Important Places in U.S. History

Can you name these cities and towns that played an important part of American history?

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Clue	City
City where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776	Philadelphia
City known as the birthplace of jazz music	New Orleans
The first permanent English settlement in the United States	Jamestown
In the year 1800, this city was by far the most populous in the southern states	Charleston
Francis Scott Key wrote the words to the "The Star-Spangled Banner" while watching a naval battle in this city's harbor	Baltimore
The Battle of the Alamo took place in this city in 1836	San Antonio
At least 25 "witches" were killed in this Massachusetts town in 1692	Salem
In 1848, the population of this city was just 1,000. In just one year, however, it would increase to 25,000.	San Francisco
The main capital of the Confederate States	Richmond
National Guard troops were called in to end segregation at this city's schools in 1957	Little Rock
The bloodiest Civil War battle was fought near this Pennsylvania town	Gettysburg
Cattle drives often ended in this Kansas frontier town	Dodge City
This city in Florida, founded in 1565, is the oldest European settlement in the U.S.	St. Augustine
This Massachusetts town was center of the nation's textile industry in the 19th century	Lowell
Coastal city famous for the summer mansions of the Vanderbilts and Astors	Newport
During WWII, more tanks were made in a single factory in this city than in the entirety of Germany	Detroit
New Mexico art colony where Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams sojourned	Taos
City where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus	Montgomery
The Wright Brothers called this city home. Later, it would be the site of peace accords that ended the Bosnian War	Dayton
Abraham Lincoln practiced law in this city	Springfield

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24 Comments

Level 65

Aug 6, 2015

I got Taos, but wouldn't normally classify it as "important".

Level 90

Jul 2, 2018

No, that's more of a place colonized by photographers the quiz maker likes. It could just as easily be Chadds Ford or Prouts Neck or Key West.

Level 81

Feb 23, 2019

If you include the adobe Native American settlements built there it's actually the oldest continually-inhabited city in the United States.

Level 86

Feb 28, 2022

The arts aren't important?

Level 48

Apr 16, 2016

I briefly hoped this covered some obscure fact I received growing up in Arizona; Oraibi, a Hopi village is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the US. Considerably short of a city, but claim to fame still.

Level 70

May 1, 2017

Generally Quizmaster makes interesting quizzes that make you think a bit. I hope that we see more of these quizzes that make you go "hmm".

Level 73

Aug 18, 2017

Interesting, if very tricky quiz for us non Americans.

Level 81

Jul 2, 2018

Some ideas for cities if anyone makes a sequel: New York, Boston, Levittown (1st suburb), Flint, Dearborn (Ford), Williamsburg, Lexington, Concord, Savannah, Youngstown (steel, mafia), Salt Lake City, San Juan (actual oldest city), Antietam/Sharpsburg, Manassas (Civil War), Yorktown, St Louis (Westward expansion), Kitty Hawk (Wright Brothers), Chicago (many things), Atlanta (Coca Cola), Tombstone, Atlantic City, San Antonio (I forget)

Level 69

Apr 18, 2019

Antietam is a creek, Sharpsburg is a town

Level 81

Apr 18, 2019

town = city for the purposes of this quiz and most others on the site. But yes the answer should be Sharpsburg, and the clue perhaps Antietam.

Level 93

Apr 18, 2019

san antonio is already on this one

Level 81

Sep 23, 2019

I guess I didn't remember the Alamo

Level 43

Oct 6, 2019

Why Atlantic City?

Level 42

Oct 8, 2018

Isn't New York City extremely important because of it's reputation as a immigration hub? What about Cleveland and it's manufacturing or Akron and it's rubber? I would like to think all those were more important then St. Augustine, Dodge City and Taos. Especially New York City and why Oklahoma City just for a terrorist attack that's barely remembered? New York City had a much bigger and much more remembered attack happen on 9/11.

Level 78

Jan 12, 2019

No one is saying that these are the MOST important American cities. Sure, New York is a very important city, but it's also the first city just about anyone in the world will guess on a quiz on American cities, without even looking at the clues. These cities are important as well, in their own ways, and there's nothing wrong with making the quiz just a little more challenging.

Level 81

Feb 23, 2019

I think the quiz maker was probably trying to come up with American cities that were historically relevant but that might not otherwise appear on other quizzes about American cities. New York and Chicago always show up.

Level 76

Mar 8, 2019

One Springfield also does.

Level 81

Mar 8, 2019

Not nearly as often.

Level 38

Jan 23, 2019

Personally, I think Fort Sumter is more famous.

Level 48

Mar 8, 2019

Quiz is incorrectly tagged as "Quizzes by Place > Europe". Hopefully a simple fix.

Level 71

Apr 23, 2019

Could you accept Nola for New Orleans?

Level 73

Apr 25, 2019

No Boston? Chicago? New York City?

Just because these are easy to know definitely does not mean they should be excluded...

Level 68

Jan 13, 2022

I found this quiz very interesting - thank you. I'd say just the right balance of hard and easy for me as a European. Still trying to discover the official definitions for 'city' and 'town' in the US, if anyone can enlighten me?

Level 74

Mar 15, 2022

They are generally used interchangeably in the US. If pressed for differences, towns are generally smaller and/or less important, but that's purely relative. Many parts of the country, people come from "small towns" of pop. <1000 to the "big city" of pop. 2-5000.

Very different from the UK where city has a very specific meaning.

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