What was the purchase price per acre paid by the United States in the Alaska Purchase?
Answer
About two cents per acre
9179 America's 250th Anniversary (America250) Trivia Questions with Answers
9179 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Under what pseudonym were The Federalist Papers published?
Answer
Publius
Where and when was the first transcontinental railroad completed in the United States?
Answer
May 10, 1869, Promontory Summit
Which document governed the United States before the Constitution was ratified?
Answer
Articles of Confederation
Which 1776 document is central to the United States’ 250th anniversary in America250?
Answer
Declaration of Independence
Which 1775 battles are generally regarded as the first battles of the American Revolutionary War?
Answer
Lexington and Concord
What term names the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence in 2026?
Answer
Semiquincentennial
Which river did George Washington cross on the night of December 25–26, 1776?
Answer
Delaware River
Which Revolutionary War battles are widely described as a major turning point of the war?
Answer
Battles of Saratoga
What 1863 proclamation declared enslaved people in rebelling areas to be free?
Answer
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the first major military action of the American Revolutionary War in April 1775?
Answer
Battles of Lexington and Concord
What protest took place in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773, before the American Revolution?
Answer
Boston Tea Party
What was the name of the French gift dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886?
Answer
Statue of Liberty
Which London foundry cast the Liberty Bell, an enduring symbol featured in America250 history?
Answer
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Who commanded the Continental Army during the 1781 Siege of Yorktown, a major America250 milestone?
Answer
George Washington
Which American aviators made the first successful powered airplane flight in 1903?
Answer
Wright brothers
Which U.S. law replaced the Articles of Confederation as the nation’s governing framework?
Answer
United States Constitution
Which committee presented the draft Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress?
Answer
Committee of Five
For America250, which phrase became the opening name for the new nation in the Declaration of Independence?
Answer
United States of America
Which French naval victory helped trap Cornwallis at Yorktown?
Answer
Battle of the Chesapeake
What was the name of the 1778 military pact between the United States and France during the American Revolution?
Answer
Treaty of Alliance (1778)
On what date did the Battle of Trenton, a turning point in the American Revolution, take place?
Answer
December 26, 1776
Which document did the Second Continental Congress adopt on November 15, 1777, during the era commemorated by America250?
Answer
Articles of Confederation
Where was the Liberty Bell hidden during the British occupation of Philadelphia in 1777?
Answer
Allentown, Pennsylvania