Issue 53: February 2018 Edition
PAM FEBRUARY 2018 TRIVIA
1. On February 2, 1848, the U.S. and Mexico signed a treaty giving America all or parts of eight different states. This treaty, which followed the end of the U.S.-Mexico War, was called…
A. The Boundary Treaty of 1848
B. The Texas-Mexico Treaty
C. The Mexico-U.S. Treaty of Limits
D. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
2. On February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, which…
A. Guaranteed the right of all citizens to vote
B. Gave Congress the right to collect federal income taxes
C. Abolished slavery in the United States and its territories
D. Established the election of U.S. Senators by citizens rather than by state legislatures
3. Ninth U.S. President William Henry Harrison, who was born on February 9, 1773, had the shortest tenure of any president at 32 days. He died from…
A. An assassin’s bullet
B. A heart attack
C. Pneumonia
D. An undisclosed disease
4. This famous American, born on February 11 in the mid-19th century, is credited with saying, “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. Thomas Edison
C. Mark Twain
D. John D. Rockefeller
