Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Quiz Yourself on Connecticut State History

1. Connecticut ratified the Constitution on January 9, 1788, to become what state?

First

Second

Third

Forth

Fifth

2. Oliver Ellsworth, Roger Sherman, and William Samuel Johnson were the Connecticut delegates to the Constitutional Convention. They worked on what compromise to protect small states?

Connecticut Compromise

Connecticut System

Hamiltonian Government

The Virginia Plan

Constitutional Monarchy

3. Connecticut drafted the first of what kind of document in the colonies?

Bill of Rights

Draft of Independence

Constitution

Federalist Paper

Freedom Act

4. Connecticut's official state tree, also known as the Charter Oak, hid what document in 1687 and later become a symbol of American Independence?

Magna Carta

U.S. Constitution

Bill of Rights

Royal Charter

14th Amendment

5. What former hero turned traitor ravaged New London, Connecticut, during the Battle of Groton Heights?

Guy Fawkes

Benedict Arnold

Johnny Tremaine

Oliver Ellsworth

Eli Whitney

6. Connecticut hosted what convention in 1814 which considered secession from the United States?

Hartford Convention

New London Convention

Yale Convention

Bridgeport Convention

Stamford Ten

7. Eli Whitney, a Connecticut native, invented what machine which revolutionized industrial production?

Steam Engine

Cotton Gin

Automated Counter

Synthetic Dye

Polyester

8. Connecticut was one of two states not to ratify what amendment?

Thirteenth

Fourteenth

Sixteenth

Eighteenth

Twentieth

9. The first of what kind of directory was published in New Haven in 1878?

Morse Code Book

Telephone Book

Card Catalog

Dewey Decimal System

Racing Card

10. The world's first what type of transportation was constructed in Groton, Connecticut?

Nuclear Submarine

Steam-powered Engine

Horse-powered Carriage

9-gauge Train

Plant Oil Engine