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It's a grab bag of questions about American history. How many can you answer?
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What President first proposed that the U.S. send a man to the moon?
John F. Kennedy
What city hosted the Constitutional Convention?
Philadelphia
Who built thousands of libraries after making his fortune in the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
What did the temperance movement seek to ban?
Alcohol
What Native American group did Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse belong to?
Lakota Sioux
What were dimes and quarters (mostly) made of until 1965?
Silver
In what city did the Battle of the Alamo take place?
San Antonio
What was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens?
Mark Twain
What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, founded in 1607?
Jamestown
What was the first cash crop grown in the above settlement?
Tobacco
What husband and wife were executed for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Who won the same number of electoral votes as Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 election and served as his first Vice President?
Aaron Burr
What 1862 law allowed pioneers to claim 160 acres of free land in the West, provided they settle and improve it?
Homestead Act
What was the name of the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb?
Manhattan Project
What did the U.S. complete in 1914 that the French had previously failed to build?
Panama Canal
What city's population has declined from 1.8 million in 1950 to about 600,000 today?
Detroit
What country did Commodore Perry and his "black ships" force to open up to trade and foreign relations?
Japan
What pioneer trail stretched from Missouri to the Willamette Valley?
Oregon Trail
What "war" took place between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th century?
Cold War
What party did Eugene V. Debs represent during his five runs for U.S. President?
Socialist
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10 Comments
Polandball6
+5
Level 47
Sep 7, 2024
Is this going to be a new series
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 93
Sep 20, 2024
Is this a question?
ChickenGuy
+2
Level 55
Sep 8, 2024
Your here because you scrolled all the way down Quizmasters quizzes lol
Levisek27
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Level 55
Sep 8, 2024
You're here because it's new featured quiz
idontkn1
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Level 94
Sep 20, 2024
The better answer for question 4 is fun.
Unobtainium
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Level 49
Mar 19, 2025
Yeah alcohol-fueled domestic violence was sure fun for everyone.
Nachtschicht
+1
Level 59
Sep 20, 2024
Astonishing that the question "What party did Eugene V. Debs represent " has the least number of right answers, since the number of parties in the US should be limited...

For non US-citizen like me still sort of difficult, but since US-Americans are most likely the largest group of people here...

partdavid
+3
Level 74
Sep 20, 2024
It doesn't astonish me... I didn't get it. To the extent that third-party candidates get any coverage it's often due to silliness or covered as a sideshow; there's very little organized party activity in the public eye even among more well-known third parties like libertarians. Most third-party candidates in national elections run as or are covered as "independents". Socialism has been such a dirty word in American politics for so long that it's just not something people now would be that aware of. Sure, everyone sees the Constitution party on their ballot or whatever but it's such a minority activity it doesn't make much impact.

Even a weirdo outsider like Lawrence Lessig, who I supported, ran as a Democrat.

AchillesFirstStand
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Level 79
Sep 20, 2024
The Socialist party got some attention in the early 20th century, gaining a few percent of the popular vote, but is almost non-existent today. They are only on the ballot in a few states and only get a couple thousand votes across the entire country. There's basically no news coverage of the Socialist party and most people wouldn't know that it exists.
EricF
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Level 81
Sep 23, 2024
You cooked with this
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