Q 01/05

Which document, adopted July 4, 1776, announced the thirteen colonies' separation from Britain?

A) The Articles of Confederation

B) The Declaration of Independence

C) The Virginia Declaration of Rights

D) The Constitution

Answer · why

B) The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, but Congress had voted for independence itself two days earlier, and most delegates did ...

Q 02/05

Which president was elected unanimously by the Electoral College?

A) George Washington

B) James Monroe

C) Abraham Lincoln

D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer · why

A) George Washington

George Washington won every elector's vote in both of his elections; James Monroe later came closest, when a single elector voted for John Quincy Adam...

Q 03/05

Which French leader sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803?

A) Louis XVI

B) Napoleon Bonaparte

C) Maximilien Robespierre

D) Lafayette

Answer · why

B) Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte gave up on an American empire after yellow fever wrecked his army in Saint-Domingue; US envoys sent to buy New Orleans were offered...

Q 04/05

Which amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States?

A) 13th

B) 12th

C) 14th

D) 15th

Answer · why

A) 13th

The 13th Amendment, ratified in December 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States except as punishment for a crime, an exception that unde...

Q 05/05

What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607?

A) Plymouth

B) Roanoke

C) Jamestown

D) Williamsburg

Answer · why

C) Jamestown

Jamestown, founded by the Virginia Company in May 1607, nearly failed: in the 'Starving Time' winter of 1609-10 most of the colonists died, and surviv...