American Cultural Literacy

Question 1

711

Answer 1

The Moors invade Spain, brings Islam to Europe

Question 2

1066

Answer 2

The battle of Hastings was fought between the Norman French army and the English army

Question 3

1492

Answer 3

“Columbus sailed the ocean blue” the Moors surrender to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

Question 4

1588

Answer 4

The English naval forces defeated the Spanish Armada

Question 5

1607

Answer 5

English colonists settle in Jamestown Virginia

Question 6

1620

Answer 6

Pilgrims come to Massachusetts on the Mayflower seeking religious freedom

Question 7

1776

Answer 7

America declared independence from Britain

Question 8

1803

Answer 8

Thomas Jefferson purchases the Louisiana purchase from France

Question 9

1830

Answer 9

Cyrus McCormick invents the horse drawn reaper. Samuel Morse invented the electrical telegraph and Morse code.

Question 10

1860

Answer 10

Abraham Lincoln is elected president, and the southern states secede from the US. The second Industrial Revolution begins and there are many technical developments

Question 11

1869

Answer 11

The Suez Canal is completed in Egypt and the transcontinental railroad is completed, connecting America

Question 12

1896

Answer 12

The Supreme Court case Plessy versus Ferguson occurs. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of segregation.

Question 13

1898

Answer 13

The Spanish-American war is fought between Spain and America. America gains control of Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico

Question 14

1914 to 1918

Answer 14

The great war or World War I occurs in Europe after the Austria Hungary heir, Archduke Frans Ferdinand, is assassinated

Question 15

1917

Answer 15

The Bolshevik Revolution occurs in Russia establishing a communist government.

Question 16

1920

Answer 16

The woman in America were granted suffrage

Question 17

1929

Answer 17

The stock market crashes in October which is known as Black Tuesday

Question 18

1939 to 1945

Answer 18

World War II occurs between the axis and the allies.

Question 19

1950 to 1953

Answer 19

The Korean war begins when North Korea invaded South Korea. The two countries agreed to stay separate

Question 20

1954

Answer 20

The brown versus board case was ruled by the Supreme Court. They ruled segregated schools to be unconstitutional

Question 21

1960s

Answer 21

President Johnson pushes a civil rights act through Congress. Also America joins the Vietnam war trying to prevent the spread of communism

Question 22

1989

Answer 22

East Germany opens the Berlin wall

Question 23

1991

Answer 23

Operation Desert Storm or the cold war occurred between Iraq and 35 nations. The war was fought because of Iraq invasion of Kuwait. The USSR is also dissolved

Question 24

2001

Answer 24

The global war on terrorism is declared by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks

Question 25

2003

Answer 25

The combined troops of the US and the UK Australia and Poland invaded Iraq to dispose of the government of Saddam Hussein. It marks the start of the Iraq war

Question 26

2008

Answer 26

For the first time in history the worlds population was equally split between living in urban and living in rural areas