American History Trivia Question and Answers
1.
What year did the American Revolution begin?
Answer:
1775
2.
What was the name of the first successful English settlement in North America?
Answer:
Jamestown
3.
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Answer:
Thomas Jefferson
4.
What was the name of the first president of the United States?
Answer:
George Washington
5.
Who was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms?
Answer:
Grover Cleveland
6.
What state is known as the "Lone Star State"?
Answer:
Texas
7.
What year did the Civil War begin?
Answer:
1861
8.
What was the name of the ship that carried immigrants to Ellis Island?
Answer:
The Statue of Liberty
9.
What woman is known as the "Mother of the Confederacy"?
Answer:
Jefferson Davis' wife, Varina Davis
10.
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin", a powerful anti-slavery novel?
Answer:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
11.
What state was the first to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote?
Answer:
Wyoming
12.
What significant event took place on December 7, 1941?
Answer:
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
13.
What was the name of the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court?
Answer:
Sandra Day O'Connor
14.
What was the name of the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer:
Neil Armstrong
15.
What year did the Vietnam War end?
Answer:
1975
16.
What event led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon?
Answer:
The Watergate Scandal
17.
What is the name of the largest city in the United States?
Answer:
New York City
18.
What state is known as the "Golden State"?
Answer:
California
19.
What was the name of the first African American to be elected president of the United States?
Answer:
Barack Obama
20.
What important event took place on September 11, 2001?
Answer:
Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
21.
What is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States?
Answer:
Mount Whitney
22.
What is the name of the battle that marked the end of the American Revolution?
Answer:
The Battle of Yorktown
23.
Who was the author of the famous Gettysburg Address?
Answer:
Abraham Lincoln
24.
What year did the United States declare independence from Great Britain?
Answer:
1776
25.
What was the name of the first colony in North America?
Answer:
Roanoke
26.
What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Answer:
Jamestown
27.
Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?
Answer:
Samuel Adams
28.
What was the name of the first battle of the American Revolution?
Answer:
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
29.
What was the name of the treaty that ended the American Revolution?
Answer:
The Treaty of Paris
30.
What was the name of the first written constitution of the United States?
Answer:
The Articles of Confederation
31.
What was the name of the first capital of the United States?
Answer:
New York City
32.
What was the name of the first Supreme Court Chief Justice?
Answer:
John Jay
33.
What was the name of the first national bank of the United States?
Answer:
The First Bank of the United States
34.
What was the name of the first major war fought by the United States after independence?
Answer:
The QuasiWar with France
35.
What was the name of the famous trail that led to the West?
Answer:
Oregon Trail
36.
What was the name of the event that led to the annexation of Texas?
Answer:
The Texas Revolution
37.
What was the name of the event that led to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War?
Answer:
The Annexation of Texas
38.
What was the name of the event that led to the end of the Mexican-American War?
Answer:
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
39.
What was the name of the event that led to the outbreak of the Civil War?
Answer:
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
40.
What was the name of the event that led to the end of the Civil War?
Answer:
The surrender of the Confederate Army
41.
What was the name of the event that led to the end of Reconstruction?
Answer:
The Compromise of 1877
42.
What was the name of the first president to be impeached?
Answer:
Andrew Johnson
43.
What was the name of the event that led to the Spanish-American War?
Answer:
The sinking of the USS Maine
44.
What was the name of the event that led to the end of World War I?
Answer:
The Treaty of Versailles
45.
What was the name of the event that led to the Great Depression?
Answer:
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
46.
What was the name of the event that led to the outbreak of World War II?
Answer:
The invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany
47.
What was the name of the event that led to the end of World War II?
Answer:
The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
48.
What was the name of the event that led to the Cold War?
Answer:
The end of World War II
49.
What was the name of the event that led to the end of the Cold War?
Answer:
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union
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