United States Quiz 5 (Questions only)

1. In which city was George Washington inaugurated as the first president in 1789?

2. Which Shoshone woman guided and interpreted for the Lewis and Clark expedition?

3. The US bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. What did critics call the purchase, after the Secretary of State who arranged it?

4. Which city was the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War?

5. Who was the president of the Confederate States?

6. At which Virginia village did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865?

7. In which theatre was Abraham Lincoln shot?

8. The Gettysburg Address begins "Four score and seven years ago". How many years is that?

9. Which amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote?

10. Which amendment abolished slavery?

11. What name is given to 29 October 1929, the worst day of the Wall Street Crash?

12. Which president called 7 December 1941 "a date which will live in infamy"?

13. Which amendment, ratified in 1951, limits a president to two elected terms?

14. In which city was John F. Kennedy assassinated?

15. In front of which memorial did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?

16. In which Alabama city did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat in 1955?

17. Which amendment ended Prohibition in 1933?

18. The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was a protest against a tax on tea imposed by which country?

19. What nickname was given to the prospectors who rushed to California in search of gold?

20. At which place in Utah was a golden spike driven to complete the first transcontinental railroad in 1869?