The US Military Today
After the United States, this country spends the most on its military.
What is China?
This is the number of presidents who owned slave while in office.
What is 8?
The person who wrote the national anthem.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
The United States was trying to "free" this country as part of the War of 1812.
What is Canada?
The United States has this number of active aircraft carriers, the most in the world.
What is 10?
This person traveled to France to enlist support for the Americans during the Revolutionary War.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This is the number of stanzas in the Star-Spangled Banner.
What is 4?
This future American president defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This European country has the most active deployed American forces in the world.
What is Germany?
England started taxing the colonies because of debt from this war.
What was the Seven Year War?
This former NFL quarterback knelt in protest during the playing of the national anthem in several preseason football games.
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
The War of 1812 is also known as this.
What is the Second War of Independence?
Since World War II, the United States had the highest number of active Army troops in this conflict.
What was the Vietnam War?
This Act in 1765 imposed a direct tax on printed materials including legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies.
What was the Stamp Act?
This is what Colin Kaepernick was protesting when he knelt during the playing of the national anthem.
What is police brutality?
This was the practice of forcibly inducting men into military service.
What was impressment?
The United States wants to be a superpower in these three parts of the world.
What are Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific?
This case in London in 1772 frightened Southern slaveowners into thinking that the British would free their slaves.
What was the Somerset Case?
The national anthem got its tune from this song.
What is the Anacreon Song?
Britain was engaged in this other major conflict before and during the War of 1812.
What were the Napoleonic Wars?