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America Land I Love Test 12
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1
Who was the conserative leader of Great Britain?
Margaret Thatcher
Elena Kagan
Nancy Pelosi
Sandra Day O'Connor
2
What amendment gave Congress the power to tax personal incomes?
14th
16th
15th
17th
3
Who was called "the Great Humanitarian"?
Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
4
Who ended the tribut to Barbary pirates?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
John Adams
5
Which battle was the turning point of the War for Independence
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Lexington
6
When was the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
1584
1586
1588
1590
7
Which battle was the first major conflict of the Civil War?
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
8
What was the first space shuttle the United States launched?
Explorer 1
Challenger
Sputnik 1
Columbia
9
What was the turning point of the Mexican War?
Battle of the Alamo
Battle of San Juancito
Battle of Buena Vista
Battle of San Juan Hill
10
Who wrote
Poor Richard's Almanac?
Paul Revere
Cotton Mather
Benjamin Franklin
William Billings
11
The first objective in the War on Terror was to liberate Afghanistan in ?
Persian Gulf War
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Desert Storm
12
What battle gave the U.S. legal right to enter the Vietnam War
Tet Offensive
Gulf of Tonkin
Battle of Signal Hill
Operation Manchester
13
Who passed the Gold Standard Act
William McKinley
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
William Clinton
14
passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Donald Trump
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
George H. W. Bush
15
Who was the Allied Commander in the Pacific during World War II
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George S. Patton
Hideki Tojo
16
When William Jennings Bryan won the Scopes trial, what was he defending?
Bible reading
abortion
evolution
Creation
17
As a result of the War on Terror, what country held their first free election in fifty years?
Iraq
Iran
Kuwait
Afghanistan
18
Under who's administration was NAFTA founded?
Ronald Reagan
Goerge W. Bush
William Clinton
Jimmy Carter
19
Who issued the Specie Circular
James K. Polk
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Jackson
James Madison
20
Who founded the first successful labor union?
Roberty Hayne
W.E.B. Du Bois
Samuel Gompers
Oliver Kelley
21
Who proposed the League of Nations
Franklin D Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
22
Who was general duirng the Mexican War who earned the nickname "rough and ready"
Davy Crockett
Andrew Jackson
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
23
What did Rhode Island set a precedent for?
religious freedom
political freedom
government
education
24
Who was the most decorated sergeant in World War I
Winston Churchill
Alvin York
John MacDowell
John Pershing
25
Who was the Libyan leader that supported the international terrorism?
Manuel Noriega
Nelson Mandela
Fidel Castro
Muammar al-Qaddafi
26
On what date did the stock market crash, beginning the Great Depression?
September 29, 1930
September 29, 1929
October 29, 1930
October 29, 1929
27
What treaty was ratified by the United Staes, Canada, and Mexico that called for the elimination of tariffs?
NAFTA
NATO
SEATO
START
28
Who was the commander of the Union forces in the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Stonewall Jackson
William T. Sherman
29
Who passed the Secure Fence Act
George H. W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
30
What colony served as a good example for the failure of the common-store system?
Massachusetts
Jamestown
Georgia
Rhode Island
31
Who was the commander on the ground during the Persian Gulf War
George S. Patton
Douglas MacArthur
Colin Powell
Norman Schwarzkopf
32
What is Robert Fulton remembered for perfecting?
telegraph
light bulb
reaper
steamboat
33
Who negotiated the surrender of the Panama Canal Zone
James Carter
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
34
What movement did President Theodore Roosevelt popularize?
populist
silver
environmental
progressive
35
Under his administration the construction of the Interstate Highway System was created
James Monroe
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Herbert Hoover
36
What war established English tradition and liberty in North America?
War of 1812
War for Independence
Black Hawk's War
French and Indian War
37
Which was part of the Persian Gulf War
Six-Day War
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Tet Offensive
Operation Iraqi Freedom