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Question 1

What amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery?

Answer 1

13th

Question 2

What African American scientist was know for his work with the peanut?

Answer 2

George Washington Carver

Question 3

What blind and deaf woman met every Unites States president from Grover Cleveland to John F. Kennedy?

Answer 3

Helen Keller

Question 4

What is the only American state to have been ruled by kings and queens?

Answer 4

Hawaii

Question 5

What 20th Century escape artist was know as the Master of Illusion?

Answer 5

Harry Houdini

Question 6

What street in New York is famous for its theaters?

Answer 6

Broadway

Question 7

Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 7

John Hancock

Question 8

On what month and date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?

Answer 8

December 7, 1941

Question 9

Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice?

Answer 9

Sandra Day O’Connor

Question 10

Where was the first successful settlements by Englishmen in the U.S.?

Answer 10

Jamestown, V.A.

Question 11

Who was the first Vice President of the United States?

Answer 11

John Adams

Question 12

What American statesman said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”?

Answer 12

Patrick Henry

Question 13

Who was supposedly “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen”?

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

Who is credited with creation of the first U.S. flag on the request of Congress?

Answer 14

Betsy Ross

Question 15

Who was the British king during the American Revolution?

Answer 15

King George III

Question 16

What French military officer served with General George Washington?

Answer 16

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 17

Where were the battles that were the turning point of the American Revolution?

Answer 17

Saratoga

Question 18

What American general during the American Revolution turned traitor and joined the British?

Answer 18

Benedict Arnold

Question 19

What was the 1770 event when the British army fired on a group of rioting colonists, killing 5 people?

Answer 19

The Boston Massacre

Question 20

What 1773 act made British tea cheaper then the Dutch tea normally used in the American colonies?

Answer 20

Tea Act

Question 21

during what event did the American colonists, disguised as Indians, board British ships and dump 342 chests of tea in Boston harbor?

Answer 21

Boston Tea Party

Question 22

On July2, 1776, 12 of the 13 colonial delegations voted for independence from England. Which delegation abstained (did not cast a vote)?

Answer 22

New York

Question 23

Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense?

Answer 23

Thomas Paine

Question 24

What Indian chief, who defeated General Custer, later became an attraction in the Buffalo Bill Wild West show?

Answer 24

Sitting Bull

Question 25

Wild Bill Hickok, a folk hero of the American Old West, was shot while playing a hand of poker. What is the nickname given to the cards he was holding as he was shot?

Answer 25

Dead Man’s Hand

aces & eights - all black

Question 26

What Shoshone woman accompanied Lewis and Clark on their journey?

Answer 26

Sacajawea

Question 27

What famous American author was also the first woman to register to vote in her hometown of Concord, Massachusetts?

Answer 27

Louisa May Alcott

Question 28

In what year did the Civil War begin?

Answer 28

1861