US history trivia

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• Who called for armed resistance on the eve of the War of Independence with the speech 'Give me liberty, or give me death'?Founding · Civil War
• Which novel, published in 1852, brought the horrors of slavery to a wide public and inflamed the conflict between North and South?Founding · Civil War
• Who, as the first secretary of the treasury of the United States, laid the foundations of federal finance and a national bank?Founding · Civil War
• Who earned the nickname 'Moses' by leading escaped slaves north along the secret network known as the Underground Railroad?Founding · Civil War
• In which battle of 1775 were the first shots of the American War of Independence fired?Founding · Civil War
• Which Founding Father of the United States is also famous for flying a kite to show that lightning is electricity?Founding · Civil War
• Which country sold Alaska to the United States in 1867?Founding · Civil War
• What was the main reason English Puritans left home for North America in the early seventeenth century?Founding · Civil War
• Which text contains the phrase 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'?Founding · Civil War
• Where did the colonies that formed the United States at independence lie?Founding · Civil War
• Thanksgiving in the United States is said to go back to a feast at which early settlers gave thanks for their first harvest.Founding · Civil War
• Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 as the candidate of the Democratic Party.Founding · Civil War
• 'No taxation without representation' was a slogan raised by the southern states during the Civil War.Founding · Civil War
• The story that the young George Washington cut down a cherry tree and honestly owned up to it is regarded as a biographer's invention.Founding · Civil War
• Texas broke away from Mexico and existed as a republic before it was annexed by the United States.Founding · Civil War
• During the War of 1812, British troops entered the capital of the United States and burned the president's residence and the Capitol.Founding · Civil War
• The American War of Independence was fought by colonists to break free from Spanish rule.Founding · Civil War
• Lincoln was one of the Founding Fathers who signed the United States Declaration of Independence.Founding · Civil War
• George Washington was commander in chief of the colonial army in the American War of Independence.Founding · Civil War
• Lincoln was born in a log cabin and rose to become president.Founding · Civil War
• 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
• Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader of the Black civil rights movement in the United States.20th-century America
• The American Apollo 11 mission landed people on the Moon in 1961.20th-century America
• President Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate affair.20th-century America
• The president who pushed through the New Deal in answer to the Great Depression was Lincoln.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
• Which document did Lincoln issue to declare free the enslaved people of the Confederate states?Founding · Civil War
• Who was president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War?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