American History A-Go-Go

Question 1

What does the 1st amendment protect?

Accepted Answer

The right to practice any religion, The right of free assembly, The freedom of speech

Question 2

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Accepted Answer

Laws of Racial Segregation

Question 3

The flag of the United States of America, the Star Spangled Banner, was designed in...

Accepted Answer

1813

Question 4

What is the legislative branch of the United States Government?

Accepted Answer

The US Congress

Question 5

The first indigenous peoples of North America is said to have migrated from...

Accepted Answer

Siberia

Question 6

Who was US president during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman

Question 7

Who shot Abraham Lincoln?

Accepted Answer

John Wilkes Booth

Question 8

What was Malcolm X's muslim name?

Accepted Answer

Muhammad Ali

Question 9

Who is the best selling US artist (by album certifications) of all time?

Accepted Answer

Garth Brooks

Question 10

Which of these historical inventors is American?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 11

What embarrassing accusation hit former US President Bill Clinton in the late 90's?

Accepted Answer

He had an affair with his intern, a much younger woman.

Question 12

In which Sport in the Summer Olympic Games have the US won most gold medals overall (320)?

Accepted Answer

Athletics

Question 13

What is the biggest American company by revenue (3300 billion USD)?

Accepted Answer

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Question 14

What does the abbreviation NAACP stand for?

Accepted Answer

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 15

Three women share the yet highest ranking US Government job to be held by a woman. It is...

Accepted Answer

Secretary of State

Question 16

In which Alabama town did the Rosa Parks bus protest take place?

Accepted Answer

Montgomery

Question 17

Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama have all won

Accepted Answer

the Nobel Peace Prize

Question 18

Abraham Lincoln's famous speech during the Civil War is known as...

Accepted Answer

The Gettysburg Adress

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