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U.S. History Multiple Choice #3

Can you answer these multiple choice questions related to American history?
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1. Who came after John Adams as President of the U.S.?
John Quincy Adams ✓
Thomas Jefferson ✓
Lyndon B. Johnson ✓
2. What city's crime syndicate was run by Al Capone?
Chicago ✓
Kansas City ✓
Miami ✓
New York ✓
3. What crime were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of (and executed for)?
Bank robbery ✓
Giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union ✓
The assassination of James Garfield ✓
Witchcraft ✓
4. Why did Ohio's Cuyahoga River gain notoriety in 1969?
It caught fire ✓
It caused the deadly Johnstown flood ✓
Pirates captured several ships on its waters ✓
5. What was notable about Virginia Dare?
She was the first English person born in the New World ✓
She was the first female Senator ✓
She was sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas ✓
She went over Niagara Falls in a barrel ✓
6. What was the middle name of Civil War general William Sherman?
Blackhawk ✓
Pontiac ✓
Tecumseh ✓
He didn't have one ✓
7. What does the holiday Juneteenth celebrate?
Abolition of slavery in the state of Texas ✓
The day that British forces evacuated New York City ✓
The safe return of the Apollo 11 astronauts ✓
The surrender of Japan in WWII ✓
8. Where was the Constitutional Convention held?
Boston ✓
Las Vegas ✓
New York ✓
Philadelphia ✓
9. What was the Watergate Scandal named after?
A branch of the Potomac River ✓
A company that manufactured recording devices ✓
A hotel and office complex ✓
A Presidential advisor ✓
10. Who or what were speakeasies?
Confederate sympathizers living in the North ✓
Illegal bars of the Prohibition era ✓
Poetry readings ✓
Tabloid newspapers ✓
11. What religious group practiced pacificism, gender equality, and celibacy?
Mennonites ✓
Jacobins ✓
Shakers ✓
The celibacy caused them to die out - but they made some great furniture along the way
12. What famous failed car model, launched in 1958, was named for Henry Ford's son?
Edsel ✓
Hercules ✓
Homer ✓
Rudolph ✓
13. Did Sweden ever have colonies in what is today the United States?
Yes ✓
No ✓
Wilmington, Delaware was originally founded as a Swedish colony.
14. Who did the U.S. fight against in the Barbary Wars?
Germany ✓
Pirates on the northern African coast ✓
Spain ✓
The Lakota Sioux ✓
15. What do people falsely claim that Abner Doubleday invented in 1839 at his home in Cooperstown, New York?
A way to communicate with the deceased ✓
Baseball ✓
Blue jeans ✓
The revolver ✓
Freestatebear
+10
Level 85
Feb 26, 2020
If you're in the Wilmington, Delaware area, I recommend visiting the Kalmar Nyckel Shipyard which works to preserve the history of the Swedish Colony. They have a full-size reconstruction of the Kalmar Nyckel, one of the tall ships that brought the colonists to the area in four separate voyages, the first in 1638. When not in port, they sail on "goodwill tours" around the world.
IsleAuHaulte
+16
Level 89
Feb 26, 2020
If you're in the Wilmington, Delaware area, I recommend locking your doors.
IsleAuHaulte
+12
Level 89
Feb 26, 2020
All 3 are correct for who came after John Adams as President. 1963 was after 1799 by any measure. Who immediately came after or succeeded John (no Q.) Adams as President?

Sorry to be be a pedantic d.b. on JetPunk, but that's open ended. Whoever wins in 2024 will be after John Adams.

Quizmaster
+33
Level ∞
Feb 27, 2020
All featured quizzes assume common sense on the part of the quiz taker.
ctleng76
+4
Level 65
Mar 12, 2020
I would usually agree with you regarding common sense, but at first I thought it was a trick question because of the ambiguitiy. I agree that the word "immediately" would help.
Maximirb13
+2
Level 75
Feb 17, 2021
John Adams is the second president so it would be impossible to have only one answer if it was not immediately after, but just anyone after Adams.
RuthlessCosmo
+3
Level 72
Dec 17, 2023
My eighth grade history teacher told us that he started being more careful in wording quiz questions after one of his students answered the question "Can you describe the terms of the Versailles treaty" by writing "Yes."
Koopa
+2
Level 77
Dec 17, 2023
I agree with Isle. You have to word it correctly.
cornflakesfu
+3
Level 86
Feb 27, 2020
If the Constitutional Convention had been held in Vegas, I would imagine the Constitution would have ended up being a very different document indeed . . .
mf3
+5
Level 87
Mar 10, 2020
But the current administration would have fit it much better.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 82
Mar 12, 2020
The one I didn't know I guessed the group that I didn't remember hearing of before, assuming that if they were celibate they wouldn't have been around for very long. That was the right answer.
McKenzieFam
+2
Level 63
Jan 31, 2024
Celibacy will do that to a group
znmex3r
+2
Level 27
Oct 14, 2020
Baseball was invented just around the corner from me in England - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-48902381
drewcorleone
+5
Level 52
Jan 19, 2021
#7 could be written better. Juneteenth commerates the date that news of emancipation first made its way to Texas.
jmellor13
+1
Level 67
Dec 17, 2023
It wasn't really "news." Everyone knew the Union had abolished slavery long before then. It was when the Union troops made it to Galveston and liberated the slaves there.
SadDuck
+2
Level 68
Dec 18, 2023
That is not correct. The slaves in Texas did not know about the Emancipation Proclamation until Juneteenth, when notice of it reached Texas. No, "everyone" did not know about it before then. And Union troops had been in Galveston during the Civil War long before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
RJG
+2
Level 60
Jul 3, 2023
i got 4/15 lol
Chick0nPlaze
+1
Level 29
Dec 17, 2023
3/15 here
rupertvinder
+1
Level 65
Sep 24, 2023
Could there be a different wording other than "New World?"
Andrew169
+2
Level 73
Jan 8, 2024
The Shakers had a large community in my hometown back in the day. Some of their buildings still remain and there is a monument to their memory. Most of their land was used in the current era to construct three prisons and a Lego manufacturing facility.
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