US. What were the other two category 5 hurricanes that hit the US?The Florida Keys 1935 Hurricane and the Hurricane Camille in 1969
There are naturally formed pools of asphalt located in the center of Los Angeles, Cal. This place is famous for the fossils that have been pulled from them during the past 100 years. What is the name of this place?La Brea Tar Pits
American philosopher and educator who helped lead a philosophical movement called pragmatism?John Dewey
Which US state captial was originally a trading post called the House of Good Hope and renamed after an English town in 1637 by English settlers? It is nicknamed "the Charter Oak City".Hartford, Conn.
Which plane was the focus of Martin Harwit's 1997 book "An Exhibit Denied, a history of the Smithsonian's attempt to feature the plane in a National Air and Space Museum exhibited commenorating the 50th anniversary of its bombing mission over Hiroshima?Enola Gay
Which US National park contains the worlds largest known cave system, and in which US state is it located?Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
Which law passed by the US Congress on July 13, 1787, enabled territories North of the Ohio River and West of Pennsylvannia to become states? This law also provided for freedom of religious worship and forbade slavery in these newly formed states.Northwest Ordinance
Identify the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court who presided over the 1954 decision Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka KansasEarl Warren
Who was the inventor of the original coca cola formula and which state was the formula first developed?Dr. John S. Pemberton and Columbus, Georgia
Elias Howe invented a better machine that Thimmonier did, but others manufactured his invention before he did. Isaac Merrit Singer greatly improved on Howe's idea, and it is Singer who is credited with this universial household appliance. Name this machine.Sewing Machine
Name the person who invented the iconscope, and kinescope, the first TV camera tube and an early version of the TV picture tube?Vladimir K. Zworykin
What was the derogatory name associated with northerns who moved to the South during reconstruction to gain better opportunities and bring industrialization to the South?Carpetbaggers
Name of the College that was founded in 1838 that was later renamed Duke Univesity?Trinity College
In 1820, the US Congress passed an act that established the 36/30 line separating states as free and slave states?Missouri Compromise
The political treatise written by Thomas Paine?Common Sense or The Crisis
What does the term FED mean when appled to monetary policy?Federal Reserve Banking System
What number is associated with the amendment that abolished slavery?13th Amendment
This famous African American was the first to make a striking clock in America and later became the main contractor and surveyed the building of Washington D. C. Who was this man?Benjamin Banneker
Who was the first African American astronaut to fly in space?Dr. Guion (GUY) Blueford Jr.
This emblem and product of the 1960's hippie movement is now a Billion dollar business, what is the name of this product?waterbed
The Teapot Dome Scandal occurred during the administration of what US President?Warren Harding
Which state's name identifies the "Great Compromise" that resolved the 1787 Constitutional Convention's debate over representation in Congress?Connecticut Compromise (Sherman Compromise)
Shortly after his inauguration in 1837, which US President faced a nationwide panic that gave way to a severe economic depression lasting until 1848?Martin Van Buren
In 1922, which 75 year old inventor was honored by having all US adn Canadian phone services halted for one minute during his burial?Alexander Graham Bell
What is the more popular name of "The North River Steamboat"? This 1807 boat, invented by Robert Fulton, was the first practical and financially successful steamboat?Clermont
The first Transcontinental US rail system was completed in 1869, in which state was the last spike driven?Promatory Point, Utah
What is the term for rebellion against the government?Sedition
Which US state is the largest in area?Alaska
Name the American religious reformer who founded the Christian Science Movement?Mary Baker Eddy
Name the South Carolina statesman known for his doctrine of State's Rights?John C. Calhoun
What term for a meeting of the local members of a political party to nominate candidates and determine policy?Caucus
Name the only person to win 4 Oscars in starring roles?Catherine Hepburn
How many members of the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence?56
Who headed the American occupational forces in Japan from 1945-1951?General Douglas MacArthur
What state is known as the Sooner state?( named after its early settlers)Oklahoma
Name given to a series of religious revivals in the American colonies during the 1700's?Great Awakening
Identify the Mohawk chief who founded the Iroquois Confederacy around 1575 to promote peace among all Native AmericansHiawatha
Which term designates the type of tax that causes people with lower incomes to pay a relatively larger percentage of their incomes than others?Regressive Tax
What term designates the type of tax that is based on an amount an individual earns in a given year?Progressive Tax
Who was the oldest delegate at the Constitution Convention and the oldest signer of the US Constitution?Benjamin Franklin
Identify the single-shot breechloading .30 caliber rifle whose 1895 model was used by the US Army through WWI and named for a Massachusetts city, site of a federal armory that made the rifles?Springfield
Identify the Ohio college which in 1837 admitted 4 women as freshmen, making it the first coeducational college in the US?Oberlin
Name the only President of the US sworn in on August 9?Gerald Ford (1974)
Which President's motto was "speak softly and carry a big stick?"Theodore Roosevelt
Name the American Businessman who was the founder of Standard Oil CompanyJohn D. Rockefeller
Who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court for the longest in the Court's history?William O'Douglass
What American inventor patented the electric light bulb?Thomas Edison
What famous Massacre took place on December 29, 1890 in North Dakota in which 150 Indians were killed and 50 wounded?Wounded Knee
Four laws were pased by the British Parliament in which one called for the closing of the Boston Port, what was the name American patriots gave these 4 laws/The Intolerable Acts
What department in the government does the US Attorney General head?The Department of Justice
In what building is the original copy of the Declaration of Independence Housed?The National Archives
Name one of the 3 presidents who died on July 4th?Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe
What is the annual salary excluding expenses for the president of the US?$400,000
Who was president of the US during the Spanish American War?William McKinley
Before the passing of the twelth amendment to the US Constitution who was selected vice president?The Runner-up
What political scandal lead to the resignation of Richard Nixon?Watergate
What is the introduction to the US constitution called?Preamble
What was the name of the original agreement that establish a national government of the American colonies in 1781?Articles of Confederation
What is the term of government to take the right of property for a government purpose?Emient Domain
What is the highest civilan award credited by JFK In 1963?Presidential Metal of Freedom
What building houses the Federal government's department of defense?Pentagon
Name the location in Eastern Pennsylvainia that was the place of winter quarters for the American Army during the winters of 1777-1778?Valley Forge
To which committee of the US House of Representatives are bills that deal with taxation, public finance, and reporting of public finace considered and debated?Ways and Means Committee
Name the capital of the state of Nebraska?Lincoln
Give the name of the naval officer who opened diplomatic relations between US and Japan?Commadore Mathew Perry
Name the late American analyist who pioneered the modern polling technique?George Gallup
What is the name of the oldest American warship still in commission in the US Navy?USS Constitution
Name the only president that remained a bachelor throughout his entire life?James Buchanan
What is the highest award for valor given by the US Armed Forces?The Congressional Medal of Honor
Name the patriot leader in the American Revolution known as the Swamp Fox?Francis Marion
What was the name of the original agreement that established a national government of the American colonies in 1781?Articles of Confederation
What is the term of government to take the right of property for a government purpose?Eminent Domain
What is the highest civilan award created by Truman and expanded by Kennedy in 1963?Presidential Metal of Freedom
What building houses the Federal governments? Department of Defense?Pentagon
Name the location in Eastern Pennsylvania that was the place of winter quaters for the American Army during the winters of 1777-1778?Valley Forge
To which committee of the US House of Representatives are bills that deal with taxation, public finance, and reporting of public finance considered and debated?Ways and Means Committee
Name the capital of the state of Nebraska?Lincoln
Give the name of the naval officer who opened diplomatic relations between US and Japan?Commodore Mathew Perry
Name the late American analyist who pioneered the modern polling technique?George Gallup
Name the 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that wrote the majority opinion of the Brown v/s Board of Education?Earl Warren
What is the name of the oldest American warship still in commission in the US navy?USS Constitution (old Ironsides)
Name the only president that remained a bachelor throughout his entire life?James Buchanan
What is the highest award for valor given by the US Armed Forces?Congressional Medal of Honor
Name the patriot leader in the American Revolution known as the Swamp Fox?Francis Marion
Who wrote the American Crisis a series of pamphlets that contain the lines "these are the times that try mens souls"?Thomas Paine
What was the practice called when a government specially commissioned ships to prey upon the enemy shipping during war time?Privateering
Who was the only president sworn into office by his father?Calvin Coolidge
Who was the only president to serve two non consecutive terms?Grover Cleveland
Who was the first president of win a Noble Peace Prize?Theodore Roosevelt
Who designed the Virginia Capital and the University of Virginia? Historians consider him to be one of the leading architects of his time?Thomas Jefferson
Who was the first member of the Republican Party to become president?Abraham Lincoln
Who is often called the Father of the Constitution? He helped design the checks and balances that operate among Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court.James Madison
Who won a second term as president with 525 electoral votes, more electoral votes than any other presidential candidate in US History?Ronald M. Reagan
Who was the first president to be nominated by a national political convention?William Henry Harrison
Who was the first president elected by a margin of only one electorial vote?Rutherford B. Hayes
Who was the only man in the history of the US to serve first as president than as chief justice of the Supreme Court?William Howard Taft
What biologist called public attention to the destructive use of pesticides, which helped lead to restrictions on the use of pesticides in many parts of the world?Rachel Carson
Who was the first in the United States to recieve a medical degree?Elizabeth Blackwell
Who was the only woman to recieve the Congressional Medal of Honor? She was a surgeon with the Union Army during the American Civil War.Mary Walker
Who wrote the words of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and introduced the idea of Mothers Day?Julia Ward Howe
Who was the first ordained woman minister in the US?Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Name the first book printed in the American Colonies? It was a collection of pslams and was printed by Stephen Day in Cambridge Massachusettes in 1640?The Bay Psalm Book
Who is known as the "Father of the American Public School"?Horace Mann
Name the 5th Jewish justice, the only US Supreme Court member to resigned under threat of impeachment. His resignation in 1969 came following charges of conflict of interest for having accepted an annual fee from a private foundation?Abe Fortas
What 4 letter word designates a postponement or suspension of a legal action or execution?Stay
Identify the national scenic trail that extends for over 2000 miles through 14 states, 2 national parks, and 8 national forests all on the east coast of the US?11th Amendment
Who was the first woman to hold a cabinet post? She did so as Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945?Frances Perkins
Who was the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress and from which state did she represent?Margaret Chase Smith, Maine
Which Mexican bandit chieftain raided a US city in New Mexico in March 1916, Killing 17 Americans?General Francisco "Poncho" Villa
Who ran 3 times unsuccessfully for US president, served as Secretary of State for Woodrow Wilson, found the weekly newspaper the Commoner, and was nicknamed "The Great Commoner"?Williams Jennings Bryan
Name the Central Banking System established in 1913?Federal Reserve System (Wilson was president)
On what city was the second atomic bomb dropped?Nagasaki
Which US president won the Noble Peace Prize for negotiating a peace for Russo-SinzeWar of 1905Theodore Roosevelt
What is the name of the path that Native Americans were forced to follow that moved them from the East and led the to Oklahoma?Trail of Tears
Name the first woman ever to run for Vice President of the US on a major party ticket?Geraldine Ferro
Name one of the slave states that did not secede from the union during the civil war?Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri
What scholarship is named after and American eduator and politician that promotes the exchange of students and teachers from the US and other foreign countries?Fullbright Scholarship
Name the English General that surrendered the English army at Yorktown in 1781?Lord Cornwallis
What country sold Alaska to the US?Russia
Name the unit of measure that contains 4480 square yard or 160 square rods?Acre
Who designed the supporting framework for the Statue of Liberty?Gustave Eiffel
The famous gunflight at the OK corral took place in what town in Arizona?Tombstone, Arizona
Name the proposal submitted to the United States Senate in 1860 just prior to the Civil War by a Kentucky senator in an attempt to prevent a split between slave and free states. This proposal to prohibit slavery north of the Missouri Compromise line of 36 degrees 30 minutes and to extend federal protection south of that line was rejected?Crittenden Compromise
Name the "First American Negro Martyr," also known as teh "First Hero of the American Revolution" who was killed by the British during the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770?Crispus Attucks
Who founded the first detective agency in Chicago in 1853, wrote "Thirty Years a Detective" in 1884, and was nicknamed The Eye for using innovative methods for tracking down notorious outlaws of the west?Allan Pinkerton
According to mythology, Cadmus introduced the alphbet and the art of writing into Greece. Which Cherokee Indian was called the "Cadmus of America" because of his developement of a syllabary of 86 symbols for the Cherokee language in 1812 after 12 years of work?Sequoya (Sequoyah)
Dear Bess is part of a title of a collection of letters edited by Robert H. Ferrell and sent between 1910-1959 from whom to whom?Harry S. Truman to Bess Truman
To what tune is the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" sung?John Brown's Body
What memorial has 4 president heads carved on it?Mount Rushmore
In what American cemetery would you find the following inscription carved, "Her rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to god"?Arlington National Cemetery
Semper Fidelis is the motto of what organization?US Marine Corp
What English clergy founded the state of Rhode Island?Roger Williams
What volcano near Seattle erupted violently on May 18, 1980?Mount St. Helens
How many members sit on the US Supreme Court?Nine
To whom was Robert E. Lee referring when he said, " He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm?Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
President McKinely signed a bill annexing what territory i July 1899?Hawaii
Who won the 1939 Spingarn Medal, sang at the Lincoln Memorial in the same year, became a delegate to the United Nations in 1958, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963?Marian Anderson
What words did Congress add to Francis Bellamy's Pledge of Allegiance in 1954?"Under God"
Which Tennessee corporal who killed 25 enemy soldiers and captured 132 of them on October 8, 1918, in France's Argonne Forrest?Corporal Alvin C. York (later known as Sgt York)
In article III section 3 of the US Constitution, what crime is defined as "levying war against the United States, adhering t its enemies, and giving them aid or comfort?Treason
West Point, the site of the US Military Academy is located in which state?New York
The capital of Wisconsin was named for an American President who died in 1846?Madison
The capital of Maryland is also the home of the navy academy. Name It?Annapolis
Established in 1860, the Pony Express linked St Joseph, Mo, and what California city?Sacramento
George Goethals, an army engineer, was in charge of what engineering feat completed in 1914?Building of the Panama Canal
The US Constitution was framed by delegates for twelve of the original thirteen states. Which state failed to send delegates?Rhode Island
What word begins the Declaration of Independence?When
What is the capital of HondurasTegucigalpa
Name the treaty signed by the US and Mexico of February 2, 1848, to officially end the Mexican War?Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Freedom to assemble is protected by which amendment of the US Constitution?1st Amendment
The people of what country donated money to build the Statue of Liberty as a gift to the United States?France
Name the oldest institution of higher learning that was founded in the US in 1636?Harvard College (originally named, today it is Harvard University)
Which President was elected on the slogan "Tippacannoe and Tyler too"?William Henry Harrison
Who is the US Attorney General/Alberto Gonzulas
What president of the Us was nicknamed "Old Hickory"?Andrew Jackson
What is the longest conflict or war the United States has every been involved?Vietnam War or Conflict
Name the private institution founded by Father Flangian for homeless, abused, and disabled children of all races and religions?Boystown
In 1831 abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founded what newspaper?The Liberator
Name the American civil rights leader who served as president of the SCLA (Southern Christian Leadership Association) from 1968-1972Ralph Abernathy
What do we call the set of legal steps that must be taken when a person is charged with breaking the law?Due Process
Name one of the two US Presidents to sign the Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson or John Adams
Teapot Dome Scandal occurred during the administration of what US President?Warren Harding
What is the more popular name of the "North River Steamboat"? This 1807 boat, invented by Robert Fulton, was the first practical and financially successful steamboat?Clermont
Pueblo, Dodge City, Wichita, Tulsa, and Fort Smith are cities located on what river?Arkansas River
Complete the phrase "Without _____" used in the 5th and 14th Amendments to prohibit the states from violating most rights protected by the Bill of Rights?William Mckinley
Who was the first president to take a ride in an airplane?Theodore Roosevelt
This part of our nation's federal government has, included through the years, 120 members, 118 of which were men. Name it?US Supreme Court
Who was assassinated on November 22, 1963?John F. Kennedy
Name the "Lone Star Republic" state?Texas
King James was annoyed to discover John Rolfe had married her without his permission?Pocahontas
American humorist who "never met a man, he didn't like?Will Rogers
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