Test Your Knowledge of American History

American History Trivia: Key Facts and Figures

• James Madison is known as the father of the Constitution.
• The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident between the United States and France in 1797-98.
• The Louisiana Purchase was signed in 1803.
• The Virginia Plan called for representation to be based on population.
• Edmund Randolph was the first Attorney General.
• Daniel Boone founded Boonesborough and discovered Big Bone Lick.
• The 3/5’s Compromise declared that three out of every five slaves would count towards population regarding representation in Congress and taxation.
• The Battle of New Orleans was considered the last great battle of the War of 1812.
• The Federalist essays first appeared in New York newspapers.
• The Tariff of 1816 was a protective tariff designed to protect American industry.
• The Gadsden Purchase was important because it secured land for a southern transcontinental railroad.
• The first innovative educational institution for Black Americans was the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881.