What is the estimated Native American population before contact with European settlers in 1492?

600,000
60,000
60 million
6 million

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What is the name of the Mesoamerican culture of people that flourished from the 14th to 16th centuries in Mexico?

Eloi
Aztecs
Inuit
Mayans

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Who was the 15th president?

Andrew Johnson
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Ulysses S. Grant

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What US state became the first to abolish slavery when it did so in the year 1780?

Pennsylvania
Maine
New York
Vermont

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In what year did Canada officially become a country of its own?

1867
1904
1832
1794

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This large creature came to North America from Asia across the Bering land bridge some 100,000 years ago. It went extinct at the end of the last ice age. What is its name?

Peccary
Castoroide
Mastodon
The woolly mammoth

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What US president signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 that led to the forced displacement of tens of thousands of Native Americans?

James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
John Quincy Adams

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In what year did Canada begin using the maple leaf on its flag?

1867
1965
1942
1928

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On what dates is Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrated in Mexico?

November 1st and 2nd
October 30th and 31st
September 29th and 30th
September 1st and 2nd

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In what year did Greenland become an official part of Denmark?

1933
1953
1969
1947

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Which US president is thought to have given the White House its name?

White House, Washington, D.C., United States

Abraham Lincoln
John F. Kennedy
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt

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In which North American country can you find the crater left by the asteroid believed to have killed off the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago?

Greenland
Canada
USA
Mexico

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What Canadian territory was only recently created in 1999?

Northwest Territories
The Yukon
Nunavut
Alberta

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What US president fathered 16 children?

John Tyler
William Henry Harrison
George Washington
Bill Clinton

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The Mexican War of Independence began in 1810 and ended with Mexico becoming its own country. What year did the war end?

1817
1821
1824
1812

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What is the estimated Native American population before contact with European settlers in 1492?

What is the name of the Mesoamerican culture of people that flourished from the 14th to 16th centuries in Mexico?

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Who was the 15th president?

What US state became the first to abolish slavery when it did so in the year 1780?

In what year did Canada officially become a country of its own?

This large creature came to North America from Asia across the Bering land bridge some 100,000 years ago. It went extinct at the end of the last ice age. What is its name?

What US president signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 that led to the forced displacement of tens of thousands of Native Americans?

In what year did Canada begin using the maple leaf on its flag?

On what dates is Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrated in Mexico?

In what year did Greenland become an official part of Denmark?

Which US president is thought to have given the White House its name?

In which North American country can you find the crater left by the asteroid believed to have killed off the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago?

What Canadian territory was only recently created in 1999?

What US president fathered 16 children?

The Mexican War of Independence began in 1810 and ended with Mexico becoming its own country. What year did the war end?

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