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$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

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the Rough Riders

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In December 1974 this former New York governor was sworn in as Vice President

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Rockefeller

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$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”

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(Douglas) McArthur

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$1800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This political party founded around 1789 stood for a strong central government

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the Federalists

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$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

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(Rutherford B.) Hayes

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$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

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Denmark

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$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

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the Supreme Court

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Congress adopted this document in 1777, but it was not fully ratified by the states for another 4 years

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the Articles of Confederation

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Slaves, molasses & rum were exchanged in the 3 arms of the colonial practice known as this “trade”

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the triangle trade

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$4000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| “Our flag still waves proudly from the walls”, William B. Travis said of it, “I shall never surrender or retreat”

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the Alamo

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$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

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the North Platte River

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Nov. 9, 1906 Teddy Roosevelt left the U.S. to personally see the progress on this engineering project

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the Panama Canal

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$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

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the Whigs

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$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

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Plymouth

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 15, 1972 while campaigning in Laurel, Md., this Alabama governor was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer

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George Wallace

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1948 Whittaker Chambers implicated this State Department official as an espionage agent for the Soviets

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(Alger) Hiss

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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln authorized this govt. agency; its main job then was to protect against counterfeiting

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the Secret Service

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| You’re in the Army now–in 1940 FDR instituted the first peacetime one of these in U.S. history

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the draft

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This term for a mechanical device can also be an organization running city politics, like NYC’s Tammany Hall

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a machine

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$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

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Attorney General

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$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

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Gemini

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This man’s 1807 steamboat run up the Hudson led to an 1824 Supreme Court decision on interstate commerce

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(Robert) Fulton

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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself

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Gerald Ford

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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The area that’s now the State of Indiana was acquired in this war

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the Revolutionary War

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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| History was made on December 1, 1955 when bus driver James Blake called the police & had this person arrested

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Rosa Parks

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1818 U.S. troops sacked Pensacola as they marched into this Spanish territory; soon it was ours

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Florida

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$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

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the First Gulf War

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1960 the last of these locomotives was retired from general use in the U.S. & Diesel ones took over

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steam engines

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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the 1600s most of New York State was occupied by this Native American confederacy

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the Iroquois

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1899 Secretary of State John Hay proclaimed this “welcoming” policy to preserve U.S. trading rights in China

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open-door policy

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Between 1856 & 1860, 2,962 of this faith set out from Iowa & Nebraska to Utah in the Handcart Migration

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Mormonism

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, “The world must be made safe for” this

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democracy

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 20, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this transportation method as a way to achieve school integration

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busing

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John O’Sullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USA’s right to cover the continent

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Manifest Destiny

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt.

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the Alien & Sedition Acts

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This state’s been “on my mind” since it entered the Union 3 times, in 1788, 1868 & 1870

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Georgia

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this

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income

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her

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Dolley Madison

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Guerrilla leader Francis Marion earned this nickname for his daring raids from the South Carolina marshes

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the Swamp Fox

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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Name that completed an 1856 Republican slogan, “Free soil, free speech, free men and…”

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Fremont

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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the last week of the John Tyler administration, this republic was offered statehood

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Texas

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When the British approached, the Concord Militia didn’t know about the skirmish at this place earlier that day

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Lexington

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| WWI sales of “Liberty” these, whose posters showed the statue, raised more than $15 billion

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bonds

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$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

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the Oregon Trail

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$1500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The U.S. supplied materiel to its allies during WWII through this 1941 Congressional act

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the Lend-Lease Act

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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Now sounding oxymoronic, these alliterative Republicans were the party’s anti-slavery wing in its early years

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the Radical Republicans

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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It was the main cause of the 1803 jump in the national debt to $86.4 million

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the Louisiana Purchase

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After General Cornwallis Surrendered at Yorktown, this American traitor accompanied him back to England

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Benedict Arnold

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This January 1, 1863 document liberated all slaves in regions still under Confederate control

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the Emancipation Proclamation

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1609 this captain was injured in a gunpowder explosion & lost his leadership role in Jamestown

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John Smith

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The “New Deal” refers to the economic recovery & social reforms implemented by this U.S. president

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Franklin Roosevelt

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1898 Americans were urged to “remember” this battleship that sank in Havana harbor, leading to war with Spain

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the Maine

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Witchcraft trials held in this town in 1692 led to the hangings of 19 people

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Salem

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname during the Battle of Manassas, also called the Battle of this creek

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Bull Run

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| These “Articles” served as the basis of our national government from 1781 to 1789

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the Articles of Confederation

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When the Mexican War began in 1846, the Army of the West used this trail to invade New Mexico

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the Santa Fe Trail

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Cleanup of this Pennsylvania nuclear power plant following the 1979 meltdown didn’t end until 1993

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Three Mile Island

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 16, 1773 American patriots dumped 342 chests of tea into this city’s harbor

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Boston

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Abraham Lincoln died across the street from this theatre on April 15, 1865

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Ford’s Theatre (the Ford Theatre accepted)

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In May 1844 he sent a telegraph message using the code he’d also invented

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Morse

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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Rolfe came to the new world to grow this cash crop; picking up Pocahontas was a bonus

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tobacco

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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This president said fear itself is “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts”

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FDR

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This famous transaction in 1803 doubled the territory of the U.S.

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the Louisiana Purchase

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the 1760s these 2 surveyors used milestones to mark the boundary line between Maryland & Pennsylvania

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Mason & Dixon

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of this U.S. president in 1974

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Nixon

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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 14-letter term refers to the period of readjustment & rebuilding after the Civil War

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Reconstruction

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$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

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the Cherokee

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1899 President McKinley took a turn in the Locomobile, a car made by Stanley & propelled by this

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steam

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Andrew Jackson was one of the landowners who founded this Tennessee town overlooking the Mississippi in 1819

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Memphis

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Victor Marie du Pont served as a captain of this state’s volunteers in the War of 1812

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Delaware

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$3000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When this convened in May 1787, Adams was in London, Jefferson was in Paris & Patrick Henry refused to attend

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the Constitutional Convention

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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Americans began to oocupy this even before we could send Russia the $7.2 million we paid for it

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Alaska

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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Henry Laurens, Thomas Mifflin & Richard Henry Lee were presidents of this body that only lasted for about 15 years

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the Continental Congress

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$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

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the U.S. Senate

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This pact among the U.S., Mexico & Canada took effect in 1994 & aims to eliminate tariffs by 2008

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NAFTA

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the 1880s the Knights of this gave way to the American Federation of this representing workers

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Labor

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1849, Thomas Ewing, “The Logician of the West”, became the USA’s first Secy. of this Cabinet Dept.

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the Interior

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This committee that once claimed 800,000 members was dissolved Dec. 11, 1941

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the America First Committee

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Gen. Charles Lee was relieved of command after ordering a retreat at this 1778 New Jersey battle

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Monmouth

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Escaped slaves in the 1850s & draft dodgers in the 1960s mainly headed to this country

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Canada

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Feb. 15, 1901 Carry Nation wrecked one of these establishments with a hatchet

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a bar (or a saloon)

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A fire in 1851 destroyed some 35,000 volumes in its collection

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the Library of Congress

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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the first census conducted in 1790, this state, with nearly 692,000 people, was the most populous

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Virginia

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$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

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John Mitchell

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Nov. 11, 1918, Pvt. Henry Gunther became the last American casualty in this war

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World War I

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Remarkably, there were more than 60 survivors when this Zeppelin crashed in New Jersey in 1937

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the Hindenburg

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Elected the 19th U.S. president in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was a member of this political party

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Republican

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$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

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George H.W. Bush

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Indian “king” for whom a war against American colonists was named was tracked down & killed in 1676

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Philip

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A 1928 campaign slogan promised this “in every pot and a car in every garage”

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a chicken

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Years of political rivalry led to the July 11, 1804 duel between these 2 men

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Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr

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$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

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Paul Revere

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Confederate States of America were established in 1861 in this city, the first Confederate capital

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Montgomery, Alabama

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This leader of the Green Mountain Boys was a champion for the creation of the Green Mountain State

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Ethan Allen

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On February 15, 1898 the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in this Cuban capital’s harbor

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Havana

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This “King of the Wild Frontier” once claimed to have killed 105 bears during a few months in 1825

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Davy Crockett

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The “War on” this, approved by Congress in August of 1964, included VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America

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poverty

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| What’s known as the second of these programs began with FDR’s January 4, 1935 message to Congress

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the New Deal

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Smith was among the early members on the Council of Seven that governed this Virginia colony

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Jamestown

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| WAC, the Women’s Army Corps, was created during this war

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World War II

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$5000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1986 he became the first Italian-American to sit on the Supreme Court

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Antonin Scalia

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| What was once the proposed state of Franklin became part of this new state in 1796

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Tennessee

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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After serving as postmaster general in 1921 & 1922 he became “czar” of the motion picture industry

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Will Hays

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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1807 Congress passed this act that forbade American ships from trading abroad; it lasted just over a year

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Embargo Act

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1876 battle in Montana is also known as Custer’s Last Stand

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Little Big Horn

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the late 1600s this Asian grain became the main crop of the Carolina coastal lowlands

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rice

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1972 George McGovern called this president’s administration the “most corrupt” in U.S. history

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Richard Nixon

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1813 this hero of Tippecanoe defeated Tecumseh at the Thames River in Canada

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William Henry Harrison

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1664 the Duke of York granted land west of the Hudson River to his supporters; it was named this

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New Jersey

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$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

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silver dollar

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1774 New Jerseyites dressed as Indians burned this in Greenwich; a similar “Party” occurred earlier in Boston

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tea

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1901 the Senate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, allowing the U.S. to build this in Central America

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the Panama Canal

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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 1, 1898 Commodore Dewey defeated the Spanish Pacific fleet at the battle of this Philippine bay

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Manila Bay

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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 10, 1692 this colony founded by Cecil Calvert made the Anglican Church its official church

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Maryland

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1805 this territory was created from the Indiana one, with all or parts of the lower & upper peninsulas

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Michigan

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In May 1980 at least 26 people were killed when this volcano in Washington erupted

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Mt. St. Helens

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In September 1664 this governor of New Amsterdam surrendered to the British, ending Dutch power in the New World

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(Peter) Stuyvesant

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$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”

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hallow

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A 1963 treaty with Mexico settled a boundary dispute between Ciudad Juarez & this Texas city

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El Paso

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| From 1757 to 1762 this man was ambassador extraordinaire of the American colonies to Great Britain

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Benjamin Franklin

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Jan. 19, 1977 President Ford pardoned this woman who’d been convicted of treason in World War II

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Tokyo Rose

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Lanterns hung in this “Old” church warned patriots of an impending attack in April 1775

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the Old North Church

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$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

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turkey for Thanksgiving

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$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!”

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Bella Abzug

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After his 1859 hanging, Civil War troops sang of this abolitionist’s body “mouldering in the grave”

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John Brown

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this

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Income

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Plessy vs. Ferguson, which upheld segregation, was overturned by this 1954 case

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Brown v. Board of Education

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During WWII America won its 1st major victory over Japan in this naval battle, about 1,200 miles from Hawaii

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Midway

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Bushrod, the favorite nephew of this president, became a Supreme Court justice in 1798

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George Washington

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Custer’s Last Stand is also known by the oxymoronic name “Little Big” this

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Horn

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In the 1950s, if your button said, “I Like Ike”, he was your man

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Born in Tennessee, Davy Crockett died in what’s now this state

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Texas

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$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

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“Buffalo Bill”

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Famous 1863 speech by President Lincoln that began, “Four score and seven years ago…”

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the Gettysburg Address

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135
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It’s the year America celebrated its bicentennial

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1976

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Davy Crockett was among nearly 200 men who died defending this mission-fortress in San Antonio, Texas

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the Alamo

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After journeying 4,000 miles, this pair’s expedition finally reached the Pacific Ocean in November 1805

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Lewis & Clark

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 this 1st permanent English settlement in America was burned to the ground

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Jamestown

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$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

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West Virginia (paid debt to Virginia)

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| I’ve had it “on my mind” that this state has joined the Union 3 times, in 1788, 1868 & 1870

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Georgia

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141
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A federal law from 1950 prohibited the labeling of colored oleo as this

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Butter

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142
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$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

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Food stamps

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143
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This commodore became a friend to Japan in 1854, showing them the telegraph & a daguerreotype camera

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Matthew Perry

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Name that completed an 1856 Republican slogan, “Free soil, free speech, free men and …”

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(John C.) Fremont

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145
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In September 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that he acted alone in JFK’s assassination

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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146
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On December 20, 1860, as a result of Lincoln’s election, this state seceded from the Union

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South Carolina

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her

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Dolley Madison

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148
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1916 President Wilson sent this brigadier general into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa

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John “Black Jack” Pershing

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149
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1932 this Republican was elected governor of Kansas; he won reelection in 1934

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Alf Landon

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY “X” ||| In 1938 Chester Carlson didn’t copy off the guy sitting next to him when he invented this process

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Xerography/Xeroxy

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY “X” ||| In 1954 he was appointed chief minister of the Nation of Islam’s main temple in Harlem

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Malcolm X

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY “X” ||| Founded in 1831, it’s the oldest Catholic institution of higher learning in what was the NW Territory

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Xavier University

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY “X” ||| This “affair” caused a quasi-war between France & America in 1798

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“X Y Z” Affair

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154
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$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

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X-15

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155
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 2 forts were founded in Idaho in 1834: Fort Hall & this one that bore the name of the future capital

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Fort Boise

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156
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Decade that saw the Freedom Summer & the Freedom Riders

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1960s

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157
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The only state Reagan didn’t carry in 1984 was this one, Mondale’s home state

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Minnesota

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158
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It’s the war that was opposed by some Copperheads

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Civil War

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159
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The land purchase he negotiated with Mexico was in part intended for a cross-country railroad he wanted to build

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James Gadsden

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160
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1692 the Spanish regained control of this future New Mexico capital from the Pueblo Indians

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Santa Fe

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1639 the Court of Massachusetts ordered that “The Colledge…to bee built at Cambridg” be called this

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Harvard

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The political slogan “As” this state “goes, so goes the nation” dates back to the 1880s

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Maine

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1857 antislavery forces were set back when the Supreme Court decided the case of this man vs. Sandford

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Dred Scott

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164
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On July 31, 1972 this Missouri senator withdrew as McGovern’s running mate because of earlier psychiatric care

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Thomas Eagleton

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 18, 1775 he was captured by the British but released; he had to walk back to Lexington

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Paul Revere

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On September 8, 1974, he was granted “A full, free and absolute pardon”

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Richard Nixon

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167
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1824 Andrew Jackson received more popular & electoral votes, but the House declared this man president

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John Quincy Adams

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Hostilities in the Spanish-American War ended when Manila surrendered to General Merritt & this admiral

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George Dewey

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169
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In May 1692 this village’s jails were filled with witchcraft suspects, eventually totaling 150

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Salem, Massachusetts

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1900 Sanford B. Dole became the first governor of this U.S. territory

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Hawaii

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During the naval battle for this Alabama bay, David Farragut uttered, “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”

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Mobile Bay

172
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1888 he won the presidency using the campaign song “Grandfather’s Hat Fits Ben”

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Benjamin Harrison

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During the War of 1812, he had command of 3 brigs, 5 schooners & a sloop on Lake Erie

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Oliver Hazard Perry

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Continental Congress approved this “game” to raise money for the army; it never hit $250 million (dollars)

A

Lottery

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After 3 previous acquittals, this reputed crime family boss was finally convicted in New York City on April 2, 1992

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John Gotti

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Due to expansive pork processing facilities, this city on the Ohio River was once known as “Porkopolis”

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Cincinnati

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He shook up society in the 1960s & later published “Revolution for the Hell of It” & “Steal This Book”

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Abbie Hoffman

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Spanish explorer, not Ponce de Leon, claimed Florida for Spain in June of 1539

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Hernando de Soto

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1787-88 the Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of this document

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the Constitution

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After a defeat in 1835 for reelection to Congress from Tennessee, this frontiersman moved to Texas

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Davy Crockett

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A Ute legend says the Great Spirit created all life on this peak discovered in 1806

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Pikes Peak

182
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When he began his Progressive Party, Teddy Roosevelt said he felt as fit as one of these animals

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Bull moose

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1814 & 1815 New England leaders took part in the Hartford Convention to discuss opposition to this war

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War of 1812

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$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

A

Bay of Pigs

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1804 Justice Samuel Chase was impeached for comments critical of this president’s administration

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Thomas Jefferson

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On August 5, 1864 David Farragut barreled full speed ahead into this Alabama bay, defeating the Confederate navy

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Mobile Bay

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1621 this Wampanoag chief & about 90 of his people shared Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims

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Massasoit

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1791 this Treasury Secretary issued his “Report On Manufactures”, a critique of American industry

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Alexander Hamilton

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When West Virginia became a state in 1863, Wheeling was its capital; this city became the permanent capital in 1885

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Charleston

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1698, after an absence of 15 years, he returned to the colony named for his father

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William Penn

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Aug. 2, 1826 at Boston’s Faneuil Hall, this great orator delivered a eulogy on Jefferson & Adams

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Daniel Webster

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Completed in 1856, California’s first railroad ran 22 miles between Sacramento & this prison city

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Folsom

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$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

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Ireland

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1803 land acquisition included area in what is now 13 of the 50 states

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the Louisiana Purchase

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After winning the disputed 1876 election, he was inaugurated to cries of “Rutherfraud”

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Rutherford B. Hayes

196
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1730 he assumed full ownership of the Pennsylvania Gazette

A

Benjamin Franklin

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Famous for his debates with Lincoln, he served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 1847 to 1861

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Stephen Douglas

198
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In January 1935 she became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland

A

Amelia Earhart

199
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| His final regret was “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”

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Nathan Hale

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 22, 1889 “Sooners” staked claims hours ahead of schedule in Guthrie City in this territory’s land grab

A

Oklahoma

201
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1,500-mile-long mountain system divided the Civil War into the eastern & western theaters

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Appalachians

202
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1910 Victor Berger of Wisconsin became the first of this party of Eugene Debs elected to Congress

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Socialist

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1833 this area asked to separate from Coahuila to become its own Mexican state

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Texas

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1901 Buffalo Bill founded this town in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming

A

Cody

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Frances Willard, a president of the WCTU, was the first woman honored in this Capitol building hall

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Statuary Hall

206
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$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?”

A

Patrick Henry

207
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The change in the American flag on July 4, 1960 was its first change since July 4 of this year

A

1959

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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| As minister to Mexico, he was authorized by President Pierce to buy border land for the railroads

A

James Gadsden

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1850 it became the first state on the Pacific coast admitted to the union

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California

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The U.S. Marine Corps was first established to fight in this war

A

The Revolutionary War

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Oct. 2, 1967 he was sworn in as the first African-American Supreme Court justice

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Thurgood Marshall

212
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Jonathan Edwards was among the leaders of this “great” religious movement of the 1700s

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Great Awakening

213
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1893 3 men serving prison sentences for this riot were pardoned by the governor of Illinois

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Haymarket Riot

214
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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| At the outbreak of hostilities of the Civil War, he was president of the Senate

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Hannibal Hamlin

215
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| During his first term as president, the Bill of Rights became law

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George Washington

216
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$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

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Canada

217
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$900 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1832 this president declared, “The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me; but I will kill it”

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Andrew Jackson

218
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In November 1689 Joseph Wadsworth hid this colony’s charter from the British by placing it in an oak tree

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Connecticut

219
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He earned his captain’s commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804

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Stephen Decatur

220
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| British commander Sir Edward Pakenham was killed in this battle fought 2 weeks after the War of 1812

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Battle of New Orleans

221
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| To reach eastern markets in the 1800s, Texas drovers brought their cattle to Kansas via this trail

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the Chisholm Trail

222
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On November 14, 1889, the New York World called her trip, “The Longest Journey Known to Mankind”

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Nellie Bly

223
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Mar. 27, 1964 this largest Alaska city was hit by an 8.4 earthquake

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Anchorage

224
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1787 Arthur St. Clair became the first governor of this vast territory north of the Ohio River

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Northwest Territory

225
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 2 years after exploring the Northwest with William Clark, he was named gov. of the Louisiana territory

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Meriwether Lewis

226
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This group of volunteers, created on Mar. 1, 1961, works to improve living conditions in other nations

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Peace Corps

227
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 24, 1980 an attempt to rescue 53 hostages in this capital city was called off

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Tehran

228
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| ‘Ullo, Gouverneur! This signer of the Constitution gave the document its final wording

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Gouverneur Morris

229
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 9, 1992, the first group of U.S. Marines arrived in this African nation to restore order

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Somalia

230
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Shrapnel from a 1916 munitions storage plant explosion in Jersey City, NJ damaged this famous statue

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Statue of Liberty

231
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Frances Perkins was trying to improve working conditions in these in the 1910s, Kathie Lee in the ’90s

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Sweatshops

232
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The U.S. made this great buy from France in 1803 & would have been happy with just New Orleans

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Louisiana Purchase

233
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| If this act hadn’t passed July 14, 1798, we would have had just the Alien Acts

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Sedition Acts

234
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1844 John C. Fremont crossed the Sierra Nevada & this John C. became Secretary of State

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John C. Calhoun

235
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Francisco Lopez found this precious metal in California in 1842, before the rush

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gold

236
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1843 Congress allocated $30,000 to string one between Baltimore & Washington; it was completed in 1844

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a telegraph wire

237
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1873 President Grant proclaimed this city the site of the Centennial Exposition of 1876

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Philadelphia

238
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Before cotton became king, this plant that yields a violet dye was a popular southern crop

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indigo

239
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When Thomas Jefferson took office in March, 1801, this river formed the western U.S. boundary

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Mississippi

240
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1890 this GOP senator from Ohio sponsored an antitrust act & the Silver Purchase Act

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John Sherman

241
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1997 this U.N. secy.-general became the first international guest of President Clinton’s second term

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Kofi Annan

242
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Sept. 30, 1953, Pres. Eisenhower named this California governor as Chief Justice of the U.S.

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Earl Warren

243
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Signed February 2, 1848, this treaty ended the Mexican War

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the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

244
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Federalists called it “Mr. Madison’s War”

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War of 1812

245
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| His 1934 trip to Cartagena, Colombia was the first by a sitting U.S. president to South America

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

246
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1856 William Dayton became the first vice presidential candidate of this new party

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Republican

247
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1962 this Hawaiian became the first Japanese-American elected to the U.S. Senate

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Daniel Inouye

248
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Nixon’s running mate in 1960, he was named chief negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks in 1969

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Henry Cabot Lodge

249
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1961 he became the first brother of a president appointed to a cabinet position

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Robert F. Kennedy (Attorney General)

250
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On January 21, 1977 this president pardoned several thousand Vietnam War draft evaders

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Jimmy Carter

251
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1915 this Hull House founder helped establish the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom

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Jane Addams

252
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On June 21, 1982 he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of President Reagan

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John Hinckley

253
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In searching for the 7 Cities of Cibola, he & his men traveled as far north as present-day Lyons, Kansas

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Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

254
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| While in the VA. legislature, this 3rd president introduced his religious freedom statute

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Thomas Jefferson

255
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Founded in 1607, the Popham colony on the Kennebec River was this state’s first English settlement

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Maine

256
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1952 composer Stuart Hamblen was the presidential candidate of this anti-liquor party

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Prohibition

257
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 23, 1921 President Harding pardoned this Socialist so that he could have Christmas dinner with his wife

A

Eugene Victor Debs

258
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This soldier & frontiersman won important victories over the British in the Northwest Territory

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George Rogers Clark

259
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This amendment was 3 states short of ratification when its deadline elapsed June 30, 1982

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the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)

260
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In October 1867 Gen. Rousseau took formal possession of this territory that the U.S. had bought in March

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Alaska

261
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1907 Charles N. Haskell of Muskogee became this new state’s first governor

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Oklahoma

262
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Because of his deist beliefs, this “Age of Reason” author died a social outcast in New York City in 1809

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Thomas Paine

263
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was promoted to captain for burning the captured U.S. frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor

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Stephen Decatur

264
Q

$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

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Theodore Roosevelt

265
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The siege of the Alamo gave this Texas general time to prepare for the Battle of San Jacinto

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Sam Houston

266
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Public Enemy No. 1 robbed Midwestern banks until 1934 when he was done in by the Woman in Red

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John Dillinger

267
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Lawrence, Kansas was founded by people opposed to this practice

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Slavery

268
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1960 black sit-ins at segregated lunch counters started in Greensboro in this state

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North Carolina

269
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On July 9, 1776 this state’s legislature met in White Plains & ratified the Declaration of Independence

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New York

270
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On April 4, 1949, the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France & 8 other nations signed this mutual defense pact

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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)

271
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 8 Americans were killed April 24, 1980 in a failed attempt to rescue American hostages held in this city

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Tehran

272
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After answering a NASA newspaper notice in the ’70s, she became America’s first woman in space

A

Sally Ride

273
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1919 this future pres. mobilized the Mass. Militia to restore order in the Boston police strike

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Calvin Coolidge

274
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Though this president chose the general site for the executive mansion, he never lived there

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George Washington

275
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1836 this republic asked to be annexed to the U.S.

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Texas

276
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| When asked in 1779 “Have you lowered your flag?” he reportedly said, “I have not yet begun to fight”

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John Paul Jones

277
Q

$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

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Missouri

278
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions were passed in opposition to these 1798 acts

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Alien & Sedition Acts

279
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In November 1620 John Carver was elected the first governor of this colony

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Plymouth Colony

280
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1933 this Republican began serving the first of his 2 terms as governor of Kansas

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Alf Landon

281
Q

$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

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Secretary of State

282
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In June 1967 LBJ met with this Soviet premier in Glassboro, N.J. to discuss world problems

A

Alexei Kosygin

283
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On September 14, 1847, this general led the American army into Mexico City

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Winfield Scott

284
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Captain John Smith became president of this Virginia colony’s council in September 1608

A

Jamestown

285
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He served as the first chief justice of New York before he became first chief justice of the U.S.

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John Jay

286
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It was necessary for George Washington to surrender Fort Necessity July 3, 1754, during this war

A

French & Indian War

287
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This president’s political enemies referred to him as the “Beast of Buffalo”

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Grover Cleveland

288
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Aaron Burr & Molly Pitcher distinguished themselves at the June 28, 1778 battle of this

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Monmouth

289
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Aug. 5, 1884 the cornerstone of this landmark’s pedestal was laid on Bedloe’s Island

A

Statue of Liberty

290
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 41 male passengers signed this document in Provincetown Harbor, November 11, 1620

A

The Mayflower Compact

291
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 9, 1995 the Senate, by a vote of 98-0, confirmed John Deutch as director of this agency

A

CIA

292
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1769 he founded San Diego de Alcala, the first Franciscan mission in California

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Fr. Junipero Serra

293
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1975 200 U.S. Marines recaptured this merchant ship that had been seized by Cambodia

A

Mayaguez

294
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| From 1804 to 1806 this pair explored the area between the Mississippi River & the mouth of the Columbia River

A

Lewis & Clark

295
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On March 10, 1977, this Cesar Chavez labor group signed an agreement with the Teamsters union

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United Farm Workers

296
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1920 this president signed legislation returning the railroads to private ownership

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Woodrow Wilson

297
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed this “compromise” of 1820

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The Missouri Compromise

298
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The government leasing oil reserves to Mammoth Oil in 1922 caused this scandal the next year

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Teapot Dome

299
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| For their part in this 1770 Massachusetts riot, 2 soldiers were branded on the thumb

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Boston Massacre

300
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This monument with a 19-foot seated statue was dedicated by President Harding May 30, 1922

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Lincoln Memorial

301
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War

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Dred Scott

302
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Though elected to the senate in 1930, this Louisiana governor didn’t take his seat until 1932

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Huey Long

303
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In September, 1971, 43 peole were killed during a 4-day riot at this New York prison

A

Attica

304
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On the night of April 14, 1986, U.S. warplanes bombed Tripoli & Benghazi in this African country

A

Libya

305
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Traffic on this trail between San Antonio & Abilene peaked in 1871 with 600,000 cattle

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the Chisholm Trail

306
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Until the late 1840s, this largest North Carolina city was the USA’s chief source of gold

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Charlotte

307
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| At the same time that John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State, his brother Allen headed this agency

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CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

308
Q

$1500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 19 members of this Irish-American terrorist society active in 1870s Pennsylvania were hanged

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The Molly Maguires

309
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 15 indentured servants were aboard this ship when it sailed for the new world, Sept. 16, 1620

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The Mayflower

310
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was hanged in Charlestown, Virginia about 6 weeks after he led the attack on Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown

311
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1834 Stephen Austin was held in prison for 8 months in this country

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Mexico

312
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1818 this general ordered 2 traders arrested & executed for inciting the Seminole Indians

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Andrew Jackson

313
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Oglala Sioux chief was fatally stabbed Sept. 5, 1877 at Fort Robinson, Nebraska

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Crazy Horse

314
Q

$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Some attribute these 1692 proceedings to the psychotic effects of ergot poisoning

A

The Salem Witch Trials

315
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Nickname given the WWII backyard vegetable patches

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“Victory Gardens”

316
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In May of 1780, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln was forced to surrender this South Carolina port to the British

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Charleston

317
Q

$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

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Beirut

318
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He related the story of Pocahontas in his “General History of Virginia” in 1624

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John Smith

319
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Battle of Palo Alto, fought May 8, 1846, was the first battle of this war

A

Mexican-American War

320
Q

$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Lincoln said it was “the central act of my administration & the greatest event of the 19th century”

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the Emancipation Proclamation

321
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1953, this island’s first year as a U.S. commonwealth, 75,000 residents moved to the mainland

A

Puerto Rico

322
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This president collapsed September 25, 1919 & one week later suffered a stroke

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Woodrow Wilson

323
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1609 Champlain reached the lake now named for him on the border of New York & this state

A

Vermont

324
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1903 this “Badger State” became the first to adopt direct primary elections

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Wisconsin

325
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On December 2, 1863, ground was broken in Omaha for the construction of this railroad

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the Union-Pacific Railroad

326
Q

$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 29, 1765 Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act protest was interrupted with this one word

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Treason!

327
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Unaware of the Treaty of Ghent signed earlier, the British attacked this Louisiana city on Jan. 8, 1815

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New Orleans

328
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The British gained Charlestown Peninsula, now in Boston, by winning this June 17, 1775 battle

A

Bunker Hill

329
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Nov. 7, 1811 this territorial governor of Indiana lost 62 of his men at Tippecanoe

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William Henry Harrison

330
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1794 this chief justice negotiated a treaty calling for British evacuation of the Northwest

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John Jay

331
Q

$2500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1912 Alaska became an organized U.S. territory & these 2 states joined the union

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Arizona & New Mexico

332
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On August 29, 1877, this leader of the Mormon Church died

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Brigham Young

333
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After aiding the U.S. in the Battle of New Orleans, this pirate was pardoned

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Jean Lafitte

334
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In December 1952, this president-elect visited the front lines during the Korean War

A

Dwight Eisenhower

335
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After this waterway opened in 1825, freight rates between Buffalo & NYC were cut by more than 90%

A

Erie Canal

336
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This man who bought Manhattan from the Indians later served as governor of New Sweden

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Peter Minuit

337
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On October 20, 1803, the senate ratified the treaty for this land acquisition

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Louisiana Purchase

338
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Benedict Arnold & this man’s Green Mountain Boys captured Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775

A

Ethan Allen

339
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1866 he became general of the U.S. Army; the first officer so designated

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Ulysses S. Grant

340
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The name of this anti-Jackson party was introduced to the senate by Henry Clay, April 14, 1834

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Whigs

341
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1843 Daniel Webster resigned as this president’s Secretary of State

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John Tyler

342
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 22, 1906 they received a patent for an improved model of their airplane

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the Wright brothers

343
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Samuel Adams referred to this April 19, 1775 battle when he said, “What a glorious morning for America!”

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Lexington, Concord

344
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Prior to his election to the Tennessee legislature in 1821, this frontiersman was a Justice of the Peace

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Davy Crockett

345
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 1 of 4 freedoms FDR termed essential in a January 6, 1941 address to Congress

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1 of (want, speech, religion, or fear)

346
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Of the 3 writers of the Federalist papers, 2 were New Yorkers & he was a Virginian

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(James) Madison

347
Q

$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

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Benedict Arnold

348
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1765 Dr. James Baker opened his first factory in Massachusetts to make this - how sweet!

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Chocolate

349
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Mormons say divine intervention sent these birds to stop a cricket infestation in 1848

A

Seagulls

350
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1949 the Senate ratified this treaty that joined the U.S. with 11 others in a mutual defense pact

A

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

351
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After losing his Senate seat to John F. Kennedy, he was made U.S. representative at the United Nations

A

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

352
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1848 event made the California trail the most traveled pioneer road by 1850

A

gold strike

353
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Before becoming chief justice in 1789, he was Sec’y of Foreign Affairs in the Continental Congress

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John Jay

354
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1928 this Republican campaigned for president promising “a chicken in every pot”

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Hoover

355
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Judge John T. Raulston presided over this Dayton, Tennessee trial in July 1925

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the Scopes trial

356
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The first gusher in the U.S. occurred in this oil field near Beaumont, Texas in 1901

A

Spindletop

357
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On October 24, 1952 Eisenhower vowed to go to this country & 5 weeks later, he did

A

Korea

358
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1732, Vincennes, in this future state, was founded by the French on the Wabash River

A

Indiana

359
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1941 act enabled the U.S. to become the “Arsenal of Democracy”

A

The Lend-Lease Act

360
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On May 13, 1846, President James K. Polk signed a declaration of war against this country

A

Mexico

361
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 26, 1799 this general eulogized George Washington in Congress

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“Light-Horse Harry” Lee

362
Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This statue got a new torch in 1986; the old one was 100 years old

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the Statue of Liberty

363
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Term for the women of the 1920s who wore bobbed hair, short dresses & long strings of beads

A

flappers

364
Q

$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Sunshine State once had east & west portions; the western part now belongs to Ala., Miss. & La.

A

Florida

365
Q

$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Alden was the last surviving signer of this

A

the Mayflower Compact

366
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| “Bleeding Kansas” was so named because of violence over this issue in the 1850s

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slavery

367
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He obtained a charter to establish Georgia in 1732 & founded Savannah a year later

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(James) Oglethorpe

368
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War added over 500,000 square miles to U.S. territory

A

the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

369
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This Shawnee chief & his brother, the Prophet, were both defeated in battles by William Henry Harrison

A

Tecumseh

370
Q

$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On Dec. 4, 1783 George Washington bade his officers farewell at this New York City tavern

A

Fraunces Tavern

371
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 14 years before coming to America, this Quaker was imprisoned in the Tower of London for his beliefs

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William Penn

372
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1949 the U.S. joined this Western defense pact; our 1st ever peacetime alliance

A

NATO

373
Q

$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

A

U.S. Maine

374
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This settlement’s economy grew after John Rolfe found that tobacco could be successfully grown there

A

Jamestown

375
Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 19th century term for the belief that U.S. expansion across North America was “destined by God”

A

Manifest Destiny

376
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 3 months after Congress authorized the Department of Foreign Affairs, it changed its name to this

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Department of State

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He died in 1804 the day after his duel with Aaron Burr

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Alexander Hamilton

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1945-46 the number of these government employees dropped from 12 million to less than 3 million

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Armed Forces/Servicemen & women

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1932 Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to this body

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U.S. Senate

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After the original 13 colonies, this was the first state to enter the union

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Vermont

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & a state 59 years later

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Hawaii

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Susan B. Anthony was arrested in 1872 for doing this

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Voting

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1949 Henry H. Arnold became the first general of this branch of the armed forces

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Air Force

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In April 1984 this U.S. government agency admitted its role in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors

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CIA

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Hancock held this political position from 1780-85 & from 1787-93

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Governor of Massachusetts

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1943 Georgia became the 1st state to lower the voting age to this

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18

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Black Friday, September 24, 1869, resulted from Gould & Fisk’s attempt to corner the U.S. supply of this

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Gold

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was the last Dutch governor of New York, which was New Netherland at the time

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Peter Stuyvessant

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| At the Battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston took this Mexican leader prisoner

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Santa Anna

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Swedish-born John Ericsson designed this 1st of the ironclads with a revolving turret

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Monitor

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was called “Black Dan” due to his swarthy complexion & “Godlike Daniel” from his imposing style

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Daniel Webster

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A branch of the military that was part of the army before it became independent in 1947

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Air Force

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He resigned as Secretary of State April 15, 1959 & died a few weeks later

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John Foster Dulles

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He, not FDR, was the only Democrat Vermont supported for president since the Civil War

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Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| These unpopular laws that dealt with citizenship & free speech contributed to John Adams’ defeat in 1800

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Alien & Sedition Laws

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$None ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859

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John Brown

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Q

$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1787 Delaware became the 1st state in the Union; in 1860 this became the 1st state to secede

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South Carolina

398
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1952 this territory adopted its own constitution & became a commonwealth

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Puerto Rico

399
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1926 Lindbergh had to parachute out of planes 4 times while employed to do this

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flying the mail

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Wilson, Harding, Coolidge & Hoover refused to recognize this country’s government, but FDR did

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Soviet Union

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This New Deal agency was symbolized by a blue eagle & used the motto, “We do our part”

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NRA (National Recovery Administration)

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition celebrated the 100th anniversary of this document

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Declaration of Independence

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| On March 27, 1964, North America’s most intense recorded earthquake, an 8.4, hit this state

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Alaska

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 1 of 3 men who, under the name “Publius”, wrote “The Federalist” essays urging ratification of the Constitution

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Madison, Hamilton, & Jay

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Just before WWII this British king & his queen Elizabeth became the 1st British monarchs to visit the U.S.

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George VI

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1982 Central High School was made a national landmark in memory of 1957 events there

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Little Rock, AR

407
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This orator became governor of Virginia in 1776

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Patrick Henry

408
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 19 convicted “witches” were executed this way in Salem, Massachusetts

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Hanging

409
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| A Packard touring car was disguised as a police car for this famous “Holiday Holocaust” in 1929

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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

410
Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1616 she went to England with her husband, John, & her infant son

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Pocahontas

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| The legal name of this black evangelist-abolitionist was Isabella Van Wagener

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Sojourner Truth

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Nixon’s Att’y-Gen. E. Richardson resigned & Watergate prosecutor A. Cox was fired on this night of the week

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Saturday

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| John Jay, not John Marshall, was the first one

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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

414
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| After the original 13, this was the 1st state admitted to the union

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Vermont

415
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| These 2 self-governing outlying areas of the U.S. were acquired from Spain in 1898

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Puerto Rico and Guam

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Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In his 1835 book “Democracy in America”, this Frenchman predicted the present age’s 2 superpowers

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Alexis de Tocqueville

417
Q

$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| This 1803 acquisition doubled the size of the U.S.

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Louisiana Purchase

418
Q

$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Though he said he found dueling abhorent, he participated in one in 1804

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Alexander Hamilton

419
Q

$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| In 1912, it became 48th & last contiguous state to join The Union

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Arizona

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Q

$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| 1st to hold a nominating convention, this 3rd party ironically chose Mason Wm. Wirt to run for Pres.

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Anti-Masonic party

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Q

$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Upon leading 1894 march of unemployed on Washington, Jacob Coxey was arrested for this trivial of offenses

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stepping on the grass

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