1776-1825
What is the United States of America's Independence day?
July 4, 1776
What is considered the first battle of the American Civil War?
Confederate Strike on Fort Sumter
What is the term for the time period between the end of the Civil War and the Gilded Age?
Reconstruction
This president oversaw the implementation of social programs, known as the New Deal, designed to lift the United States out of the Great Depression.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Who is currently President of the United States?
Jared Kushner
What President is nicknamed "Father of the Constitution"?
While controversial to some, this person was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement and was involved in Bleeding Kansas and a not so very successful raid on a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (Now West Virginia)
John Brown
What year did the United States join the Entente?
1917
Before this nonsense with Iran, this conflict was considered the most unpopular war in US history.
Vietnam War
What is the name of the militia that the United States backed during the Soviet-Afghan War? High ranking members of this group were even invited to the White house to speak with President Reagan in 1983.
Mujahideen
From 1775-1781, the governing body of the United States was called what?
Second Continental Congress
This state almost seceded during the Nullification Crisis of 1832/33.
South Carolina
What international incident was exasperated by the concept of yellow journalism, leading to conflict with the Bourbon Kingdom of Spain?
Sinking of the USS Maine
This country collapsed into civil war in 1943 after a joint British-American invasion.
Kingdom of Italy vs. Italian Social Republic
Only Two of the Five permanent members of the UN Security Council have NOT undergone a major political regime change, which are they?
The United States and the United Kingdom
During the War of 1812, this region within the United States was chastised for not sending enough militias to fight for the Federal government. They even threatened secession.
New England
The modern border between the United States of America and the United Mexican States was set by what treaty?
Gadsden Purchase or Treaty of Mesilla (1854)
What two members of the Central Powers did the United States not declare war on.
The Sublime Ottoman Empire and Third Bulgarian Tsardom
Who was the first acting Commander of the UNC or United Nations Command during the Korean War?
General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur
There have been two space related disasters where at least 7 people were killed. What were their names (spacecraft) and years?
Challenger (1986)
Columbia (2003)
First settled in 1788, the village of Losantiville would later become Cincinnati. Who is Cincinnati named after?
George Washington
Judah P. Benjamin was first ever Jewish person to sit in an American president's cabinet. He served which president?
Jefferson Davis
While Versailles is the most famous treaty signed at the end of the Great War, it only dealt with the German Reich. There were then FOUR subsequent treaties signed for the other Central Powers, what are they?
Only one correct answer is necessary, however, 100 bonus points for any other answers added on.
St. Germain en Laye for the Republic of German Austria
Trianon for the Kingdom of Hungary
Serves for the Ottoman Empire
Lausanne for the Republic of Turkey
While technically in an occupational "gray" zone in Saxony between the Soviets and Americans, what was the name of the month-long-surviving state within Germany in 1945 after the German Reichs' surrender?
Free Republic of Schwarzenburg
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is popularly thought to be the most destructive hurricane that has hit the US. It co-holds this title with what other hurricane?
Bonus points for year.
Hurricane Harvey, 2017