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100

What is the call sign of the jet that transports the President of the United States?

Air Force One

100

Where was the first battle of the Civil War?

Ft. Sumter, South Carolina

100

What significant thing happened in 1917?

The United States entered World War 1

100

Who was the first president to be impeached?

Andrew Johnson

100

Whose image is on the United States one dollar bill?

George Washington

200

What was the name of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005?

Katrina

200

What was the name of the first permanent English colony in America?

Jamestown

200

These occurred more than 230 times during the Revolutionary War

battles

200

What is the acronym commonly used to the President?

POTUS

200

What former government documents were replaced because of their inability to collect taxes from the states?

Articles of Confederation

300

What type of exercise area did President Barack Obama have installed in the White House?

a basketball court

300

What was the first capital of the United States?

New York City

300

Which war incurred more casualties than any other war in American history?

Civil War (620,000)

300

What two sets of fathers and sons served as president?

John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

300

What does the acronym IRS stand for?

Internal Revenue Service

400

Why does history call October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday?

The stock market crashed and plunged America into the Great Depression.

400

These ethnic people became controversial in American history since their first arrival in 1619. 

Africans

400

Which war was declared by James Madison?

The War of 1812

400

In which branch of the military did John F. Kennedy serve?

U.S. Navy

400

Whose image is on the $2 bill?

Thomas Jefferson

500

About how many slaves were freed at the conclusion of the Civil War?

4 million

500

Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus was the first to discover what is now known as continental America. Where is he from?

Norway

500

What event ended the Second World War?

The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

500

Name any three of the U.S. presidents who were assassinated.

Lincoln, Garfield, Kennedy, McKinley

500

Two bills of American currency do not have former presidents on them. Who are they?

Alexander Hamilton ($10), Benjamin Franklin ($100)

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