Question: Which city in North America held the most slaves in the 1700s?
Answer: Charleston, South Carolina

Question: When was as African burial ground discovered after the building of new courthouse?
Answer: 1990s

Question: In what year was John Peter Zenger tried?
Answer: 1735

Question: On what island did Zenger's trial occur?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: In what year was Columbia University chartered?
Answer: 1754

Question: Under what king did the founding of Columbia University occur?
Answer: George II

Question: What was the original name of Columbia University?
Answer: King's College

Question: Which trial in Manhatten helped establish the right of freedom of the press?
Answer: John Peter Zenger

Question: Columbia University of New York was founded in what year?
Answer: 1754

Question: The Stamp Act Congress had a meeting in 1765 in which US city?
Answer: New York

Question: What was the biggest battle of the American Revolution?
Answer: Battle of Long Island

Question: In what borough did the Battle of Long Island occur?
Answer: Brooklyn

Question: In what month and year was the Battle of Long Island fought?
Answer: August 1776

Question: About how many escaped slaves were in New York during the time the British occupied it?
Answer: 10,000

Question: In what year did the American Revolutionary War end?
Answer: 1783

Question: Which battle was the largest battle of the American Revolutionary war?
Answer: The Battle of Long Island

Question: Which borough of New York was the Battle of Long Island fought?
Answer: Brooklyn

Question: When did the English army start to retreat and evacuate NYC during the Battle of Long Island?
Answer: 1783

Question: On what date did the peace conference on Staten Island occur?
Answer: September 11, 1776

Question: Who was the British representative at the Conference House meeting?
Answer: Lord Howe

Question: What notable catastrophe took place under the British occupation?
Answer: Great Fire of New York

Question: In what modern-day borough did the Great Fire happen?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: What noted religious building was destroyed in the Great Fire?
Answer: Trinity Church

Question: Who was the English general who met with Benjamin Franklin on Septermber 11, 1776?
Answer: Lord Howe

Question: Which natural disaster happened after English occupation of Lower Manhattan?
Answer: the Great Fire of New York

Question: In what year did New York become the United States capital?
Answer: 1785

Question: Who was the United States' first President?
Answer: George Washington

Question: In what building did the Supreme Court of the United States first sit?
Answer: Federal Hall

Question: On what street did the writing of the Bill of Rights occur?
Answer: Wall Street

Question: What was the second largest city in the United States in 1790?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Which organization made New York the national capital in 1785?
Answer: Congress of the Confederation

Question: New York City became the first what under the new Constitution of the United States?
Answer: capital

Question: The first president, George Washington, took office in what year?
Answer: 1789

Question: By which year, did New York City become the largest city in the United States?
Answer: 1790

Question: In what year did the state of New York pass a law to free the slaves?
Answer: 1799

Question: What borough was home to a notable population of free African-Americans?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: Along with John Jay, who founded the New York Manumission Society?
Answer: Alexander Hamilton

Question: In what year did the state of New York eliminate slavery?
Answer: 1827

Question: In 1840, about how many African-Americans lived in New York City?
Answer: 16,000

Question: The gradual abolition act in New York was formed in what year?
Answer: 1799

Question: When was slavery completely outlawed in the state of New York?
Answer: 1827

Question: What plan of 1811 spread a grid of streets across Manhattan?
Answer: Commissioners' Plan

Question: In what year did the Erie Canal finish building?
Answer: 1825

Question: What political machine controlled New York politics in this era?
Answer: Tammany Hall

Question: Along with German immigrants, immigrants of what nationality supported Tammany Hall?
Answer: Irish

Question: The Erie Canal was finished being built in what year?
Answer: 1825

Question: What was the name of the first urban landscaped park in the United States?
Answer: Central Park

Question: In what year was Central Park founded?
Answer: 1857

Question: Central park, in 1857, became the first park in America to become what?
Answer: first landscaped

Question: What event brought many Irish immigrants to the United States?
Answer: Great Irish Famine

Question: In 1860, approximately how many people of Irish extraction were in New York?
Answer: 200,000

Question: In 1860, what fraction of the city population was composed of Irish immigrants?
Answer: a quarter

Question: In 1860, what percentage of the city population was composed of German immigrants?
Answer: 25%

Question: What events provoked the immigration of people from Germany?
Answer: revolutions

Question: Which event brought upon a lot of Irish immigrants to NYC?
Answer: Great Irish Famine

Question: How many immigrants that were Irish were living in New York in 1860?
Answer: Over 200,000

Question: Who was the mayor of New York City in 1861? 
Answer: Fernando Wood

Question: What was the commutation fee to avoid being conscripted during the American Civil War?
Answer: $300

Question: People of what ethnicity most visibly participated in the Draft Riots of 1863?
Answer: Irish

Question: About how many people died during the Draft Riots of 1863?
Answer: 120

Question: What was the approximate African-American population of New York City in 1865?
Answer: 10,000

Question: The Draft Riots caused which building to burn down in 1863?
Answer: Colored Orphan Asylum

Question: In what year was the modern City of New York founded?
Answer: 1898

Question: In what year did the subway begin operation?
Answer: 1904

Question: Portions of what modern-day borough were included in the County of New York?
Answer: the Bronx

Question: The subway of New York was first available in what year?
Answer: 1904

Question: In what year did the General Slocum disaster occur?
Answer: 1904

Question: How many people died on the General Slocum?
Answer: 1,021

Question: In what building did the city's deadliest industrial disaster occur?
Answer: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Question: How many people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
Answer: 146

Question: The growth of what organization was prompted by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
Answer: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Question: A catastrophe in 1911 that killed 146 workers was called what?
Answer: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Question: How many non-white people lived in New York in 1890?
Answer: 36,620

Question: What was the name of the Prohibition-era African-American cultural flourishing in New York?
Answer: Harlem Renaissance

Question: What was the population of people in New York that were not Caucasian in 1890?
Answer: 36,620

Question: In the early 1920s, what was the second most highly populated city in the world?
Answer: London

Question: What is the term for a city with a population of over 10 million?
Answer: megacity

Question: Who was mayor of New York during the Great Depression?
Answer: Fiorello La Guardia

Question: For about how many years did Tammany Hall control New York political life?
Answer: eighty

Question: In the 1930s, New York City had more than 10 million people becoming the first what in history?
Answer: megacity

Question: When was construction finished on the United Nations Headquarters?
Answer: 1952

Question: Prior to New York, what city was the center of the world of art?
Answer: Paris