Minnesota
Which of these cities is NOT in Minnesota?
A) Duluth
B) Bayfield
C) International Falls
D) Rochester
E) Lakefield
B) Bayfield
Duluth is named after an exlporer from which European country?
A) Britain
B) Germany
C) Norway
D) France
D) France
The US revolution was fought between the US and what country?
Britain
Name the side that won the Civil War.
North/Union
The United States of America is how old?
A) 1000 years old
B) 700 years old
C) 500 years old
D) 250 years old
E) 100 years old
D) 250 years old
What year did Minnesota become a state?
A) 1776
B) 1864
C) 1858
D) 1911
E) 1929
Name the indigenous tribe that lived in Duluth when Europeans arrived.
A) Dakota
B) Iroquois
C) Ojibwe
D) Apache
E) Tetons
C) Ojibwe
What year did the US declare independence?
1776
Who was president during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
The Declaration of Independence was signed in what year, creating the new country The United States?
1776
The capital of Minnesota, this city was originally called Pig's Eye Landing?
St Paul
Which part of the US did Europeans colonize?
A) North Central
B) West
C) Midwest
D) Southwest
E) East
E) East
Name the document that declared the US was a new, independent country.
Declaration of Independence
This side of the Civil War had almost all of the slaves in the country when the war began.
South/Confederacy
How many braches of government do we have in the United States?
3
This Minnesota city is the furthest inland port in the world, meaning it it farther from the ocean than any other port city.
Duluth
Name the explorer who's controversial history has resulted in his holiday being celebrated in some places as 'Indigenous Peoples' Day' instead.
Christopher Columbus
Name the document that set the ground rules for the new American government.
US Constitution
To start the Civil War, some states seceded. What does 'secede" mean?
To leave the country
Name one of the branches of government in the United States.
Legislative, Judicial, Executive
"Minnesota" comes from the Dakota saying, "Mini sota makoce" - which means what?
'Land where the waters are so clear they reflect the clouds in the sky'
What was the main reason the pilgrims left England for North America?
Name the General of the Continental Army that defeated the British.
George Washington
Name the person who assassinated the President days after the Civil War ended.
John Wilkes Booth
How many original colonies were there before they united into the USA?
13