C.L. TEST 161-180

Question 0

Due to the military becoming an “all-volenteer” program, this organization disbanded.

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161. What is the Selective Service System?

Question 1

This program was active in 1949 through 1973

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161. What is the Selective Service System?

Question 2

This firms when twelve people are chosen for their impartiality.

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162. What is a jury?

Question 3

These people have the job of deciding whether someone is guilty or innocent.

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162. What is a jury?

Question 4

This case was brought about by the Brown family of Topeka, Kansas.

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163. What was the Brown v. Board of Education?

Question 5

This case was meant to change pervious laws that state that segregation was okay as long as the separate facilities are created equal.

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163. What was the Brown v. Board of Education?

Question 6

The head of the Department of State.

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164. What is the Secretary of State?

Question 7

This person is the highest ranking officer after the President of the United States.

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164. What is the Secretary of State?

Question 8

A play by the Scottish author James Matthew Berrie.

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165. What is Peter Pan?

Question 9

This play is about a boy who lives in Neverland.

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165. What is Peter Pan?

Question 10

An American author of the 19th century.

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166. Who was Edgar Allen Poe?

Question 11

Some of this authors works are “The Raven”, “Murders of the Red Rouge”, and “The Bells”.

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166. Who was Edgar Allen Poe?

Question 12

Written by Alex Haley

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167. What is ROOTS?

Question 13

This book took 12 years to write and win a Pulitzer Prize.

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167. What is ROOTS?

Question 14

A novel written by Nathaniel Harthrone.

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168. What is the Scarlet Letter?

Question 15

This novel took place in 17th century New England.

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168. What is the Scarlet Letter?

Question 16

This novelist and short-story writer lived from 1804 through 1864.

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169. Who was Nathaniel Harthrone?

Question 17

This person’s ancestors participated in the Salem Witch Trials.

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169. Who was Nathaniel Harthrone?

Question 18

An important battle fought in the Civil War.

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170. What was the Battle of Chancellorsville?

Question 19

The southern was led by General Robert E. Lee, and conquered the northern army in this Civl War battle.

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170. What was the Battle of Chancellorsville?

Question 20

A skilled frontier trapper and guide of the 19th century.

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171. Who was Kit Carson?

Question 21

This person served as a Union general of the Civil War.

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171. Who was Kit Carson?

Question 22

A solider and political leader of the 19th century.

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172. Who was Sam Houston?

Question 23

This person help Texas win independence from Mexico.

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172. Who was Sam Houston?

Question 24

Often thought as a character of fiction.

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173. Who was Jean Lafitte?

Question 25

This French pirate was active around New Orleans.

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173. Who was Jean Lafitte?

Question 26

A political party that began in the 1820s.

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174. What is the Democratic Party?

Question 27

This party opposed the National Bank, to name one opposition.

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174. What is the Democratic Party?

Question 28

The boundary line between southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland.

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175. What is the Mason-Dixon Line?

Question 29

This boundary line was symbolic between the division of slaveholding states and free states.

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175. What is the Mason-Dixon Line?

Question 30

A tribe of Native Americans.

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176. Who are the Navahos?

Question 31

This tribe was forced to move by General Kit Carson.

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176. Who are the Navahos?

Question 32

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

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177. Who was Tecumseh?

Question 33

This chief supported the British.

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177. Who was Tecumseh?

Question 34

A war between Britain and the U.S.

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178. What was the War of 1812?

Question 35

This war was fought between 1812 and 1815.

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178. What was the War of 1812?

Question 36

A network of house that abolitionists used to help slaves escape to freedom.

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179. What was the Underground Railroad?

Question 37

This helped slaves escape to the northern states or Canada.

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179. What was the Underground Railroad?

Question 38

An American general of the Revolutionary War.

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180. Who was Benedict Arnold?

Question 39

This general betrayed America and fled to Britain.

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180. Who was Benedict Arnold?