DULUTH - Test your patriotic merit with this American history quiz, just in time for the Fourth of July. There are some helpful hints here to help you through, lest you find your citizenship should be revoked. Each question comes with a successive letter of the alphabet that is the lead letter in at least one word in the answer.
There are no questions under X or Z, thus the mere 24 you see here.
A
It is believed that this founding father’s hatred for Thomas Jefferson’s vice president eventually led to his death in 1804.
B
With 40 air victories, he is the top ace in war aviation history.
C
The area in New York known as the “Borscht Belt” for much of the 20th century lies in what geographic region?
D
A dry goods store in San Francisco is credited with introducing this truly American fashion item beginning in the 1870s.
E
The 101st Airborne Division, a vital World War II force in the invasion of Normandy in 1944, took on what nickname?
F
In 1938, Congress changed this holiday into an official paid day off for federal workers.
G
This 20th U.S. president was born in Ohio and died in office after being shot 78 days earlier in a Washington D.C. train station.
H
The author of “The Scarlet Letter” is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Massachusetts near Thoreau, Alcott and Emerson.
I
This state was admitted to the Union in 1890 and is known as the “Gem State.”
J
This heavy-hitting catcher from the Negro League teams was the second African American named to the National Baseball Hall of Fame behind Satchel Paige.
K
Whose “abuses and usurpations” are outlined in detail in the Declaration of Independence?
L
A confrontation at this location led to what is considered the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War.
M
Who was the major author of the Bill of Rights and collaborated in writing the Constitution and the Federalist Papers?
N
This is the second-largest city in New Hampshire and is a spotlight during every presidential election cycle before the state primary.
O
This area of the United States was acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase. One theory is that its name is derived from the French phrase for “land of arches.”
P
The Commander of the American Expeditionary Force from World War I is the only living general to receive the rank of “General of the Armies.”
Q
If New York City boroughs were independent cities, this one would be the fourth-largest in the country behind Los Angeles, Chicago and Brooklyn.
R
What is the name of the only national park in North Dakota?
S
This former commander of West Point was a hero during the Revolutionary War but died to little fanfare in London.
T
The forced removal of Native Americans in the 1830s from the southeast portion of the United States to west of the Mississippi is known by what phrase?
U
Fill in the blank in this passage from President Lincoln’s first inaugural address in 1861.
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the ------ , when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
V
A Revolutionary War camp here was known for its deadly winter beginning in late 1777.
W
Who is the only nonfictional woman depicted on a U.S. bank note and the first to grace a postage stamp?
Y
This national park is celebrating its 125th birthday this year.
The Answers (No peeking!)
Alexander Hamilton. He was very outspoken about Aaron Burr, who challenged him to a duel. Burr won.
Maj. Richard Bong of Superior.
The Catskill Mountains.
Denim jeans were distributed through Levi Strauss & Co.
Screaming Eagles .
Fourth of July.
James Garfield.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Idaho.
Josh Gibson.
King George III.
Lexington, Mass.
James Madison.
Nashua.
Ozarks.
Gen. John J. Pershing.
Queens.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Benedict Arnold.
Trail of Tears.
Union.
Valley Forge.
Martha Washington.
Yosemite.
