Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What U.S. state is home to the towns of Lexington and Concord, site of the first battles in the American Revolution?
Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson immortalized the Battles of Lexington and Concord, both part of the greater Boston, Massachusetts area, as "the shot heard round the world" in his 1837 poem "Concord Hymn."
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2. American inventor ______ Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793, radically altering industrial agriculture in the Antebellum South.
FUN FACT
The word gin in Eli Whitney's cotton gin is short for engine.
- Multiple Choice
3. From which of these countries did the U.S. acquire the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?
The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from France in 1803, the Louisiana Purchase, which effectively doubled the size of the country.
- Multiple Choice
4. In which U.S. city did industrialist Andrew Carnegie establish his namesake steel company in 1892?
Andrew Carnegie sold his namesake Carnegie Steel Company, established in Pittsburgh in 1892, to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for the equivalent of $11 billion in 2024 dollars.
Carnegie is the second-wealthiest American in history.
- Multiple Choice
5. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealed prohibition in 1933?
The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified on December 5, 1933, repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, which had banned the production and sale of alcohol in 1917.
To date, it is the only Amendment to repeal a previous Amendment.
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