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American History

Total questions: 130

Worksheet time: 11mins

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1.

Event that demonstrated the end of communist rule in Europe and signified the end of the Cold War:

a)

fall of the Berlin Wall

b)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

c)

the start of the Vietnam War

d)

the end of the 13 days in October

2.

The second major conflict fought during the Cold War:

a)

Cuban Missile Crisis

b)

The Vietnam War

c)

13 days in October

d)

The Korean War

3.

Minster who led the Civil Rights Movement through non-violent protests:

a)

Neil Armstrong

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

John F. Kennedy

4.

African American woman arrested for occupying a white man's bus seat:

a)

Sally Stark

b)

Loretta King

c)

Mrs. Jim Crow

d)

Rosa Parks

5.

The movement of protest in America agains the unjust laws of segregation:

a)

Civil Rights Movement

b)

Brown vs. Board of Education

c)

Black Lives Matter

d)

Massive Resistance

6.

Laws in America that enforced the segregation of races:

a)

Civil Rights Movement

b)

Brown vs. Board of Education

c)

Rosa Parks Law

d)

Jim Crow Laws

7.

President who fought to put America ahead in the "Space Race" and was assassinated while in Texas:

a)

Harry S. Truman

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

8.

Event during the Cold War in which the US and the Soviet Union almost engaged in a nuclear war:

a)

The Vietnam War Stalemate

b)

Korean War Conflict

c)

Cuban Missile Crisis

d)

Battle for the Berlin Wall

9.

First astronauts to set foot on the moon were Neil Armstrong and

a)

Buzz Aldrin

b)

Sally Ride

c)

Scott Kelly

d)

Buzz Lightyear

10.

Longstanding conflict between the spread of communism by the Soviet Union and the sustaining of democracy:

a)

The Cold War

b)

The Hot War

c)

The Cuban War

d)

The Vietnam War

11.

War fought agains the Soviet Union's attempt to expand their influences south of the 38th parallel:

a)

The Vietnam War

b)

The Korean War

c)

The Cuban Missile Crisis

d)

The Chinese War

12.

Plan to use U.S. money to fund the reconstruction of Western Europe:

a)

The Manhattan Project

b)

The creation of the UN

c)

The Marshall Plan

d)

The Treaty of Versailles

13.

Organization of nations created to keep the peace after WWII:

a)

The League of Nations

b)

The Manhattan Project

c)

The United Nations

d)

The Marshall Plan

14.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two islands

a)

who fought in the Korean War

b)

destroyed Pearl Harbor

c)

where Manhattan Project was created

d)

destroyed by atomic bombs

15.

American scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project:

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Buzz Aldrin

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

16.

The secret project intended to create an atomic bomb:

a)

The Manhattan Project

b)

The New York Project

c)

The American Project

d)

The Scientists Project

17.

American general and commander of the Allied forces who organized D-Day:

a)

Richard M. Nion

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

Harry S. Truman

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

18.

The largest land assault during WWII also called D-Day:

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Hiroshima

c)

the storming of Normandy

d)

the storming of Bastille

19.

British Prime minister who refused to give in to Nazi attacks during WWII:

a)

Anthony Eden

b)

Tony Blair

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

Margaret Thatcher

20.

Systematic massacre of European Jews by the Nazis:

a)

Holocaust

b)

mass atrocities

c)

Wola Massacre

d)

Armenian Genocide

21.

Great Britain, China, France, and United States made this up in WWII:

a)

Nazis

b)

Axis

c)

Allies

d)

Superpowers

22.

Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union (until 1941) made up this in WWII:

a)

Powers

b)

Allied

c)

Allies

d)

Axis

23.

President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbor as:

a)

"a date which will live in infamy"

b)

"Speak softly and carry a big stick"

c)

"Sic semper tyrannis!"

d)

"Be sure you are right, then go ahead"

24.

The event that led America to join WWII:

a)

the bombing of English ships in the channel

b)

the bombing of Pearl Harbor

c)

The Stock Market Crash

d)

Genocide of the Jews

25.

Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII: (more than one answer)

a)

Joseph Stalin

Soviet Union

b)

Benito Mussolini

Italy

c)

Emperor Hirohito

Japan

d)

Adolf Hitler

Germany

26.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:

a)

Big Misunderstanding

b)

The Sure Deal

c)

The New Deal

d)

The Green Deal

27.

Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:

a)

World War II

b)

World War I

c)

Stock Market Crash of 1929

d)

The New Deal

28.

Woodrow Wilson's idea for sustained world peace:

a)

The New Deal

b)

The Versailles Peace Settlement

c)

The League of Nations

d)

The United Nations

29.

Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI:

a)

The Treaty of Versailles

b)

The New Deal

c)

League of Nations Manifesto

d)

The Versailles Peace Settlement

30.

Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Georges Clemenceau drafted the peace treaty after WWI representing which countries:

a)

US

b)

Great Britain

c)

France

d)

Germany

31.

The right of women to vote:

a)

scalawags

b)

carpetbaggers

c)

Civil Rights

d)

suffrage

32.

President during WWI:

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Richard M. Nixon

33.

Two competing forces in WWI:

a)

Allies

b)

Central Powers

c)

Axis

d)

Superpowers

34.

In WWI Germany, Britain, France, Russia, China, Greece, Japan, Italy, and the US were:

a)

Superpowers

b)

Axis

c)

Central Powers

d)

Allies

35.

In WWI, German, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire represented this:

a)

Axis

b)

Allied

c)

Central Powers

d)

Allies

36.

Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:

a)

Herbert Fronzarelli

b)

Frances Bell

c)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

d)

Franz Ferdinand

37.

The original name given to WWI:

a)

The Great War

b)

The Sad War

c)

Versailles War

d)

WWII

38.

Gift France presented to the US during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:

a)

fine books

b)

jewelry

c)

Washington Monument

d)

Statue of Liberty

39.

Inventor of the telephone:

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

George Custer

d)

John Space

40.

Inventor of the electric lightbulb:

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Thomas Train

41.

General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:

a)

William T. Sherman

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

George A. Custer

d)

Robert E. Lee

42.

Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:

a)

scalawags

b)

carpetbaggers

c)

sedition huggers

d)

suffragettes

43.

Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:

a)

despicable

b)

carpetbaggers

c)

scalawags

d)

suffergates

44.

Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:

a)

James Earl Ray

b)

Jack Ruby

c)

Lee Harvey Oswald

d)

John Wilkes Booth

45.

Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:

a)

Appomattox Courthouse

b)

Gettysburg

c)

Washington, D.C.

d)

New York, NY

46.

Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

William T. Sherman

d)

George Custer

47.

Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:

a)

Monitor and the Merrimac

b)

Battle of Chickamauga

c)

Battle of Gettysburg

d)

Fort Sumter

48.

Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free:

a)

13th amendment

b)

Dred Scott

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

49.

Commander and chief of the Confederate Army:

a)

Nathan Bedford Forest

b)

Stonewall Jackson

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

William T. Sherman

50.

Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the Union fleet:

a)

Monitor

b)

Merrimac

c)

Monster

d)

Maine

51.

Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Appomattox Courthouse

c)

The Battle of Bull Run

d)

Fort Sumter

52.

President of the Confederacy:

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Stonewall Jackson

d)

Francis Marion

53.

First state to secede from the Union:

a)

Georgia

b)

South Carolina

c)

North Carolina

d)

Mississippi

54.

Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:

a)

Dred Scott

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Daniel Webster

55.

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:

a)

Dred Scott

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Tom Tubman

56.

Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:

a)

Dred Scott

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Tom Tubman

57.

System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:

a)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

b)

Underground Railroad

c)

Aboltionists Manifesto

d)

Transcendental Train

58.

Bill that inducted California as a free state and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to choose whether or not they would be free or slave states:

a)

The Gadsden Purchase

b)

The Railroad Rush

c)

The Compromise of 1850

d)

The Nullification Act

59.

Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:

a)

The Compromise of 1850

b)

Gadsden Purchase

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

The Gold Rush

60.

Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the US:

a)

Winfred Scott

b)

John Fremont

c)

Daniel Webster

d)

Francis Scott Key

61.

Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:

a)

Gasden Purchase

b)

The Gold Rush

c)

Treaty of Guadalupe

d)

Treaty of Hidalgo

62.

Treaty that ended the Mexican War and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:

a)

Treaty of Fremont

b)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo

c)

The Gold Rush

d)

California Treaty

63.

American pioneer who conquered California:

a)

John C. Fremont

b)

Daniel Webster

c)

Winfield Scott

d)

Taylor Fremont

64.

American general who captured Mexico City:

a)

Sam Houston

b)

Winfield Scott

c)

Davy Crockett

d)

William Travis

65.

General of the Mexican army:

a)

Marianno Abasolo

b)

Ignacio Alende

c)

Santa Anna

d)

Nacho Libre

66.

War fought over the boundaries of Texas and Mexico:

a)

The Texas Standoff

b)

Battle of the Alamo

c)

The Texas War

d)

The Mexican War

67.

Three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:

a)

Winfield Scott

b)

Davy Crockett

c)

William Travis

d)

Sam Houston

68.

Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:

a)

The Mexican War

b)

The Spanish War

c)

The Battle of the Alamo

d)

The Gold War

69.

Inventor of the telegraph:

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Samuel Morse

70.

Wrote the first dictionary in America:

a)

Noah Webster

b)

Daniel Webster

c)

Taylor Fremont

d)

Will Wikipedia

71.

Those who opposed slavery:

a)

suffragists

b)

abolitionists

c)

carpetbaggers

d)

scalawags

72.

Invention that changed agriculture:

a)

McCormick Reaper

b)

Telegraph

c)

lightbulb

d)

electricity

73.
Who were the first Americans?
a)
Native Americans
b)
Settlers
c)
Pilgrims
d)
Europeans
74.
What was the name of the first colony that settlers established in the New World?
a)
Jamestown
b)
Plymouth Rock
c)
St. Augustine
d)
Roanoke
75.
Which native American helped the Pilgrims by teaching them how to plant crops and find food?
a)
Hiawatha
b)
Squanto
c)
Sacgawea
d)
Geronimo
76.
Who fought the French and Indian War?
a)
France and Italy
b)
The Indians and Italy
c)
France and England
d)
Italy and England
77.
What was the plan for our new government called?
a)
The Constitution
b)
The Declaration of Independence
c)
The Federalist Papers
d)
The Gettysburg Address
78.
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner, our National Anthem?
a)
Frances Scott Williams
b)
Frank Key
c)
Frances Scott Key
d)
Bach
79.
Which branch of government established in the original US Constitution was designed to be elected directly by citizens?
a)
President
b)
Supreme Court
c)
House of Representatives
d)
the Presidents Cabinet
80.
The US Constitution replaced which plan of government for the United States?
a)
Articles of Confederation
b)
Declaration of Independence
c)
Federalist Papers
d)
Northwest Ordinance
81.
Congress is made up of two houses, which one has equal representation of 2 representatives per state?
a)
House of Burgesses
b)
Senate
c)
House of Representatives
d)
Continental Congress
82.

What European group established the first contact with North America?

a)

Spanish

b)

Dutch

c)

French

d)

Vikings

83.

Which country did John Cabot work for?

a)

Spain

b)

England

c)

France

84.
Identify the explorer. Known as the first person to travel completely around the world.
a)
Eriksson
b)
Columbus
c)
Magellan
d)
De Soto
85.

I was the first person to finally realize that Columbus was NOT in Asia, but they had been in a new land. America was named after me.

a)

Amerigo Vespucci

b)

Marco Polo

c)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

d)

Ferdinand Magellan

86.

I was truly the first person in the Americas. I arrived here with my Viking friends in the year 1000 AD.

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Marco Polo

c)

Leif Erickson

d)

John Cabot

87.

_____________ discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and explored over 1000 miles of the St. Lawrence River.

a)

John Cabot

b)

Jacques Cartier

c)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

d)

Christopher Columbus

88.

Who was the explorer who sailed for Spain/Queen Isabella?

a)

Vespucci

b)

de Soto

c)

Columbus

d)

Magellan

89.

Where was Prince Henry the Navigator from?

a)

Spain

b)

Portugal

c)

France

d)

England

90.

_________ was the first Spanish settlement in the United States.

a)

Pensacola

b)

St. Augustine

c)

Orlando

d)

Key West

91.

Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman to sail around the world.

a)

True

b)

False

92.
Who did the Queen of England send out from 1584-1585 to find places in the New World to Colonize?
a)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
b)
Sir Elton John
c)
Sir Walter Raleigh
d)
Sir Mixalot
93.

Roanoke is also called

a)

The Mysterious Island

b)

The Amazing Disappearing Colony

c)

North Carolina

d)

The Lost Colony

94.
John Smith was the leader of what colony?
a)
Johnstown
b)
Jamestown
c)
England
d)
Virginia
95.
The House of Burgesses is important in history because it was the 
a)
the first time a council advised the Virginia Company
b)
only legislative body in England
c)
first election of women as leaders
d)
first elective legislative body in America
96.
Parliament passed these trade laws between 1650 and 1696 that required the English colonies to trade items like sugar only with Great Britain.
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Toleration Acts
c)
Navigation Acts
d)
English Bill of rights
97.

Why did William Penn receive the land in Pennsylvania?

a)

the King borrowed money from him earlier and needed to repay him

b)

the King wanted him out of England

c)

he won a contest

d)

They King borrowed money from his father and needed to repay his debt

98.

An uprising of poor farmers against the governor of Virginia for land is known as ________________.

a)

Bacon's Rebellion

b)

Mrs. Foster's Rebellion

c)

Pig's Rebellion

99.
conquered Quebec
a)
James Wolfe
b)
George Washington
c)
William Pitt
d)
Jeffrey Amherst
100.

The primary goal of the Treaty of Paris was to...

a)

reward the French for their efforts in the war.

b)

punish the British.

c)

help the colonies and Britain become rich.

d)

maintain peace between Britain and the United States.

101.

This battle was the start of the Revolutionary War. It's where the first shots were fired.

a)

Battle of Yorktown

b)

Battle of Saratoga

c)

Battle of Valley Forge

d)

Battle at Lexington and Concord

102.

These men could be ready in a moments notice to go to battle.

a)

minutemen

b)

democracy

c)

boycott

d)

treaty

103.

This battle was the TURNING POINT of the Revolutionary War.

a)

Battle of Yorktown

b)

Battle of Saratoga

c)

Battle of Valley Forge

d)

Battle at Lexington and Concord

104.

He came from France to offer his help to the Americans:

a)

Lord Dunmore

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Friedrich von Steuben

d)

Marquis de Lafayette

e)

Charles Cornwallis

105.

The British General that surrendered his troops at Yorktown:

a)

Lord Dunmore

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Friedrich von Steuben

d)

Marquis de Lafayette

e)

Charles Cornwallis

106.
Which American general was dissatisfied with his lack of credit and became an infamous traitor?
a)
Howe
b)
Gates
c)
Greene
d)
Arnold
107.
Who was the first choice to command the Continental Army?
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Benjamin Franklin
c)
Thomas Paine
d)
George Washington
108.
Who said "Give me liberty or give me death"?
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Patrick Henry 
c)
Benjamin Franklin
109.
What does "No Taxation without Representation" mean?
a)
that colonists could not tax the British because Parliament was in England
b)
that Britain should not be able to tax the colonists since the colonists did not have a voice in British Parliament
c)
that coloists needed to receive a bill before they would pay their taxes
110.

What is happening in this painting? 

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Battle at Saratoga

c)

Boston Massacre

111.

Who warned the colonists "the British are coming"?

a)

Paul Revere

b)

John Jay

c)

George Washington

d)

Benjamin Franklin

112.

Who won the Battle of Bunker Hill?

a)

The British

b)

The Colonists

c)

The French

d)

The Natives

113.

How did George Washington trick the British by crossing the Deleware River?

a)

He caught them off guard by attacking on Dec 25th

b)

He used a submarine

c)

He sank an unguarded British Air Craft Carrier

114.

What happened at the Boston Tea Party?

a)

Sons of Liberty threw all the tea in the ocean

b)

Patriots sat and had tea with King George

c)

Native Americans threw all the tea in the ocean

d)

King George had a sale on tea

115.

Eli Whitney's invention of the _____ made it possible to quickly and efficiently process the seeds out of cotton lint.

a)

Cotton gin

b)

Cotton press

c)

Cotton sift

116.

The agreement that established a form of government for the Pilgrims:

a)

Magna Carta

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

Charters of the VA Company of London

d)

Declaration of Rights

117.

The first plan of national government in America

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Constitution of the United States

c)

VA Declaration of Rights

d)

Articles of Confederation

118.

The land purchased from France that doubled the size of the United States was called

a)

The Louisiana Purchase

b)

Oregon Country

c)

The Rockies

d)

The Great West

119.

Who did Thomas Jefferson choose to lead the Corps of Discovery?

a)

Meriwether Lewis

b)

Sponge Bob

c)

Charlie Brown

d)

Miley Cyrus

120.

Inventor of the steamboat

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Robert Fulton

d)

Elias Howe

121.

Who tried to unite the Native Americans against United States expansion?

a)

Napoleon

b)

Tecumseh

c)

Sitting Bull

d)

War Hawks

122.

Who led the American forces against Native Americans in the Northwest Territory?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

William Henry Harrison

d)

Tecumseh

123.

Who was the Colonel during the Battle of New Orleans?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

General Patton

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

George Washington

124.

The ______________________________ was an address to Congress on December 1823 that outlined a comprehensive foreign policy to protect U.S. independence by limiting European influences on North and South America.

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Adams-Onis Treaty

c)

War of 1812

d)

Convention of 1818

125.

The ________________________ was between Britain and the United States, fought between 1812 and 1815. It began over alleged British violations of American shipping rights, such as the impressment of seamen. There was no clear winner in the war.

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Embargo Act

c)

War of 1812

d)

Barbary Pirates

126.

Which is true of the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812?

a)

Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans forced the British to give up their claim to western lands.

b)

The two sides agreed to end the war but no other demands, including ending impressment, were included.

c)

The treaty determined the northern boundary between the United States and British territory in Canada.

d)

The British agreed to pay reparations for the war including the cost for rebuilding the city of Washington, D.C.

127.

Why was the Battle of New Orleans fought after the War of 1812 had already end?

a)

Both sides were already in the middle of battle and kept fighting till the end.

b)

Neither side knew the war was over before they started.

c)

This battle was over a different conflict often associated with this war.

d)

Because General Jackson want to try a new weapon on the British.

128.

From New York, Ambassador to Spain and 1st Chief Justice of the United States

a)

John Jay

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

John Adams

d)

George Washington

129.

What does "E Pluribus Unum" mean?

(a)  

130.

Who was Daniel Shays?

a)

A former soldier and farmer who was worried about losing his farm, so he started a rebellion

b)

A tax collector from Massachusetts who had to go and collect money from the poor

c)

He was the Governor of Massachusetts at the time of a huge rebellion by farmers

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