American History Mastermind Quiz

• Question 1 out of 10

  Who perfected the moving assembly line in the early 20th century to allow for mass production of an item all could afford?

  Thomas Edison

  Henry Ford

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Andrew Carnegie

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• Question 2 out of 10

  What Founding Father served in Washington’s army and then Cabinet and has a Broadway play named for him?

  Alexander Hamilton

  John Adams

  Thomas Jefferson

  Benjamin Franklin

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• Question 3 out of 10

  Abraham Lincoln delivered this famous message at the site of a major Union army battlefield victory in 1863.

  Gettysburg Address

  Emancipation Proclamation

  Lincoln’s Second Inaugural

  Antietam Address

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• Question 4 out of 10

  American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens from Missouri is better known by this pen name adopted in 1863.

  Lewis Carroll

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mark Twain

  O. Henry

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• Question 5 out of 10

  Which president was assassinated in 1901, leading to Teddy Roosevelt taking office?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Grover Cleveland

  James Garfield

  William McKinley

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• Question 6 out of 10

  What is America’s First State, so named because it was the first to ratify the U.S. Constitution?

  Virginia

  New York

  Delaware

  Pennsylvania

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• Question 7 out of 10

  In what country did aviator Charles Lindbergh land after successfully crossing the Atlantic for his solo flight in 1927?

  England

  France

  Ireland

  Portugal

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• Question 8 out of 10

  What was the name of the space shuttle capsule that exploded in 1986, killing all astronauts on board?

  Discovery

  Challenger

  Columbia

  Atlantis

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• Question 9 out of 10

  Which U.S. President desegregated the military by executive order?

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Harry S Truman

  John F. Kennedy

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• Question 10 out of 10

  This state is the birthplace of Presidents Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Teddy Roosevelt, and two more.

  Virginia

  Ohio

  Massachusetts

  New York

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