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100
Who is the inventor of the telephone?
A. Thomas Edison
B. Nikola Tesla
C. Alexander Graham Bell
D. Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Graham Bell
100
What are the 3 branches of government?
A. Legislative, Executive, Judicial
B. Federal, State, Local
C. Congress, President, Supreme Court
D. Democratic, Republican, Independent
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
100
This is the name of the first automobile model that the average American family could own?
A. Model T
B. Model A
C. Ford Mustang
D. Chevrolet Impala
The Model T
100
What is the name of the 2 sides which fought each other in WW2?
A. Allies and Axis
B. North and South
C. Union and Confederacy
D. NATO and Warsaw Pact
The Axis and Allied powers.
100
What year did the US land on the moon?
A. 1965
B. 1969
C. 1972
D. 1980
July 20, 1969
200
Where is the Declaration of Independence was signed?
A. Boston, Massachusetts
B. New York City, New York
C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
D. Washington, D.C.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania inside Independence Hall (the former state house).
200
What invention is Thomas Edison famous for?
A. Telephone
B. Light Bulb
C. Airplane
D. Radio
Light bulb 💡
200
This was the term for the catastrophic event of 1929, where America's money system crashed?
A. The Great Depression
B. The Stock Market Crash
C. Black Tuesday
D. The Dust Bowl
The Great Depression
200
What date was the White House built?
A. 1776
B. 1792
C. 1800
D. 1792-1800
1792-1800
200
Opened in 1936, this Dam was the biggest engineering project of its time, standing a colossal 726 feet (221m) high and creating much-needed post-Depression jobs for 21,000 workers.
A. Hoover Dam
B. Grand Coulee Dam
C. Glen Canyon Dam
D. Bonneville Dam
Hoover Dam
300
What is the name of the island where recent immigrants arrived in America (New York) for processing?
A. Liberty Island
B. Ellis Island
C. Staten Island
D. Angel Island
Ellis Island
300
What is the name of the famed inventors of the modern aircraft, having designed and piloted the world’s first successful engine-powered plane?
A. Wright Brothers
B. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford
C. Orville and Nikola Tesla
D. Bell and Armstrong
The Wright Brothers
300
This was Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to create programs to "jump start" the economy after the economic crash of 1929?
A. The New Deal
B. The Fair Deal
C. The Great Society
D. The Marshall Plan
The New Deal
300
What is the name of the presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War?
A. Emancipation Proclamation
B. Gettysburg Address
C. Reconstruction Act
D. Civil Rights Act
Emancipation Proclamation
300
What is the name of the Philadelphia seamstress who created the first official flag, adopted in 1777, featured 13 stars arranged in a circle, representing the original colonies.
A. Betsy Ross
B. Martha Washington
C. Abigail Adams
D. Susan B. Anthony
Betsy Ross
400
What is the name of the famous statue that greets those who arrive in New York's harbor?
A. Statue of Freedom
B. Liberty Bell
C. Statue of Liberty
D. Lady of Justice
What is The Statue of Liberty
400
What is the name of the act enacted in 1862, which opened western lands for free settlement and gave each homesteader 160 acres?
A. Homestead Act
B. Dawes Act
C. Morrill Act
D. Pacific Railway Act
The Homestead Act
400
What is the name of the event in which Farmers leached all the nutrients out of the soil in the prairie lands and caused a natural disaster?
A. The Dust Bowl
B. The Great Flood
C. The Soil Crisis
D. The Prairie Storm
The Dust Bowl
400
What is the name of the speech Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
A. I Have a Dream
B. The Ballot or the Bullet
C. The Mountaintop Speech
D. Ain’t I a Woman
I Have a Dream
400
What is the name of the president that was forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal?
A. Richard Nixon
B. Gerald Ford
C. Jimmy Carter
D. Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon 
500
What is the name of the African American man who was born into slavery and became the first leader of The Tuskegee Institute.
A. W.E.B. Du Bois
B. Frederick Douglass
C. Booker T. Washington
D. Martin Luther King Jr.
Booker T Washington
500
What are the names of the men that drafted the Declaration of Independence?
A. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston
B. George Washington, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, Samuel Adams
C. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin
D. Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Livingston
Roger Sherman
500
This event pushed the United States to join WWI?
A. The sinking of the Lusitania
B. The Zimmermann Telegram
C. The Treaty of Versailles
D. Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
500
Rosa Parks is best known for her refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow laws, which sparked the which boycott?
A. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
B. The Selma Voting Rights March
C. The Freedom Rides
D. The March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
500
The Cold War was waged between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. Due to what ideological differences?
A. Democracy vs. Communism
B. Capitalism vs. Communism
C. Monarchy vs. Republic
D. Fascism vs. Anarchism
The main ideologies were Capitalism (US) vs. Communism (USSR).