Mr. Peters' American History Challenge!

Mr. Paul "Prohibition" Peters

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  1. Who was the "Father of the Constitution"?

    2. Your answer:
    George Washington
    James Monroe
    James Madison
    Thomas Jefferson
    Benjamin Franklin

  2. Who was the American general at Yorktown?

    3. Your answer:
    William T. Sherman
    Robert E. Lee
    Douglas MacArthur
    George Washington
    Ulysses S. Grant

  3. Which document established the division of powers between the states and the federal government?

    4. Your answer:
    Marshall Plan
    The Constitution
    Declaration of Independence
    Articles of Confederation
    Treaty of Paris 1783

  4. When the Pledge of Allegiance was published on September 8, 1892, the words "Under God" were not included in it.

    5. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  5. The Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln stated that:

    6. Your answer:
    Slaves were free in areas of the Confederate states not held by the Union
    The slave trade was illegal
    Slaves who fled to Canada would be protected
    Slavery was abolished in the Union
    Lincoln who??

  6. The Fourth of July commemorates the adoption of the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution.

    7. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  7. When was the Civil War?

    8. Your answer:
    1775 -1781
    1812-1815
    1861-1865
    1914-1918
    1939-1945

  8. How many amendments are there to the Constitutions?

    9. Your answer:
    10
    14
    27
    30
    There are no amendments to the Constitution. It's a perfect document.

  9. What was the source of the following phrase: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people?"

    10. Your answer:
    The speech" "I Have a Dream"
    Declaration of Independence
    U.S. Constitution
    Gettysburg Address
    The Contract with America

  10. The first man on the moon was

    11. Your answer:
    John Glenn
    Chuck Yeager
    Charles Lindbergh
    James T. Kirk
    Neil Armstrong

  11. John F. Kennedy and William Howard Taft are the only presidents buried at Arlington National Cemetery

    12. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  12. William Howard Taft is the only man that has been both the President of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

    13. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  13. Two presidents died on July 4th, 1826. Who were they?

    14. Your answer:
    James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
    Abraham Lincoln and Grover Cleveland
    John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
    John Adams and William Henry Harrison
    I don't have the foggest idea!

  14. How many presidents have been assassinated while in office?

    15. Your answer:
    4
    2
    6
    33
    5

  15. How many presidents died while in office?

    16. Your answer:
    8
    7
    5
    9
    33

  16. The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled that racially segregated school systems were "inherently unequal" and therefore unconstitutional was

    17. Your answer:
    Plessy v. Ferguson
    Korematsu v. United States
    Roe v. Wade
    Brown v. Board of Education
    Marbury v. Madison

  17. The only war in which the atomic bomb has been used by the U.S. was World War II

    18. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  18. Who was the first president to travel abroad while in office?

    19. Your answer:
    Grover Cleveland
    Thomas Jefferson
    James Buchanan
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Woodrow Wilson

  19. What war was also known as "The Great War" or "The War to end all Wars"?

    20. Your answer:
    The Civl War
    World War I
    World War II
    Vietnam War
    The Gulf War

  20. The Korean War lasted only 3 years from 1950 to 1953.

    21. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  21. Who was the only president to be born on the Fourth of July?

    22. Your answer:
    George Washington
    Thomas Jefferson
    Calvin Coolidge
    Franklin Roosevelt
    Abraham Lincoln

  22. James Buchanan was the only president not to marry.

    23. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  23. In what Century did the American Revolution take place?

    24. Your answer:
    16th
    17th
    18th
    19th
    20th

  24. The tallest mountain in North America was named after what assassinated U.S. president?

    25. Your answer:
    Lincoln
    Garfield
    Kennedy
    McKinley
    I have no idea!

  25. In what year was the Louisiana Purchase?

    26. Your answer:
    1789
    1800
    1803
    1812
    1976

  26. In 1958, the American flag only had 48 stars.

    27. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  27. Nine presidents never went to college.

    28. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  28. Who is the youngest man to ever become president of the United States?

    29. Your answer:
    Bill Clinton
    John F. Kennedy
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Thomas Jefferson
    Benjamin Franklin

  29. The first American Astronaut in space was

    30. Your answer:
    John Glenn
    Neil Armstrong
    Gus Grissom
    Alan B. Shepard jr.
    Pete Conrad

  30. How many official federal holidays do we have in the United States?

    31. Your answer:
    10
    8
    16
    7
    11

  31. What U.S dollar bill was discontinued in 1966?

    32. Your answer:
    $500 dollar bill
    $1,000 dollar bill
    $10,000 dollar bill
    $100,000 dollar bill
    $2 dollar bill

  32. The White House was only lit with gas lights until what president?

    33. Your answer:
    Grover Cleveland
    James Garfield
    Woodrow Wilson
    Benjamin Harrison
    William Howard Taft

  33. Once upon a time you could pay the U.S. government $300 dollars not to be drafted.

    34. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  34. The president of the United States is also the head of the Red Cross.

    35. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  35. Who got the right to vote on March 23, 1971

    36. Your answer:
    Women
    18 year olds
    African American males
    White males
    I don't know!

  36. The White House is the official residence of all our presidents. Every president has lived there except...

    37. Your answer:
    John Adams
    George Washington
    Thomas Jefferson
    James Madison
    Abraham Lincoln

  37. The $100,000 dollar bill with President Woodrow Wilson on it wasn't printed for public use but instead for the federal reserve.

    38. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  38. George W. Bush is the 43rd president of the United States, but only 42 men have actually served as president of the United States.

    39. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  39. Which famous structure has the inscription: "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal"?

    40. Your answer:
    Statue of Liberty
    Lincoln Memorial
    Washington Monument
    Jefferson Monument
    The Golden Gate Bridge

  40. Besides the Civil War, what two states, over a border dispute, declared war on each other?

    41. Your answer:
    Ohio and Michigan
    North Dakota and South Dakota
    Texas and Oklahoma
    California and Nevada
    New York and New Jersey

  41. What "might have been" resigned from office on October 10th, 1973?

    42. Your answer:
    Secretary of State Henry Kissenger
    Attorney General John Mitchell
    Vice President Spiro Agnew
    White House Counsel John Dean III
    President Richard M. Nixon

  42. How many U.S. presidents have been impeached?

    43. Your answer:
    1
    2
    3
    4
    42

  43. How many presidents have resigned from office?

    44. Your answer:
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5

  44. What case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling 7 to 2 against, stating that slaves were property, and the court would not deprive slave owners of their property without due process of law according to the Fifth Amendment. This case was one of the major factors leading to the American Civil War.

    45. Your answer:
    Plessy v. Ferguson
    Dred Scott v. Sandford
    Brown v. Board of Education
    Marbury v. Madison
    Lincoln v. Douglas

  45. Approximately what percentage of white Southerners owned slaves in 1860?

    46. Your answer:
    5
    10
    25
    50
    75

  46. In what year did the Revolutionary War officially end?

    47. Your answer:
    1776
    1982
    1781
    1783
    1774

  47. The only president to be elected to a 3rd and 4th term was Woodrow Wilson

    48. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  48. America entered World War I in 1917

    49. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  49. What country did the United States go to war with in 1812?

    50. Your answer:
    France
    United Kingdom
    Mexico
    Spain
    Russia

  50. The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865. How many days did President Abraham Lincoln live after the war ended?

    51. Your answer:
    1 day
    4 days
    5 days
    9 days
    13 days

  51. America entered World War II in 1939

    52. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  52. Who was president of the United States when Congress declared war on Spain in 1898?

    53. Your answer:
    William McKinley
    Theodore Roosevelt
    William Howard Taft
    Woodrow Wilson
    Grover Cleveland

  53. What was the first war in which a world organization, the United Nations (UN), played a military role?

    54. Your answer:
    The Civil War
    World War I
    Spanish American War
    World War II
    The Korean War

  54. How many people signed the Declaration of Independence?

    55. Your answer:
    56
    33
    104
    76
    42

  55. Who led a famous slave revolt in 1831 in Virginia, which resulted in the deaths of about 60 people?

    56. Your answer:
    John Brown
    Nat Turner
    Fredrick Douglas
    Crispus Attucks
    Booker T. Washington

  56. The American Civil War lasted 6 years.

    57. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  57. What U.S. colony was established in Africa in 1822 by the American Colonization Society as a solution to the "the race problem?" The society offered to transport free blacks on a voluntary basis to this colony, which later became first self-governing black republic in Africa.

    58. Your answer:
    Chad
    Liberia
    Congo
    Swaziland
    Libya

  58. What Southern state was the first state to secede (withdraw) from the Union?

    59. Your answer:
    Georgia
    South Carolina
    Florida
    Arkansas
    North Carolina

  59. What was the first major battle of the war after the battle of Fort Sumter?

    60. Your answer:
    Bull Run
    Battle of Antietam
    Gettysburg
    Battle of the Bulge
    Battle of Midway

  60. Who was an American track-and-field star whose performances during the mid-1930's in college and in the Olympic Games made him one of the most famous athletes in sports history?

    61. Your answer:
    Marian Anderson
    Booker T. Washington
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    Marcus Garvey
    Jesse Owens

  61. The first man to break the sound barrier was Chuck Yeager

    62. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  62. The 27th Amendment limits a president to serving two terms?

    63. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  63. Who triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus?

    64. Your answer:
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Thurgood Marshall
    Louis Farrakhan
    Rosa Louise Parks
    Malcolm X

  64. What amendment guarantees the right to a fair trial?

    65. Your answer:
    2nd Amendment
    6th Amendment
    13th Amendment
    8th Amendment
    9th Amendment

  65. What amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the use of liquor?

    66. Your answer:
    20th Amendment
    25th Amendment
    21st Amendment
    28th Amendment
    19th Amendment

  66. Who was the only president sworn into office by his father?

    67. Your answer:
    John Quincy Adams
    James K. Polk
    Calvin Coolidge
    Thomas Jefferson
    Jimmy Carter

  67. Who was the first president to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

    68. Your answer:
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Woodrow Wilson
    Jimmy Carter
    John F. Kennedy
    Thomas Jefferson

  68. Abraham Lincoln was the first member of the Republican Party to become president

    69. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  69. Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president elected by a margin of only one electoral vote

    70. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  70. Ohio is listed as the 17th state to enter the United States, but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union. That being the case, what former president wasn't qualified to be president since he was born in Ohio at a time when it wasn't legally in the United States, thus he wasn't technically a native born U.S. Citizen

    71. Your answer:
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Calvin Coolidge
    William Howard Taft
    Warren G. Harding
    Harry S. Truman

  71. Who pledged, 'We're not going to send American boys to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves'?

    72. Your answer:
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    John F. Kennedy
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Richard Nixon
    Gerald Ford

  72. Who placed the first phone call to the moon?

    73. Your answer:
    Alexander Graham Bell
    John Glenn
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Richard Nixon
    Alan B. Shepard jr.

  73. Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.

    74. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  74. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson (congressional secretary). Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

    75. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  75. What Apache chief rode in Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural procession?

    76. Your answer:
    Crazy Horse
    Sitting Bull
    Geronimo
    Iron Bow
    Osceola

  76. In what year did the Wright Brothers take their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?

    77. Your answer:
    1911
    1903
    1907
    1898
    1865

  77. Which historical American figure had been involved in 103 duels and altercations by the time of his successful run for presidencey?

    78. Your answer:
    James K. Polk
    Andrew Jackson
    John Adams
    James Madison
    Jimmy Carter

  78. Which U.S. President appointed Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman, to the Supreme Court?

    79. Your answer:
    Gerald Ford
    Jimmy Carter
    Ronald Reagan
    George H. W. Bush
    Bill Clinton

  79. What Native American language was successfully used as a code by the U.S. during World War II?

    80. Your answer:
    Navajo
    Cheyenne
    Sioux
    Pueblo
    I have no idea!

  80. The Spanish-American War was the shortest formally declared war in American History.

    81. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  81. Huey Long was known as "The Kingfish"

    82. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  82. How long did the American War for Independence last? (From the first battle until the treaty of Paris 1873)

    83. Your answer:
    10 years
    8 years
    7 years
    2 years
    3 years

  83. Which World War II battle halted Japan's eastern advancement?

    84. Your answer:
    Iwo jima
    Battle of Coral Sea
    Battle of Midway
    Pearl Harbor
    Battle of the Bulge

  84. Which president used his status as a hero in the Mexican War to propel him to the White House?

    85. Your answer:
    James Garfield
    Zachary Taylor
    Franklin Pierce
    Martin Van Buren
    Woodrow Wilson

  85. What was the last fighting in which the U. S. cavalry took part?

    86. Your answer:
    Custer's Last Stand
    Battle of Wounded Knee
    Bonus March
    Spanish-American War
    I don't know!

  86. Edmund G. Ross, Senator from Kansas, is best known for what?

    87. Your answer:
    Pushing for anti-trust legislation.
    Opposing U.S. entry into World War I.
    Pushing for child labor laws.
    Riding on the Space Shuttle
    Casting the deciding vote against the removal of Andrew Johnson from office.

  87. William Howard Taft, the heaviest President of the U.S., (weighing 332 lbs.), got stuck in the White House tub the first time he used it.

    88. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  88. Which third-party Presidential candidate received 27 per cent of the vote, more than any other third-party candidate ever has?

    89. Your answer:
    Theodore Roosevelt
    George Wallace
    Ross Perot
    Millard Fillmore
    Ralph Nader

  89. By what better name do we know the music from the British drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven"?

    90. Your answer:
    Star Spangled Banner
    Dixie
    Hail to the Chief
    The Bugle boy from Company B
    I have no idea!

  90. What President was responsible for putting "Under God" into the Pledge of Alliegence?

    91. Your answer:
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Calvin Coolidge
    Woodrow Wilson
    Ronald Reagan
    Richard Nixon

  91. Who successfully defended the British Soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?

    92. Your answer:
    John Hancock
    John Adams
    Benjamin Franklin
    Nathan Hale
    Patrick Henry

  92. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon were the first two presidential candidates to do a television debate.

    93. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  93. The candy bar "Baby Ruth" was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter.

    94. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  94. Who was the first to designate the Presidential Mansion as "The White House"?

    95. Your answer:
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Grover Cleveland
    Thomas Jefferson
    Abraham Lincoln
    U.S. Grant

  95. Which president desegregated the armed forces by executive order

    96. Your answer:
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Harry S. Truman
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Warren G. Harding

  96. How many votes in the electorial college does a candidate need to be elected president?

    97. Your answer:
    210
    169
    270
    312
    222

  97. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first president to be sworn in on the new date of January 20th, instead of March 4th.

    98. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  98. The youngest man ever to be ELECTED president of the United States was John F. Kennedy

    99. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  99. Who was the first man to lose a presidential election?

    100. Your answer:
    Thomas Jefferson
    James Madison
    James Monroe
    Alexander Hamilton
    John Quincy Adams

  100. What country gave the United States the Statue of Liberty?

    101. Your answer:
    France
    United Kingdom
    Spain
    Canada
    Italy

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