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US History Trivia Questions
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1. Abraham Lincoln served as President of the USA during which years?

2. Which man wrote the Monroe Doctrine?

3. Despite being knocked for his intelligence, George W Bush was the first president to hold what degree?

4. What president was elected by just 30.5% of the people who went to the polls, the lowest winning percentage ever?

5. Despite having won re-election in 1916 because 'he kept us out of war,' who nonetheless plunged the US into WWI?

6. In 1856, what future Confederate leader said that 'slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil'?

7. The Brown v Board of Education National Historical Site is actually Monroe Elementary School, and is found in what city?

8. You might say we have a kakistocracy now. Who rules if you have a kakistocracy?

9. Who seized the U.S.S. Pueblo and held Americans captive for 11 months?

10. Margaret Bourke-White is best known for what?

11. Before politics, Condoleezza Rice was promising student of what instrument?

12. Which old soldier finally faded away for good in Washington, DC, on April 5, 1964?

13. Harry Truman was killed by a volcano when he refused to evacuate his cabin. No, not THAT Harry Truman. What was the volcano?

14. Had this president resigned after his stroke in Kansas, we'd read about President Thomas Marshall. Who soldiered on anyway?

15. What president's lifespan included the administrations oft eh first 16 presidents?

16. In a 1998 New Yorker essay, Toni Morrison called whom American's 'first black president'?

17. Which island is Peter Minuit famous for buying for only 60 guilders, albeit from a Brooklyn tribe called the Canarsee?

18. Who the man that wrote the Monroe doctrine

19. His mother made him wear dresses until he was 5, but she was also the first woman who voted for her son. Who was this boy?

20. Father Damien ministered to lepers on which Hawaiian Island?

21. In what country did American troops led by William Henry Harrison fight the Battle of the Thames?

22. After losing the 'Toledo Wars' in the 1830s, what territory got an upper peninsula from Wisconsin and statehood besides?