History Quiz for Kids
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which 1941 event led the United States to enter World War II?
The United Nations was founded
Germany invaded Poland
The Berlin Wall was built
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
2. During the Great Depression, the federal government created jobs programs, banking reforms, and other relief efforts. What was this group of programs called?
The Square Deal
The New Deal
The Great Society
The Marshall Plan
3. Delegates in 1787 wanted a stronger national government while also limiting its power. Which document did they create?
The Mayflower Compact
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address
The United States Constitution
4. A student refuses to give up her bus seat as a protest against segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. Which civil rights leader does this describe?
Rosa Parks
Ida B. Wells
Susan B. Anthony
Harriet Tubman
5. An enslaved person in the 1850s follows secret routes and receives help reaching a place where slavery is prohibited. What network is being described?
The Oregon Trail
The Erie Canal
The Underground Railroad
The Pony Express
6. A woman celebrates casting a ballot in a U.S. presidential election after the Constitution was changed in 1920. Which amendment protected her voting right?
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment
The Twenty-Second Amendment
7. A colonist says, “Parliament taxes our paper and tea, but we have no elected lawmakers there.” Which complaint does this best illustrate?
The quartering of soldiers
Limits on westward settlement
Taxation without representation
Competition with foreign merchants
8. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued an order declaring enslaved people free in areas rebelling against the United States. What was it called?
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Reconstruction Act
The Missouri Compromise
The Monroe Doctrine
9. After the Civil War, lawmakers wanted the Constitution to guarantee U.S. citizenship to people born or naturalized in the country. Which amendment did this?
The Tenth Amendment
The Twelfth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment
10. A map shows the United States becoming much larger in 1803 after acquiring land from France. Which event explains this change?
The purchase of Alaska
The annexation of Texas
The settlement of Oregon Country
The Louisiana Purchase
11. A school district claims that separating students by race is acceptable if its schools seem similar. Which Supreme Court decision rejected that idea in public education?
Marbury v. Madison
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
12. Which issue was most central to the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War?
Slavery and its expansion into U.S. territories
Whether the capital should move west
Whether the country should buy Alaska
Immigration through Ellis Island
13. A newspaper dated July 1969 reports that humans have walked on the Moon for the first time. Which mission achieved this?
Mercury 7
Apollo 11
Apollo 8
Gemini 4
14. In 1869, travelers could cross much of the country faster because railroad lines from the East and West had been joined. What had been completed?
The National Road
The first transcontinental railroad
The Panama Canal
The Interstate Highway System
15. In the late 1800s, a European immigrant arriving in New York Harbor might be questioned and inspected at which station?
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Roanoke Island
Alcatraz Island
16. Which document, adopted in 1776, announced that the thirteen colonies considered themselves independent from Britain?
The Articles of Confederation
The Declaration of Independence
The United States Constitution
The Bill of Rights