American History Flashcards
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This volunteer group was born in may 1898 near the bar in San Antonio’s Menger Hotel; it existed for just 133 days
the Rough Riders
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In December 1974 this former New York governor was sworn in as Vice President
Rockefeller
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1951 he told a joint session of congress that he “tried to do his duty as god gave him the light to see that duty”
(Douglas) McArthur
$1800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This political party founded around 1789 stood for a strong central government
the Federalists
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| His foes said that in 1877 he agreed to withdraw remaining federal troops from the south in return for electoral support
(Rutherford B.) Hayes
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1917 the U.S. purchased the islands of St. Croix, St. John & St. Thomas from this country for $25 million
Denmark
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| By 1942 FDR had appointed 7 new men to this body: it took a while, but he got the packing he had wanted
the Supreme Court
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Congress adopted this document in 1777, but it was not fully ratified by the states for another 4 years
the Articles of Confederation
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Slaves, molasses & rum were exchanged in the 3 arms of the colonial practice known as this “trade”
the triangle trade
$4000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| “Our flag still waves proudly from the walls”, William B. Travis said of it, “I shall never surrender or retreat”
the Alamo
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a map.</a>) The Oregon Trail started at Independence, Missouri and crossed the Great Plains by following this river
the North Platte River
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Nov. 9, 1906 Teddy Roosevelt left the U.S. to personally see the progress on this engineering project
the Panama Canal
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The British party of this name aimed to limit the king’s powers; the U.S. party hoped to limit “King Andrew” Jackson
the Whigs
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of New England on the monitor.</a>) In May 1643, to discourage attacks by the Dutch & others, the United Colonies of New England was formed by 4 Puritan colonies: Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven & <a>this</a> one
Plymouth
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 15, 1972 while campaigning in Laurel, Md., this Alabama governor was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer
George Wallace
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1948 Whittaker Chambers implicated this State Department official as an espionage agent for the Soviets
(Alger) Hiss
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln authorized this govt. agency; its main job then was to protect against counterfeiting
the Secret Service
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| You’re in the Army now–in 1940 FDR instituted the first peacetime one of these in U.S. history
the draft
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This term for a mechanical device can also be an organization running city politics, like NYC’s Tammany Hall
a machine
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Edward Brooke was the first African American to hold this post for a state; Eric Holder is the first federal one
Attorney General
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| <a>Buzz Aldrin & Jim Lovell</a> do look like <a>twins</a> as they prepare for a mission in this 1960s program
Gemini
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This man’s 1807 steamboat run up the Hudson led to an 1824 Supreme Court decision on interstate commerce
(Robert) Fulton
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself
Gerald Ford
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The area that’s now the State of Indiana was acquired in this war
the Revolutionary War
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| History was made on December 1, 1955 when bus driver James Blake called the police & had this person arrested
Rosa Parks
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1818 U.S. troops sacked Pensacola as they marched into this Spanish territory; soon it was ours
Florida
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| African Americans, 13% of the U.S., were nearly twice that percentage of U.S. troops in this 1990-91 war
the First Gulf War
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1960 the last of these locomotives was retired from general use in the U.S. & Diesel ones took over
steam engines
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the 1600s most of New York State was occupied by this Native American confederacy
the Iroquois
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1899 Secretary of State John Hay proclaimed this “welcoming” policy to preserve U.S. trading rights in China
open-door policy
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Between 1856 & 1860, 2,962 of this faith set out from Iowa & Nebraska to Utah in the Handcart Migration
Mormonism
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, “The world must be made safe for” this
democracy
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 20, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this transportation method as a way to achieve school integration
busing
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John O’Sullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USA’s right to cover the continent
Manifest Destiny
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt.
the Alien & Sedition Acts
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This state’s been “on my mind” since it entered the Union 3 times, in 1788, 1868 & 1870
Georgia
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this
income
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her
Dolley Madison
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Guerrilla leader Francis Marion earned this nickname for his daring raids from the South Carolina marshes
the Swamp Fox
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Name that completed an 1856 Republican slogan, “Free soil, free speech, free men and…”
Fremont
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the last week of the John Tyler administration, this republic was offered statehood
Texas
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When the British approached, the Concord Militia didn’t know about the skirmish at this place earlier that day
Lexington
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| WWI sales of “Liberty” these, whose posters showed the statue, raised more than $15 billion
bonds
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| You didn’t want to make the mistake of following the south instead of the north platte on this pioneer trail
the Oregon Trail
$1500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The U.S. supplied materiel to its allies during WWII through this 1941 Congressional act
the Lend-Lease Act
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Now sounding oxymoronic, these alliterative Republicans were the party’s anti-slavery wing in its early years
the Radical Republicans
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It was the main cause of the 1803 jump in the national debt to $86.4 million
the Louisiana Purchase
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After General Cornwallis Surrendered at Yorktown, this American traitor accompanied him back to England
Benedict Arnold
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This January 1, 1863 document liberated all slaves in regions still under Confederate control
the Emancipation Proclamation
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1609 this captain was injured in a gunpowder explosion & lost his leadership role in Jamestown
John Smith
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The “New Deal” refers to the economic recovery & social reforms implemented by this U.S. president
Franklin Roosevelt
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1898 Americans were urged to “remember” this battleship that sank in Havana harbor, leading to war with Spain
the Maine
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Witchcraft trials held in this town in 1692 led to the hangings of 19 people
Salem
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname during the Battle of Manassas, also called the Battle of this creek
Bull Run
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| These “Articles” served as the basis of our national government from 1781 to 1789
the Articles of Confederation
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When the Mexican War began in 1846, the Army of the West used this trail to invade New Mexico
the Santa Fe Trail
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Cleanup of this Pennsylvania nuclear power plant following the 1979 meltdown didn’t end until 1993
Three Mile Island
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 16, 1773 American patriots dumped 342 chests of tea into this city’s harbor
Boston
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Abraham Lincoln died across the street from this theatre on April 15, 1865
Ford’s Theatre (the Ford Theatre accepted)
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In May 1844 he sent a telegraph message using the code he’d also invented
Morse
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Rolfe came to the new world to grow this cash crop; picking up Pocahontas was a bonus
tobacco
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This president said fear itself is “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts”
FDR
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This famous transaction in 1803 doubled the territory of the U.S.
the Louisiana Purchase
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the 1760s these 2 surveyors used milestones to mark the boundary line between Maryland & Pennsylvania
Mason & Dixon
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of this U.S. president in 1974
Nixon
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 14-letter term refers to the period of readjustment & rebuilding after the Civil War
Reconstruction
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Tragically, in the 1830s, some 4,000 members of this Indian tribe died during a forced march known as the Trail of Tears
the Cherokee
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1899 President McKinley took a turn in the Locomobile, a car made by Stanley & propelled by this
steam
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Andrew Jackson was one of the landowners who founded this Tennessee town overlooking the Mississippi in 1819
Memphis
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Victor Marie du Pont served as a captain of this state’s volunteers in the War of 1812
Delaware
$3000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When this convened in May 1787, Adams was in London, Jefferson was in Paris & Patrick Henry refused to attend
the Constitutional Convention
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Americans began to oocupy this even before we could send Russia the $7.2 million we paid for it
Alaska
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Henry Laurens, Thomas Mifflin & Richard Henry Lee were presidents of this body that only lasted for about 15 years
the Continental Congress
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This legislative body first met on March 4, 1789 in New York City, but only 8 of its 22 members were present
the U.S. Senate
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This pact among the U.S., Mexico & Canada took effect in 1994 & aims to eliminate tariffs by 2008
NAFTA
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the 1880s the Knights of this gave way to the American Federation of this representing workers
Labor
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1849, Thomas Ewing, “The Logician of the West”, became the USA’s first Secy. of this Cabinet Dept.
the Interior
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This committee that once claimed 800,000 members was dissolved Dec. 11, 1941
the America First Committee
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Gen. Charles Lee was relieved of command after ordering a retreat at this 1778 New Jersey battle
Monmouth
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Escaped slaves in the 1850s & draft dodgers in the 1960s mainly headed to this country
Canada
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Feb. 15, 1901 Carry Nation wrecked one of these establishments with a hatchet
a bar (or a saloon)
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A fire in 1851 destroyed some 35,000 volumes in its collection
the Library of Congress
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the first census conducted in 1790, this state, with nearly 692,000 people, was the most populous
Virginia
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Seen <a>here</a> at a Senate hearing, he was the first U.S. Attorney General to be convicted of a felony
John Mitchell
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Nov. 11, 1918, Pvt. Henry Gunther became the last American casualty in this war
World War I
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Remarkably, there were more than 60 survivors when this Zeppelin crashed in New Jersey in 1937
the Hindenburg
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Elected the 19th U.S. president in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was a member of this political party
Republican
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Ronald Reagan Library) This man awarded the Medal of Freedom to Ronald Reagan on January 13, 1993
George H.W. Bush
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Indian “king” for whom a war against American colonists was named was tracked down & killed in 1676
Philip
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A 1928 campaign slogan promised this “in every pot and a car in every garage”
a chicken
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Years of political rivalry led to the July 11, 1804 duel between these 2 men
Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1776 this silversmith set up a mill to make gunpowder after the colonists ran out of it at Bunker Hill
Paul Revere
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Confederate States of America were established in 1861 in this city, the first Confederate capital
Montgomery, Alabama
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This leader of the Green Mountain Boys was a champion for the creation of the Green Mountain State
Ethan Allen
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On February 15, 1898 the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in this Cuban capital’s harbor
Havana
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This “King of the Wild Frontier” once claimed to have killed 105 bears during a few months in 1825
Davy Crockett
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The “War on” this, approved by Congress in August of 1964, included VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America
poverty
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| What’s known as the second of these programs began with FDR’s January 4, 1935 message to Congress
the New Deal
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Smith was among the early members on the Council of Seven that governed this Virginia colony
Jamestown
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| WAC, the Women’s Army Corps, was created during this war
World War II
$5000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1986 he became the first Italian-American to sit on the Supreme Court
Antonin Scalia
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| What was once the proposed state of Franklin became part of this new state in 1796
Tennessee
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After serving as postmaster general in 1921 & 1922 he became “czar” of the motion picture industry
Will Hays
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1807 Congress passed this act that forbade American ships from trading abroad; it lasted just over a year
Embargo Act
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1876 battle in Montana is also known as Custer’s Last Stand
Little Big Horn
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the late 1600s this Asian grain became the main crop of the Carolina coastal lowlands
rice
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1972 George McGovern called this president’s administration the “most corrupt” in U.S. history
Richard Nixon
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1813 this hero of Tippecanoe defeated Tecumseh at the Thames River in Canada
William Henry Harrison
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1664 the Duke of York granted land west of the Hudson River to his supporters; it was named this
New Jersey
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Contrary to myth, Washington didn’t throw one of these across the Potomac; there weren’t any when he was young
silver dollar
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1774 New Jerseyites dressed as Indians burned this in Greenwich; a similar “Party” occurred earlier in Boston
tea
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1901 the Senate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, allowing the U.S. to build this in Central America
the Panama Canal
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 1, 1898 Commodore Dewey defeated the Spanish Pacific fleet at the battle of this Philippine bay
Manila Bay
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 10, 1692 this colony founded by Cecil Calvert made the Anglican Church its official church
Maryland
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1805 this territory was created from the Indiana one, with all or parts of the lower & upper peninsulas
Michigan
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In May 1980 at least 26 people were killed when this volcano in Washington erupted
Mt. St. Helens
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In September 1664 this governor of New Amsterdam surrendered to the British, ending Dutch power in the New World
(Peter) Stuyvesant
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Gettysburg Cemetery.</a>) In 1863, Lincoln dedicated this cemetery by saying that “we cannot consecrate–we cannot” do this to “this ground”
hallow
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A 1963 treaty with Mexico settled a boundary dispute between Ciudad Juarez & this Texas city
El Paso
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| From 1757 to 1762 this man was ambassador extraordinaire of the American colonies to Great Britain
Benjamin Franklin
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Jan. 19, 1977 President Ford pardoned this woman who’d been convicted of treason in World War II
Tokyo Rose
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Lanterns hung in this “Old” church warned patriots of an impending attack in April 1775
the Old North Church
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| (Alex: Here’s Cheryl at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York) On November 28, 1946 the Allied Council adjourned their peace talks here at the Waldorf for a dinner of this
turkey for Thanksgiving
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This N.Y. woman’s 1970 campaign slogan was “This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives!”
Bella Abzug
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After his 1859 hanging, Civil War troops sang of this abolitionist’s body “mouldering in the grave”
John Brown
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this
Income
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Plessy vs. Ferguson, which upheld segregation, was overturned by this 1954 case
Brown v. Board of Education
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During WWII America won its 1st major victory over Japan in this naval battle, about 1,200 miles from Hawaii
Midway
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Bushrod, the favorite nephew of this president, became a Supreme Court justice in 1798
George Washington
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Custer’s Last Stand is also known by the oxymoronic name “Little Big” this
Horn
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the 1950s, if your button said, “I Like Ike”, he was your man
Dwight D. Eisenhower
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Born in Tennessee, Davy Crockett died in what’s now this state
Texas
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| William Cody’s 2-word nickname, or perhaps what he sent out to his clients at the end of each month
“Buffalo Bill”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Famous 1863 speech by President Lincoln that began, “Four score and seven years ago…”
the Gettysburg Address
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It’s the year America celebrated its bicentennial
1976
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Davy Crockett was among nearly 200 men who died defending this mission-fortress in San Antonio, Texas
the Alamo
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After journeying 4,000 miles, this pair’s expedition finally reached the Pacific Ocean in November 1805
Lewis & Clark
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 this 1st permanent English settlement in America was burned to the ground
Jamestown
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1939 this state finally finished paying off a $12.4-million debt to the state from which it had separated
West Virginia (paid debt to Virginia)
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| I’ve had it “on my mind” that this state has joined the Union 3 times, in 1788, 1868 & 1870
Georgia
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A federal law from 1950 prohibited the labeling of colored oleo as this
Butter
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Dept. of Agriculture began a new version of this program in 1964; by 1975 it was helping over 17 million people
Food stamps
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This commodore became a friend to Japan in 1854, showing them the telegraph & a daguerreotype camera
Matthew Perry
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Name that completed an 1856 Republican slogan, “Free soil, free speech, free men and …”
(John C.) Fremont
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In September 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that he acted alone in JFK’s assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On December 20, 1860, as a result of Lincoln’s election, this state seceded from the Union
South Carolina
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her
Dolley Madison
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1916 President Wilson sent this brigadier general into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa
John “Black Jack” Pershing
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1932 this Republican was elected governor of Kansas; he won reelection in 1934
Alf Landon
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY “X” ||| In 1938 Chester Carlson didn’t copy off the guy sitting next to him when he invented this process
Xerography/Xeroxy
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY “X” ||| In 1954 he was appointed chief minister of the Nation of Islam’s main temple in Harlem
Malcolm X
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY “X” ||| Founded in 1831, it’s the oldest Catholic institution of higher learning in what was the NW Territory
Xavier University
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY “X” ||| This “affair” caused a quasi-war between France & America in 1798
“X Y Z” Affair
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY “X” ||| On Aug. 22, 1963 Joe Walker took this rocket plane to a new record altitude of 66 1/2 miles
X-15
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 2 forts were founded in Idaho in 1834: Fort Hall & this one that bore the name of the future capital
Fort Boise
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Decade that saw the Freedom Summer & the Freedom Riders
1960s
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The only state Reagan didn’t carry in 1984 was this one, Mondale’s home state
Minnesota
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It’s the war that was opposed by some Copperheads
Civil War
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The land purchase he negotiated with Mexico was in part intended for a cross-country railroad he wanted to build
James Gadsden
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1692 the Spanish regained control of this future New Mexico capital from the Pueblo Indians
Santa Fe
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1639 the Court of Massachusetts ordered that “The Colledge…to bee built at Cambridg” be called this
Harvard
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The political slogan “As” this state “goes, so goes the nation” dates back to the 1880s
Maine
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1857 antislavery forces were set back when the Supreme Court decided the case of this man vs. Sandford
Dred Scott
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On July 31, 1972 this Missouri senator withdrew as McGovern’s running mate because of earlier psychiatric care
Thomas Eagleton
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 18, 1775 he was captured by the British but released; he had to walk back to Lexington
Paul Revere
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On September 8, 1974, he was granted “A full, free and absolute pardon”
Richard Nixon
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1824 Andrew Jackson received more popular & electoral votes, but the House declared this man president
John Quincy Adams
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Hostilities in the Spanish-American War ended when Manila surrendered to General Merritt & this admiral
George Dewey
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In May 1692 this village’s jails were filled with witchcraft suspects, eventually totaling 150
Salem, Massachusetts
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1900 Sanford B. Dole became the first governor of this U.S. territory
Hawaii
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During the naval battle for this Alabama bay, David Farragut uttered, “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”
Mobile Bay
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1888 he won the presidency using the campaign song “Grandfather’s Hat Fits Ben”
Benjamin Harrison
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During the War of 1812, he had command of 3 brigs, 5 schooners & a sloop on Lake Erie
Oliver Hazard Perry
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Continental Congress approved this “game” to raise money for the army; it never hit $250 million (dollars)
Lottery
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After 3 previous acquittals, this reputed crime family boss was finally convicted in New York City on April 2, 1992
John Gotti
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Due to expansive pork processing facilities, this city on the Ohio River was once known as “Porkopolis”
Cincinnati
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He shook up society in the 1960s & later published “Revolution for the Hell of It” & “Steal This Book”
Abbie Hoffman
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Spanish explorer, not Ponce de Leon, claimed Florida for Spain in June of 1539
Hernando de Soto
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1787-88 the Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of this document
the Constitution
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After a defeat in 1835 for reelection to Congress from Tennessee, this frontiersman moved to Texas
Davy Crockett
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A Ute legend says the Great Spirit created all life on this peak discovered in 1806
Pikes Peak
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When he began his Progressive Party, Teddy Roosevelt said he felt as fit as one of these animals
Bull moose
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1814 & 1815 New England leaders took part in the Hartford Convention to discuss opposition to this war
War of 1812
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1962 the U.S agreed to give Cuba $53 million in aid for the release of 1,113 prisoners taken in this invasion
Bay of Pigs
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1804 Justice Samuel Chase was impeached for comments critical of this president’s administration
Thomas Jefferson
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On August 5, 1864 David Farragut barreled full speed ahead into this Alabama bay, defeating the Confederate navy
Mobile Bay
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1621 this Wampanoag chief & about 90 of his people shared Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims
Massasoit
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1791 this Treasury Secretary issued his “Report On Manufactures”, a critique of American industry
Alexander Hamilton
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When West Virginia became a state in 1863, Wheeling was its capital; this city became the permanent capital in 1885
Charleston
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1698, after an absence of 15 years, he returned to the colony named for his father
William Penn
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Aug. 2, 1826 at Boston’s Faneuil Hall, this great orator delivered a eulogy on Jefferson & Adams
Daniel Webster
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Completed in 1856, California’s first railroad ran 22 miles between Sacramento & this prison city
Folsom
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Because of the potato famine, more than a million emigrated from this country to the U.S. in the mid-1800s
Ireland
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1803 land acquisition included area in what is now 13 of the 50 states
the Louisiana Purchase
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After winning the disputed 1876 election, he was inaugurated to cries of “Rutherfraud”
Rutherford B. Hayes
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1730 he assumed full ownership of the Pennsylvania Gazette
Benjamin Franklin
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Famous for his debates with Lincoln, he served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 1847 to 1861
Stephen Douglas
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In January 1935 she became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland
Amelia Earhart
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| His final regret was “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”
Nathan Hale
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 22, 1889 “Sooners” staked claims hours ahead of schedule in Guthrie City in this territory’s land grab
Oklahoma
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1,500-mile-long mountain system divided the Civil War into the eastern & western theaters
Appalachians
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1910 Victor Berger of Wisconsin became the first of this party of Eugene Debs elected to Congress
Socialist
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1833 this area asked to separate from Coahuila to become its own Mexican state
Texas
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1901 Buffalo Bill founded this town in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming
Cody
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Frances Willard, a president of the WCTU, was the first woman honored in this Capitol building hall
Statuary Hall
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In a March 1775 speech he also said, is “peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?”
Patrick Henry
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The change in the American flag on July 4, 1960 was its first change since July 4 of this year
1959
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| As minister to Mexico, he was authorized by President Pierce to buy border land for the railroads
James Gadsden
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1850 it became the first state on the Pacific coast admitted to the union
California
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The U.S. Marine Corps was first established to fight in this war
The Revolutionary War
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Oct. 2, 1967 he was sworn in as the first African-American Supreme Court justice
Thurgood Marshall
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Jonathan Edwards was among the leaders of this “great” religious movement of the 1700s
Great Awakening
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1893 3 men serving prison sentences for this riot were pardoned by the governor of Illinois
Haymarket Riot
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| At the outbreak of hostilities of the Civil War, he was president of the Senate
Hannibal Hamlin
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During his first term as president, the Bill of Rights became law
George Washington
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1813 the U.S. defeated the British in the Battle of the Thames River in what is now this country
Canada
$900 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1832 this president declared, “The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me; but I will kill it”
Andrew Jackson
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In November 1689 Joseph Wadsworth hid this colony’s charter from the British by placing it in an oak tree
Connecticut
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He earned his captain’s commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804
Stephen Decatur
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| British commander Sir Edward Pakenham was killed in this battle fought 2 weeks after the War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| To reach eastern markets in the 1800s, Texas drovers brought their cattle to Kansas via this trail
the Chisholm Trail
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On November 14, 1889, the New York World called her trip, “The Longest Journey Known to Mankind”
Nellie Bly
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Mar. 27, 1964 this largest Alaska city was hit by an 8.4 earthquake
Anchorage
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1787 Arthur St. Clair became the first governor of this vast territory north of the Ohio River
Northwest Territory
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 2 years after exploring the Northwest with William Clark, he was named gov. of the Louisiana territory
Meriwether Lewis
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This group of volunteers, created on Mar. 1, 1961, works to improve living conditions in other nations
Peace Corps
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 24, 1980 an attempt to rescue 53 hostages in this capital city was called off
Tehran
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| ‘Ullo, Gouverneur! This signer of the Constitution gave the document its final wording
Gouverneur Morris
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 9, 1992, the first group of U.S. Marines arrived in this African nation to restore order
Somalia
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Shrapnel from a 1916 munitions storage plant explosion in Jersey City, NJ damaged this famous statue
Statue of Liberty
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Frances Perkins was trying to improve working conditions in these in the 1910s, Kathie Lee in the ’90s
Sweatshops
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The U.S. made this great buy from France in 1803 & would have been happy with just New Orleans
Louisiana Purchase
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| If this act hadn’t passed July 14, 1798, we would have had just the Alien Acts
Sedition Acts
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1844 John C. Fremont crossed the Sierra Nevada & this John C. became Secretary of State
John C. Calhoun
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Francisco Lopez found this precious metal in California in 1842, before the rush
gold
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1843 Congress allocated $30,000 to string one between Baltimore & Washington; it was completed in 1844
a telegraph wire
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1873 President Grant proclaimed this city the site of the Centennial Exposition of 1876
Philadelphia
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Before cotton became king, this plant that yields a violet dye was a popular southern crop
indigo
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When Thomas Jefferson took office in March, 1801, this river formed the western U.S. boundary
Mississippi
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1890 this GOP senator from Ohio sponsored an antitrust act & the Silver Purchase Act
John Sherman
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1997 this U.N. secy.-general became the first international guest of President Clinton’s second term
Kofi Annan
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Sept. 30, 1953, Pres. Eisenhower named this California governor as Chief Justice of the U.S.
Earl Warren
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Signed February 2, 1848, this treaty ended the Mexican War
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Federalists called it “Mr. Madison’s War”
War of 1812
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| His 1934 trip to Cartagena, Colombia was the first by a sitting U.S. president to South America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1856 William Dayton became the first vice presidential candidate of this new party
Republican
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1962 this Hawaiian became the first Japanese-American elected to the U.S. Senate
Daniel Inouye
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Nixon’s running mate in 1960, he was named chief negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks in 1969
Henry Cabot Lodge
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1961 he became the first brother of a president appointed to a cabinet position
Robert F. Kennedy (Attorney General)
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On January 21, 1977 this president pardoned several thousand Vietnam War draft evaders
Jimmy Carter
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1915 this Hull House founder helped establish the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom
Jane Addams
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On June 21, 1982 he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of President Reagan
John Hinckley
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In searching for the 7 Cities of Cibola, he & his men traveled as far north as present-day Lyons, Kansas
Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| While in the VA. legislature, this 3rd president introduced his religious freedom statute
Thomas Jefferson
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Founded in 1607, the Popham colony on the Kennebec River was this state’s first English settlement
Maine
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1952 composer Stuart Hamblen was the presidential candidate of this anti-liquor party
Prohibition
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 23, 1921 President Harding pardoned this Socialist so that he could have Christmas dinner with his wife
Eugene Victor Debs
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This soldier & frontiersman won important victories over the British in the Northwest Territory
George Rogers Clark
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This amendment was 3 states short of ratification when its deadline elapsed June 30, 1982
the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In October 1867 Gen. Rousseau took formal possession of this territory that the U.S. had bought in March
Alaska
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1907 Charles N. Haskell of Muskogee became this new state’s first governor
Oklahoma
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Because of his deist beliefs, this “Age of Reason” author died a social outcast in New York City in 1809
Thomas Paine
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was promoted to captain for burning the captured U.S. frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor
Stephen Decatur
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1912 this “Bull Moose” spoke for about 50 minutes with a would-be-assassin’s bullet lodged in his chest
Theodore Roosevelt
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The siege of the Alamo gave this Texas general time to prepare for the Battle of San Jacinto
Sam Houston
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Public Enemy No. 1 robbed Midwestern banks until 1934 when he was done in by the Woman in Red
John Dillinger
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Lawrence, Kansas was founded by people opposed to this practice
Slavery
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1960 black sit-ins at segregated lunch counters started in Greensboro in this state
North Carolina
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On July 9, 1776 this state’s legislature met in White Plains & ratified the Declaration of Independence
New York
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 4, 1949, the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France & 8 other nations signed this mutual defense pact
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 8 Americans were killed April 24, 1980 in a failed attempt to rescue American hostages held in this city
Tehran
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After answering a NASA newspaper notice in the ’70s, she became America’s first woman in space
Sally Ride
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1919 this future pres. mobilized the Mass. Militia to restore order in the Boston police strike
Calvin Coolidge
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Though this president chose the general site for the executive mansion, he never lived there
George Washington
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1836 this republic asked to be annexed to the U.S.
Texas
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When asked in 1779 “Have you lowered your flag?” he reportedly said, “I have not yet begun to fight”
John Paul Jones
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A compromise allowed Maine’s admission to the union in 1820 as a free state & this as a slave state in 1821
Missouri
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions were passed in opposition to these 1798 acts
Alien & Sedition Acts
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In November 1620 John Carver was elected the first governor of this colony
Plymouth Colony
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1933 this Republican began serving the first of his 2 terms as governor of Kansas
Alf Landon
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| While serving in this cabinet post, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. signed the U.N. charter for the U.S. June 26, 1945
Secretary of State
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In June 1967 LBJ met with this Soviet premier in Glassboro, N.J. to discuss world problems
Alexei Kosygin
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On September 14, 1847, this general led the American army into Mexico City
Winfield Scott
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Captain John Smith became president of this Virginia colony’s council in September 1608
Jamestown
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He served as the first chief justice of New York before he became first chief justice of the U.S.
John Jay
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It was necessary for George Washington to surrender Fort Necessity July 3, 1754, during this war
French & Indian War
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This president’s political enemies referred to him as the “Beast of Buffalo”
Grover Cleveland
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Aaron Burr & Molly Pitcher distinguished themselves at the June 28, 1778 battle of this
Monmouth
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Aug. 5, 1884 the cornerstone of this landmark’s pedestal was laid on Bedloe’s Island
Statue of Liberty
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 41 male passengers signed this document in Provincetown Harbor, November 11, 1620
The Mayflower Compact
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 9, 1995 the Senate, by a vote of 98-0, confirmed John Deutch as director of this agency
CIA
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1769 he founded San Diego de Alcala, the first Franciscan mission in California
Fr. Junipero Serra
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1975 200 U.S. Marines recaptured this merchant ship that had been seized by Cambodia
Mayaguez
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| From 1804 to 1806 this pair explored the area between the Mississippi River & the mouth of the Columbia River
Lewis & Clark
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On March 10, 1977, this Cesar Chavez labor group signed an agreement with the Teamsters union
United Farm Workers
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1920 this president signed legislation returning the railroads to private ownership
Woodrow Wilson
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed this “compromise” of 1820
The Missouri Compromise
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The government leasing oil reserves to Mammoth Oil in 1922 caused this scandal the next year
Teapot Dome
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| For their part in this 1770 Massachusetts riot, 2 soldiers were branded on the thumb
Boston Massacre
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This monument with a 19-foot seated statue was dedicated by President Harding May 30, 1922
Lincoln Memorial
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War
Dred Scott
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Though elected to the senate in 1930, this Louisiana governor didn’t take his seat until 1932
Huey Long
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In September, 1971, 43 peole were killed during a 4-day riot at this New York prison
Attica
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On the night of April 14, 1986, U.S. warplanes bombed Tripoli & Benghazi in this African country
Libya
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Traffic on this trail between San Antonio & Abilene peaked in 1871 with 600,000 cattle
the Chisholm Trail
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Until the late 1840s, this largest North Carolina city was the USA’s chief source of gold
Charlotte
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| At the same time that John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State, his brother Allen headed this agency
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
$1500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 19 members of this Irish-American terrorist society active in 1870s Pennsylvania were hanged
The Molly Maguires
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 15 indentured servants were aboard this ship when it sailed for the new world, Sept. 16, 1620
The Mayflower
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was hanged in Charlestown, Virginia about 6 weeks after he led the attack on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1834 Stephen Austin was held in prison for 8 months in this country
Mexico
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1818 this general ordered 2 traders arrested & executed for inciting the Seminole Indians
Andrew Jackson
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Oglala Sioux chief was fatally stabbed Sept. 5, 1877 at Fort Robinson, Nebraska
Crazy Horse
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Some attribute these 1692 proceedings to the psychotic effects of ergot poisoning
The Salem Witch Trials
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Nickname given the WWII backyard vegetable patches
“Victory Gardens”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In May of 1780, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln was forced to surrender this South Carolina port to the British
Charleston
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| More than 200 U.S. Marines were killed in 1983 by a truck bomb at their barracks in this Mideast capital
Beirut
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He related the story of Pocahontas in his “General History of Virginia” in 1624
John Smith
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Battle of Palo Alto, fought May 8, 1846, was the first battle of this war
Mexican-American War
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Lincoln said it was “the central act of my administration & the greatest event of the 19th century”
the Emancipation Proclamation
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1953, this island’s first year as a U.S. commonwealth, 75,000 residents moved to the mainland
Puerto Rico
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This president collapsed September 25, 1919 & one week later suffered a stroke
Woodrow Wilson
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1609 Champlain reached the lake now named for him on the border of New York & this state
Vermont
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1903 this “Badger State” became the first to adopt direct primary elections
Wisconsin
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On December 2, 1863, ground was broken in Omaha for the construction of this railroad
the Union-Pacific Railroad
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 29, 1765 Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act protest was interrupted with this one word
Treason!
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Unaware of the Treaty of Ghent signed earlier, the British attacked this Louisiana city on Jan. 8, 1815
New Orleans
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The British gained Charlestown Peninsula, now in Boston, by winning this June 17, 1775 battle
Bunker Hill
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Nov. 7, 1811 this territorial governor of Indiana lost 62 of his men at Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1794 this chief justice negotiated a treaty calling for British evacuation of the Northwest
John Jay
$2500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1912 Alaska became an organized U.S. territory & these 2 states joined the union
Arizona & New Mexico
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On August 29, 1877, this leader of the Mormon Church died
Brigham Young
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After aiding the U.S. in the Battle of New Orleans, this pirate was pardoned
Jean Lafitte
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In December 1952, this president-elect visited the front lines during the Korean War
Dwight Eisenhower
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After this waterway opened in 1825, freight rates between Buffalo & NYC were cut by more than 90%
Erie Canal
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This man who bought Manhattan from the Indians later served as governor of New Sweden
Peter Minuit
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On October 20, 1803, the senate ratified the treaty for this land acquisition
Louisiana Purchase
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Benedict Arnold & this man’s Green Mountain Boys captured Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775
Ethan Allen
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1866 he became general of the U.S. Army; the first officer so designated
Ulysses S. Grant
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The name of this anti-Jackson party was introduced to the senate by Henry Clay, April 14, 1834
Whigs
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1843 Daniel Webster resigned as this president’s Secretary of State
John Tyler
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 22, 1906 they received a patent for an improved model of their airplane
the Wright brothers
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Samuel Adams referred to this April 19, 1775 battle when he said, “What a glorious morning for America!”
Lexington, Concord
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Prior to his election to the Tennessee legislature in 1821, this frontiersman was a Justice of the Peace
Davy Crockett
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 1 of 4 freedoms FDR termed essential in a January 6, 1941 address to Congress
1 of (want, speech, religion, or fear)
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Of the 3 writers of the Federalist papers, 2 were New Yorkers & he was a Virginian
(James) Madison
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This traitor took a cut in rank from major general in the U.S. Army to brigadier general in the British Army
Benedict Arnold
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1765 Dr. James Baker opened his first factory in Massachusetts to make this - how sweet!
Chocolate
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Mormons say divine intervention sent these birds to stop a cricket infestation in 1848
Seagulls
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1949 the Senate ratified this treaty that joined the U.S. with 11 others in a mutual defense pact
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After losing his Senate seat to John F. Kennedy, he was made U.S. representative at the United Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1848 event made the California trail the most traveled pioneer road by 1850
gold strike
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Before becoming chief justice in 1789, he was Sec’y of Foreign Affairs in the Continental Congress
John Jay
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1928 this Republican campaigned for president promising “a chicken in every pot”
Hoover
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Judge John T. Raulston presided over this Dayton, Tennessee trial in July 1925
the Scopes trial
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The first gusher in the U.S. occurred in this oil field near Beaumont, Texas in 1901
Spindletop
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On October 24, 1952 Eisenhower vowed to go to this country & 5 weeks later, he did
Korea
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1732, Vincennes, in this future state, was founded by the French on the Wabash River
Indiana
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1941 act enabled the U.S. to become the “Arsenal of Democracy”
The Lend-Lease Act
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 13, 1846, President James K. Polk signed a declaration of war against this country
Mexico
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 26, 1799 this general eulogized George Washington in Congress
“Light-Horse Harry” Lee
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This statue got a new torch in 1986; the old one was 100 years old
the Statue of Liberty
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Term for the women of the 1920s who wore bobbed hair, short dresses & long strings of beads
flappers
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Sunshine State once had east & west portions; the western part now belongs to Ala., Miss. & La.
Florida
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Alden was the last surviving signer of this
the Mayflower Compact
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| “Bleeding Kansas” was so named because of violence over this issue in the 1850s
slavery
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He obtained a charter to establish Georgia in 1732 & founded Savannah a year later
(James) Oglethorpe
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War added over 500,000 square miles to U.S. territory
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Shawnee chief & his brother, the Prophet, were both defeated in battles by William Henry Harrison
Tecumseh
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 4, 1783 George Washington bade his officers farewell at this New York City tavern
Fraunces Tavern
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 14 years before coming to America, this Quaker was imprisoned in the Tower of London for his beliefs
William Penn
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1949 the U.S. joined this Western defense pact; our 1st ever peacetime alliance
NATO
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It’s now thought that an internal explosion, not a mine, caused this ship to sink in Havana Harbor in 1898
U.S. Maine
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This settlement’s economy grew after John Rolfe found that tobacco could be successfully grown there
Jamestown
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 19th century term for the belief that U.S. expansion across North America was “destined by God”
Manifest Destiny
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 3 months after Congress authorized the Department of Foreign Affairs, it changed its name to this
Department of State
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He died in 1804 the day after his duel with Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1945-46 the number of these government employees dropped from 12 million to less than 3 million
Armed Forces/Servicemen & women
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1932 Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to this body
U.S. Senate
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After the original 13 colonies, this was the first state to enter the union
Vermont
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & a state 59 years later
Hawaii
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Susan B. Anthony was arrested in 1872 for doing this
Voting
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1949 Henry H. Arnold became the first general of this branch of the armed forces
Air Force
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In April 1984 this U.S. government agency admitted its role in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors
CIA
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Hancock held this political position from 1780-85 & from 1787-93
Governor of Massachusetts
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1943 Georgia became the 1st state to lower the voting age to this
18
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Black Friday, September 24, 1869, resulted from Gould & Fisk’s attempt to corner the U.S. supply of this
Gold
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was the last Dutch governor of New York, which was New Netherland at the time
Peter Stuyvessant
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| At the Battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston took this Mexican leader prisoner
Santa Anna
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Swedish-born John Ericsson designed this 1st of the ironclads with a revolving turret
Monitor
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was called “Black Dan” due to his swarthy complexion & “Godlike Daniel” from his imposing style
Daniel Webster
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A branch of the military that was part of the army before it became independent in 1947
Air Force
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He resigned as Secretary of State April 15, 1959 & died a few weeks later
John Foster Dulles
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He, not FDR, was the only Democrat Vermont supported for president since the Civil War
Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| These unpopular laws that dealt with citizenship & free speech contributed to John Adams’ defeat in 1800
Alien & Sedition Laws
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859
John Brown
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1787 Delaware became the 1st state in the Union; in 1860 this became the 1st state to secede
South Carolina
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1952 this territory adopted its own constitution & became a commonwealth
Puerto Rico
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1926 Lindbergh had to parachute out of planes 4 times while employed to do this
flying the mail
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Wilson, Harding, Coolidge & Hoover refused to recognize this country’s government, but FDR did
Soviet Union
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This New Deal agency was symbolized by a blue eagle & used the motto, “We do our part”
NRA (National Recovery Administration)
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition celebrated the 100th anniversary of this document
Declaration of Independence
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On March 27, 1964, North America’s most intense recorded earthquake, an 8.4, hit this state
Alaska
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 1 of 3 men who, under the name “Publius”, wrote “The Federalist” essays urging ratification of the Constitution
Madison, Hamilton, & Jay
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Just before WWII this British king & his queen Elizabeth became the 1st British monarchs to visit the U.S.
George VI
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1982 Central High School was made a national landmark in memory of 1957 events there
Little Rock, AR
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This orator became governor of Virginia in 1776
Patrick Henry
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 19 convicted “witches” were executed this way in Salem, Massachusetts
Hanging
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A Packard touring car was disguised as a police car for this famous “Holiday Holocaust” in 1929
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1616 she went to England with her husband, John, & her infant son
Pocahontas
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The legal name of this black evangelist-abolitionist was Isabella Van Wagener
Sojourner Truth
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Nixon’s Att’y-Gen. E. Richardson resigned & Watergate prosecutor A. Cox was fired on this night of the week
Saturday
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Jay, not John Marshall, was the first one
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After the original 13, this was the 1st state admitted to the union
Vermont
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| These 2 self-governing outlying areas of the U.S. were acquired from Spain in 1898
Puerto Rico and Guam
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In his 1835 book “Democracy in America”, this Frenchman predicted the present age’s 2 superpowers
Alexis de Tocqueville
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1803 acquisition doubled the size of the U.S.
Louisiana Purchase
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Though he said he found dueling abhorent, he participated in one in 1804
Alexander Hamilton
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1912, it became 48th & last contiguous state to join The Union
Arizona
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 1st to hold a nominating convention, this 3rd party ironically chose Mason Wm. Wirt to run for Pres.
Anti-Masonic party
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Upon leading 1894 march of unemployed on Washington, Jacob Coxey was arrested for this trivial of offenses
stepping on the grass
