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American History and Politics Quiz
1.
Who was the founder of the American Red Cross?
Elizabeth Blackwell
Clara Barton
Dorothea Dix
Florence Nightingale
2.
What is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States?
Yale University
Harvard University
College of William & Mary
Princeton University
3.
Who drafted the U.S. Declaration of Independence?
King George III
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
4.
Who wrote the American national anthem?
Francis Bellamy
Francis Scott Key
Francis Drake
F. Scott Fitzgerald
5.
What is the nickname for the old regulations requiring racial segregation?
Jim Crow laws
Old Crow laws
Stone the Crows laws
Blue laws
6.
Where did the U.S. Senate first meet, before moving to Philadelphia and then to Washington, D.C.?
Trenton
New York City
Boston
Richmond
7.
Which document does the Fourth of July commemorate?
Gettysburg Address
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Constitution
8.
What is the first "self-evident truth" in the Declaration of Independence?
that all men are created equal
that honesty is the best policy
that everyone should have the right to vote
that standing armies should not exist
9.
What kind of government does the United States have?
monarchy
republic
gerontocracy
democracy
10.
How many members are there of the U.S. Senate?
150
100
200
50
11.
What year was the organization known as the Daughters of the American Revolution founded?
1890
1843
1804
1792
12.
What war was fought in 1832 between the United States and Native Americans over territory in Illinois?
Ute Wars
Black Hawk War
Cayuse War
Arikara War
13.
The Open Door policy was initiated by the United States for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with which nation?
India
Canada
Italy
China
14.
Which site was the site of the international meeting in 1945 that established the United Nations?
Seattle
San Francisco
Chicago
Philadelphia
15.
What was Japan's first treaty with the United States?
Treaty of Kanagawa
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security
Security Treaty
Treaty of Peace with Japan
16.
When did Baton Rouge become the capital of Louisiana?
1902
1817
1917
1849
17.
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union was signed by which U.S. president?
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
18.
In the United States, PACs raise and distribute campaign funds to candidates seeking political office. What is the acronym PAC short for?
positive action commission
political action committee
political accomplishment campaign
public action commission
19.
What is the name of the sea passage through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
Northeast Passage
Intracoastal Waterway
Dalco Passage
Northwest Passage
20.
What policy statement, presented in 1823, promised that the U.S. would not interfere in the affairs of European states, while also stipulating that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to further colonization?
Monroe Doctrine
Carter Doctrine
Freeport Doctrine
Good Neighbor Policy
21.
Who is remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin and for developing the concept of mass production of interchangeable parts?
Henry Ford
Eli Whitney
Alexander Graham Bell
Guglielmo Marconi
22.
Who founded Tuskegee University?
Albion W. Tourgee
Booker T. Washington
William Hooper Councill
Andrew Carnegie
23.
Who is known for having taken part in the creation of the NAACP in 1909 and for having written
The Souls of Black Folk
(1903), a collection of essays that became a landmark of African American literature?
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
W.E.B. Du Bois
Alain Locke
24.
Which of these Supreme Court cases established a student's right to free speech in school settings?
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
School Board of Nassau County v. Arline
Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education
Abood v. Detroit Board of Education
25.
Which organization, first led by Uriah Smith Stephens, was the first important national labor organization in the United States?
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
National Labor Union
American Railway Union
26.
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution imposed the federal prohibition of alcohol?
Twenty-first Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
27.
Who delivered the Gettysburg Address?
Woodrow Wilson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
28.
In which U.S. state is the Lost Colony of Roanoke located?
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Florida
California
29.
Who among these is NOT traditionally considered to be a Founding Father?
Patrick Henry
George Mason
Samuel Adams
John Trumbull
30.
In what year was the Declaration of Independence approved and signed?
1776
1677
1767
1667
31.
What was the name of the secret organization of coal miners supposedly responsible for acts of terrorism in the coalfields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia from 1862 to 1876?
Molly Maguires
Mullen Gang
North Side Gang
Egan's Rats
32.
Which U.S. president began the “War on Drugs”?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Grover Cleveland
33.
Which U.S. president enacted the program known as the New Deal?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
34.
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially extended the right to vote to women?
Fifteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Twentieth Amendment
Twelfth Amendment
35.
Which U.S. president issued the executive order that established the Peace Corps?
John F. Kennedy
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
Dwight D. Eisenhower
36.
Which of these U.S. presidents won the Nobel Prize for Peace?
Jimmy Carter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George W. Bush
John F. Kennedy
37.
On March 21–25, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a political march (now known as the Selma March) from Selma, Alabama, to which city?
Mobile
Tuscaloosa
Montgomery
Birmingham
38.
Which U.S. president first proposed the "domino theory" of foreign policy?
Gerald R. Ford
Bill Clinton
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
39.
Which 1967 Supreme Court case struck down state laws that prohibited marriage by persons of different race?
Munn v. Illinois
Loving v. Virginia
Mapp v. Ohio
Lawrence v. Texas
40.
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution formally abolished slavery?
Sixteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Ninth Amendment
Twenty-first Amendment
41.
Who wrote most of the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that, along with the Seneca Falls Convention, marked the start of the women's rights movement in the United States?
Susan B. Anthony
Lucy Stone
Carrie Chapman Catt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
42.
Who is known as the founder of the birth control movement in the United States?
Harriot Stanton Blatch
Margaret Sanger
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jane Addams
43.
Which U.S. president led his country through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the Cold War?
John F. Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
44.
Which U.S. presidents succeeded to the presidency under the process decreed by the Twenty-fifth Amendment, thereby becoming the country's only chief executive who had not been elected either president or vice president?
Gerald Ford
Andrew Johnson
Millard Fillmore
Benjamin Harrison
45.
Who was the second president of the United States?
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
John Adams
46.
Where did the Wounded Knee Massacre take place?
Colorado
Nevada
North Dakota
South Dakota
47.
Which famous American reporter of the 19th century traveled around the world in 72 days?
Nellie Bly
Isabella Bird
Ida Tarbell
Ida B. Wells
48.
Which first lady had a leading role in drafting the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)?
Helen Taft
Lucretia Garfield
Edith Wilson
Eleanor Roosevelt
49.
When was the Supreme Court of the United States formally established?
1789
1802
1778
1798
50.
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were negotiations between the United States and which other country?
North Korea
Germany
China
Soviet Union
51.
Which U.S. president's administration was associated with the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
Chester A. Arthur
William McKinley
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