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Question 1

What state is split into two parts by one the the Great Lakes?

Answer 1

Michigan

Question 2

Who wrote: “Early to bed and early to rise,

Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”?

Answer 2

Benjamin Franklin

Question 3

Who is the current governor of Mississippi?

Answer 3

Phil Bryant

Question 4

Who is the current vice president of the U.S.?

Answer 4

Joseph Biden

Question 5

Who founded the first public library in the U.S.?

Answer 5

Benjamin Franklin

Question 6

What state is known as the Volunteer State?

Answer 6

Tennessee

Question 7

What state has the armadillo as its small state mammal?

Answer 7

Texas

Question 8

What amendment to the Constitution outlawed slavery?

Answer 8

13th

Question 9

What amendment to the Constitution guarantees due process of law?

Answer 9

14th

Question 10

To the Great Plains Indians, what was the most important animal to be hunted?

Answer 10

buffalo

Question 11

What mail transport service lasted from 1860 to 1861?

Answer 11

Pony Express

Question 12

What American general was defeated at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

Answer 12

George Custer

Question 13

Who founded Hull House, a settlement house that provided for the poor in Chicago?

Answer 13

Jane Addams

Question 14

In 1899, what African American woman from Mississippi started a Memphis newspaper called Free Speech?

Answer 14

Ida B. Wells

Question 15

What American compser wrote so many band pieces that he became know as the “March King”?

Answer 15

John Philip Sousa

Question 16

After the Great Depression, what animal was known as the Hoover Hog or the Poor Man’s Pig?

Answer 16

the armadillo

Question 17

What state in the continental U.S. has an active volcano?

Answer 17

Washington

Question 18

One of the hydroelectric power plants is located on a dam across the Colorado River. Name the dam.

Answer 18

Hoover Dam

Question 19

What famous speech did Lincoln give at the dedication of a cemetery on a Civil War battlefield?

Answer 19

Gettysburg Address

Question 20

Who led the Mexican army that defeated the American forces at the Alamo?

Answer 20

Santa Anna

Question 21

What American landmark contains the inscription, “I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”?

Answer 21

the Statue of Liberty

Question 22

What was the nickname given to the 1920s in America because they were such exciting, fast-paced times?

Answer 22

Roaring Twenties

Question 23

What do we call the time period from 1920 to 1933 when there was a ban on the making and selling of beer, wine and alcohol everywhere in the U.S.?

Answer 23

prohibition

Question 24

What do we call the time period after WWI when many African-Americans headed for Chicago and New York City?

Answer 24

Great Migration

Question 25

What do we call the time period in American when African-American artists, writers and scholars were especially brilliant and creative?

Answer 25

Harlem Renaissance

Question 26

One of the programs set up under Roosevelt’s New Deal was the CCC. What did the CCC stand for?

Answer 26

Civilian Conservation Corps