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History part 3 Flashcards

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What New Deal program was directed by Harry Hopkins

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WPA

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What war failed to end despite the Act of Accord because it disadvantaged the descendants of Margaret of Anjou

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War of the Roses

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What ruler brought the minting of gold and silver coins under his personal control

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Augustus Caesar

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What country’s city of Cienfuegos is known as the Pearl of the South

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Cuba

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In what revolution was James II of England overthrown by William and Mary

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Glorious Revolution

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In what 1812 battle did the French Army fight Russian troops which resulted in over 100,000 casualties

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Battle of Borodino

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What is the burial place for most French kings

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Basillica of St. Denis

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What city has a cathedral which is said to house the tunic of the Virgin Mary and is famed for statues on its royal port

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Shart

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What organization was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin

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Republican Party

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What river forms New Hampshire’s western border

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Connecticut River

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What man gave the name Mauritius to a waterway that had already been discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano

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Henry Hudson

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What country’s city of Coro is at the base of the Paraguana Peninsula

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Venezuela

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What event was caused by an attempt to repeal the Test Act

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Glorious Revolution

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What rebellion was put down by Benjamin Lincoln

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Shays rebellion

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What city was the place of a convention called by Alexander Hamilton to discuss the economic problems of the articles of confederation

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Annapolis

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What country controls the southern portion of the Darien Gap

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Colombia

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What empire agreed to its own dissolution by signing the treaty of sevruh but was later negated by the treaty of Lausanne

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Ottoman Empire

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One type of what particle would create long range fluctuations with little energy cost according to the Mermin-Wagner theorem

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Boson

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What country signed the Gastein Convention with Austria

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Prussia

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What country’s Jasmine revolution started the Arab Spring

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Tunisia

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What country’s north contains the Sabana-Camaguey archipelago

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Cuba

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What portugese explorer arrived in India after sailing around the cape of good hope

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Vasco De Gama

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What place did Colonel Thomas Blood try to steal the crown jewels in 1671

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Tower of London

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What future English monarch was imprisoned in the Tower of London on the orders of Mary Tudor

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Elizabeth I

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Who opened the first birth control center in America and wrote What Every Girl Should Know

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Margaret Sanger

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26
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What 1873 US law banned sending obscene material through the mail

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Comstock Law

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What man declared that Habeus Corpus can only be suspended by Congress in Ex parte Merryman

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Roger Taney

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28
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What ruler introduced the Table of Ranks and replaced the Boyar Duma with the Governing Senate

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Peter the Great

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What man fell into debt after marrying Margaret Shippen in 1779

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Benedict Arnold

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30
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What was the second of the four major Islamic Caliphates that ruled from 661-750

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Umayyad

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31
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What man established the clear and present danger doctrine in Schenk v US

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Oliver Holmes

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What advisor and tutor to Nero was forced to commit suicide along with Petronius and Lucan after the Pisonian conspiracy

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Seneca

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33
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Who was the first leader of the Gestapo

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Hermann Goring

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34
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Who was the first Nazi to be executed following the Nuremberg Trials

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Joachim von Ribbentrop

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What city was the capital of Yaroslav the Wise and his father Vladimir the Great

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Kiev

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What man’s wife was involved in the Diamond Necklace Affair

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Louis the 16th

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What man was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Billion Dollar Congress

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William Mckinley

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What poem’s speaker anticipates the question why brought he us from bondage, our loved Egyptian night

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White Man’s Burden

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What man came up with the Anaconda plan during the civil war and lost to Franklin Pierce for president in 1852

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Winfield Scott

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40
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What man led the Maytee during the Red River Rebellion

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Louis Riel

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41
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What war’s highway of death refers to the mass bombing of the Republican Guard

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Gulf War

42
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What man instituted the Kosygin Reform and presided over a namesake Era of Stagnation

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Brezhnev

43
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What person asserted in a speech at a cotton exposition that we can be as separate as the fingers but as one as the hand

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Booker T Washington

44
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What ruler ordered the construction of the Palazzo a Mare and negotiated with Phraates the 4th for the return of lost battle standards

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Augustus Caesar

45
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What action did the 2 plus 4 agreement allow

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German Reunification

46
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In what election did the first Black woman run

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Election of 1972

47
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What movement’s advocates founded the Kensington Society

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Women’s Suffrage (in the UK)

48
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What man won his senate seat against incumbent Kenneth Keating despite not living in New York

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Robert Kennedy

49
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What event’s target opposed The Week of Long Knives

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Mahatma Gahndi

50
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What profession had members employed by Jack Rodham

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Pirates

51
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What city had a revolution that involved protestors gathering around a statue of Jozef Bem

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Budapest

52
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What prime minister was criticized for not sending support for Charles Gordon during the Siege of Khartoum

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William Gladstone

53
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What knightly order protected European travelers to the Holy Land

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Knights Templar

54
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What king executed Roger Mortimer

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Edward III

55
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What conflict saw the use of sharp rifles nicknamed Beecher Bibles

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Bleeding Kansas

56
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What architect was inspired by Anasazi cliff dwellings

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IM Pei

57
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What man used his newspaper L’Aurore to publish J’Accuse during the Dreyfus affair

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Georges Clemenceau

58
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What war featured the battle of Mortimer’s Cross

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War of the Roses

59
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What ruler’s arrival is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

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William the Conquerer

60
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What battle’s site contains the Lion’s Mound which marks where William II was knocked off his horse

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Waterloo

61
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What man served as secretary of war and secretary of the treasury before becoming chief justice

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Roger Taney

62
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Who was the first premier of the People’s republic of China

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Zhou Enlai

63
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What leader was exiled to Jamaica

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Simon Bolivar

64
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What country’s Statspolitiet was reestablished after a milk strike occurred during the reign of Joseph Terboven

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Norway

65
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What battle’s fighting took place on Reno Hill

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Little Bighorn

66
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What WW2 battle was fought in the Solomon Islands

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Battle of Guadalcanal

67
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What good did the Medici’s build their banking empire from due to the Arte Della Lana guild

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Wool

68
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What battle saw one side use bundles of sugar cane to cross Rodriguez Canal

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Battle of New Orleans

69
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What war led to the collapse of the Aberdeen government

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Crimean war

70
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What battle included the charge of the light brigade

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Balaclava

71
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What island did the US invade in operation Urgent Fury

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Grenada

72
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What island’s highest point is Maunga Terevaka

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Easter island

73
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What chinese dynasty was founded by emperor Gaozu and featured poets like Du Fu and Li Po

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Tang

74
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What nation is connected to it’s northern neighbor’s Rameswaram Island by Adam’s Bridge

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Sri Lanka

75
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What Prussian officer trained soldiers at Valley Forge and outlined his procedures in the official American Revolution Drill Manual

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Friedrich von Steuben

76
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What prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia was the first prime minister of a unified Italy

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Cavour

77
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What French ruler helped unify Italy

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Napoleon III

78
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What chant was used by Italians who wanted Victor Emmanuel to become king

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VERDI

79
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What empire was the target of the Arab revolt during WW1 and was partitioned under the treaty of Sevres

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Ottoman Empire

80
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What battle’s losing commander exclaimed “My men have bceome women, and my women men”

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Battle of Salamis

81
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Who was the winning commander at the Battle of Salamis

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Themistocles

82
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What desert covers a large amount of the southwest before entering it’s namesake Mexican province

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Sonoran Desert

83
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What valley is located on Navajo land and contains Mitten Buttes

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Monument Valley

84
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What state is Monument Valley and most of Sonoran Desert in

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Arizona

85
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What advisor and lover of Catherine the Great organized the coup that overthrew Paul II and put Catherine on the throne

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Grigory Orlav

86
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What politician won a presidential nomination at Chicago’s Wigwam

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Abraham Lincoln

87
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What largest home in the US is in Asheville NC

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Biltmore House

88
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What son of Marcus Aurelius scandalized his subjects by performing as a gladiator and battling wild animals in the arena

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Commodus

89
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A novel from what country features a rake-wielding glutton with a pig’s face

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China

90
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What man ordered the execution of British captain Charles Asgill in 1782

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George Washington

91
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What country’s monarch sent a gunboat to Morocco to spark the Agadir Crisis, part of an effort to achieve the country’s place in the sun

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Germany

92
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What British PM returned to power just before the 1929 stock market crash and great depression

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Ramsay Macdonald

93
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What party was Ramsay Macdonald a part of

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Labour

94
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What king did Macdonald serve under

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George V

95
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What country’s Carnation Revolution ended Marcel Caetano’s rule of this country

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Portugal

96
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What man was the chairman of the Council of Parks from 1924 to 1963 and dominated urban planning in NYC

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Robert Moses

97
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What man ruled against state granted monopolies in the Charles River Bridge case

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Roger Taney

98
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What landmark was the site of the largest protests against Japan’s seizure of territory in Shandong

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Tiananmen Square

99
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What empire began around 1438 and used knotted strings to keep records in the quipu

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Inca

100
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What man did Athhualpa defeat, who was also his brother

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Huascar

101
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