Issue 46: July 2017 Edition
PAM JULY 2017 TRIVIA
Which American Civil War battle began on July 1, 1863?
a. Shiloh
b. Fort Sumter
c. Gettysburg
d. Antietam
Born on July 2, 1908, he was the first African-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
a. Harold Washington
b. Charles Rangel
c. Clarence Thomas
d. Thurgood Marshall
On July 7, 1898, this president signed a resolution annexing Hawaii. In 1900, Congress made Hawaii an incorporated territory of the U.S., which it remained until becoming a state in 1959.
a. Grover Cleveland
b. William McKinley
c. Theodore Roosevelt
d. William Howard Taft
The U.S. Patent Office first opened its doors on July 31, 1790. The first U.S. patent was issued to this man for improvement in “the making of pot ash and pearl ash by a new apparatus and process.”
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Samuel Hopkins
d. Roger Sherman