C.L Exam 161-180

Question 1

161. What is Selective Service System?

Answer 1

From 1940 through 1973, the Selective Service System oversaw the drafting and induction of men into the armed forces.

Question 2

161. What happened in 1973?

Answer 2

However in 1973, the armed forces became an all-volunteer military and the system was placed on stand-by.

Question 3

162. What is a Jury?

Answer 3

A jury, usually twelve people chosen for their impartiality, has the job of deciding whether a person accused of a crime is guilty or innocent.

Question 4

162. What does a jury do?

Answer 4

Problem: Held to determine whether a police officer was actually, doing his or her duty when a suspect was killed or injured.
They listen to the evidence to determine whether the officer was doing his or her duty, or whether the officer went beyond their duty and committed a crime.

Question 5

163. What is Brown v. Board of Education?

Answer 5

Represented a lawsuit that made its way to the United States Supreme Court. It was meant to challenge previous laws that indicated the races could be segregated as long as the facilities available were equal.

Question 6

163. What was the Board of Education charged with?

Answer 6

The United States Supreme Court rules that segregation was unconstitutional and charged the local school district with the responsibility of integrating, holding that “separate, but equal facilities were inherently unequal”.

Question 7

164. What is the Secretary of State?

Answer 7

This person is the head of the Department of State of the United States. The Secretary of State is the highest ranking executive officer after the President of the United States and is responsible for maintaining and developing foreign policy and handling foreign affairs.

Question 8

164. Who is the current Secretary of State for the USA?

Answer 8

John Kerry

Question 9

165. Who is Peter Pan?

Answer 9

A play by Scottish author James Matthew Barie about a boy who lives in a place called “Neverland” better known as “Never-Never-Land”, a country where no child grows up.

Question 10

165. Who is Peter Pan assisted by?

Answer 10

Peter is assisted by his guardian fairy,”Tinker Bell” and in the play he defeats his enemy fictional pirate Captain Hook!

Question 11

166. Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

Answer 11

An American author of the 19th century known for his poems of great sadness and short stories of horror.

Question 12

166. How was Edgar Allan Poe’s childhood?

Answer 12

He was a child of theatrical parents and Fort Bend early in life and taken into the home of John Allen who became his godfather. Poe lived briefly in England with his godparents and study at a classical Academy. After his god mother passed away his relations with John Allen became strained. He went on to a serve briefly at West Point and then in the army for a time.

Question 13

167. What is Roots?

Answer 13

Written by Alex Haley, a relatively unknown novelist, until 1976 when Roots was published and which won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1977.

Question 14

167. What is Roots, based on?

Answer 14

The book research took twelve years and traces Haley’s ancestry back through American slavery to its origin in Africa.

Question 15

168. What is the Scarlet Letter?

Answer 15

A novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne about Hester Prynne, awoken in 17th century New England who is convicted of adultery.

Question 16

168. What did her husband do?

Answer 16

Her husband comes to realize who her lover is and takes revenge on him. Eventually, her dying lover publicity admits his part in the affair.

Question 17

169. Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Answer 17

(1804-1864) American novelist and short-story writer. Born into an old New England family, Hawthorne was very much aware of his ancestors.

Question 18

169. What was Nathaniel aware of, from his ancestors?

Answer 18

The “Hathornes” as they spelled it participated in the Salem Witch Trials in the 17th century and later in the Quaker persecutions.

Question 19

170. What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?

Answer 19

An important battle of the Civil War, fought in Virginia in 1863 at the very beginning of the Civil War.

Question 20

170. Who were the armies led by?

Answer 20

The southern army, led by General Robert E. Lee, along with Stonewall Jackson, defeated the much larger northern army. Jackson was accidentally shot and killed by his own men after the battle.

Question 21

171. Who is Kit Carson?

Answer 21

A skilled frontier trapper and guide of the 19th century, who helped to open the territory of California to settlement from the United States.

Question 22

171. What did he do?

Answer 22

As a general he moved a great number of Navahos by force in the 1860s to settlement area set aside for the Native Americans.

Question 23

172. Who was Sam Houston?

Answer 23

A solider and political leader of the 19th century. Houston led the Texans in the struggle to win independence from Mexico.

Question 24

172. What did Sam Houston, oppose?

Answer 24

He was strongly against slavery and opposed siding with the South’s decision for secession.

Question 25

173. Who is Jean Lafitte?

Answer 25

Often thrust of as a character of fiction, he was a genuine historic figure: a French pirate of the early 19th century, active around New Orleans, Louisiana.

Question 26

173. What did he volunteer to do?

Answer 26

He was also a patriot to some degree as he volunteered to aid General Andrew Jackson fighting the British in the War of 1812, and he fought in the Battle of New Orleans.

Question 27

174. What is a Democratic Party?

Answer 27

A political party that began in the 1820s when it split CEO, the party called the Democratic Republican Party.

Question 28

174. What did they generally oppose?

Answer 28

The party generally opposed the national bank, high taxes, interference with slavery, and federal aid for improvement in our nation.

Question 29

175. What is the Mason-Dixon line?

Answer 29

Actually is the boundary line between southern Pennsylvanian and northern Maryland , laid out by two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, in the 1760s.

Question 30

175. What did it mean, before and during the Civil War?

Answer 30

Before and during the Civil War, the line was symbolic of the division between slaveholding states and free states.

Question 31

176. Who are the Navahos?

Answer 31

A tribe of Native Americans, the most numerous in the United States.

Question 32

176. Who forced the Navahos to move?

Answer 32

They were forced to move by the United States Army troops under the command of Kit Carson in 1864.

Question 33

177. Who wasTecumseh?

Answer 33

A Shawnee chief of the late 18th and early 19th century.

Question 34

177. What did the Shawnee chief do?

Answer 34

He took arms and fought the movement of American settlers moving into the Mid-West and supported the British troops in the War of 1812, in which he was killed.

Question 35

178. What is the War of 1812?

Answer 35

A war between Britain and the United States, fought between 1812 and 1815,

Question 36

178. What is it also called?

Answer 36

The War of 1812 has also been called the second American war for independence.

Question 37

179. What is the Underground Railroad?

Answer 37

Before the Civil War it was a network of houses and other places that abolitionists used to help slaves escape to freedom in the northern states or into Canada.

Question 38

179. Who was one of the most prominent conductors of the Underground Railroad?

Answer 38

Harriet Tubman was one of the most prominent “conductors”(one who assisted the slaves in their escape by going back to slave territory) of the Underground Railroad.

Question 39

180. Who was Benedict Arnold?

Answer 39

An American general of the Revolutionary War.

Question 40

180. What does calling someone a Benedict Arnold mean?

Answer 40

Calling someone a “Benedict Arnold” is quite uncomplimentary, the equal invent of saying they are a traitor.