Presidents
Which president used slave labor to build his Hermitage residence near Nashville?
Andrew Jackson
What was the name of the Pilgrim’s ship?
The Mayflower
What year did the U.S. Constitution go into effect?
1789
Who was the U.S. President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
During the 1790s, the construction of what famous house began?
The White House
What ninth President had the shortest term in office -- one month -- but also the longest inaugural speech of any President in American history, at a whopping 105 minutes in length?
William Harrison
How long was the first Thanksgiving celebration?
3 Days
What year did women gain the right to vote in the U.S.?
What war did the U.S. fight in the 1950s in Asia?
Korean War
Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?
Francis Scott Key
Which U.S. president spent the longest time in office? This man served in the office until his death at age 63.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In 1664, the English seized the colony and city of New Amsterdam from the Dutch and named it what?
New York
When was the U.S. Bill of Rights ratified?
1791
What battle marked the end of the American Revolution?
Battle of Yorktown
The heads of which Presidents are carved into Mount Rushmore?
Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln
Which president banned alcohol from the White House at the behest of his first lady?
Rutherford B. Hayes
President Thomas Jefferson bought about 828,000 square miles worth of land from France in 1803. What name was given to the transaction for that territory?
The Louisiana Purchase
This Amendment to the Constitution took 200 years, 7 months and 10 days to ratify.
Which event initiated World War II in Europe?
The German invasion into Poland
Which famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln is carved in the walls of the Lincoln Memorial?
The Gettysburg Address
Who is the only president to be born on July 4?
Calvin Coolidge
During the 1617-1619 time period, 90 percent of the Massachusetts Bay Indians died of which disease?
Smallpox
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (1971) prohibits the government from doing what?
Denying the rights of citizens to vote
The remains of what U.S. battleship can be viewed from above the water at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Hawaii?
USS Arizona
The female figure represented by the Statue of Liberty is holding what in her left hand?
A Torch