CSS Past Papers 2000- History of the USA - 1

CSS Past Papers 2000- History of the USA - 1

1. America was named after?

a) Christopher Columbus
b) Amerigo Vespucci
c) Ferdinand Magellan

2. How many British Colonies declared independence from England in 1776 to form the United States?

a) 13
b) 20
c) 51

3. The Boston Tea Incident took place in?

a) 1770
b) 1773
c) 1789

4. California was settled most rapidly after_____________ was discovered in 1848?

a) gold
b) coal
c) natural gas

5. With which country U.S.A. signed the rush-Bagot Treaty?

a) Britain
b) France
c) spain/STRONG>

6. who succeeded president Abraham Lincoln?

a) Ulysses S. Grant
b) Martin Van Buren
c) Andrew Johnson

7. Alaska was purchased from Russia in?

a) 1857
b) 1867
c) 1901

8. Susan B. Anthony was an outspoken advocate of?

a) Women‟s rights
b) Anti Slavery Movement
c) Transcendentalism

9. Ku Klux Klan was organized in the state of?

a) New Jersey
b) Florida
c) Tennessee

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