Americana
What is the call sign of the jet that transports the President of the United States?
Air Force One
Where was the first battle of the Civil War?
Ft. Sumter, South Carolina
What significant thing happened in 1917?
The United States entered World War 1
Who was the first president to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
Whose image is on the United States one dollar bill?
George Washington
What was the name of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005?
Katrina
What was the name of the first permanent English colony in America?
Jamestown
These occurred more than 230 times during the Revolutionary War
battles
What is the acronym commonly used to the President?
POTUS
What former government documents were replaced because of their inability to collect taxes from the states?
Articles of Confederation
What type of exercise area did President Barack Obama have installed in the White House?
a basketball court
What was the first capital of the United States?
New York City
Which war incurred more casualties than any other war in American history?
Civil War (620,000)
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.
What does the acronym IRS stand for?
Internal Revenue Service
Why does history call October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday?
The stock market crashed and plunged America into the Great Depression.
These ethnic people became controversial in American history since their first arrival in 1619.
Africans
Which war was declared by James Madison?
The War of 1812
In which branch of the military did John F. Kennedy serve?
U.S. Navy
Whose image is on the $2 bill?
Thomas Jefferson
About how many slaves were freed at the conclusion of the Civil War?
4 million
Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus was the first to discover what is now known as continental America. Where is he from?
Norway
What event ended the Second World War?
The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Name any three of the U.S. presidents who were assassinated.
Lincoln, Garfield, Kennedy, McKinley
Two bills of American currency do not have former presidents on them. Who are they?
Alexander Hamilton ($10), Benjamin Franklin ($100)