Set of questions about US history.

1. Questionnaire test: USA.
1) How many states are there in the UnitedStates?
There are 48 contiguousstatesandWashingtonDC,andthe state of Alaskainthe northwest.
2) What is the “Star-SpangledBanner”?
The Star - SpangledBanneristhe national anthemof the US. It isa poemwrittenin1814 by
the 35 years oldlawyerandamateurpoetFrancisScott Key.
3) How many stars and stripesare there in the Americanflag and what do they mean?
There are fiftyintotal;eachstar representseachstate of the US. The stripesare 13 (redand
white) symbolizingthe 13Britishcoloniesthatgave rise totheircountry.
4) What is the date of Independence Day?
July4th
, 1776.
5) What is the UnitedStates Capitol?
The United States Capitol is the meeting place of the U.S. Congress, the legislature of the U.S.
federal government.
6) What is the Pentagon?
The pentagonisthe headquartersof the UnitedStatesDepartmentDefense,locatedin
ArlingtonCounty,Virginia.
7) What is the White house and where is it located?
The White House is the official residence andprincipal workplace of the presidentof the US.
It´s locatedin1600 PennsylvaniaavenueNWinWashington,DC.
8) Where isthe Rushmore Mountlocated?
The Mount Rushmore national memorial isasculpture carvedintothe granite face of Mount
Rushmore nearKeystone SouthDakota,are carvedthe headof George Washington,Thomas
Jefferson,Theodore RooseveltandAbrahamLincoln.
9) Whichare the 13 original states of the US?
Virginia,New Jersey,Massachusetts,NewHampshire,Pennsylvania,New York,Maryland,
Connecticut,Rhode Island,Delaware,NorthCarolina,SouthCarolinaandGeorgia.
10) What are the two major political parties in the US today?
RepublicanandDemocraticare the major political partiestoday.

2. 11) Whichpresidentiscalled the “Fatherof the country”? Why?
George Washington.
12) For how long is the presidentelected?
Today, four years,witha maximumof twoterms.
13) How many senatorsare there in Congress?
100 senators,2 pereach statesandthe house of representativethere are 435 members.
14) What is the bill of rights?
The bill of rightsis the collective name forthe firsttenamendmentstothe UnitedStates
constitution.
15) Whichwere the last to states to be incorporated to the Union?
AlaskaandHawaii in 1959.
16) What is the acronym and capital of the followingstates?
a) California (CA) Sacramento g) Arizona (AZ) Phoenix
b) Nevada (NV) Carson City h) Hawaii (HI) Honolulu
c) Washington (WA) Olympia I) Colorado (CO) Denver
d) Texas (TX) Austin j) Massachusetts (MA) Boston
e) Georgia (GA) Atlanta k) NewYork (NY) Albany
f) Utah (UT) Salt Lake City l) Illinois (IL) Springfield
17) What was the Mayflower?
The mayflowerwas the shipthatin 1620 transported102 Englishpilgrims,includingacore
groupof separatists,toNewEngland.
18) Whowere the Pilgrims?
The Pilgrimswere agroupof earlysettlerswhojourneyedtothe presentdayUnitedStates
fromEngland,settlinginthe PlymouthColony.The colony,establishedin1620, was the
secondsuccessful Englishsettlementinthe UnitedStatesof America,the firstbeingthe
JamestownColony,foundedin1607.
19) Whowere the Puritans?
The Puritanswere a groupof people whogrew discontentinthe Churchof Englandand
workedtowardsreligious,moral andsocietal reforms.

3. 20) Whowere the Quakers?
The Quakers were and still are 'The Society of Friends' or now frequently known as 'The
Religious Society of Friends'.
21) Whohelpedthe Pilgrimsin America?
The Native American,who taughtthe Pilgrimshow toplant cornand where tofishand trap
beaver,especiallySquanto.
22) Whowas?
a) John Smith: John Smith Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and
author. He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of the
first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of the Virginia
Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an
exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. He was the first
English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England.
b) John Rolfe: wasone of the earlyEnglishsettlersof NorthAmerica.He iscreditedwith
the firstsuccessful cultivationof tobaccoasan exportcrop inthe Colonyof
Virginiaandisknownasthe husbandof Pocahontas,daughterof the chief of
the PowhatanConfederacy.
c) Pocahontas: Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a
network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia. She is said to have
saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head
upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him.
d) Squanto or Tisquantum: Was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after
their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival. He was a member
of the Patuxet tribe, a tributary of the Wampanoag Confederacy.
e) Samoset: Was the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims. On March
16, 1621, the settlers were more than surprised when Samoset strolled straight through
the middle of the encampment at Plymouth Colony and greeted them in English, which
he had begun to learn from an earlier group of Englishmen to arrive in what is
now Maine.
23) What were the SalemWitchtrials?
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused
of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693.
24) What was the “Bostonmassacre”?
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on
March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others.
25) What was the “Bostontea party”?
The “Boston teaparty” (Destructionof the tea) wasa political protestbythe sonsof libertyin
Boston,againstthe Britishgovernmentandthe monopolisticEastIndiaCompanythat

4. controlledall the teaimportedintothe colonies. A groupof colonists(wearingIndiandress)
boardedthe shipsanddestroyedthe teabythrowingit.
26) What was the RevolutionaryWar?
The Revolutionarywarwasa conflictbetweenthe originalthirteenBritishcoloniesinNorth
Americaagainstthe Kingdomof GreatBritain. It occurredbetween1775 and 1783, finishing
withthe Britishdefeatatthe battle of Yorktown and the treatyof Paris.
27) Whowas the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?
ThomasJefferson.
28) Whenwas the Declaration ofIndependence adopted?
On July4th
, 1776.
29) What is the basic beliefofthe Declarationof Independence?
Freedomand equality.
30) Explainthe contributionmade by:
 Thomas Jefferson:The creationof the Declarationof Independence
 Abraham Lincoln:He issuedthe emancipationproclamationthatdeclaredforeverfree
those slaveswithinthe confederacy.
 BenjaminFranklin: He wasthe onlyman to signall of these fourmajordocuments:
Declarationof Independence,the treatyof alliance withFrance,the constitutionof the
UnitedStatesandthe treatyof peace withGreat Britain.
 George Washington:The heroof the RevolutionaryWar.
 Martin Luther King Jr.: For hisstruggle to endsegregationof blackpeople.
 John Kennedy:He originatedthe Americanspace program.He alsohandledthe Cuban
missile crisissuccessfully.Hisactionsplayedarole inthe eventual endof the coldwar.
31) What happenedin?
a) 1607: JohnSmithfoundedthe Jamestownsettlement.
b) 1608: The Pilgrimsmovedtothe
c) 1620: The Mayflowercompactwassigned.
d) 1621: A Native AmericannamedSamosetwalkedboldlyintothe colonistssettlements.
He gave the Pilgrimsusefulinformationaboutthe peoplesandplacesof the area.
e) 1630: A fleetof ships carryingPuritanscolonistsleftEnglandforMassachusettsto
seekreligionfreedom.

5. 32) Whyare the followingplacesimportant?
a) Massachusetts: The firsEnglishsettlersinMassachusetts,the Pilgrims,established
theirsettlementatPlymouthin1620
b) Jamestown:The firstpermanentEnglish settlementinthe Americans.
c) Plymouth:In 1620, the Pilgrim FathersleftPlymouthforthe New Worldand
establishedPlymouthcolonies,the secondEnglishsettlementinwhatit´snow the
UnitedStates of America.
33) Name the thirteenoriginal coloniesthat laterbecame states.
a) NewHampshire
b) NewYork
c) Rhode Island
d) Connecticut
e) Pennsylvania
f) NewJersey
g) Delaware
h) Maryland
i) Virginia
j) North Carolina
k) South Carolina
l) Georgia
m) Massachusetts
34) Whowas the first presidentofthe UnitedStates?
George Washingtonwasunanimouslyelectedthe firstpresident of the US(1789-1797). He
was commanderof the Americanforcesduringthe revolutionarywarandhelpedframe the
constitutionof the US.
35) What is the “I have a dream” speech?
It isa 17 minutespublicspeechbyMartinLutherKingJr. on August28, 1863 in whichhe called
for racial equalityandanend of discrimination.
36) Whichcountrieswere our enemiesduringWorldWar II?
The enemiesof the USduringthe WorldWar II were the AxisPowersincludingBulgaria,
Finland,Germany,Hungary,Italy,Japan,RumaniaandThailand.
37) What were the confederate states?
The Confederate statesware agovernmentsetupfrom1861 to 1865 byelevensouthernslave
statesthat had declaredsuccessionfromthe UnitedStates.

6. 38) Whowas presidentduringthe Civil War?
AbrahamLincoln.