History of USA (MCQs)

1. The Boston Tea Incident took place in:

2. California was settled most rapidly after_____________ was discovered in 1848:

3. With which country U.S.A. signed the rush-Bagot Treaty?

4. Who succeeded President Abraham Lincoln?

5. Alaska was purchased from Russia in:

6. Susan B. Anthony was an outspoken advocate of:

7. Ku Klux Klan was organized in the state of:

8. The number of members of American Senate is:

9. Who was Henry A. Kissinger?

10. The Camp David is located in:

11. Which American President received the Nobel Prize for peace in 1906?

12. Richard Nixon made a trip to Beijing in:

13. Who was the President of U.S.A. when Russia invaded Afghanistan in early 1980?

14. What does NASA stand for?

15. Which year TVA was established?

16. To which political party did President Woodrow Wilson belong?

17. Who wrote "Encyclopedia of American History"?

18. The total number of the British Colonies founded in Colonial America were:

19. The “Sons of Liberty” was formed in:

20. The Peace Treaty of American Independence in 1783 was signed in the city of:

21. Which one of the following enjoys the title of “Father of American Constitution”:

22. The first Ten Amendments to the Constitution of US ratified in 1791 are known as:

23. The first Secretary of State of US was:

24. The Great Depression of 1929 lasted for:

25. The XYZ affairs took place between:

26. Cornwallis surrendered to the American and French troops at:

27. The battle of Bull Run was fought in:

28. Panama Canal was officially opened in the year:

29. On August 26, 1920 the 19th Amendment to US Constitution gave voting right to:

30. NATO was established in the year:

31. In 1900 the Open Door Policy was adopted with respect to:

32. The book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was written by:

33. The Truman Doctrine was mainly designed to extend economic assistance to:

34. The 26th Amendment in 1971 lowered the voting age to:

35. The term “Big Stick Diplomacy” is associated with President:

36. During the American Civil War, the President of Confederacy was:

37. Judges of the American Supreme Court are appointed by:

38. Atlantic Charter dates back to:

39. Attack on Pearl Harbour took place in:

40. _____________ was the second state of ratify the constitution.

41. Bill Clinton was _______ President of United States:

42. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in:

43. Total number of states in US is:

44. Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court of U.S.A. declaring slave a chattel was given in:

45. Stamp Act was passed in:

46. Complete diplomatic relations between US and China were established in:

47. _____________ state is known as sunshine state:

48. What does ANZUS stand for?

49. Treaty of Ghent ended War of 1812 between USA and:

50. Gettysburg Address was delivered by:

51. Louisiana which doubled the size of USA was purchased for:

52. Dean Rusk was:

53. James Town was founded in:

54. Who wrote “The White House Years”?

55. “I have a dream.” Who delivered this oration?

56. The Capital of New York State is:

57. Abolitionism was to:

58. Before Civil War the Principal Crop of the South was:

59. US entered the Second World War in:

60. Louis Armstrong was a:

61. ‘Four Freedoms’ were announced by:

62. Rockefellers made their fortune in:

63. The Liberty Bell is located in:

64. Which state was known as Lone Star Republic?

65. MORMONS are settled in:

66. BABE RUTH was a:

67. The Declaration of Independence was written by:

68. America was named after:

69. The Peace Treaty of American Independence in 1783 was signed in the City of:

70. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has been written by:

71. American Colonization Society was to:

72. The only President to enjoy four terms:

73. The ‘Gold Rush’ of California occurred in:

74. Next to Cotton the most valuable American export in 1860 was:

75. Who were called indentured servants?

76. The Constitution of the United States provides that amendments may be proposed by:

77. “Common Sense” suggested:

78. What Revolution in Europe was influenced most directly by American Revolution:

79. The First Bank of the United States was:

80. In 1800 most of the Americans were:

81. “Muckrakers” were:

82. American Women got the right to vote in:

83. The United States gained Texas from:

84. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour in:

85. The only President who was elected more than twice:

86. Virgin Island were purchased from:

87. Rhode Island was _________ state to enter original 13 States which joined the Union.

88. Philippine Islands were acquired by US in _________.

89. Puerto Rico ceded to US by _________.

90. Spain financed Westward voyage of Columbus in _________.

91. The Albany Congress (1754) was attended by delegates of _________ colonies.

92. The Boston Massacre took place in _________

93. Oregon was acquired in _________.

94. The Gadsen purchase of 50,000 square mile of land was primarily for the construction of
_________.

95. Black birding is _________.

96. Article 1 of US constitution says, “No person can be a Representative who shall not have
attained to the age of _________ years and _________ years a citizen of the US”:

97. First _________ amendments were passed by the congress on September 25, 1789.
98. KKK stands for

99. Delaware State is nicknamed _________ state.

100. Era of Good Feeling was during the presidency of _________.

101. The slogan of ‘Fair Deal’ was given by _________.

102. Pilgrims fathers established:

103. Intolerable acts were introduced in:

104. Declaration of independence was written by:

105. Cornwalis surrendered at York town in

106. According to firs census of USA (1790) its population was:

107. Supreme court of USA was established in:

108. Statue of liberty was donated to USA by:

109. George Washington died in:

110. 1st chief justice of USA was:

111. Jefferson bought Louisiana from:

112. Monroe doctrine was:

113. Abolitionists wanted to abolish:

114. Name the president famous for his fourteen points:

115. Steel co-operation of USA was established in:

116. Truman Doctrine was a document about:

117. 1st university to be found in USA was:

118. 1st capital of USA was:

119. Who said this? Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country:

120. Columbus discovered the New World in:

121. Jamestown was founded in:

122. George Washington became president in:

123. Thomas Jefferson was the ________ president of America.

124. The 1783 treaty of Paris that defined original border of the United States was with:

125. The Louisiana purchase completed in 1803 was negotiated by:

126. The treaty of 1819 with Spain, that resulted in Spain’s cession of East Florida, Sabine Free State
and surrender of Spain’s claim to Oregon State was called the:

127. Virgin Islands were purchased from:

128. Which American president was elected for two non-consecutive terms:

129. Jimmy Carter was the President of the USA from:

130. Which joined the Union after Alaska:

131. The BAY of PIGS invasion of Cuba happened during the Presidency of:

132. The Declaration of Independence was formally adopted on:

133. The constitution of the United States of America was adopted in the period:

134. In the amendments to the constitution of the USA freedom of religion, speech and the press and
right to assembly are protected by:

135. The National security of the USA is a document prepared by the:

136. “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people
to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” is the:

137. The colony of Virginia was founded in 1607 by :

138. The colony of New Netherland, founded by the Dutch in 1621, came under English rule in 1664
and was renamed:

139. The confusion at the time of Jefferson’s election was corrected by the adoption in 1804 of the:

140. The Navigation Act was passed in:

141. The PENDLIETON Act, an act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, was
enacted on:

142. President Roosevelt proclaimed an unlimited emergency on:

143. The Atlantic Charter of August 14, 1941 was a statement of common war aims formulated
between:

144. The BAY of PIGs invasion of Cuba happened during the Presidency of:
145. Herbert Hoover became President of the USA in:

146. William Harrison was the president of US in the period:

147. The 40th President of the USA was:

148. Dwight D Eisenhower served two terms in office from 1953-1961. Who was his vice-President?

149. Which President of the USA resigned from the office in his second term?

150. The 25th amendment providing for Presidential succession was ratified by states in:

151. During his first voyage, Columbus accidentally landed at the:

152. Which of the following English Colonies in America was named after Queen Elizabeth?

153. Which of the following States in the United States of America was famous for its gold mines?

154. The first permanent and successful English Colony in America, Jamestown Virginia, was founded
in the year:

155. The Pilgrims from England reached Plymouth (New England) in a ship called:

156. Which one of the following leaders of American Revolution was also a scientist, a printer, a
satirist and a political philosopher?

157. How many political parties are mentioned by name in the U.S. Constitution?

158. The Bill of Rights was incorporated in the U.S. Constitution in the year:

159. Who was elected as President of the Confederacy when the seceding Southern Slave State
announced their secession from United States of America and founded the Confederate States of
America in 1861?

160. In which capacity did Alexander Hamilton work with George Washington, the first President of
United States of America:

161. One of the first two political factions in United States, the Democratic Republicans, was led by:

162. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 fixed the Western boundary of the United States at the River:

163. During Jefferson’s Presidency, Robert R. Livingstone was the U.S. Minister to:

164. Under which treaty United States acquired Florida from Spain?

165. Which of the American Presidents won four consecutive presidential elections and remained
president for the longest period of time:

166. Alaska was acquired by United States from:

167. Which of the American presidents was responsible for the Apollo Project that resulted in the
man’s landing on the surface of moon?

168. Which of the American Presidents was present at the time of the signing of the Camp David
Accords between Egypt and Israel?

169. Which of the American presidents called the former Soviet Union “An Evil Empire”?

170. Which one of the American presidents remained the head of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) before becoming the president?

171. Thomas Jefferson wrote ‘Declaration of Independence’ in:

172. The Americans signed a Treaty of alliance with France in:

173. The statue of Liberty was donated to USA by:

174. Locomotive was invented by Peter Couper in:

175. United States of America Steel Corporation was established in:

176. America entered World War-I in:

177. Elijah Muhammad assumed leadership of the Black Muslims Movement in:

178. Korean war started in:

179. D. David Eisenhower was elected U.S. President (I term) in:

180. Martin Luther King won the Novel Peace Prize in:

181. American Troops finally left Vietnam after the end of the war in:

ANSWERS
1. 1773

2. Gold

3. Britain

4. Andrew Johnson

5. 1867

6. Women’s Rights

7. Tennessee

8. 100

9. Henry A. Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of the United States from 1973-1977.

10. Maryland

11. Theodore Roosevelt

12. 1972

13. Jimmy Carter

14. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

15. 1933

16. Democratic

17. Morris, Richard and Commager

18. Thirteen

19. 1765

20. Paris

21. Madison

22. Bill of Rights

23. Jafferson

24. A Decade

25. US-France
26. Yorktown

27. The American Civil War

28. 1914

29. Women

30. 1949

31. China

32. Harriet Beacher

33. Turkey-Greece

34. 18

35. T. Roosevelt

36. Jafferson Davis

37. President

38. 1941

39. 1941

40. Pennsylvania

41. 42nd

42. 1968

43. 50

44. 1857

45. 1765

46. 1979

47. Florida

48. Australia, New Zealand and United States

49. Great Britain

50. President Lincoln

51. 15 Million $

52. Secretary of State.

53. 1607

54. Henry Kissinger

55. Rev. Martin Luther King

56. Albany

57. Ban Slavery

58. Cotton

59. 1941

60. Trumpeter

61. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

62. Oil

63. Pennsylvania

64. Texas

65. Utah

66. Player

67. Thomas Jefferson

68. Amerigo Vespucci

69. Paris

70. Harriet Beacher

71. Settle Negros in Africa

72. Franklin D. Roosevelt

73. 1848

74. Tobacco

75. Europeans
76. Congress

77. Rebellion against the King

78. French Revolution

79. City Worker’s operated

80. Farmers

81. Journalists

82. 1920

83. Mexico

84. December 1941

85. Franklin D. Roosevelt

86. Denmark

87. Last

88. 1899

89. Spain

90. 1492

91. Seven

92. 1770

93. 1846

94. Railways

95. Illegal importance of slaves

96. Twenty Five and 07 years

97. Ten

98. Ku-Klux Klan

99. Diamond

100. James Monroe

101. President Truman

102. Psymonth Colony

103. 1774

104. Thomas Jefferson

105. 1781

106. 3.9 million

107. 1789

108. France

109. 1799

110. J. Jay

111. France

112. A statement of Foreign Policy

113. Slavery

114. Wilson

115. 1901

116. Russia

117. Harvard

118. New York

119. Kennedy

120. 1492

121. 1607

122. 1789

123. Third

124. Great Britain

125. Robert Livingston

126. Adams-Onis Treaty

127. Denmark

128. Grover Cleveland

129. 1977-1981

130. Hawaii

131. John F. Kennedy

132. July 4,1776

133. 1787-1788

134. First Amendment

135. Executive Branch

136. Second Amendment

137. John Smith

138. New York

139. 12th Amendment

140. 1660

141. January 16, 1883

142. January 27, 1941

143. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill

144. John F. Kennedy

145. 1929

146. 1841-1850

147. Ronald Wilson Reagan

148. Richard Nixon

149. Richard Nixn

150. 1967
151. Watlings Island in the Bahamas

152. Maryland

153. California

154. 1607

155. Mayflower

156. Benjamin Franklin

157. Two

158. 1791

159. Jefferson Davis

160. Secretary of Treasury

161. Thomas Jefferson

162. Mississippi

163. France

164. Adams-Onis Treaty

165. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

166. Russia

167. Richard Nixon

168. Jimmy Carter

169. Ronald Reagan

170. George Herbert Walker Bush

171. 1776

172. 1778

173. France

174. 1830

175. 1901
176. 1917

177. 1930

178. 1950

179. 1952

180. 1964

181. 1973