States
How many states does the United States of America have?
How many is 50?
Who was America's fifth president?
Who is James Monroe?
What is the capital of the USA?
What is Washington, D.C. (not just Washington!)?
Who was the young woman in the 1800's who guided Lewis and Clark through the Louisiana Purchase?
Who is Sacagawea?
What two oceans does America touch?
What are the Pacific and the Atlantic?
In 1848, thousands of people went to this state, searching for something. What were they looking for, and what state did they go to?
What is gold and California?
Where did America's most famous "tea party" happen?
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
Which of these is not a permanently inhabited territory of the United States?
(Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Kingman's Reef, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa)
What is Kingman's Reef.
It is a largely submerged, uninhabited triangular shaped reef located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa.
Who is the famous pastor who fought for black rights in America in the 1960s?
Who is the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
What country did America take Texas from?
What is Mexico?
On what day each year (Month, Day) do Americans celebrate their independence from Britain?
What is July 4th?
What animal represents America?
What is the bald eagle?
Who invented the light bulb? (Two possible answers)
Who is Thomas Edison (or Nicola Tesla, from whom Edison stole the idea)?
Who killed one of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton?
Who is Aaron Burr?
How many colonies did America have originally?
What is 13?
What big war happened in America from 1861-1865?
What is the Civil War?
What do the stars and stripes on our current flag represent?
What are the 50 states (represented by the stars) and the original 13 colonies (represented by the red and white stripes)?
What year did America put a man on the moon? (Technically two men - Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong)
What is 1969?
English was almost not chosen as America's language. What language (not English) almost became America's official language?
What is German?
In what city and state is the Sears Tower located in?
What is Chicago, Illinois?
When America was still a very new country, what two plant crops made the American South very rich?
What is cotton and tobacco?
What current American car company had the original idea for an assembly line?
What is Ford?
What American President was the youngest in history?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
What famous river starts in Minnesota and runs North-South through the middle of the country, ending in the Gulf of Mexico?
What is the Mississippi?