Q 01/05

Which 1773 Boston protest saw colonists, some disguised as Mohawk warriors, destroy East India Company cargo?

A) The Boston Massacre

B) The Boston Tea Party

C) The Gaspee Affair

D) The Stamp Act riots

Answer · why

B) The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party sent the tea into the harbor; Parliament answered with the Boston Port Act, shutting the port until the East India Company was re...

Q 02/05

The 1846 Oregon Treaty set the US–British boundary along which parallel?

A) The 42nd parallel

B) The 45th parallel

C) The 49th parallel

D) The 54th parallel

Answer · why

C) The 49th parallel

The 49th parallel: the 1846 Oregon Treaty extended to the Pacific the line already used east of the Rockies since 1818, though expansionists had deman...

Q 03/05

What was the main purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

A) To explore land newly bought from France

B) To find gold in California

C) To open trade with Mexico

D) To map the Great Lakes region

Answer · why

A) To explore land newly bought from France

To explore land newly bought from France; the president also hoped for an all-water trade route to the Pacific, but the explorers found none.

Q 04/05

Which amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery?

A) The 13th

B) The 14th

C) The 15th

D) The 12th

Answer · why

A) The 13th

The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, except as punishment for a crime.

Q 05/05

Who shot the president at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on 14 April 1865?

A) Lee Harvey Oswald

B) Charles Guiteau

C) John Wilkes Booth

D) Leon Czolgosz

Answer · why

C) John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth, a well-known stage actor, fled on horseback into Southern Maryland; twelve days later Union soldiers cornered him in a Virginia bar...