Founding Fathers Trivia
Prove you’re as sharp as Franklin’s kite experiment in this bite-sized quiz on the Founding Fathers—no powdered wig required.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
The Louisiana Purchase, which nearly doubled U.S. territory in 1803, expanded the nation west of what major river?
Mississippi
Which Founding Father risked his popularity by defending British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trials?
John Adams
Which influential 1776 pamphlet used plain, populist language to spur colonists toward independence?
Common Sense
Which compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention settled the dispute between large and small states by creating a House with proportional representation and a Senate with equal state representation?
Great Compromise
Which U.S. president’s 1949 inauguration was the first televised live broadcast?
Harry Truman