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American History Trivia Challenge

Test your knowledge of U.S. history with trivia questions covering topics like immigration, civil rights, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Challenge yourself and learn more about key events and figures that shaped America.

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American History Trivia Challenge

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  1. THIS IS Jeopardy

  2. Your Host... With MR. Holzer

  3. Jeopardy Misc. 2 Reconstr-uction Civil Rights Westward Expansion Misc 1. Immig-ration 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500

  4. A journal written by an immigrant about their experiences coming to America would be considered what type of source? A 100

  5. Primary Source A 100

  6. The section of your textbook about what life was like for a cowboy would be considered what type of source? A 200

  7. Secondary Source A 200

  8. Which amendment ended slavery? A 300

  9. 13th Amendment A 300

  10. African Americans who moved west to farm during Reconstruction were called? A 400

  11. Exodusters A 400

  12. What connects the cattle trail to the eastern markets? A 500

  13. Cow Towns A 500

  14. This racist group was created because African Americans became free B 100

  15. The Ku Klux Klan B 100

  16. What were the three things the Southern governments did to try and stop the African Americans from voting? B 200

  17. Poll Tax Literacy Test Grandfather Clause B 200

  18. These laws established segregation B 300

  19. The Jim Crow Laws B 300

  20. Which amendment creates due process and gives African Americans the same basic rights as whites? B 400

  21. 14th – Made all freemen citizens (due Process) B 400

  22. The outcome of the court case Plessy v. Ferguson makes this legal B 500

  23. Segregation – separate but equal facilities are constitutional B 500

  24. Which civil rights leader believes in civil disobedience? C 100

  25. Martin Luther King Jr. C 100

  26. The first 9 African American students to go to a white school were called C 200

  27. the Little Rock Nine C 200

  28. Her arrest started the Montgomery Bus Boycott C 300

  29. Rosa Parks C 300

  30. DAILY DOUBLE DAILY DOUBLE C 400

  31. These programs required corporations and universities to hire/admit a certain number of minorities ? C 400

  32. Affirmative Action Programs C 400

  33. Who was the President responsible for desegregating Little Rock High School? C 500

  34. Dwight D. Eisenhower C 500

  35. What were the homes called that the plains farmers lived in? D 100

  36. Sod Houses D 100

  37. In addition to gold most people went west because the government was giving away free land. What was the name of the act that gave away 160 acres of land? D 200

  38. Homestead Act D 200

  39. The Nez Perce, the Apache, and the Sioux were all moved off their land onto _______________ D 300

  40. reservations D 300

  41. This act tried to force the Native Americans into white society D 400

  42. Dawes Act D 400

  43. During which battle was General Custer killed? D 500

  44. Battle of Little Big Horn D 500

  45. This amendment gave all men the right to vote? E 100

  46. 15th Amendment E 100

  47. Manifest Density, Gold Rushes and Free Land are all examples of what? E 200

  48. Reasons settlers moved west E 200

  49. Who was the President that ended Reconstruction by removing troops from the South? E 300

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