Q 01/05

At which San Antonio mission did Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie die during the Texas Revolution?

A) Goliad

B) The Alamo

C) Gonzales

D) San Jacinto

Answer · why

B) The Alamo

The Alamo fell on March 6, 1836, after a 13-day siege by Mexican troops. Weeks later "Remember the Alamo!" was the Texan battle cry in the fight that ...

Q 02/05

What name is given to the 1838 forced march west from Georgia on which roughly 4,000 Cherokee died?

A) The Long Walk

B) The Middle Passage

C) The Great Migration

D) The Trail of Tears

Answer · why

D) The Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears uprooted about 60,000 people of five southeastern nations over two decades. Gold found on Cherokee land in Georgia had sharpened th...

Q 03/05

Which French leader, facing renewed war with Britain, sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States?

A) Napoleon Bonaparte

B) King Louis XVI

C) Maximilien Robespierre

D) Marquis de Lafayette

Answer · why

A) Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte dropped his plans for a New World empire after France failed to crush the slave uprising in Saint-Domingue. The $15 million sale ne...

Q 04/05

Which wagon train, snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in 1846–47, saw its survivors resort to cannibalism?

A) The Bidwell Party

B) The Stevens Party

C) The Donner Party

D) The Whitman Party

Answer · why

C) The Donner Party

The Donner Party lost weeks on an untested shortcut, the Hastings Cutoff, and reached the mountains too late in the year. Of its 87 members, 48 surviv...

Q 05/05

What nickname was given to the fortune seekers who rushed to California after gold was found there in 1848?

A) Sooners

B) Forty-niners

C) Carpetbaggers

D) Sourdoughs

Answer · why

B) Forty-niners

Forty-niners took their name from 1849, the peak year of the rush. About 300,000 people came to California, roughly half of them by sea.