us history questions and answers

Q(1)Which of these explorers is considered the discoverer of America in US and European popular culture.

ANS: Cristopher Columbus

Q(2) The first successful English colony in America was

ANS: Jamestown

Q(3) The Louisiana Purchase refers to which of these deals

 ANS: the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France

Q(4) Before September 9, 1776, the United States of America was known as

ANS: United Colonies of America

Q(5) Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in opposition to increased government coercion in taxing individuals and in their trades in

ANS: Massachusetts

Q(6) Which laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America?

ANS: Jim Crow laws

Q(7) In 1790 the Capital of United states was moved from New York to

ANS: Philadelphia

Q(8) Which battle is considered the turning point of the American Revolution?

ANS: Battle of Saratoga

Q(9) The Boston Massacre took place in the year

ANS: 1770

Q(10) Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?

ANS: Samuel Adams

Q(11) Abraham Lincoln served as the _____ president of the United States

ANS: 16th

Q(12) Who was the first President to live in the White House?

ANS: John Adams

Q(13) Confederate president during the Civil War was?

ANS: Jefferson Davis

Q(14) George Washington became the first president of the United States in the year

ANS: 1789

Q(15) Which was the last state admitted into the Union?

ANS: Hawaii

Q(16) Which country gifted The Statue of Liberty to the United States

ANS: France

Q(17) Which was the first state to give voting rights to women.

ANS: Wyoming

Q(18) First Bank of the United States was

ANS: Bank of the United States

Q(19) The oldest stock exchange in the United States is

ANS: Philadelphia Stock Exchange

Q(20) Martin Luther King, Jr., had won the Nobel Peace Prize for

ANS: his efforts to achieve equality of the races