9179 America's 250th Anniversary (America250) Trivia Questions with Answers
9179 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What was the 1787 U.S. constitutional agreement called the Connecticut Compromise also known as?
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Great Compromise
Which British commander surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781?
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Charles Cornwallis
What was the December 1773 protest in which colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor called?
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Boston Tea Party
What was the name of the Philadelphia building where the First Continental Congress met in 1774?
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Carpenters' Hall
What 1778 agreement formed a formal military alliance between France and the United States?
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Treaty of Alliance (1778)
Which national park became the world's first national park in 1872, part of the United States story remembered by America250?
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Yellowstone National Park
Which 1803 transaction nearly doubled the size of the United States?
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Louisiana Purchase
What name was given to the first governing framework of the United States, ratified in 1781?
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Articles of Confederation
Who wrote the original draft of the Declaration of Independence?
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Thomas Jefferson
Which 1777 battles are widely regarded as a turning point of the American Revolutionary War?
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Battles of Saratoga
Which 1775 battle saw British forces capture Breed’s Hill after three assaults during the Siege of Boston?
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Battle of Bunker Hill
What term means the 250th anniversary celebrated by America250?
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Semiquincentennial