Basic US History (no multiple choice)
What year was the US founded?
1776
Which amendment ended slavery?
a. the 5th
b. the 15th
c. the 13th
c. the 13th
(the 5th protects your freedom from government overreach, and the 15th protects the right to vote without race based discrimination)
What is the most popular sport in the Americas?
a. football
b. fútbol
c. baseball
b. fútbol
Which park is the only place in the world that crocodiles and alligators live together?
a. Everglades
b. Congaree
c. Great Dismal Swamp
a. Everglades
What event led to the Indian removal act of 1830 and set off the Trail of Tears?
a. A Cherokee attack on a white settlement
b. The election of Andrew Jackson
c. The discovery of gold in Georgia
c. The discovery of gold in Georgia
What was the cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
Who did MLK Jr. identify as a greater threat to equality?
a. the KKK
b. white moderates
c. Jim Crow
b. white moderates
Which South American coup did the University of Chicago play a role in?
a. Chile
b. Argentina
c. Brazil
a. Chile
Which president was associated with the creation of many national parks?
a. George Washington
b. Andrew Jackson
c. Theodore Roosevelt
c. Theodore Roosevelt
How many Japanese internment camps were there in the US?
a. 3
b. 10
c. 16
b. 10
What are your 5 First Amendment rights?
The rights to freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press, petition
What was the name of the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
a. Maya Angelou
b. Zora Neale Hurston
c. James Baldwin
c. James Baldwin
What country did Reagan's CIA trained Contras operate in?
a. Iran
b. Venezuela
c. Nicaragua
c. Nicaragua
What is the most visited national park?
a. Great Smokey Mountains
b. Grand Canyon
c. Yellowstone
a. Great Smokey Mountains
On what country did the US drop 2.7 tons of bombs during the Vietnam War?
a. Cambodia
b. Vietnam
c. Indonesia
a. Cambodia
What law ended the separate but equal doctrine?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
What was the name of the town known as Black Wall Street that was massacred by a white mob with the help of police in 1921?
a. Selma
b. Tulsa
c. Tuskegee
b. Tulsa
How many American countries has the US invaded/occupied?
a. none
b. 12
c. 35
b. 12
(Cuba, PR, Panama, Haiti, DR, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, Grenada, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
What native peoples were forcibly removed to create the illusion of "untouched wilderness" in Yellowstone?
a. Cherokee
b. Shoshone
c. Diné
b. Shoshone
How much US tax money goes to provide material support for Israel's genocide of Palestinians?
a. $1.8 billion a year
b. $2.5 billion a year
c. $3.8 billion a year
c. $3.8 billion a year
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
The 19th amendment
Who organized the 1963 March on Washington?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the name given to the CIA invasion of Cuba?
Bay of Pigs Invasion
What is the oldest National Park?
Yellowstone
What war crime did the US commit in Minab, Iran in February?
the bombing of a girls' school