1. Russia
   France
2. Nigeria
   India

France gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty. The copper statue was given to America in 1886.

1. Eugene V. Debs
   Abraham Lincoln
2. William Henry Harrison
   George Washington

George Washington was America's first president. An opponent of political parties, he was also the only U.S. president to be unaffiliated with one.

1. 52
   50
2. 13
   6

There were 13 stars on the original American flag. Each star represented one of the original 13 colonies.

1. Patrick Henry
   Sojourner Truth
2. Mary Todd Lincoln
   Andrew Jackson

This quote is from founding father Patrick Henry. He was a governor of Virginia.

1. Arizona
   Pennsylvania
2. Delaware
   Massachusetts

Arizona was created later as westward expansion spread from the east coast to the west coast. The original 13 colonies were Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island.

1. Benjamin Franklin
   George Washington
2. John Adams
   Thomas Jefferson

Despite being a renowned polymath, politician and inventor, Benjamin Franklin was never a U.S. president. He did serve numerous other government roles and founded the University of Pennsylvania.

1. William McKinley
   Ronald Reagan
2. Abraham Lincoln
   Andrew Jackson

Abraham Lincoln was president from 1861-1865. He was the 16th president of the United States.

1. Eleanor Roosevelt
   Betty Ford
2. Nancy Reagan
   Abigail Fillmore

Eleanor Roosevelt was the first lady and wife of Franklin Roosevelt. She fought for women's rights, civil rights and New Deal proposals.

1. John Smith
   Penn Norman
2. George Washington
   William Penn

Pennsylvania was founded in 1787 by Quaker William Penn. It means "Penn's Woods."

1. Philadelphia
   Washington, D.C.
2. New York City
   Boston

New York City was the first capital of the U.S. once the constitution was ratified. It was the capital from 1785-1790.

1. Alexander Hamilton
   Thomas Jefferson
2. Samuel Adams
   Paul Revere

Thomas Jefferson wrote the document largely in Philadelphia. It was adopted at the Second Continental Congress.

1. Yes
2. No

It was considered treason by Great Britain, which was considered an extreme measure to be taken by many people. Those in favor of staying a part of Great Britain were called loyalists, and many of them fled the country after the American Revolution.

1. Massachusetts
   Florida
2. Rhode Island
   California

Maine was a district of the state of Massachusetts until 1820. It entered the union as a free state in that year as a part of the Missouri Compromise.

1. Spain
   France
2. Mexico
   Japan

France and Britain have a historic rivalry spanning the centuries. The French decided to back America to hurt Great Britain.

1. Taxation
   Foreign affairs
2. Slavery
   Politics

The northern states had a factory-based economy largely, while the south relied on a farming economy that depended on slave labor. The south fought and lost to keep slaves and maintain their way of life.

1. The shape of the world
   A land bridge to Asia
2. A route to the Pacific Ocean
   Gold

In 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to find a path across the country to the Pacific Ocean. The American west had recently been purchased and President Thomas Jefferson commissioned them to discover it.

1. Abraham Lincoln
   Theodore Roosevelt
2. Thomas Jefferson
   Ronald Reagan

President Theodore Roosevelt began America's National Wildlife Refuge System. He set aside more than 100 million acres for national forests.

1. 3
   25
2. 56
   180

56 men signed this document, risking their lives and livelihoods. Signers include John Hancock and Thomas Jefferson.

1. The Gulf War
   The Iraq War
2. The Korean War
   The Vietnam War

The Korean War was fought from 1950-1953. The war ended in a stalemate and caused over 30,000 American casualties.

1. To announce independence
   To lay out American freedoms
2. To convince colonists to join the cause
   To declare war on France

This document announced that the 13 colonies considered themselves independent of Great Britain and declare war. It said that the colonies had formed a new nation, The United States of America.

1. Florida
   North Dakota
2. Maine
   Kansas

The first textual records of Florida come from Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon. The area was under colonial rule by Spain, France and Great Britain before becoming a U.S. state.

1. Sojourner Truth
   Abigail Adams
2. Susan B. Anthony
   Aaron Burr

Sojourner Truth was an escaped slave who became a prominent abolitionist. She was involved in reform causes including prison reform, universal suffrage and property rights.

1. Africa
   Scandinavia
2. The Mediterranean
   Asia

This country had an influx of immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany during this time. Today, the state is a center of German-American and Scandinavian-American culture.

1. George W. Bush
   Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Warren G. Harding
   George Washington

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to be elected for 4 terms. He is widely considered by scholars to be one of the best presidents of all time due to how his administration coped with The Great Depression.

1. 1920
   1948
2. 1969
   1985

The U.S. Army became desegregated in 1948. This was 3 years after WWII.

1. Left them alone
   Heavily controlled them
2. Founded them
   Helped them govern

For over a century, Great Britain left the colonies to basically govern themselves. During this period of time, they became used to self-rule and were enraged when Britain tried to enforce stricter rules in the mid-1700s.

1. Dick Cheney
   Al Gore
2. Andrew Jackson
   Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson was the vice president from 1961-1963. Following JFK's assassination, he was the 36th president of the United States from 1963-1969.

1. LGBT rights
   Women's rights
2. Civil rights
   None of the above

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, violent police raids on bars and other locations where LGBT people were thought to meet were common. The Stonewall Riots were a reaction to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, and are considered to be the beginnings of the LGBT rights movement.

1. California
   Alaska
2. Delaware
   Massachusetts

Delaware unanimously ratified the constitution on Dec. 7, 1787. It was the first colony to do this, making it the first US state.

1. Thomas Paine
   Gouverneur Morris
2. Benjamin Franklin
   George Washington

Thomas Paine's successful political pamphlet "Common Sense" presented arguments in favor of American Independence. Despite its popularity, he died penniless years later.

1. Deism
   Christianity
2. Atheism
   Hinduism

Deists believe that while God created the world, it does not interfere with minor daily workings, or much at all. Jefferson's beliefs were complex and involved several different philosophies as well as what he considered to be the moral ideas of Christianity.

1. Conscription
   Taxation
2. Poverty
   Slavery

In 1773, patriot group the Sons of Liberty boarded 3 ships in the Boston Harbor disguised as Mohawk Native Americans and threw over 300 chests of tea overboard. This was to protest the Tea Act, which was meant to raise money to bail out the failing East India Company by taxing colonists.

1. Woodrow Wilson
   Harry S. Truman
2. Ronald Reagan
   Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson, known as "Old Hickory," was the 7th U.S. president. He served from 1829-1837.

1. Eugene V. Debs
   Susan B. Anthony
2. Frederick Douglass
   Alexander Hamilton

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland around 1818. He traveled America and the UK giving anti-slavery talks. He advised presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

1. Pennsylvania
   Florida
2. California
   Kansas

In 1803, the US bought a huge chunk of land from France in the Louisiana Purchase. This land would eventually become over a dozen U.S. states, including Louisiana.