2011-2012 U.S. History
Question of the Day Archive


"The Boating Party" by Mary Cassatt, 1893
(Source: Wikimedia Commons--public domain)

The following multiple-choice questions are arranged in rough chronological order
and may be used by teachers or students for any purpose.


Topic

Topic Topic Topic Topic Topic Topic Topic
American Indians
Moundbuilders
Anasazi
Eastern Woodland Indians
Ancient Indian Civilizations

The Columbian Exchange European-Indian Contact
The Pueblo Revolt
Seigneur and Habitant System
American Puritanism
Spanish Explorers
Colonial Virginia
Roger Williams &
Anne Hutchinson


Bacon's Rebellion
The Glorious Revolution
Colonial American Women
Colonial Wealth Distribution
The Great Awakening
John Peter Zenger
The American Enlightenment
Navigation Acts Salem Witchcraft Crisis The French & Indian War
Protesting the New Imperial Policies
Results of the Boston Tea Party
Initial Fighting of Revolutionary War
Common Sense Revolutionary War & Vietnam War
The Declaration of Independence
The Commander-in-Chief Yorktown
America's Cincinnatus
Shays' Rebellion
Annapolis Convention
Constitutional Convention
Compromises at the Constitutional Convention
Hamilton's Financial Plans
Pinckney's Treaty
French Revolution in America
Alien & Sedition Acts
Second Great Awakening
The Corps of Discovery
Louisiana Purchase
The Case of the Midnight Judges
Jefferson's Response to Impressment
War of 1812
Jefferson's Legacy
McCulloch v. Maryland 19th Century Transportation
Erie Canal
Republican Motherhood
Growing Sectionalism
Agricultural Specialization
Robert Fulton
American System
Election of 1824
Tariff Controversy
President Andrew Jackson
Jackson's Choices
The Maysville Road Project
Panic of 1837
The Whig Party

Indian Removal
Shakers
Reforms and Reformers
The Mormons
Sources of Reform
Texas Independence Fight
"54° 40' or Fight" Mexican-American War
Mexican-American War
Results of the Mexican-American War
Slavery
1850s Republican Party
1850s: Decade of Controversy
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Election of 1860
Crittenden Compromise
Lincoln's Speeches
Antietam
Confederate States of America
Border States and Slavery
Election of 1864
Slaves Serving in the Civil War
The Confederacy & Great Britain
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Draft Riots
Problems of the Confederacy
Lincoln and the South
Habeas Corpus
Terms at Appomattox
Lincoln's Attitude
Reconstruction Tensions
Andrew Johnson
Compromise of 1877
Western Farmers
Plains Indians
Restricting Immigration
Labor Issues
The 8-Hour Work Day
Railroads
Cutting Industrial Costs
Educational Reform
Urban Problems
City Beautiful Movement
America's Cities
American Literature
W.E.B. Dubois
Populist Party
Muckrakers
Election of 1912
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Anti-imperialism
Spanish-American War
Roosevelt Corollary
War of 1812 & World War I
World War I's Results
Eugene Debs
1920s Economy
1920s Critics
Scopes Trial
1920s Issues
FDR's 1st 100 Days
1930s Economics Issues
Early New Deal Years
New Deal Youth Employment

Old-Age Assistance
FDR & Neutrality
Women Workers in World War 2
Korematsu v. U.S.
World War 2 Conferences
Responding to the Holocaust
Wartime Bureaucracies
Guest Workers
War in the Pacific
D-Day
Hiroshima
Revivalism
Anti-Immigrant Attitudes
War of 1812 & Mexican-American War
Hope
Separation of Church and State
Nuremberg Tribunals
Subversive Activities
Revolt in the Soviet Bloc
Korean War
Containment
1950s Civil Rights
Television in the 1950s
1950s Youth Culture
Science Education
1950s Suburban Women
1960 Presidential Election
Bay of Pigs
Great Society
Civl Rights Unrest
Election of 1968
Watergate
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Roe v. Wade
Affirmative Action
Iran-Contra Scandal
Clinton Impeachment
NAFTA
Operation Desert Storm
2000 Election
 Memorable Presidential Quotes