Q 01/05
A) Los Angeles
B) Sacramento
C) San Francisco
D) San Diego
Answer · why
Sacramento won the job in 1854, after the legislature had drifted from San Jose to Vallejo to Benicia; the Gold Rush town already had more than 10,000...
Q 02/05
A) Buffalo
B) Albany
C) Rochester
D) New York City
Answer · why
Albany became the permanent capital in 1797, ending two decades in which the legislature had moved between Kingston, Poughkeepsie, New York City and A...
Q 03/05
A) Houston
B) Dallas
C) Austin
D) San Antonio
Answer · why
Austin began as the riverside village of Waterloo; Mirabeau B. Lamar, who had hunted buffalo there, had it chosen as the Republic of Texas's capital i...
Q 04/05
A) Tallahassee
B) Orlando
C) Jacksonville
D) Miami
Answer · why
Tallahassee became Florida's capital in 1824 as a compromise, sitting roughly midway between the two earlier capitals, St. Augustine and Pensacola.
Q 05/05
A) Chicago
B) Springfield
C) Bloomington
D) Rockford
Answer · why
The legislature voted in 1837 to move Illinois's capital from Vandalia to Springfield, a campaign led by a young lawmaker named Abraham Lincoln, who l...
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