How well do you know the Land of the Free?
John Adams was a Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States, from 1797 to 1801.
"In God we trust" - the motto of the United States of America, as established in a 1956 law signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Great Depression began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at his family's plantation on Pope's Creek in Westmoreland County, in the British colony of Virginia.
With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. It is believed that, had he not done so, he would have been impeached by the House and removed from office by a trial in the Senate.
E. Pluribus Unum - the meaning of the phrase originates from the concept that out of the union of the original Thirteen Colonies emerged a new single nation. It is emblazoned across the scroll and clenched in the eagle's beak on the Great Seal of the United States.
The newest state is Hawaii, which was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959.
The US Constitution has 27 amendments that protect the rights of Americans.
Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area and the seventh-largest subnational division in the world.
There is a two hour time difference between NY and Los Angeles.
Compared with other US states, Hawaii is somewhat larger than New Jersey, but it would fit into Texas 25 times.
The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City
To put it into flying-time perspective: it takes roughly the same time – give or take an hour – to fly from NYC to LA or to London
John F. Schrank shot Theodore Roosevelt as Roosevelt was leaving a hotel in Milwaukee on his way to make a speech during his Bull Moose campaign in 1912.