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1.Who was the 16th president of the United States?
Ulysses S. Grant
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Millard Fillmore
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Abraham Lincoln
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Benjamin Franklin
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2.What document was the United States founded upon before the ratification of the Constitution?
The Declaration of Independence
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The Articles of Confederation
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The Bill of Rights
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The Magna Carta
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3.Which of the following happened under the presidency of Millard Fillmore?
The opening of Japan's ports
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The completion of the Capitol Building
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The Louisiana Purchase
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The attack on Fort Sumter
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4.Which country was the first to recognize the sovereignty of the United States?
The United Kingdom
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France
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The Netherlands
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Morocco
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5.If the President and the Vice President die, who is next in succession for the presidency?
The Secretary of State
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives
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The Attorney General
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The Secretary of the Treasury
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6.Which of the following presidents did not succeed the presidency when the previous died or left office?
Calvin Coolidge
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Andrew Johnson
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Harry Truman
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7.What did the 19th Amendment to the Constitution do?
Prohibited the sale of alcohol except under specific circumstances
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Ended voting discrimination by sex
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Made slavery illegal
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Determined the presidential line of succession
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8.In which war did the United States first use war balloons?
The Mexican American War
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The American Civil War
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The Spanish American War
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World War I
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9.Which Indigenous American Nation was the last one to be at war (as in both sides used official military force) with the United States?
Navajo
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Cherokee
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Shoshone
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Apache
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10.With which country did the United States fight its first declared foreign war after the Revolutionary War?
British Empire
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France
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Gran Colombia
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New Spain
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11.What event caused the United States to join the Entente in World War I?
Germany sinking The Lusitania with US passengers on board
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The alleged interception of the Zimmerman Telegram
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The German invasion of Belgium
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The Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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12.Which book caused massive changes in the American Food industry?
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith
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13.The United States has only ever lost three armed conflicts it was involved in (not including inconclusive results or civil wars with few American troops.).Which one of these did the United States not lose?
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
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The Formosa Expedition
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The American-Vietnam War
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The War in South Zaire
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14.Which American President was elected by a political machine?
Warren Harding
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Zachary Taylor
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Chester Arthur
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Richard Nixon
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15.Slavery was made illegal in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution except in the case of what?
Actually, the first nation to recognize the USA was the Netherlands (on the island of St. Eustatius [Statia] in the Caribbean) whose governor, Johannes de Graaf returned the 13 gun salute of American merchant ship, Andrew Doria on November 26, 1776.