Historical American Figures

• Question 1 out of 10

  Which American figure is known for his “I Have a Dream” speech?

  Malcolm X

  Frederick Douglass

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  Booker T. Washington

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• Question 2 out of 10

  Who was the first American woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

  Sally Ride

  Amelia Earhart

  Bessie Coleman

  Harriet Quimby

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• Question 3 out of 10

  Who is known as the “Father of the American Revolution”?

  Samuel Adams

  Patrick Henry

  Thomas Paine

  Paul Revere

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• Question 4 out of 10

  Who was the founder of the American Red Cross?

  Florence Nightingale

  Clara Barton

  Susan B. Anthony

  Dorothea Dix

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• Question 5 out of 10

  Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Alexander Hamilton

  Henry Knox

  John Jay

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• Question 6 out of 10

  Who was the American General during the Battle of New Orleans?

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Zachary Taylor

  Andrew Jackson

  Winfield Scott

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• Question 7 out of 10

  Who was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize?

  Emily Greene Balch

  Marie Curie

  Jane Addams

  Pearl S. Buck

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• Question 8 out of 10

  Which American aviator was the first to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic?

  Wiley Post

  Amelia Earhart

  Charles Lindbergh

  Howard Hughes

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• Question 9 out of 10

  Who founded the Standard Oil Company?

  Andrew Carnegie

  J.P. Morgan

  John D. Rockefeller

  Cornelius Vanderbilt

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• Question 10 out of 10

  Which American explorer is known for his expedition to the Louisiana Territory?

  Daniel Boone

  Meriwether Lewis

  John Fremont

  Zebulon Pike

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