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Question 1

What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?

Answer 1

Battle of Antietam

Question 2

How many states seceded from the Union?

Answer 2

11

Question 3

Where did Lee surrender to Grant?

Answer 3

Appomattox Courthouse, VA

Question 4

What play was Abraham Lincoln watching when he was assassinated?

Answer 4

Our American Cousin

Question 5

In what theatre was ABraham Lincoln sitting when he was assassinated?

Answer 5

Ford’s Theatre

Question 6

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 6

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 7

What Union general led a famous March to the Sea during the Civil War?

Answer 7

Sherman

Question 8

What city did General Grant “present” to Lincoln as a “Christmas gift” in 1864?

Answer 8

Savannah, Georgia

Question 9

What was the first southern state to secede from the Union?

Answer 9

South Carolina

Question 10

During the Great Depression, what notorious gangster opened a soup kitchen in Chicago, Illinois?

Answer 10

Al Capone

Question 11

In what year did the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression?

Answer 11

1929

Question 12

What ended the Great Depression?

Answer 12

War World II

Question 13

Where is the oldest permanent settlement in America?

Answer 13

St. Augustin, Florida

Question 14

What was the name of the first English child born in the New World?

Answer 14

Virginia Dare

Question 15

How many Great Lakes are there?

Answer 15

5

Question 16

How many branches are in the U.S. government?

Answer 16

3

Question 17

Which branch of government actually writes the laws?

Answer 17

legislative

Question 18

Where id the U.S. explode the first atomic bomb?

Answer 18

Hiroshima, Japan

Question 19

Who was the first person to walk on the moon?

Answer 19

Neil Armstrong

Question 20

What country gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty?

Answer 20

France

Question 21

Who patented the design for the telephone?

Answer 21

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 22

Who is believed to be the first Viking to reach America?

Answer 22

Leif Erikson

Question 23

The word AMERICA was taken from what person’s name?

Answer 23

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 24

In what year did the Civil War end?

Answer 24

1865

Question 25

What do we call the system that makes sure that no branch of the government overpowers another branch?

Answer 25

checks and balances

Question 26

In what year did the Pilgrims settle in America?

Answer 26

1620

Question 27

Whose face is on a 50 dollar bill?

Answer 27

Ulysses Grant

Question 28

What color uniform was worn by the Union soldiers during the Civil War?

Answer 28

blue

Question 29

What color uniform was worn by the Confederate soldiers during the Civil War?

Answer 29

gray

Question 30

Who served as the commanding general of the army of the confederate States of America?

Answer 30

Robert E. Lee

Question 31

Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?

Answer 31

Francis Scott Key

Question 32

What was the nickname for the Union soldiers during the Civil War?

Answer 32

Yankees

Question 33

What was the nickname for the Confederate soldiers during the Civil War?

Answer 33

Rebels

Question 34

In what city was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Answer 34

Philadelphia

Question 35

Who was the youngest U.S. President to die while in office?

Answer 35

John F. Kennedy

Question 36

Which U.S. President’s picture appears on $20 bills?

Answer 36

Andrew Jackson