American History A-Z

Guess these facts from U.S. history that start with each letter of the alphabet.

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Last updated: November 29, 2018

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	Hint	Answer
A	Suffragette who is featured on some $1 coins	Anthony
B	City where Paul Revere lived	Boston
C	Biggest city in the South in 1800	Charleston
D	Many cattle drives ended in this city	Dodge
E	Neil Armstrong quote: "The _____ has landed"	Eagle
F	Sumter or Ticonderoga, for example	Fort
G	Bloodiest battle of the Civil War	Gettysburg
H	He played a psychedelic rendition of the national anthem at Woodstock	Hendrix
I	In the 1800s, at least 25% of people from this country moved to the U.S.	Ireland
J	Musical genre that started in New Orleans	Jazz
K	"The Forgotten War"	Korean War
L	This country was founded as a place for freed American slaves	Liberia
M	Ship that brought the Pilgrims to American	Mayflower

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N	People from this tribe served as "code-talkers" in WWII	Navajo
O	12,000 American troops died taking this island in WWII	Okinawa
P	Edison's sound-playing invention	Phonograph
Q	Pennsylvania was founded by this religious group	Quakers
R	Colony established in North Carolina in 1585 that mysteriously disappeared	Roanoke
S	1692 witch trial location	Salem
T	The buck stopped with him	Truman
U	"Endowed by their creator with certain ___________ rights"	Unalienable
V	1919 treaty at the end of WWI	Versailles
W	Scandal that toppled Nixon	Watergate
X	First company to make photocopiers	Xerox
Y	Term for a person from the U.S.; specifically the Northern states	Yankee
Z	He recorded the only video of the Kennedy assassination	Zapruder

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Level 79

Nov 28, 2018

While the US certainly was involved in WWI, the V clue could have been so many things more uniquely American.

"This colony was named after Queen Elizabeth...."

"These unspoiled northern Caribbean islands were divided between the US and the UK.....:"

"This city in Washington State sounds like its northern neighbor in British Columbia...

Pretty much anything but a city in France for a war that was not on US soil.

Just my 2 cents

Level 74

Nov 29, 2018

Good point. how about: the first English child born in a New World English possession? or the first state admitted to the country after the original 13 colonies? or the only American President whose first language was not English?

Level 73

Dec 6, 2018

I totally agree, as a French myself, I found this question quite strange and unacurate on a US History quizz. I guess there are enough facts, places, people on US soil to make a good question with an answer beginning with V...

Level 76

Dec 7, 2018

Dan has posted several History A-Z's of various countries recently, and one noticeable feature of all of them is questions about events that occurred outside their borders. The quiz that does that the least is this one.

Level 36

Mar 9, 2019

My, my, my a nice twist on the "too american centric" complaints!

Level 89

Oct 26, 2022

I'm pretty sure the U.S. didn't even sign the Treaty of Versailles because Congress refused to ratify it.

Level 66

Nov 28, 2018

Surprised that my misspelling "RoanOAK" was not accepted, but eventually got it right.

Level 73

Nov 29, 2018

Roanoke colony was in North Carolina, in what is now Dare County. The Virginia city has nothing to do with the colony that disappeared.

Level ∞

Nov 29, 2018

D'oh! Dumb mistake on my part, now fixed.

Level 78

Mar 11, 2019

At the time that the colony was established that was considered Virginia. Well most of that whole area was Virginia.

Level 70

Nov 29, 2018

I think 'Yank' should do for Yankee, it's more often abbreviated abroad:

Level 69

Nov 30, 2018

Abroad though, it's used to refer to all Americans, not just Northerners.

Level 73

Dec 2, 2018

It should still be accepted as an abbreviation. There are old US songs that use the term Yank as well. E.g. "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank" by Hoagie Carmichael.

Level 88

Dec 7, 2022

It's a shame. I've been called a Yank several times while abroad. I'll never accept it :)

Level 76

Mar 8, 2019

"colonized" would ring more true than "founded" for Liberia. There are plenty of ironies in the history of that country.

Level 81

Mar 8, 2019

There are, but the word "founded" is more accurate. Liberia did not exist prior to it being founded so it could hardly be colonized.

Level 68

Mar 8, 2019

I forgot about the Korean war.

Level 81

Apr 30, 2021

Very good.

Level 75

Mar 8, 2019

Did anyone else think it was "inalienable" and not "unalienable?"

Level 66

Mar 8, 2019

In many cases it is, but the specific quote in the Declaration of Independence uses "unalienable." The two are interchangeable anyway, and I'm sure if this weren't an A to Z quiz specifically looking for a U answer, inalienable would be accepted.

Level 66

Mar 12, 2019

There's actually a joke about it between Adams and Jefferson in the musical "1776", haha.

Level 85

Sep 26, 2024

Glad I'm not the only one old enough to remember that!

Trivia: In what year did that musical debut? It's not 1976 - for both the Broadway version (1969), and the movie (1972).

Level 79

Mar 9, 2019

I'm Malaysian and got 15/26.

Level 75

Mar 9, 2019

Zagruder, Zacruder, Zabruder...sigh.

Level 72

Mar 11, 2019

Typo: "brought pilgrims to American" (should be America).

Level 24

Jan 20, 2020

Don't make it "USA History". While the USA is mainly considered as America, you're including the tip of Canada to the bottom of Argentina. So it would be much more accurate to put USA History A-Z.

Level 81

May 20, 2022

Somehow I briefly thought that Edison’s invention was called a phonophone. I do think that’d be a pretty cool name though :)

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