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U.S. History Comprehensive Final Exam

Court Cases:

1. Landmark Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools

a. Plessy v Fergusson

b. Brown v Board of Education

c. Roe v Wade

d. Dred Scott decision

2. First black U.S. Supreme Court Justice

a. Martin Luther King, Jr.

b. Thurgood Marshall

c. William Rehnquist

d. Clarence Thomas

3. This court decision legalized abortion:

a. Plessy v Fergusson

b. Brown v Board of Education

c. Roe v Wade

d. Dred Scott decision

4. Constitutional amendment that

outlawed the sale of alcoholic beverages

a. 14th

b. 18th

c. 19th

d. 25th

5. Supreme Court justices are appointed for

a. 2 years

b. 4 years

c. 6 years

d. life

6. In 1957, federal troops were sent to this city to enforce the United States Supreme Court ruling in against racial segregation in the public schools.

a. Montgomery

b. Little Rock

c. Birmingham

d. Selma

7. First female justice of the Supreme Court

a. Anita Hill

b. Rosa Parks

c. Susan B. Anthony

d. Sandra Day O’Connor

8. Separation of races

a. prejudice

b. racism

c. integration

d. segregation

9. Unwritten laws that separated blacks and whites in public places

a. ethnic statutes

b. Jim Crow Laws

c. racism codes

d. color line

10. What are the duties of the Supreme Court?

a. create laws

b. review and interpret laws

c. write amendments

d. oversee the legislative branch

11. What does the Judicial Branch do?

a. makes laws

b. enforces laws

c. makes treaties

d. reviews laws and solves disputes

12. Who selects the Supreme Court justice?

a. Appointed by the President

b. Electoral College

c. Congress

d. the other justices

13. How many Supreme Court justices are there?

a. 7

b. 8

c. 9

d. 10

Cultural Knowledge:

1. People who transported and sold illegal liquor

a. shufflers

b. runners

c. bootleggers

d. sun-shiners

2. Top secret project that developed the first atomic bomb

a. Three-Mile Island

b. Hanford

c. Manhattan

d. Chernobyl

3. Government that has complete control over individuals

a. Republican

b. Communism

c. Socialism

d. Totalitarian

4. This group is responsible for controlling oil prices.

a. NATO

b. UN

c. OPEC

d. Congress

5. Dictator of Germany during WWII

a. Kaiser Wilhelm

b. Otto Von Bismarck

c. Heinrich Himmler

d. Hitler

6. Founder of Planned Parenthood.

a. Margaret Sanger

b. Ruth Ginsburg

c. Jane Addams

d. Betty Freidan

7. The name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany.

a. Blitzkrieg

b. Holocaust

c. Appeasement

d. Internment

8. Leader of Iraq recently overthrown by the U.S. military invasion.

a. Ayatollah Khomeini

b. Prince Abdullah

c. Saddam Hussein

d. The Shah

9. Famous baseball player nicknamed "The Great Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat"

a. Hank Aaron

b. Babe Ruth

c. Ted Williams

d. Joe DiMaggio

10. City in which blacks first refused to ride buses

a. Tallahassee

b. Montgomery

c. Atlanta

d. Houston

11. Capital city of North Vietnam bombed for the first time in 1966

a. Ho Chi Minh

b. Peking

c. Hanoi

d. Seoul

12. The first man-made satellite

a. Skolnik

b. Endeavor

c. Sputnik

d. Challenger

13. First man in space

a. Tom Hanks

b. Yuri Gagarin

c. Alan Shepard

d. Neil Armstrong

14. The most devastating terrorist attack in the United States was

a. September 11, 2001 WTC

b. Oklahoma City Bombing

c. Pan-Am Boeing 747 bombing

d. Pearl Harbor

15. First American in space

a. John Glenn

b. Neil Armstrong

c. Alan Shepard

d. Buzz Aldrin

16. First American to orbit the Earth

a. John Glenn

b. Neil Armstrong

c. Alan Shepard

d. Buzz Aldrin

17. First man to walk on the moon

a. John Glenn

b. Neil Armstrong

c. Alan Shepard

d. Buzz Aldrin

18. First teacher in space, who died aboard the Challenger

a. Molly Ringwald

b. Gloria Allred

c. Christa McAuliffe

d. Martina Navratilova

19. First American woman in space, who flew aboard the Challenger

a. Sally Ride

b. Gloria Allred

c. Sally Field

d. Laura Scudder

20. Leader of the P.L.O. during the 1970s

a. Yasir Arafat

b. Qaddaffi

c. King Hussein

d. Ayatollah Khomeini

21. Jefferson’s plan for surveying and subdividing public lands.

a. Township and Range System

b. American Grid

c. United States Geophysical Survey

d. Mapping Initiative of 1800

22. British Prime Minister during most of the war

a. Chamberlain

b. Churchill

c. Thatcher

d. Byron

23. The Y2K problem was part of this event

a. Manhattan Project

b. D-Day

c. the new millennium

d. 9/11

24. Country invaded on D-Day

a. France

b. Poland

c. Germany

d. Russia

25. Man who first mentioned the “Iron Curtain”

a. Stalin

b. Truman

c. Churchill

d. Eisenhower

26. Operation in which the Allied nations flew supplies to Berlin for almost a year

a. “Operation Life Savers”

b. Berlin Airlift

c. London Lift

d. Paris Flyby

27. Structure built to separate East and West Berlin

a. Iron Curtain

b. Berlin Wall

c. Bamboo Curtain

d. Berlin Curtain

28. Defense organization formed by 9 western European nations plus Canada, Iceland and the United States to stop the spread of communism

a. United Nations

b. League of Nations

c. Warsaw

d. NATO

29. Two nations given aid by the U.S. to help them fight communism (these nations are mentioned in the Truman Doctrine speech)

a. France and Great Britain

b. France and Spain

c. Turkey and Greece

d. Poland and Czechoslovakia

30. Neutral area separating conflicting forces (Stalin’s idea)

a. Iron Curtain

b. Bamboo Curtain

c. Buffer Zone

d. 38th Parallel

31. Dividing line between North and South Korea

a. Bamboo Curtain

b. Iron Curtain

c. Buffer Zone

d. 38th Parallel

32. Rebel leader who overthrew the Cuban government and set up a communist state

a. Mao Zedong

b. Fidel Castro

c. Joseph Stalin

d. Nikita Khrushchev

33. Premier of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis

a. Joseph Stalin

b. Nikita Khrushchev

c. Leonid Brezhnev

d. Lenin

34. Capital City of the Soviet Union

a. St. Petersburg

b. Warsaw

c. Moscow

d. Leningrad

35. Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford

a. Henry Kissinger

b. Robert McNamara

c. Newt Gingrich

d. Adlai Stevenson

36. The symbol of Communism’s demise was

a. Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan

b. China reinstates control of Hong Kong

c. growth of the German Neo-Nazi Party

d. fall of the Berlin Wall

37. What is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?

a. Nina

b. Pinta

c. Santa Maria

d. Mayflower

38. Militant black organization that emerged in the sixties

a. NAACP

b. AARP

c. Black Panthers

d. Pink Panthers

39. American commander who left the Philippines

a. MacArthur

b. Westmoreland

c. Pershing

d. Eisenhower

40. City on which the 1st atomic bomb was dropped

a. Tokyo

b. Nagasaki

c. Kyoto

d. Hiroshima

41. Site of the first major nuclear reactor accident

a. Chernobyl

b. Hanford

c. Three-Mile Island

d. Whidbey Island

42. The official name of Custer’s Last Stand is

a. Battle of the Little Bighorn

b. Wounded Knee

c. Massacre at Sand Creek

d. Seminole War

43. This was the chief immigration station of the United States from 1892 to 1943.

a. Angel Island

b. House Island

c. Ward’s Island

d. Ellis Island

44. The New York police shooting of Diallo, a West African immigrant, created a national controversy about this police procedure.

a. Miranda Rights

b. racial profiling

c. search and seizure

d. innocent until proven guilty

45. The videotaped beating of Rodney King incited riots in this city.

a. Los Angeles

b. New York

c. Chicago

d. Detroit

46. This Civil Rights leader refused to give up her seat on a city bus.

a. Harriet Tubman

b. Rosa Parks

c. Sojourner truth

d. Jane Addams

47. This racist organization was formed at the end of the Civil War.

a. National Association for the Advancement of White People

b. Ku Klux Klan

c. Aryan Nations

d. White Citizens Council

48. This Civil Rights leader promoted “black power” instead of non-violent protest as a means to obtain civil rights for African-Americans.

a. W.E.B. Dubois

b. Malcolm X

c. Martin Luther King Jr.

d. Jesse Jackson

49. This former general was Secretary of State when the United States decided to invade Iraq without the sanction of the United Nations.

a. Norman Schwarzkopf

b. William Westmoreland

c. Colin Powell

d. Donald Rumsfeld

50. This prolific inventor is perhaps best known for his invention of the electric light bulb.

a. Henry Ford

b. Einstein

c. Alexander Bell

d. Thomas Edison

51. Who said, “Give me liberty or give me death”?

a. Thomas Jefferson

b. Patrick Henry

c. Benjamin Franklin

d. George Washington

52. This site is the location of the Japanese attack of American on American soil during WWII.

a. Pearl Harbor

b. San Francisco

c. West point Military Academy

d. New York

53. The most revolutionary figure in the history of pop music, this singer was called the "King of Rock 'n' Roll."

a. James Brown

b. Elvis Presley

c. Ray Charles

d. Michael Jackson

54. Law passed to help veterans go to school and buy homes

a. Tax Cut Bill

b. G.I. Bill of Rights

c. House Bill #234

d. Executive Order 9066

55. City blockaded by the Soviets

a. Geneva

b. Paris

c. Berlin

d. Warsaw

56. Commander of American forces in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive

a. MacArthur

b. Westmoreland

c. Patton

d. Pershing

57. City where German war criminals were tried

a. Geneva

b. Paris

c. Versailles

d. Nuremberg

58. Leader of Iran during the U.S. hostage crisis

a. Anwar Sadat

b. Menachem Begin

c. Ayatollah Khomeini

d. the Shah

59. Man who became supreme commander of U.S. forces in Korea

a. Eisenhower

b. Westmoreland

c. MacArthur

d. Truman

60. Communist leader of China

a. Chiang-Kai-Shek

b. Hirohito

c. Mao Zedong

d. Ichiro

61. This photographer was one of the most well-known photographers of the Great Depression era.

a. Ernest Hemingway

b. Andy Warhol

c. Dorothea Lange

d. Norman Rockwell

62. FEMA is the federal agency responsible for

a. managing America’s nuclear weapons

b. coordinating emergency planning, preparedness, risk reduction, response, and recovery

c. managing the public school system (Federal Educational Management Association)

d. directing the Supreme Court through a Judicial Review

63. This wealthy philanthropist earned his money by developing computer operating systems.

a. Bill Gates

b. Warren Buffett

c. Donald Trump

d. Winthrop Rockefeller

64. Preventing or restricting the spread of an enemy’s ideology or political structures

a. patriotism

b. appeasement

c. militarism

d. containment

65. Competition by nations for the highest number of weapons of war

a. cold war

b. arms race

c. summit

d. stockpiling

66. New Deal project that gave jobs to young men who helped plant forests

a. Reforestation Corps

b. Americorps

c. Apple Corps

d. Civilian Conservation Corps

67. Military leader of Libya in the 1970s

a. Yasir Arafat

b. Qaddaffi

c. King Hussein

d. Ayatollah Khomeini

68. This disease, first recognized in the early 1980s, has infected more than 42 million people globally.

a. AIDS

b. Bird Flu

c. Hanta Virus

d. Polio

69. The United States invaded this country after the 9/11 attacks because the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden.

a. Afghanistan

b. Iraq

c. Grenada

d. Iran

70. Anti-Semitism is hatred of

a. communists

b. Jews

c. fascists

d. Americans

71. Blitzkrieg is the German word used to describe the German army’s offensive under Hitler … it means

a. sink or swim

b. rush attack

c. lightning war

d. search and destroy

72. Planned effort to shape people’s ideas and opinions

a. propaganda

b. media bias

c. yellow journalism

d. cover-up

73. This treaty ended WWI but ultimately lead to WWII

a. Kellogg-Briand Pact

b. Treaty of Versailles

c. Warsaw Pact

d. North Atlantic Treaty

74. This famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald details life in America in the 1920s.

a. Great Gatsby

b. Grapes of Wrath

c. Sun Also Rises

d. Invisible Man

75. This land deal approximately doubled the size of the United States

a. Gadsden Purchase

b. Louisiana Purchase

c. Seward’s Folly

d. Oregon Question

76. These two people were tried and executed for sharing nuclear secrets with Russia

a. Sacco and Vanzetti

b. Al Capone and Lucky Luciano

c. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

d. Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover

77. This artist wrote a song that lists Cold War era events.

a. Bob Dylan

b. Elvis

c. Bruce Springsteen

d. Billy Joel

78. Total goods and services produced by a country during a year

a. Gross National Product

b. Gross Income

c. per capita spending

d. economic forecast

79. Volunteer organization established by JFK to help “poorer” nations

a. Habitat for Humanity

b. United Nations

c. “We are the World”

d. Peace Corps

80. Famous Chicago gangster who was eventually arrested for income-tax evasion

a. Al Sharpton

b. Al Capone

c. Elliot Ness

d. Don Corleone

81. Two immigrants who were arrested, tried, and executed for a robbery during the 1920s

a. Siegfried and Roi

b. Fitzgerald and Kilpatrick

c. Mussolini and Giacoletti

d. Sacco and Vanzetti

82. Famous trial over the question of evolution in Dayton, Tennessee

a. Simpson

b. Scopes

c. Darwin

d. Jode

83. Brother of John F Kennedy who was shot

a. Ted Kennedy

b. Robert Kennedy

c. Edward Kennedy

d. Joseph Patrick Kennedy

84. Pilot who disappeared in the Pacific

a. Earhart

b. Lindbergh

c. Wright

d. Marshall

85. Nickname for the area in the Southwestern U.S. where severe winds destroyed much land in the 1930s

a. Jim Crow lands

b. Drought Bowl

c. Dust Ranch

d. Dust Bowl

86. What were fashionable, trendsetting young women in the 1920s called?

a. slippers

b. flappers

c. spinsters

d. bachelorettes

87. Consumer activist who helped consumers against big business beginning in the seventies

a. Ralph Nader

b. Ross Perot

c. Michael Moore

d. George W. Bush

88. failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles

a. Cuban Missile crisis

b. Bay of Pigs

c. Grenada

d. Afghanistan

89. This athlete was the first African-American of the modern era to play in baseball's major leagues.

a. Jackie Robinson

b. Hank Aaron

c. Roy Campanella

d. Reggie Jackson

90. This was the single-most costly natural disaster in the United States.

a. Hurricane Katrina

b. Galveston, Texas floods

c. Mt. St. Helens eruption

d. Exxon Valdez oil spill

91. How many times may a Senator be re-elected?

a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d. no limit

92. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

a. listed our complaints against the king

b. gave women the right to vote

c. freed slaves

d. declared Veterans’ Day a national holiday

93. City that hosted the 1974 World’s Fair:

a. New York

b. Spokane

c. Seattle

d. Washington DC

94. In WWII this group of leaders … FDR, Churchill, and Stalin … were known as …

a. Tripartite

b. NATO

c. Big Three

d. Warsaw Pact

95. The group of social reformers who exposed social problems during the Progressive Era were known as

a. muckrakers

b. Whigs

c. conservatives

d. covenanters

96. Seward’s Folly is a reference to this state.

a. Utah

b. California

c. Oregon

d. Alaska

97. The noble experiment refers to which of the following:

a. child labor laws

b. women’s suffrage

c. Prohibition

d. nuclear weapons

98. This government provision allowed each settler to receive 160 acres.

a. Compromise of 1850

b. Homestead Act

c. Morrill Act

d. Missouri Compromise

99. The Korean War happened in the …

a. 1940s

b. 1950s

c. 1960s

d. 1970s

100. Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

a. Lenin

b. Stalin

c. Gorbachev

d. Brezhnev

101. Emperor of Japan during WWII

a. Hirohito

b. Yamamoto

c. Sasaki

d. Ichiro

102. What holiday was celebrated for the first time by American colonists?

a. Christmas

b. Memorial Day

c. Thanksgiving

d. Veteran’s Day

103. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?

a. Benjamin Franklin

b. George Washington

c. Patrick Henry

d. Thomas Jefferson

104. What is the National Anthem of the United States?

a. God Bless America

b. Stars and Stripes Forever

c. Star Spangled Banner

d. America the Beautiful

105. Long-time director of the FBI who died in the seventies

a. Al Capone

b. J. Edgar Hoover

c. George Tenet

d. Henry Kissinger

106. This cultural icon represented the six million women who manned the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II.

a. Mama Bear

b. The Pin-up Girl

c. Sweet Pea

d. Rosie the Riveter

107. The terrorist group responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) twin towers and the Pentagon.

a. Iraq

b. Taliban

c. al-Qaeda

d. Shiite Muslims

108. NATO and the UN are

a. the organizations responsible for international trade

b. international organizations whose purposes are to end military aggression and promote peace, security, and economic development

c. institutions that regulate oil production and prices

d. committees that establish rules for the Olympic Games

109. Famous novel by John Steinbeck about the movement of workers from Oklahoma to California

a. Old Man and the Sea

b. Of Mice and Men

c. Grapes of Wrath

d. East of Eden

110. Nightclubs where illegal liquor was sold

a. speakeasies

b. offices

c. caves

d. barns

111. Washington, D.C. building that housed the Democratic National Committee offices

a. Washington Monument

b. The Senate

c. The Smithsonian Institute

d. Watergate

112. Henry Ford’s idea of moving the product past workers who then add parts

a. carburetion

b. assembly line

c. supply and demand

d. factorization

113. First person to fly across the Atlantic

a. Amelia Earhart

b. Orville Wright

c. Charles Lindbergh

d. Joseph Boeing

114. Capital city of South Vietnam

a. Hanoi

b. Saigon

c. Seoul

d. Peking

115. Vietnam leader backed by Chinese communists

a. Mao Zedong

b. Zhou Enlai

c. Chiang Kai-Shek

d. Ho Chi Minh

116. Sites where homeless unemployed people camped during the Great Depression

a. internment camps

b. Hoovervilles

c. soup kitchens

d. poverello camps

117. Leader of Iran before 1979

a. Anwar Sadat

b. Menachem Begin

c. Ayatollah Khomeini

d. the Shah

118. Home of the New York Stock Exchange

a. Broadway

b. Wall Street

c. Main Street

d. 5th Avenue

119. Economic term for the situation that exists when money is less valuable and prices go up

a. recession

b. desegregation

c. deflation

d. inflation

120. Economic system based on private ownership of goods and the means of producing them in a free market

a. communism

b. capitalism

c. democracy

d. fascism

121. Slowing of business activity that is not as severe as a depression

a. inflation

b. vertical integration

c. devaluation

d. recession

122. American naval base established on Cuba to help protect the Panama Canal (also the site of an infamous prison)

a. Bay of Pigs

b. Guantanamo Bay

c. Havana Outpost

d. Bautista Bay

123. Campus where four students were killed when national guardsmen opened fire during a protest

a. Berkley

b. Kent State

c. San Francisco City College

d. Univ. of Kentucky

124. Powerful Soviet leader of the 1980s who met several times with President Reagan

a. Stalin

b. Gorbachev

c. Krushchev

d. Brezhnev

125. Which two rivers are the longest in the United States?

a. Missouri and Ohio

b. Columbia and Colorado

c. Missouri and Mississippi

d. Rio Grande and Mississippi

126. What ocean is on the West Coast of the U.S.?

a. Pacific

b. Mediterranean

c. Atlantic

d. Gulf of Mexico

127. What ocean is on the East Coast of the U.S.?

a. Pacific

b. Mediterranean

c. Atlantic

d. Gulf of Mexico

128. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

a. started the Red Cross

b. famous Civil War nurse

c. fought for women’s rights

d. first female Supreme Court Justice

129. Who did the United States fight in World War II?

a. Russia, Japan, Germany

b. China, Russia, Germany

c. China, Germany, Japan

d. Japan, Germany, and Italy

130. During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?

a. Communism

b. rise of Nazism

c. global warming

d. nuclear weapons

140. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

a. Native Americans

b. Asians

c. nobody

d. Canadians

141. What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

a. colonists declared independence from Britain

b. states adopted the Articles of Confederation

c. New York City was declared the capital of the country

d. The Constitution was written

142. Who helped the Pilgrims in America?

a. Canadians

b. French trappers and fur traders

c. The American-Indians (Native Americans)

d. Spanish conquistadors

143. Why did the Pilgrims come to America?

a. land

b. for religious freedom

c. to make money

d. they were exiled by Britain

144. Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?

a. Francis Scott Key

b. Benjamin Franklin

c. George Gershwin

d. Duke Ellington

145. What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union?

a. Hawaii and Alaska

b. Alaska and Puerto Rico

c. California and Oregon

d. Texas and Utah

146. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?

a. fought terrorists

b. founded the NAACP

c. fought for civil rights

d. fought for government aid for schools

Civics:

1. Being installed in the office of President

a. interrogation

b. interview

c. inauguration

d. interpretation

2. Constitutional Amendment giving women the right to vote

a. 14th

b. 18th

c. 19th

d. 22nd

3. Act that set up retirement funds and unemployment insurance

a. New Deal

b. Medicare

c. Social Security

d. Civilian Conservation Corps

4. Calling up men to serve in the army

a. lottery

b. enlistment

c. draft

d. consignment

5. Government run by the people

a. monarchy

b. democracy

c. anarchy

d. communism

6. Three branches of the federal government

a. legislative, executive, and judicial

b. congressional, legislative, judicial

c. legislative, executive,

congressional

d. supreme, presidential, judgmental

7. Government program established to pay some medical expenses for citizens over the age of 65

a. Social Security

b. Medicare

c. Medicaid

d. Veterans Benefits Program

8. System in which one branch of government limits the power of the other two

a. checks and balances

b. supply and demand

c. cause and effect

d. federalism

9. What is suffrage?

a. unlawful search and seizure

b. right to vote

c. slavery

d. making alcohol illegal

10. Group of people granted the vote by the 26th Amendment

a. women

b. blacks

c. 18 year olds

d. naturalized citizens

11. The supreme law of the United States.

a. Declaration of Independence

b. Bill of Rights

c. Constitution

d. Supreme Court

12. Someone who temporarily or permanently resides in a country and culture other than that of their upbringing and/or legal residence is called an …

a. illegal immigrant

b. legal resident

c. expatriate

d. tourist

13. Our representative to the House of Representatives.

a. Patty Murray

b. Cathy McMorris

c. Maria Cantwell

d. Christine Gregoire

14. The year that The Declaration of Independence was signed

a. 1750

b. 1776

c. 1787

d. 1800

15. This act allows federal officials greater authority in tracking and intercepting communications, and more actively works to close our borders to foreign terrorists and to detain and remove those within our borders; it establishes new crimes, new penalties and new procedural techniques for use against domestic and international terrorists.

a. Civil Rights Act

b. Equal Rights Act

c. Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

d. Patriot Act

16. S/he is the current Speaker of the House.

a. Cathy McMorris

b. John Boehner

c. Donald Rumsfeld

d. Nancy Pelosi

17. The National Security Agency (NSA) is responsible for

a. food safety

b. prescription drug production

c. wiretapping Americans’ phones

d. responding to natural disasters

18. This document contains the phrase “All men are created equal.”

a. The Constitution

b. Atlantic Charter

c. Declaration of Independence

d. Brown v Board of Education

19. What do the stars on the flag mean?

a. that America has a bright future

b. one for each person who signed the Declaration of Independence

c. one for each state

d. that Americans are stars

20. What do the stripes on the flag represent?

a. one for each person who signed the Declaration of Independence

b. the sacrifice of the military men and women who’ve sacrificed for our freedom

c. the first 13 states

d. democracy

21. Independence Day celebrates independence from whom?

a. Great Britain

b. Russia

c. Germany

d. Spain

22. What do we call changes to the Constitution?

a. bills

b. amendments

c. mandates

d. edicts

23. How many senators are there in Congress?

a. 100

b. 450

c. 200

d. 50

24. For how long do we elect each senator?

a. 2 years

b. 4 years

c. 6 years

d. life

25. Which of the following pairs are Washington State’s senators?

a. McMorris and Rogers

b. Gregoire and McMorris

c. Murray and Cantwell

d. Cantwell and Gregoire

26. What determines the number of Representatives that each state gets?

a. Declaration of Independence

b. Supreme Court

c. Congress

d. population

27. For how long do we elect each member of the House of Representatives?

a. 2 years

b. 4 years

c. 6 years

d. life

28. What is the capital of Washington State?

a. Seattle

b. Olympia

c. Spokane

d. Tacoma

29. Who is the current Governor of Washington State?

a. Cantwell

b. Gregoire

c. McMorris

d. Inslee

30. Who is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

a. Dick Cheney

b. George Bush

c. John Roberts

d. Nancy Pelosi

31. What kind of government does the United States have?

a. Socialism

b. Capitalism

c. Communism

d. Democracy

32. How many full terms can a President serve?

a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d. 4

33. How many Supreme Court Justices are there?

a. 5

b. 9

c. 13

d. 21

34. What is the head of a city government called?

a. Ombudsman

b. Clerk

c. Mayor

d. Governor

35. What is the minimum voting age in the United States?

a. 18

b. 19

c. 20

d. 21

36. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?

a. Bill of Rights

b. Preamble

c. Epilogue

d. Declaration of Independence

37. Who meets in the U.S. Capitol building?

a. Congress

b. Supreme Court

c. Executive Branch

d. Governors

38. What were the 13 original states called before they were states?

a. provinces

b. capitals

c. colonies

d. nations

39. In what year was the Constitution written?

a. 1776

b. 1787

c. 1801

d. 1860

40. How many changes or amendments are there to the Constitution?

a. 10

b. 14

c. 27

d. 101

41. What is the Congress?

a. Executive Branch

b. Legislative Branch

c. Judicial Branch

d. Electoral College

42. How many representatives are there in Congress?

a. 50

b. 100

c. 435

d. 725

43. Who is the head of your local government?

a. Christine Gregoire

b. David Condon

c. Patty Murray

d. Dino Rossi

44. Who signs bills into law?

a. Congress

b. The President

c. Speaker of the House

d. Chief Justice

45. Where does freedom of speech come from?

a. Magna Carta

b. The Bill of Rights

c. Federalist Papers

d. The Constitution

46. What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States?

a. U.S. invasion of Iraq

b. Waco Siege

c. terrorists attacked the U.S

d. Oklahoma City Bombing occurred

47. Who has the power to declare war?

a. President

b. Speaker of the House

c. The Congress

d. Chief Justice

48. Whose rights are guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

a. everyone (citizens and non-citizens) living in U.S.

b. citizens born in the United States

c. citizens born in the United States and immigrants who’ve applied for citizenship

d. people whose parents were citizens of the United States

49. What is the introduction to the Constitution called?

a. The Genesis

b. The Declaration of Independence

c. The Manifesto

d. The Preamble

50. What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?

a. religious freedom

b. the right to vote

c. the right to bear arms

d. the right to free speech

51. Where is the White House located?

a. 10 Downing Street

b. Wall Street

c. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

d. Main Street USA

52. Who is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military?

a. The President

b. Head of Homeland Security

c. Secretary of Defense

d. Joint Defense

53. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?

a. We The People

b. E Pluribus Unum

c. My Fellow Americans

d. United We Stand

54. What does the Constitution do?

a. establishes rules for manual labor and immigration

b. sets the conditions for U.S. independence

c. sets up/defines the government, protects basic rights of Americans

d. explains the process for determining the constituency

55. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?

a. money and freedom

b. life and liberty

c. property and happiness

d. land ownership and liberty

56. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?

a. The Legislative and Executive branches

b. The Senate and the Supreme Court

c. The Senate and the House

d. The Judicial and Executive branches

57. What is the economic system in the United States?

a. Socialism

b. Mercantilism

c. Capitalism

d. Communism

58. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

a. Congress

b. President

c. Supreme Court

d. Chief Justice

59. What is NOT a power of the federal government?

a. to print money

b. to declare war

c. to create an army

d. to provide schooling and education

60. What are the two major political parties in the United States?

a. Republican and Democratic

b. Libertarian and Socialist

c. Democratic and Libertarian

d. there is only one political party

61. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

a. slavery

b. Southern support for Great Britain

c. industrial pollution by northern companies

d. election of Andrew Jackson

62. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?

a. God and/or American citizens

b. The United States/Flag

c. Capitalism and/or values

d. The President and/or the Founding Fathers

63. When is the last day you can send in Federal income tax forms?

a. April 15th

b. July 4th

c. May 20th

d. December 31st

64. When must all men register for Selective Service?

a. age 16

b. age 18

c. age 21

d. age 25

65. Why did colonists fight the British?

a. colonists didn’t like British tea

b. because we supported the French

c. terrorist acts by the King of England

d. because of the high taxes

66. Name the U.S war between the North and South.

a. War of 1812

b. The Civil War

c. French and Indian War

d. Mexican War

67. Where is the Statue of liberty?

a. Washington DC

b. Philadelphia

c. Boston

d. New York

68. Which of the following wars was NOT fought by the United States during the 1900s?

a. World War I

b. World War II

c. Gulf War

d. Civil War

69. Which of the following wars was NOT fought by the United States during the 1800s?

a. War of 1812

b. Revolutionary War

c. Civil War

d. Spanish-American War

70. What is the capital of the United States?

a. Philadelphia

b. Boston

c. New York

d. Washington, D.C.

71. Which of the following is NOT a US territory?

a. Puerto Rico

b. Virgin Islands

c. North Mariana Islands

d. Cayman Islands

Presidents:

1. Lyndon B. Johnson’s plan for eradicating poverty was called the

a. New Deal

b. 1000 Points of Light

c. Great Society

d. Voo-Doo Economics

2. Roosevelt’s radio talks to the nation

a. Fireside chats

b. Face the Nation

c. Good Neighbor chats

d. Frankly Speaking

3. Presidential advisory group

a. joint chiefs

b. security council

c. congress

d. cabinet

4. President whose last fourteen months were doomed by a hostage situation at the U.S. Embassy in Iran.

a. Richard Nixon

b. Gerald Ford

c. Jimmy Carter

d. Ronal Reagan

5. Man who succeeded FDR as President

a. Truman

b. Eisenhower

c. Johnson

d. Kennedy

6. President of the U.S. at the beginning of the Great Depression

a. Coolidge

b. Hoover

c. FDR

d. Theodore Roosevelt

7. Who becomes President if both the President and Vice President die?

a. Secretary of State

b. Vice President

c. Speaker of the House

d. Supreme Court Justice

8. President Eisenhower’s theory about the spread of communism is Southeast Asia

a. domino theory

b. Truman Doctrine

c. Cold War Postulate

d. Eisenhower Doctrine

9. President during the first Persian Gulf War.

a. Ronald Reagan

b. George Bush Sr.

c. Bill Clinton

d. George Bush Jr.

10. Who elects the President of the United States?

a. Congress

b. the people

c. Electoral College

d. Supreme Court

11. Who becomes President if the President dies?

a. Secretary of State

b. Vice President

c. Speaker of the House

d. Supreme Court Justice

12. The first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected to a second term, his presidency was marked by economic expansion and the first balanced federal budget in thirty years.

a. Ronald Reagan

b. George Bush Sr.

c. Bill Clinton

d. George Bush Jr.

13. President who ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb.

a. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

b. Harry S. Truman

c. Dwight D. Eisenhower

d. John F. Kennedy

14. First U.S. President to visit China

a. Kennedy

b. Johnson

c. Nixon

d. Ford

15. This general who was in charge of the D-Day invasion eventually became president of the United States.

a. Harry S. Truman

b. Dwight D. Eisenhower

c. John F. Kennedy

d. Lyndon B. Johnson

16. First non-elected President of the United States

a. George Washington

b. Harry Truman

c. Gerald Ford

d. George W. Bush

17. For how long is the President elected?

a. 2 years

b. 4 years

c. 6 years

d. life

18. U.S. President who pardoned most Vietnam War draft evaders

a. Nixon

b. Ford

c. Carter

d. Reagan

19. Roosevelt’s plan for recovery from the Depression

a. New Deal

b. 1000 Points of Light

c. Great Society

d. Voo-Doo Economics

20. This national monument of massive carved likenesses honors Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

a. National Monument

b. the Mall in Washington DC

c. the Statue of Liberty

d. Mt. Rushmore

21. This President’s assassination in the 1960s shook the nation.

a. Abraham Lincoln

b. Ronald Reagan

c. John F. Kennedy

d. Robert Kennedy

22. This President was influential in bringing about the end of communist rule in Russia.

a. Jimmy Carter

b. Ronald Reagan

c. George Bush

d. Bill Clinton

23. He is the current Vice President of the United States.

a. Dick Cheney

b. Colin Powell

c. Dennis Hastert

d. Joe Biden

24. Who was President during the Civil War?

a. George Washington

b. Thomas Jefferson

c. Abraham Lincoln

d. John Adams

25. What President is called the “Father of our Country”?

a. George Washington

b. Thomas Jefferson

c. Abraham Lincoln

d. John Adams

26. What is the name of the President’s official home?

a. Monticello

b. Capitol Building

c. White House

d. Mount Vernon

27. In what month do we vote for the President?

a. November

b. April

c. January

d. September

28. In what month is the new President inaugurated?

a. November

b. April

c. January

d. September

29. Who was president during World War I?

a. Theodore Roosevelt

b. Woodrow Wilson

c. Calvin Coolidge

d. Herbert Hoover

30. What is one thing that Abraham Lincoln did NOT do?

a. freed the slaves

b. signed the Declaration of Independence

c. wrote the Emancipation Proclamation

d. led the U.S. through the Civil War

31. Man who served as Warren Harding’s Vice President, and then took the office of President following Harding’s death.

a. Theodore Roosevelt

b. Calvin Coolidge

c. Harry Truman

d. William Howard Taft

32. Before becoming President, this man organized the Rough Riders who fought in the Spanish American War.

a. Calvin Coolidge

b. Theodore Roosevelt

c. William Howard Taft

d. Herbert Hoover

33. This President promised to help America “Return to Normalcy” following WWI.

a. Theodore Roosevelt

b. Calvin Coolidge

c. Warren Harding

d. Herbert Hoover

34. President who ordered the pre-emptive attack and invasion of Iraq.

a. Ronald Reagan

b. George Bush Sr.

c. Bill Clinton

d. George W. Bush

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