US history trivia

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• Which Apollo 11 astronaut was the first human to walk on the surface of the Moon?20th-century America
• Which American civil rights leader is famous for the speech I Have a Dream?20th-century America
• Which American president resigned over the Watergate affair?20th-century America
• What was the worldwide economic crisis that began with the crash of the New York stock market in 1929?20th-century America
• What was the American plan to help western Europe rebuild its economy after the Second World War?20th-century America
• Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?20th-century America
• What was the operation in which the United States and its western allies flew supplies in to answer the Soviet blockade of West Berlin?20th-century America
• Which American law of 1965 banned racially discriminatory limits on voting?20th-century America
• Apollo 11 put people on the Moon for the first time, in 1969.20th-century America
• Which American president pushed through the New Deal in answer to the Great Depression?20th-century America
• Where was the American naval base Japan attacked in 1941?20th-century America
• The Great Depression began in 1945 as the Second World War ended.20th-century America
• The American Apollo 11 mission landed people on the Moon in 1961.20th-century America
• Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader of the Black civil rights movement in the United States.20th-century America
• The president who pushed through the New Deal in answer to the Great Depression was Lincoln.20th-century America
• President Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate affair.20th-century America
• The Cold War means an actual all-out war fought between the United States and the Soviet Union.20th-century America
• The armistice agreement of the Korean War was signed in 1953.20th-century America
• The United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination by race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.20th-century America
• What brought the United States into the Second World War was Germany's invasion of Poland.20th-century America
• From which country did the United States buy the Louisiana territory in 1803?Founding · Civil War
• Who was president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War?Founding · Civil War
• Which document did Lincoln issue to declare free the enslaved people of the Confederate states?Founding · Civil War
• Who was the first president of the United States?Founding · Civil War
• Who is best known as the principal drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence?Founding · Civil War
• Who was president of the Union during the American Civil War?Founding · Civil War
• What is the capital of the United States?Founding · Civil War
• What is the title of the national anthem of the United States?Founding · Civil War
• What was the 1773 event in which colonists threw tea into the water in protest at the British tax on it?Founding · Civil War
• In which city was the 1787 convention that framed the United States Constitution held?Founding · Civil War
• The Boston Tea Party was an event at which colonists urged one another to buy more British tea.Founding · Civil War
• The United States Bill of Rights means the first ten amendments to the Constitution.Founding · Civil War
• The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in 1863, during the American Civil War.Founding · Civil War
• The Louisiana Purchase took place while Thomas Jefferson was president.Founding · Civil War
• The United States Declaration of Independence was issued in 1787.Founding · Civil War
• The first president of the United States was Abraham Lincoln.Founding · Civil War
• The American Civil War was fought between the Union in the North and the Confederacy in the South.Founding · Civil War
• The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States.Founding · Civil War
• The United States Constitution was drawn up on the same day in 1776 as the Declaration of Independence.Founding · Civil War
• The side that finally won the American Civil War was the Confederacy.Founding · Civil War