The newlywed Washington's moved to their home called
Downton Abbey
Walnut Grove
Mount Vernon
Monticello
2. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What was George Washington's wife name?
Martha
Dolly
Abigail
Catherine
3. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
10
5
8
12
4. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Madison's draft of this document and his revolutionary three-branch federal system became the basis for the American Constitution of today?
Rhode Island Plan
Georgia Plan
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
5. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
James Madison's nickname was:
Mr. President
El Presidente
Father of the Declaration
Father of the Constitution
6. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What was James Madison's wife name?
Martha
Dolly
Abigail
Catherine
7. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What was John Adams's wife name?
Martha
Dolly
Abigail
Catherine
8. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
The first President to occupy the new, but unfinished President's Mansion
Washington
Adams
Madison
Jefferson
9. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, what two presidents died?
Washington and Adams
Adams and Jefferson
Jefferson and Madison
Madison and Monroe
10. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
This was Thomas Jefferson's slave plantation?
Monticello
Walnut Grove
Mount Vernon
Princeton
11. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Wrote this document that the Second Continental Congress deleted nearly a fourth of the text - changes that Jefferson resented?
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Stamp Act
12. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
This was the first time in history that the United States flag was raised in victory on foreign soil?
Battle of Derna
First Barbary War
Second Barbary War
War of 1812
13. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What was America's first significant overseas war?
First Barbary War
Second Barbary War
War of 1812
Battle of Derna
14. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
U.S.S. Constitution earned this nickname: "
Old Ironsides
New Constitution
Titanic
Frigate
15. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
This Treaty ended the war of 1812?
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of London
Treaty of Yorktown
16. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Francis Scott Key was so inspired by the sight that he wrote a poem that later became "The Star Spangled Banner." What did he call his poem?
All that Jazz
Yankee Doodle
The Defense of Fort McHenry
The Defense of New Orleans
17. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Monroe's presidency was also called the "Era:
of Awesomeness"
of Prohibition"
of Sedition"
of Good Feelings"
18. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
This was the third president to die on the 4th of July?
Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
19. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Monroe proclaimed the Americas should be free from future European colonization and the United States' intention to stay neutral in European wars with this decree?
Monroe Doctrine
Monroe Declaration
Monroe Decree
Monroe Decimation
20. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Van Buren started this political party?
Republican
Know Nothing
Democratic
Whig
21. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
1832 U.S. Supreme Court decision which ruled that Georgia could not impose its laws upon Cherokee tribal lands
Worcester v. Georgia
Brown v. Board of Ed.
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
22. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
The first attempt to kill a sitting President of the United States was made against
Jackson
Van Buren
Monroe
Adams
23. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Who wrote the Monroe Doctrine?
Jackson
Van Buren
Monroe
Adams
24. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
In the Presidential election of 1824, Jackson had the most electoral and popular votes. Who won the election?
Jackson
Van Buren
Monroe
Adams
25. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
The "corrupt bargain." Was a deal struck between Henry Clay and �
Jackson
Van Buren
Monroe
Adams
26. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
The Mormon pioneers were members of ______________, who migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah
the Quaker Church
the Puritian Church
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Lutheran Church
27. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
John Henry
Simon Bolivar
28. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Who made the steamboat Clermont?
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
John Henry
Simon Bolivar
29. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
This African American from folklore was a real steel-driving man?
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
John Henry
Simon Bolivar
30. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
What does shipshape mean?
Good Condition
Ready to Sail
Mint Condition
Salty
31. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Who worked out the Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams
John Jay
John Marshall
32. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Whose nickname was "the Liberator?"
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
John Henry
Simon Bolivar
33. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
What Supreme Court Chief Justice gave the ruling that in the McCulloch v. Maryland case as well as the Gibbons v. Ogden case which both helped to give the Federal government more power over state level government?
Henry Clay
John Marshall
John Jay
John Quincy Adams
34. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Polk is the only Speaker of the ___________________________ to be elected President of the United States.
House
Senate
Chamber
Supreme Court
35. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
The ________________________ in 1848, ended the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of Cuidad
36. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Which President admited Texas to the Union
Polk
Jackson
Harrison
Taylor
37. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Tyler had thus become the _______________ U.S. vice president to assume the office of president upon the death of his predecessor
First
Second
Third
Fourth
38. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Tyler's plantation originally named "Walnut Grove." He renamed it "______________________________________" to signify that he had been "outlawed" by the Whig party
Sherwood Forest
Downton Abbey
Abbey Road
The Styx
39. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
He was then elected to the ____________________ of the Confederate Congress, but died in Richmond, Virginia before he could assume office.
Supreme Court
Governor
Senate
House of Representatives
40. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
His final words were "I am going now, __________________________________________________________."
Peace, I'm out
It's about time
Perhaps it is for the best
send my love to Sarah
41. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Fillmore appointed _________________________ as the first governor of the Utah Territory
John Smith
Steve Young
Martin Luther
Brigham Young
42. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Millard Fillmore commanded the Union ________________________ during the Civil War
Continentals
Globetrotters
Rebels
United
43. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
His last words were alleged to be, upon being fed some soup, "_______________________________.
The nourishment is palatable
It is finished
Now I can go
I love Chicken Noodle Soup
44. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Harrison's campaign slogan?
Vote for Ike
We Polked you
God save us from the Whigs
Tippecanoe and Tyler too
45. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Who was the first American president to die in office?
Taylor
Harrison
Washington
Garfield
46. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
This battle turned Taylor into a hero
Taco Truck
Buenas Noches
Buena Vista
Monterrey
47. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
What was the name of Taylor's beloved horse?
Old Ironsides
Silver
Trigger
Old Whitey
48. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
The Wilmot Proviso would have promoted slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
TRUE
FALSE
49. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
*Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. It repealed the _______________ and reopened the question of slavery in the West
Missouri Compromise
Great Compromise
Adams-Onis Treaty
Constitution
50. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Who wrote the Commentaries on the Laws of England?
Blackstone
Moses
Hooker
Locke
51. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
___________________ debates are considered the most famous political debates in American history.
Lincoln-Adams
Adams-Jefferson
Darby-Douglas
Lincoln-Douglas
52. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
1846 Oregon Treaty established the ________________ parallel as the northern boundary of the western U.S
42
49
54
108
53. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
The Dred Scott Decision held that the United States Congress had no authority to prohibit ______________ in federal territories
slavery
abortion
idolatry
bigamy
54. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
James Buchanan denied the legal right of states to secede but held that the Federal Government legally could not prevent them, and then watched silently as ___________________ was the first state to secede
North Carolina
Virginia
Texas
South Carolina
55. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Who served the shortest term of any American president?
Kennedy
Adams
Harrison
Taylor
56. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
______________ was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery in the United States.
Blackhawk Down
Bleeding Kansas
Civil War
War of 1812
57. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
One of Taylor's daughters, Sarah Knox Taylor, decided to marry in 1835 ___________________________________, the future President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Alexander Stephens
Robert E. Lee
Thomas Jackson
58. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What was George Washington's wife name?
Martha
Dolly
Abigail
Catherine
59. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
What two Presidents are depicted in the famous painting of "Washington Crossing the Delaware"? Washington and