Trivia: Which city was the first capital of the United States?
New York City
Philadelphia
Williamsburg
Washington, D.C.
The correct answer is Philadelphia
So why is this answer correct? : The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in 1774 to discuss America’s independence from Britain. The government moved several times in the following years, to Princeton, New Jersey; Annapolis, Maryland; Trenton, New Jersey; and New York, New York. Washington, D.C. was finally designated as the nation’s permanent capital in 1800.