Quizzes

Presidential

1. Who was the youngest elected President to take office?
a.) Richard Nixon
b.) Bill Clinton
c.) Dwight Eisenhower
d.) John F. Kennedy
e.) Thomas Jefferson


2. Who was the oldest elected President to take office?
a.) Theodore Roosevelt
b.) George Washington
c.) Ronald Reagan
d.) George Bush
e.) William Henry Harrison


3. Who served the shortest term of office as President?
a.) John F. Kennedy
b.) William Henry Harrison
c.) Andrew Johnson
d.) James Buchanan
e.) Abraham Lincoln
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4. How many presidents have been killed in office?
a.) 1
b.) 2
c.) 3
d.) 4
e.) 5


5. Which president served as president the longest?
a.) Theodore Roosevelt
b.) Dwight Eisenhower
c.) Franklin Roosevelt
d.) George Washington
e.) Andrew Jackson


Main Events

1. What happened on June 6th, 1944?
a.) Truman was assasinated
b.) D-day, allied invasion of Normandy, France.
c.) Roosevelt elected to third term of office.
d.) Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
e.) Dodgers upset Yankees to win the First World Series.


2. What was the TET Offensive
a.) A series of offensive moves in the Vietnam War
b.) Name given to the play which enabled the Packers to win the first super bowl.
c.) Series of events ending the Korean War.
d.) Nixon's economic theory on how to help the economy grow
e.) Name for Nixon administration scandal.


3. Who were the key players in the Cold War?
a.) Russia and USA
b.) Russia and Cuba
c.) Cuba and USA
d.) USA and China
e.) China and Russia


4. The famous, "Shot heard round the world," began what war?
a.) Spanish-American War
b.) Mexican-American War
c.) World War I
d.) World War II
e.) American Revolution


5. The Emancipation Proclamation, as addressed by Abraham Lincoln, did what?
a.) Started the Civil War
b.) Freed the slaves
c.) Ended the Civil War
d.) Warned the South to give up
e.) Surrender to the South.

Key Terms

1. The Rush-Bagot agreement did which of the following?
a.) Called for the departure of war fleets from the Great Lakes
b.) Told Russia to stay out of US lands.
c.) Called for a rush on interstate commerce
d.) Declared that Russia was our enemy
e.) Called for a Pizza delivery service.


2. What is the Bill of Rights?
a.) Document stating the rights of passage for men
b.) Document saying that slaves have no rights as citizens.
c.) Law which says immigrants can't be citizens.
d.) The First 10 ammendments of the US Constitution
e.) The First 15 ammendments of the US Constitution

3. The Treaty of Paris ended what was?
a.) Civil War
b.) Revoutionary War
c.) World War II
d.) World War I
e.) Korean War


4. ______ and _____ explored and mapped most of the Louisana Territory.
a.) Harpo and Groucho
b.) Laurel and Hardy
c.) Lewis and Clark
d.) Louis and Clark
e.) George and Bill


5. What happeed at the Boston Tea Party?
a.) King George sat down with delagates to discuss outcome for colonies
b.) Bstonians stopped drinking Tea
c.) Angry Bostonians dressed up as indians and dumped tea into Boston Harbor
d.) The British killed people for not paying taxes
e.) The British threw a party to help out the Bostonians.


Miscellaneous Questions

1. Who were the bad guys, Axis Powers, in World War II?
a.) Russia and USA
b.) USA and England
c.) England and France
d.) Japan and USA
e.) Japan and Germany

2. What was the name for the series of acts passed by Franklin Roosevelt to end the Great Depression?
a.) New Deal
b.) Raw Deal
c.) Big Deal
d.) No Deal
e.) It's a Deal

3. Which President called troops back from Vietnam?
a.) Richard Nixon
b.) Gerald Ford
c.) John F. Kennedy
d.) Jimmy Carter
e.) Dwight Eisenhower

4. Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
a.) Lee Harvey Oswald
b.) Aaron Burr
c.) John Walker
d.) John Wilkes Booth
e.) No one.

. What happened on December 7, 1941?
a ) Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
b) Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
c) Japanese sneak attack Pearl Harbor
d) Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
e) e) Japanese surrender to United States
Answer:

ANSWERS IN ORDER:

1)John F. Kennedy 2)Ronald Reagan 3)William Henry Harrison 4)Four 5) Franklin Roosevelt

1) D-day 2)Series of offensive moves in the Vietnam War 3)Russia and USA 4)American Revolution 5)Freed the slaves.

1)Called for the departure of war fleets from the Great Lakes. 2)The first 10 amendments of the US Constitution 3)The Revolutionary War 4)Louis and Clark
5)Angry Bostonians dressed up as indians and dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

1) Japan and Germany 2)New Deal 3)Richard Nixon 4)John Wilkes Booth 5 5) Japanese sneak attack Pearl Harbor.