History Answers 2

1. What year? Were women first admitted into a US Military Academy?

A. 1982
B. 1936
C. 1976
D. 1879
E. 1992

Answer-(C) In 1976 The US Military Academy at West Point, the US Naval Academy and the US Air Force Academy admitted their first women.

2. How many future Presidents? Served in the Civil War?

A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
E. 9

Answer (C) 7 future presidents served in the military in the Civil War, all on the Union Side- A. Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, B. Harrison, and McKinley.


3. What State? Did the Union officer chosen by Grant to accept the formal surrender of The Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, later became Governor of.

A. Virginia
B. New York
C. Oregon
D. Maine
E. Florida

Answer- (D) On April 12, 1865 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain future Governor of Maine formerly accepted the surrender of arms from the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. The Confederate officer selected by Robert Lee to formerly lay down his armies arms was John B. Gordon future two term Senator and Governor of Georgia.

4. What President? Was an All-American football player in college?

A. Teddy Roosevelt
B. Calvin Coolidge
C. Gerald Ford
D. Ronald Regan
E. John Kennedy

Answer-(C) Gerald Ford was an All-American center at the University of Michigan, turning down pro contracts with the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions to attend law school.

5. In what year? Was segregation made legal.

A. 1902
B. 1889
C. 1896
D. 1822
E. 1789

Answer- (C) On May 18th, 1896 the Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy was a Black man who was refused transport on a white section of a train. His lawyers claimed that this violated the 15th Amendment. The Supreme Court disagreed, and stated that "separate but equal" was constitutional.