United States Quiz 5: multiple choice
6 of the 20 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
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?
Sacagawea
3. The US bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. What did critics call the purchase, after the Secretary of State who arranged it?
Seward's Folly
4. Which city was the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War?
Richmond, Virginia
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?
Appomattox Court House
7. In which theatre was Abraham Lincoln shot?
Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
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?
The 19th Amendment
10. Which amendment abolished slavery?
The 13th Amendment
11. What name is given to 29 October 1929, the worst day of the Wall Street Crash?
Black Tuesday
12. Which president called 7 December 1941 "a date which will live in infamy"?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
13. Which amendment, ratified in 1951, limits a president to two elected terms?
The 22nd Amendment
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?
The Lincoln Memorial
16. In which Alabama city did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat in 1955?
17. Which amendment ended Prohibition in 1933?
The 21st Amendment
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?
The Forty-Niners
20. At which place in Utah was a golden spike driven to complete the first transcontinental railroad in 1869?
Promontory Summit
ANSWERS
1. A New York City
2. Sacagawea
3. Seward's Folly
4. Richmond, Virginia
5. C Jefferson Davis
6. Appomattox Court House
7. Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
8. B 87
9. The 19th Amendment
10. The 13th Amendment
11. Black Tuesday
12. Franklin D. Roosevelt
13. The 22nd Amendment
14. C Dallas
15. The Lincoln Memorial
16. C Montgomery
17. The 21st Amendment
18. D Great Britain
19. The Forty-Niners
20. Promontory Summit