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Question 1

Name the 4 U.S. presidents whose faces appear on Mt. Rushmore.

Answer 1

Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt

Question 2

What famous court case basically put an end to the theory of separate but equal school segregation?

Answer 2

Brown vs the Board of Education

Question 3

In what year did terrorists bring down the Twin Towers in New York?

Answer 3

2001

Question 4

How many terms can a US president serve?

Answer 4

2

Question 5

What is the term given to the lowest amount of mine that an employer may legally pay his workers?

Answer 5

minimum wage

Question 6

Before leaving the Mayflower, all make passengers signed an agreement that formed the basis of MAssachusetts’s colony’s government. Name the agreement.

Answer 6

Mayflower Compact

Question 7

What was the nickname given to the armed men whno pledged to be read to fight on a moment’s notice just before and during the Revolutionary War in the US?

Answer 7

minutemen

Question 8

The winter camp of 1777 was brutally cold and food and clothing were scarce for General George Washington and America’s Continental Army. What was the name of that winter camp?

Answer 8

Valley Forge

Question 9

What was the name of the treaty where Great Britain formally acknowledged the independence of the US?

Answer 9

Treaty of Paris

Question 10

Before the Constitution, what document laid out the terms under which the origianl thirteen states agreed to participate in a central from of government?

Answer 10

Articles fo confederation

Question 11

What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

Answer 11

Bill of Rights

Question 12

What was the original capital of the US?

Answer 12

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Question 13

From what country did we get the land we call the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 13

France

Question 14

Who did we fight during the War of 1812?

Answer 14

Great Britain (the British)

Question 15

What African American slave/preacher and his band of followers launched a bloody, day-long rebellion in Virginia in 1831?

Answer 15

Nat Turner

this caused stricter slave laws

Question 16

What term was given to people who wanted to do away with slavery?

Answer 16

abolitionists

Question 17

What famous frontiersman and former congressman from Tennessee died at the Battle of the Alamo?

Answer 17

Davy Crockett

Question 18

In 1838, more than 15,000 Cherokee Indians were forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory in what is now called______.

Answer 18

The Trail of Tears

Question 19

In 1841, what president died one mont after his inauguration?

Answer 19

William Henry Harrison

Question 20

What famous abolitionist and 21 followers captured the federal arsenal, in what was then Harpers Ferry, VA in an attempt to spark a slave revolt?

Answer 20

John Brown

Question 21

After Abraham Lincoln became president, who was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 21

South Carolina

Question 22

What amendment to the Constitution gave African AMericans the right to vote?

Answer 22

15th

Question 23

Who is the only American president to serve 2 NONCONSECUTIVE terms?

Answer 23

Grover Cleveland

Question 24

What was the nickname given to the state and local laws in the U.S. enacted between 1876 and 1967 that mandated racial segregation in all public places?

Answer 24

Jim Crow laws

Question 25

What was the last state to be admitted to the US?

Answer 25

Hawaii