Presidents
Trivia
Wars & Conflicts
Geography
Social Movements
100
Name of the current U.S. president
Who is Donald Trump?
100
The number of stars on the U.S. flag and what they represent
What are 50 stars that represent the number of states?
100
This war was not a "warm" war
What is the Cold War?
100
Name of this city.
What is San Francisco?
100
This movement promoted peace, love, and opposition to war.
What is the hippie movement?
200
Name of the first African American U.S. president
Who is Barack Obama?
200
The capital city of the United States
What is Washington D.C.?
200
The U.S. entered this war after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941
What is World War II?
200
The state with the largest size (land area).
What is Alaska?
200
In the 1980's and 1990's, LGBT activists created a quilt to draw attention to this disease.
What is HIV/AIDS?
300
Name of the first president of the U.S.
Who is George Washington?
300
The number of stripes on the U.S. flag and what they represent
What is 13 stripes that represent the 13 original colonies?
300
Many people in the U.S. protested this war after they were forced to be drafted.
What is the Vietnam War?
300
The two countries that have a land border with the U.S.
What are Canada and Mexico?
300
Name of this leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
400
Name of the president who freed the slaves
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
TRUE or FALSE: The U.S. is the longest running constitutional democracy in the modern world.
What is TRUE (mostly)?
The U.S. was the first independent country to have a clearly defined constitution with elected officials.
However, at the same time, only white, male property owners could vote, so you could argue that political representatives were not elected by all citizens until 1920 when women got the right to vote.
400
This war was fought between the Northern and Southern states because the Northern states wanted to free the slaves.
What is the Civil War?
400
The U.S. state with the most people.
What is California?
Almost 40 million people live in California. That's more than 12% of the entire U.S. population!
400
In the 1910's, the Suffragette Movement was lead by women who wanted the right to do this.
What is vote?
500
Name of the U.S. president during the September 11th attacks
Who is George W. Bush?
500
The official language of the United States
What is there is no official language?
Legal documents and ballots are in English. However, when there is a large population of non-English speakers, the ballots must be printed in other languages.
Students in school have to take English classes to satisfy requirements from elementary school through university.
30 states have adopted English as the official language of that state.
But from a federal and national level, there is no official language of the United States.
The U.S. has the 5th largest Spanish-speaking population (after Mexico, Colombia, Spain, and Argentina).
500
The U.S. fought this war to gain independence from Great Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
500
This state was not part of the original 13 colonies:
Georgia, New York, Virginia, Florida
What is Florida?
500
In 1773, American colonists threw tea into the ocean to protest this.
What is to protest unfair taxes and British control of the colonies?
