US history

Question 1

Which infamous Businessman became the 45th president of the US in 2017

Answer 1

Donald Trump

Question 2

Who is the 44th president of the US and the first African American to hold the office?

Answer 2

Barack Obama

Question 3

After the Democratic Party’s landslide victory in the 2006 U.S. Congressional elections, who became the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives?

Answer 3

Nancy Pelosi

Question 4

What terrorist organization hijacked four airplanes on Sep 11, 2001 and flew them into the World Trade Center and the U.S. Pentagon?

Answer 4

Al - Qaeda

Question 5

Who was elected Governor of Texas in 1994, then served as President of the United States from 2001-2009?

Answer 5

George W. Bush

Question 6

Which American political leader and professor was the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor, and the second African American to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?

Answer 6

Condoleezza Rice

Question 7

Which American military leader and statesman served as the Secretary of State from 2001-2005 and was the first African American to hold the position?

Answer 7

Colin Powell

Question 8

Which Czech-born American diplomat and professor was the first woman to become United States Secretary of State?

Answer 8

Madeleine Albright

Question 9

Which former First Lady and Senator served as the U.S. Secretary of State from 2009-2013?

Answer 9

Hillary Clinton

Question 10

Which American politician served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993-2001?

Answer 10

Bill Clinton

Question 11

Appointed by President Reagan in 1981, who was the the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court?

Answer 11

Sandra Day O’Connor

Question 12

Which U.S. lawyer became the first African American Supreme Court judge, serving from 1967 to 1991?

Answer 12

Thurgood Marshall

Question 13

Which American film actor began his political career in the 1960s, becoming Governor of California, and later, the 40th President of the United States?

Answer 13

Ronald Reagan

Question 14

Which German-born American writer and diplomat served as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford?

Answer 14

Henry Kissinger

Question 15

What was U.S. President Nixon’s plot to spy on his opponents for political gain called after it was uncovered?

Answer 15

The Watergate Scandal

Question 16

Who was the 37th U.S. President whose term became so embroiled in scandal that he resigned in 1974?

Answer 16

Richard Nixon

Question 17

In 1969, which American engineer, pilot, Navy officer, and astronaut became the first person to walk on the Moon?

Answer 17

Neil Armstrong

Question 18

In 1968, which two U.S. political leaders were assassinated within only a few days of each other?

Answer 18

Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy

Question 19

Who was the alleged killer of President John F. Kennedy?

Answer 19

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 20

Which party advocated militant self-rule for African Americans in the late 1960s, and was characterized by distinct all-black attire?

Answer 20

Black Panthers

Question 21

Which 20th-century African American Muslim minister and political leader broke with the Nation of Islam in 1964 to work with civil rights leaders?

Answer 21

Malcolm X

Question 22

What was the name of the 1962 crisis initiated by an Air Force U-2 spy plane discovering the Soviets preparing to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, 90 miles from the United States?

Answer 22

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 23

In an operation approved by President Kennedy, what event saw Cuban dissidents, funded by the CIA, invading Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro’s Communist government?

Answer 23

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Question 24

Who was President of the United States from 1961-1963 and, at 43, the youngest person to be elected to the office?

Answer 24

John F. Kennedy

Question 25

Which African American civil rights activist famously refused to give up her seat for a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955?

Answer 25

Rosa Parks

Question 26

Which African American clergyman and politician was the most prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement until his assassination in April 1968?

Answer 26

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 27

Which American senator led efforts in the 1940s and 1950s to root out Communists in the American government and society ?

Answer 27

Joseph R. MCcarthy

Question 28

Which prolonged conflict from 1945 to 1991 was a longstanding state of political and military tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and NATO nations?

Answer 28

The Cold War

Question 29

Who was the President of the United States from 1953-1961, a period marked by great economic prosperity?

Answer 29

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 30

What is the term given by historians and demographers for the massive growth in population that occurred in the United States between 1946 and approximately 1957?

Answer 30

The Baby Boom

Question 31

Who was the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)?

Answer 31

J. Edgar Hoover

Question 32

Which American president led the United States in the final months of World War II, and made the controversial decision to use atomic weapons against Japan to end the war?

Answer 32

Harry S. Truman

Question 33

Which bill was passed by the Congress in 1944 to provide a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans?

Answer 33

The G.I Bill

Question 34

In World War II, what became the term for the moment in 1944 that the Allies landed on the beach in Normandy, France?

Answer 34

D-Day

Question 35

What U.S. military base did Japan strike in 1941, bringing the U.S. into World War II against the Axis powers?

Answer 35

Pearl harbor

Question 36

Which historic event in 1929 led to the Great Depression?

Answer 36

The stock Market crash

Question 37

What U.S. president led the country through The Great Depression and most of World War II, serving a record 12 years from 1933 to 1945?

Answer 37

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 38

The ____ __________ was a 1920s, New York City-based artistic and intellectual movement that expressed pride in African American culture.

Answer 38

Harlem Renaissance

Question 39

Which 20th-century aviator was the first woman to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932?

Answer 39

Amelia Earhart

Question 40

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, which Chicago-based American gangster led a crime syndicate that was primarily focused on the illegal sale of alcohol?

Answer 40

Al Capone

Question 41

What was the name of the era that took place after the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors?

Answer 41

Prohibition

Question 42

Which production method was innovated by Henry Ford to streamline production?

Answer 42

Assembly line production

Question 43

What treaty formally ended the First World War?

Answer 43

The Treaty of Versailles

Question 44

Which four nations were known as the Central Powers in World War I?

Answer 44

Germany Austria-Hungary The Ottoman Empire Bulgaria

Question 45

During the first few years of World War I, which three nations were the primary Allied Powers?

Answer 45

France Great Britain Russia

Question 46

Who was the 28th President of the United States, known for his attempts to keep America out of World War I?

Answer 46

Woodrow Wilson

Question 47

Who developed and led the New York Journal, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, in the early 1900s?

Answer 47

William Randolph Hearst

Question 48

Who were the two early leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), formed in 1890?

Answer 48

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony

Question 49

Which American war hero and politician known as “Teddy” was President of the United States from 1901 to 1909?

Answer 49

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 50

Which 19th- and 20th-century American author and activist was deaf and blind but learned to write, read, and communicate through sign language?

Answer 50

Helen Keller

Question 51

which notorious New York city politician controlled tammany Hall during the 1860s and 1870s

Answer 51

Boss Tweed

Question 52

Who drastically improved the light bulb and was known as “The Wizard of Menlo Park”?

Answer 52

Thomas Alva Edison

Question 53

What was the name of the poor Scottish immigrant who became one of the wealthiest and most important American industrialists and philanthropists in the 19th and early 20th centuries due to his success in the steel business?

Answer 53

Andrew Carnagie

Question 54

Going by the nickname “Commodore”, who was the 19th-century American industrialist who made his fortune in railroads and shipping?

Answer 54

Cornelius Vanderbuilt

Question 55

Which two railroads were joined to create the first Transcontinental Railroad?

Answer 55

Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad

Question 56

After the Civil War, which set of laws was passed to continue the discrimination against and disenfranchisment of African Americans in the South?

Answer 56

The Jim crow laws

Question 57

What was the phrase used by the American South to justify segregation under the Constitution?

Answer 57

"Separate but equal"

Question 58

Which American civil rights organization was founded by W.E.B. DuBois to advance justice for African Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries?

Answer 58

NAACP

Question 59

Which 19th century American writer and abolitionist was an escaped slave known for his oratory, antislavery writings, and support of women’s suffrage?

Answer 59

Frederick Douglass

Question 60

During the post-war’s Reconstruction Era, what domestic terrorist organization sought to intimidate and suppress newly-freed African Americans?

Answer 60

Ku Klux Klan

Question 61

What 1866 legislation did Congress pass in response to the South’s Black Codes?

Answer 61

Civil Rights

Question 62

Which Civil War battle marked the end of the Confederacy’s offensive capabilities?

Answer 62

The Battle of Gettysburg

Question 63

Which American general commanded the Confederate troops during the Civil War?

Answer 63

Robert E. Lee

Question 64

Which military and political leader served as a Union Army general during the Civil War, and later became the 18th President of the United States?

Answer 64

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 65

What executive order was issued by Abraham Lincoln to free millions of slaves?

Answer 65

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 66

Which 19th-century American politician served as President of the United States and oversaw the Union during the Civil War?

Answer 66

Abraham Lincoln

Question 67

In 1861, who was elected in early as President of the Confederacy?

Answer 67

Jefferson Davis

Question 68

What landmark decision by the Supreme Court held that African Americans could not be American citizens, and therefore could not bring suit in federal court?

Answer 68

Dred Scott vs. Stanford

Question 69

In the 19th century, what was the nickname for the network of secret routes that guided escaped slaves to their freedom?

Answer 69

The underground Railroad

Question 70

What driving force attracted 300,000 settlers from the eastern U.S. to California from 1848-1855?

Answer 70

The Gold Rush