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American History quiz
1. Native Americans are called…..
A) Aborigines
B) Indians
C) Vikings
2. The first colony in North America was founded in 1607 at ……., Virginia. A) Boston
B) Plymouth
C) Jamestown
3. This colony was found by…..
A) British
B) French
C) Italian
4. The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth in…..
A) 1492
B) 1620
C) 1621
5. Their ship was called …..and they were from Britain.
A) Santa Maria
B) Bounty
C) Mayflower
6. Until 18th century there were 13 colonies under the rule of…..
A) France
B) Rome
C) Britain
7. Boston Tea Party was the beginning of …..
A) War of Independence
B) Civil War
C) Cold War
8. Declaration of Independence was written and signed by…. A) George Washington B) Thomas Jefferson C) Abraham Lincoln
9. The first US president was…..
A) G. Washington
B) T. Jefferson C) A. Lincoln
10. The rapid movement in 1848 was called….
A) Civil War
B) Klondike
C) Gold Rush
11. In the South slaves worked mainly in/on…..
A) factories
B) cotton fields C) the army
12. An important role in Great Depression time played…
A) Benjamin Franklin B) Franklin D. Roosevelt C) J.F. Kennedy
13. The Great Depression was ended by…..
A) WW II
B)WW I
C)Roosevelt’s New Deal Policy
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14. On 11 September 2001, …. planes were hijacked.
A)10
B)6
C)4
15. One of the planes was crashed into……
A)the Pentagon B)the Statue of Liberty
C)White House
Brief American History
Before the first Europeans came to North America Native Americans, sometimes called Indians, were living there. Modern America
was created by the early European settlers and by the many immigrants who followed them.
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The first colony in North America was founded in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia, by the British. In 1620 the Pilgrims arrived at
Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the ship Mayflower. 102 people sailed to America and their aim was to create a safe religious community
in the New World.
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By the late 18th century there were 13 colonies. Over time the colonists were unhappy about having laws and taxes imposed by Britain
and began to want more control over their affairs. In order to protest about the British tax on tea, a group of Americans dressed as
Indians went onto 3 British ships and threw 342 large boxes of tea into the sea. This incident happened in 1773 and is known as
Boston Tea Party. The War of Independence broke out 2 years later. The following year the Declaration of Independence was
written and signed by Thomas Jefferson. It explained the reasons for wanting to be separate from Britain and officially denied colonial
obligations to England. In 1787 the Founding Fathers, among them Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin,
wrote the Constitution, which set out how the new United States would be governed.
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George Washington was the first American president (1789-97). He’s called “the Father of his Country”. He led the army to success
in the American Revolution. He was elected a second time, but refused to stand as a candidate for a third time and returned to his
home town at Mount Vernon. His memory is honoured by the Washington Monument and the names of the country’s capital city, a
state, many counties, government building, schools, streets, mountains, etc. And his image appears on the dollar note and the 25-cent
coin.
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During the Gold Rush in 1848-9 about 40 000 people moved to California after gold was discovered there. These people hoped to
make fortune. Later the gold rush spread to Canada and Alaska.
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The American Civil War was fought between the northern and southern states from 1861 to 1865. There were 2 main causes of the
war: SLAVERY (should Africans who had been brought by force to the US be used as slaves) and STATES’ RIGHTS (should US
federal government be more powerful than the governments of individual states). The North and the South were very different. The
economy of the South was based on agriculture, especially cotton. Picking cotton was hard work, and the South depended on slaves
for this. The North was more industrial, with a larger population and wealthier. Slavery was illegal in the North.
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected the President. He was against slavery. 11 out of 34 states in the US formed the Confederated
States of America often called the Confederacy. The South fought a long Civil War against the North, but in 1865 the North won. The
South again became part of the US and slavery was made illegal everywhere. The bitter feelings that the war caused, especially in the
South, were not easily overcome and many sometimes still be felt today.
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The Great Depression is a period of severe economic failure in most countries of the world that lasted from 1929 until World War II.
It began in the US when the New York Stock Exchange fell on 29 October 1929, known as Black Tuesday. Many businesses and
banks failed and millions of people lost their jobs. President Franklin D. Roosevelt improved the situation with his New Deal Policy
but the Great Depression was only ended by industrial production for the WWII.
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The September 11 attacks, often referred to as September 11th or 9/11 (pronounced as "nine eleven"), were a series of coordinated
suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the US. That morning, 4 commercial passenger jet planes were hijacked and intentionally crashed
two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Both towers collapsed within two hours. The
hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania
(however the target was either the Capitol Building or the White House. There were no survivors from any of the flights.
Nearly 3,000 victims and the 19 hijackers died in the attacks. The United States responded to the attacks by launching the War on
Terror, invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, who had harbored al-Qaeda terrorists.