Maine History - 1
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1) Who was Maine's first Irish governor?
Seldon Connor
Anson P. Morrill
Edwin Chick Burleigh
Edward Kavanagh
Enoch Lincoln
Ralph Owen Brewster
Samuel Cony
2) Who was Maine's first governor?
William Durkee Williamson
Enoch Lincoln
Hugh J. Anderson
John W. Dana
Samuel Wells
Edward Kent
William King
3) Maine's only trial for blasphemy was held in ...
Portland
South Paris
Augusta
Windsor
Clinton
Sandy Point
St. Albans
4) The snowplow was invented by Don A. Sargent, of ...
Bangor
Houlton
Presque Isle
Fort Kent
Madawaska
Selden
Portland
5) What was the first capital of Maine?
Augusta
Saco
Auburn
Bangor
Daigle
Brunswick
Portland
6) The first townships established in Maine were ...
10 square miles
Houlton and Presque Isle
Portland and Bangor
6 square miles
Allagash and Fort Devin
destroyed during the Aroostook War
destroyed during the Civil War
7) The nation's first gold strike was along the ...
Aroostook River
Allagash River
Swift River
St. John River
coast, near Portland
coast, near Jonesport
White Mountain range
8) Who gave Isle au Haut its name?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Hernando de Cortez
Percival P. Baxter
Leif Eriksson
Henry David Thoreau
Samuel de Champlain
Giovanni da Verrazano
9) Which town was ravaged by a great fire in October 1947?
Eastport
Waterville
Houlton
Van Buren
Bar Harbor
Bangor
Stacyville
10) Who first explored the Maine coast?
Samuel de Champlain
Henry David Thoreau
Leif Eriksson
Edgar Allen Beam
Francis Collins
Giovanni da Verrazano
David Ingram
11) Bar Harbor was first named ...
Hogsport
Hell's Kitchen
Great Heath
Eden
Jasper Beach
Mooseville
Swansport
12) Maine's only bridge that is completely covered by shingles is in ...
Pleasant Point
South Sebec
Robyville Village
Greenville Junction
Enfield Station
Emery's Corner
East Sweden
13) The northern end of the Appalachian Trail is on ...
Rattlesnake Mountain
Cameron Mountain
Frye Mountain
Big Spencer Mountain
Mount Carlo
Blueberry Mountain
Mount Katahdin
14) What was the earliest French possession in North America?
Madawaska
Wolf Island
Hamlin
Calais
Quoddy
Lubec Point
Dochet's Island
15) For whom was the Denny's River named?
Maine Governor Philip Denny
Native-American chief named Denny
Denny Henke, an explorer
Edward Denny, an early settler
Daniel Denny, an Irish settler
Major Thomas Denny
Maine Governor Samuel Denny
16) People of the dawnland
Wiscasset
Macwahoc
Penobscot
Millinocket
Madawaska
Androscoggin
Abenaki
17) The Magic City of the North
Houlton
Presque Isle
Caribou
Winterville
Millinocket
Van Buren
Monticello
18) Where did the first naval battle of the American Revolution take place?
Saco Bay
Machias Harbor
Casco Bay
Hodgdon Island
Rockport Harbor
Ducktrap Harbor
Belfast Bay
19) For whom was Waldoboro named?
General Samuel Waldo
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Governor Waldo Smeets
Colonel Waldo Ward
Sir Waldo Duroc
Sir Peter Waldo
Chief Waldo
20) Millinocket was established as ...
an outpost during the Aroostook War
a granite quarry
a fur trading post
an Abenaki reservation
a fishing village
a site for a paper mill
the first capital of the state of Maine
21) When was Fort Popham built?
1700
1812
1607
1874
1889
1902
1912
22) Place where fish are cured
Wiscasset
Androscoggin
Millinocket
Mattawamkeag
Madawaska
Meduxnekeag
Molunkus
23) Maine's first sawmill was built in ...
Millinocket
Sawyer Corner
Squirrel Island
Hallowell
Standish
Patten
South Berwick
24) Maine abolished the death penalty in ...
1773
1898
1910
1914
1943
1876
1974
25) Where was the first French Jesuit mission in North America?
Lubec
Daigle
Madawaska
Mount Desert Island
St. Agatha
St. David
St. Luce Station
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