US History

Question 1

Panama Canal Zone (added)

Answer 1

1904

Question 2

🇺🇸 Oklahoma Statehood

Answer 2

1907

Question 3

🇺🇸 New Mexican statehood

Answer 3

1912

Question 4

🇺🇸 Arizonan statehood

Answer 4

1912

Question 5

18th Amendment

Answer 5

1919: Prohibition

Question 6

19th Amendment

Answer 6

1920: Female suffrage

Question 7

Valentine’s Day Massacre

Answer 7

1929: Perpetuated by Al Capone, showed the horrors of organized crime created by prohibition.

Question 8

21st Amendment

Answer 8

1933: Repeals prohibition

Question 9

TTPI captured by US

Answer 9

1944, during WWII

Question 10

Guam re-captured by US

Answer 10

1944, during WWII

Question 11

TTPI entrusted to US

Answer 11

1947

Question 12

🇺🇸 Alaskan statehood

Answer 12

1959

Question 13

🇺🇸 Hawaiian statehood

Answer 13

1959

Question 14

23rd Amendment

Answer 14

1961: Representation for DC

Question 15

25th Amendment

Answer 15

1967: Clean presidential succession rules

Question 16

26th Amendment

Answer 16

1971: Lowered the voting age

Question 17

Panama Canal Zone (ceded) (mostly)

Answer 17

1979

Question 18

TTPI Breakup 1

Answer 18

~1984: splits as Micronesia, Marshall Islands, N. Mariana Islands

Question 19

27th Amendment

Answer 19

1992: Restricted Congress pay raises

Question 20

TTPI Breakup 2

Answer 20

1994: splits as just Pulau

Question 21

TTPI constituent countries

Answer 21

TTPI = “Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands”.
* Pulau
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Marshall Islands
* Northern Mariana Islands (US)

Question 22

Current US Territories (list, x5)

Answer 22

• Puerto Rico
• Northern Mariana Islands
• American Samoa
• Guam
• US Virgin Islands