Today in History march 5

Question 1

the author of the catcher and the rye, J. D. Salinger, dies

Answer 1

sympathetic understanding of aduelescence and distrust of adult world

Question 2

challenger explodes after liftoff

Answer 2

one of the defining tradies of the decade and reinforced Ronald Reagan as “the great communicator

Question 3

kansas enters the union

Answer 3

during the civil war, kansa suffered the highest rate of fatal causualitites of any union state, largely because of its great internal divisions on the issue of slavery

Question 4

viet cong attack US Embassy

Answer 4

Tet offensice, a squad of Viet Cong guerillas attack the US embassy in Saigon

Question 5

Immigration act passed over wilson’s veto

Answer 5

the law required a literacy test to immigrants and barred asian laborers

Question 6

french and indian war ends

Answer 6

strengthend the 13 americann colonies by removing european rivials to the north and south

Question 7

yalta conference ends

Answer 7

with victory over germany three months away, churchhill and stalin were more intent on dividing eurpoe into zones of political influnence thatn in addressing military coonsiderations

Question 8

abraham lincoln is born

Answer 8

his greatest legacy were his works to preserve the union and his signing of the emancipation proclamation

Question 9

teddy roosevelt discusses america’s race problem

Answer 9

it ws not until lydon b johnson passed te civil rights act in 1964 that government efforts to correct racial basis would be encoded into lalw

Question 10

st valentines day massacre

Answer 10

many question whether the sin of temperance outweighed the evil of prohibition gansters

Question 11

know nothing convene in philadelphia to nominate its first presidential candiate

Answer 11

nativist societies to combat ‘foreign’ influences in american society

Question 12

FDR signs executive order 9066

Answer 12

more than 110,000 japanese americans were relocated to remote intermment camps

Question 13

nixion goes to china for talks

Answer 13

improving relations with china would allow him to inject more fluidity into the internation environment and offset the growing power of the soviet union

Question 14

marbury v madison establishes judicial review

Answer 14

the ability of the supreme court to limit congressional power by declaring legislation unconstitutional in the new nation

Question 15

AIM occupation of wounded knee begins

Answer 15

demands were made that the US Senate launch an investigation of Indian treaties broken by the US government

Question 16

congess passes the missouri compromise

Answer 16

a bill granting missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the lousiana purchase north of the 36th parallel (maine formal apart of massachussets, was admitted as a free state)

Question 17

FDR inaugurated

Answer 17

new deal- an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment, oppruntunity , and welfare.