Recent questions tagged usa-history

Description : The name of a great politician who was called by the name “The Great Communicator”

Last Answer : Ronald Regan

Description : Name the team that won the 1988 Super bowl?

Last Answer : Washington Redskins

Description : What did Thomas Sullivan in New York in 1908 introduce?

Last Answer : Tea bag

Description : What year did women receive the right to vote in the United States?

Last Answer : 1920

Description : There was a common traits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Sam Adams?

Last Answer : They brewed beer

Description : What is Marine One in the USA?

Last Answer : President’s Helicopter

Description : What was the middle name of Walt Disney?

Last Answer : Elias

Description : What was the Savannah?

Last Answer : The first commercial atomic-powered ship of the world.

Description : Who was the Grandma Moses?

Last Answer : Famous American painter Anna Mary Robinson

Description : Name the last state to ratify the abolition of slavery in the 1990s?

Last Answer : Mississippi

Description : What was the significant event in the history that brought the USA and Russia nearly to the nuclear confrontation?

Last Answer : Cuban missile crisis

Description : Name the basketball team that won in 1987.

Last Answer : Minnesota Twins

Description : Who preceded Ronald Raegan’s presidency in the United States of America?

Last Answer : Jimmy Carter

Description : Name the state which was the last to overturn laws against interracial marriage in the year 2000.

Last Answer : Alabama

Description : Which country flag has 13 stripes?

Last Answer : America

Description : Which country flag has 50 stars?

Last Answer : America

Description : Name the sport’s hall of fame that enshrined Abraham Lincoln for having a stellar record of just one loss?

Last Answer : Wrestling

Description : What is the bloodiest battle in American history?

Last Answer : Battle of Antietam

Description : What event of history is related to the Battle of Midway

Last Answer : World War II

Description : What is a nickname for people from Maine?

Last Answer : Down-Easters

Description : In which city would you find the Statue of Liberty?

Last Answer : New York City

Description : What is the capital of Illinois?

Last Answer : Springfield

Description : Which modern states does the Natchez Trace join?

Last Answer : Mississippi and Tennessee

Description : Which state seceded from Virginia in 1863?

Last Answer : West Virginia

Description : In what American state would you find Denali?

Last Answer : Alaska

Description : What automobile was named after Henry Ford’s only son?

Last Answer : Edsel

Description : Who was the first U.S. president to appear on television?

Last Answer : Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Description : On what peninsula in Washington would you find the Olympic Mountains?

Last Answer : Olympic Peninsula

Description : Through which national park does the Continental Divide not pass?

Last Answer : Yosemite

Description : What does D.C. mean after Washington DC?

Last Answer : District of Columbia

Description : Manhattan Island was settled by

Last Answer : Dutch (1624)

Description : Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations were the 12 colonies under the United Kingdom until 1776 along with the number 13th-

Last Answer : New York

Description : How many colonies America had before independence.

Last Answer : 13

Description : The earlier name of New York was

Last Answer : New Amsterdam (Dutch Colony)

Description : Name of the colonial revolt which occurred between 1765 and 1783

Last Answer : American Revolution

Description : Which President of America led the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing

Last Answer : Harry Truman (33rd)

Description : What is “Little Boy”?

Last Answer : “Little Boy” was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II

Description : How many died in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by America?

Last Answer : 90,000 and 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000 and 80,000 people in Nagasaki

Description : By which amendment of the COnstitution, slavery was abolished?

Last Answer : Amendment 13th

Description : Who won the Civil War?

Last Answer : The North USA

Description : Where did the American anthem come from?

Last Answer : Defense of Fort McHenry (a poem written by Francis Scott Key)

Description : Music of the National Anthem of America was composed by

Last Answer : John Stafford Smith‎ (1773)

Description : The war fought between 1861 to 1865 between the Northern United States and the Southern United States was called

Last Answer : The Civil War

Description : Lyrics of the National Anthem of America was written by

Last Answer : Francis Scott Key‎ (1814)

Description : What is the national game of America

Last Answer : Baseball

Description : How many members consist of the Electoral college?

Last Answer : 538

Description : How long George Washington lived?

Last Answer : 67 yrs

Description : Who was the longest-lived US President?

Last Answer : Jimmy Carter (95 yrs)

Description : Who considered the founder of the candy desk tradition?

Last Answer : Senator George Murphy

Description : The Treaty of Ghent was the outcome of the War of 1812

Last Answer : The cause of the War of 1812 was the conflict over