Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of U.S.

1. The United States took control of Puerto Rico on October 18, 1898, at the end of what war?

Philippine American War

Russo Japanese War

American Spanish War

Spanish American War

War for Puerto Rico

2. On February 15, 1898, the battleship USS Maine blew up. It started what rallying cry that led to the Spanish-American War?

Remember Cuba!

Save the Maine!

Remember the Maine!

Cuba or Fight!

Remember the Ship!

3. What term was coined during the Spanish-American War?

Yellow Journalism

Yellow Fever

Brushstroke Journalism

Xeno Fever

Jingoism

4. President James Monroe created one of the major tenets of U.S. foreign policy in the Americas that lasted for many decades. It is called what?

Hands Off Doctrine

Good Faith Doctrine

Exclusion Doctrine

Quiet Doctrine

Monroe Doctrine

5. Which future president led the Rough Riders in the famous Battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba?

Franklin Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Calvin Coolidge

William Taft

William McKinley

6. What treaty ended the Spanish-American War?

Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty of Berlin

Treaty of Madrid

Treaty of Guam

7. Who was the first European explorer to visit Puerto Rico?

Vasco da Gama

Cortes

Christopher Columbus

De Soto

Balboa

8. Which Spanish explorer set up the first permanent European colony on Puerto Rico?

Christopher Columbus

Juan Ponce de Leon

Vasco da Gama

Juan de Onate

Pedro de Alvarado

9. Puerto Rico had a booming plantation economy of sugar, tobacco and most especially what commodity?

Rice

Indigo

Seafood

Cartography

Coffee

10. How many territories does the U.S. currently have?

Five

Seven

Four

Two

Eleven