Sun. Dec 14th, 2025

US General Awareness MCQs

  1. Who wrote the Federalist Papers?

    Options:
    1. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
    2. Madison, Hamilton, and Jay
    3. Lincoln and Grant
    4. Adams and Franklin

    Option: B

  2. When was the Constitution written?

    Options:
    1. 1776
    2. 1787
    3. 1789
    4. 1791

    Option: B

  3. When was the Constitution ratified?

    Options:
    1. 1776
    2. 1788
    3. 1791
    4. 1800

    Option: B

  4. What are the first three words of the Constitution?

    Options:
    1. Life, Liberty, Freedom
    2. In God We
    3. We the People
    4. The United States

    Option: C

  5. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?

    Options:
    1. The President
    2. The Flag and the United States
    3. The Constitution
    4. The Government

    Option: B

  6. Name one war fought by the U.S. in the 1900s.

    Options:
    1. War of 1812
    2. Civil War
    3. World War I
    4. Revolutionary War

    Option: C

  7. Who was President during World War II?

    Options:
    1. Woodrow Wilson
    2. Franklin Roosevelt
    3. Harry Truman
    4. Dwight Eisenhower

    Option: B

  8. Who was President at the end of World War II and dropped the atomic bomb?

    Options:
    1. Harry Truman
    2. Franklin Roosevelt
    3. Eisenhower
    4. Kennedy

    Option: A

  9. Who was President during the Great Depression?

    Options:
    1. Theodore Roosevelt
    2. Franklin Roosevelt
    3. Herbert Hoover
    4. Harry Truman

    Option: B

  10. What event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?

    Options:
    1. Stock Market Crash
    2. Hurricane Katrina
    3. Terrorist Attacks
    4. Invasion of Iraq

    Option: C

  11. Who was President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

    Options:
    1. John F. Kennedy
    2. Lyndon Johnson
    3. Richard Nixon
    4. Ronald Reagan

    Option: A

  12. Who was the first African American President?

    Options:
    1. Martin Luther King Jr.
    2. Barack Obama
    3. Colin Powell
    4. Jesse Jackson

    Option: B

  13. Who was President during the U.S. Civil War?

    Options:
    1. George Washington
    2. Thomas Jefferson
    3. Abraham Lincoln
    4. Andrew Jackson

    Option: C

  14. Name one U.S. American Indian tribe.

    Options:
    1. Zulu
    2. Cherokee
    3. Inuit
    4. Vikings

    Option: B

  15. What movement tried to end child labor and unfair working conditions?

    Options:
    1. Civil Rights Movement
    2. Labor Movement
    3. Tea Party

    Option: B

  16. What was one important thing Abraham Lincoln did?

    Options:
    1. Freed the slaves
    2. Wrote the Declaration of Independence
    3. Discovered electricity
    4. Ended World War I

    Option: A

  17. What was one important thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

    Options:
    1. First Postmaster General
    2. Writing the Bill of Rights
    3. Fourth President
    4. Discovering oil

    Option: A

  18. What did the 13th Amendment do?

    Options:
    1. Freed the slaves
    2. Gave women the right to vote
    3. Lowered the voting age
    4. Allowed income tax

    Option: A

  19. What did the 19th Amendment do?

    Options:
    1. Allowed African Americans to vote
    2. Lowered the voting age to 18
    3. Gave women the right to vote
    4. Outlawed alcohol

    Option: C

  20. What did the 26th Amendment do?

    Options:
    1. Freed the slaves
    2. Set term limits
    3. Lowered the voting age to 18
    4. Gave women rights

    Option: C