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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The day affer the 15th Amendment took effect, Thomas Peterson became the 1st Afr. American to do this under its provisions

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vote

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1884 the Central Labor Union selected the first Monday in this month for their “workingmen’s holiday”

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September

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This president’s second inaugural address was 135 words long; he had us at “Fellow citizens”

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Washington

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The 1914 Bryan-Chamorro Treaty gave the U.S. the right to build a canal across this country NW of Panama

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Nicaragua

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$6000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 1967 saw the amendment on presidential succession pass & this future V.P. become governor of Maryland

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Spiro Agnew

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| William McGuffey compiled his first one in 1836

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a reader

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| At Jefferson Davis’ suggestion, in 1855 Congress bought some of these animals from Egypt for the Southwest

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camels

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Franklin Pierce’s hope for glory in this war ended when he was thrown from his horse & injured

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the Mexican-American War

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Founded in 1886, it became the major rival of the Edison Electric Company

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Westinghouse

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In November 1903 troops from the U.S.S. Nashville were used to stop Colombians from reaching this now-capital city

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Panama City

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Charles Evans Hughes was picked to represent the U.S. at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in this city in 1926

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The Hague

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1963 he spoke of his “dream” that his children would one day “not be judged by the color of their skin”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On August 21, 1959 it became our 50th state

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Hawaii

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$1500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Seen <a>here</a>, he was the earliest president ever to be photographed, & the first to have a middle name

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John Quincy Adams

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It’s the period, 1920 to 1933, when alcoholic beverages were illegal

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Prohibition

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Stephen Douglas proposed the act that repealed the Missouri Compromise & created these 2 territories

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Kansas & Nebraska

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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| A 1924 law gave citizenship to all these members of what were called “domestic dependent nations”

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Native Americans

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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1949 he presented his “Fair Deal” as part of his State of the Union address

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Truman

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The U.S. blockade of this country was made public October 22, 1962

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Cuba

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| When these people struck in Boston, Coolidge said, “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone”

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the police

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1851 students at VMI couldn’t stonewall this professor of natural & experimental philosophy

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(Stonewall) Jackson

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Marcus Garvey, born on this island nation in 1887, was deported back there by the U.S. in 1927

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Jamaica

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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| For evading taxes on profits earned, former CIA agent Thomas Clines was the only one sent to prison over this scandal

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Iran-Contra

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The naval base the U.S. got on this island came out of the Platt Amendment we forced into its 1901 constitution

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Cuba

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Called “The Soldier’s General”, in 1949 he became the 1st permanent chairman of the new Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Omar Bradley

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Nickname of the area abandoned by the Okies & Arkies in the 1930s to go to California

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Dust Bowl

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| An ad for this oceanliner May 1, 1915 warned passengers there was a state of war; the ship was sunk May 7

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Lusitania

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Popular name of the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944

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G.I. Bill of Rights

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1787 Patrick Henry refused to go to this convention; it’s said that he “smelt a rat”

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the Constitutional Convention

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1864, not a hurricane, but this general caused a path of destruction almost 300 miles long & 60 wide

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William T. Sherman

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Looking for a good reelection issue in 1950, this Wisconsin senator took up anti-Communism on the advice of friends

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Joseph McCarthy

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This 1862 act gave American citizens 160 acres of land if they’d live on it for at least 5 years & improve it

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The Homestead Act

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| An ink used in a newspaper cartoon in the 1890s gave us this term for sensationalist reporting

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yellow journalism

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In March 1836 he was named commander of the Texas army; by October he was president of the republic

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Sam Houston

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In May 1968 the Post Office celebrated the 50th anniversary of this kind of service

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air mail

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The base camp Richard Byrd dubbed Little America in 1929 is on this continent

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Antarctica

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Job Corps came out of Lyndon Johnson’s “War on” this

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Poverty

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On July 8, 1853 Matthew Perry presented a letter from President Fillmore to the emperor of this country

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Japan

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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1992 Nathan E. Cook, the last veteran of this war, died

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the Spanish-American War

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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Dating back to the revolution, it’s the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States

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West Point

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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This president signed the bill to create a transcontinental railroad; he didn’t live to see its completion

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Abraham Lincoln

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1876 Boss Tweed fled to Spain & in 1877 this famous Sioux leader fled to Canada

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Sitting Bull

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Carpetbaggers were northerners who moved south after the Civil War to take part in this process

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Reconstruction

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Production was halted on the B-1 bomber in 1977 & the development of this building-saving bomb was announced

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Neutron bomb

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The hot case in the headlines of 1921 concerned this pair of anarchists accused of robbery & murder

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Sacco & Vanzetti

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Post held by General George C. Marshall when he announced his “plan” June 5, 1947

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Secretary of State

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He began selling watches by mail order in 1886 & later hired a repairman named A.C. Roebuck to work for him

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Richard Sears

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1937 FDR’s opponents accused him of trying to “pack” this

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The Supreme Court

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1972 the “T” in the newsmaking SALT stood for this, not “treaty”

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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This paper that had sent Stanley to find Livingstone merged with the New York Tribune in 1924

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New York Herald

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Geronimo was buried in this state in 1909, 2 years after statehood

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Oklahoma

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Since 1937 this military post has been the site of the United States’ gold bullion depository

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Fort Knox, Kentucky

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Total number of stars on the U.S. flag in 1777

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13

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He’s the leader of the Union forces, seen here

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Ulysses S. Grant

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| After a plea from his son, Abe Lincoln was the first to give a presidential pardon to one of these birds

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(Thanksgiving) Turkey

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On July 22, 1987 this Soviet leader agreed to a U.S. proposal to ban medium- & short-range nuclear weapons

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1965 President Johnson flew to this state to sign the Medicare bill with a former president as witness

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Missouri

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| A 1906 disaster in this city destroyed about 28,000 buildings & killed hundreds, maybe thousands

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San Francisco

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1878 an amendment for this was introduced in Congress; its adoption didn’t occur until 1920

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Women’s suffrage

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$1100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| His funeral on April 21, 1790 drew 20,000 mourners in Philadelphia, the largest U.S. public gathering to that time

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Benjamin Franklin

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1913 Pancho Villa used this Texas city on the Rio Grande as his headquarters

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El Paso

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Webster-Ashburton Treaty set parts of the St. Francis & St. John rivers as the border for this state & Canada

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Maine

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 8 days after his March 4, 1933 inauguration, he gave his first Fireside Chat

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In the mid-1940s about 10,000 Americans owned these electronic devices; by 1957 about 40 million were in use

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Televisions

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| W.E. B. Du Bois & others founded this organization on Lincoln’s 100th birthday in 1909

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NAACP

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| His 1830 “Liberty and Union” speech to the Senate was spread over 2 days

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Daniel Webster

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 50 years after buying Alaska from Russia, the U.S. bought the Virgin Islands from this country

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Denmark

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Radical Republicans impeached & tried to remove this president in 1868

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Andrew Johnson

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This avuncular nickname for the government was coined by those against the War of 1812

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“Uncle Sam”

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| When East & West were linked by this in October, 1861, the days of the Pony Express were numbered

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the telegraph

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1851 Stonewall Jackson became an instructor at VMI, this school

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Virginia Military Institute

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This Secretary of State retired in 1869, 2 years after his “folly”

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William Seward

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It was the last battle in which George Armstrong Custer saw action

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Little Big Horn

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Her first attempt to fly around the world ended in March 1937 when her plane crashed in Hawaii

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Amelia Earhart

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Of the AFL, NFL or NHL, the one Samuel Gompers helped found

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AFL (American Federation of Labor)

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Cuban hill that was stormed by the Rough Riders on July 1, 1898

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San Juan Hill

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1952 Congress approved this commonwealth’s new constitution

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Puerto Rico

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1890 this senator’s Anti-Trust Act was passed

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John Sherman

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Battle sites in this war include Buena Vista, Los Angeles & Monterrey

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Mexican-American War

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The cover of the May 29, 1943 Saturday Evening Post featured this “Female War Worker”

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“Rosie The Riveter”

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1834, a new political party adopted this name after they “flipped” over its use in a Henry Clay speech

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Whigs

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| His golden-voiced speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention clinched his nomination

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William Jennings Bryan

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1830 one of these raced the locomotive Tom Thumb & beat it

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horse

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 19th century feminists denounced the 14th Amendment for putting this 4-letter word in the constitution

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male

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| At noon April 30, 1789 George Washington was sworn in as president in this city

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New York City

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| During the War of 1812 the British took over his American Fur Company post in the Oregon Country

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(John Jacob) Astor

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Developed in the 1860s, these vehicles made it possible to ship fresh produce across the nation

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refrigerated cars

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The political ring led by this man stole as much as $200 million from NYC before it was ousted in 1871

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Boss Tweed

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| John Adams appointed this John chief justice

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John Marshall

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| President who signed the Alaskan Pipeline Act during the energy crisis

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Richard Nixon

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 created this agency that guarantees bank accounts

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FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This state’s constitution of 1849 led married women retain control of their own property

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California

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| From Latin for “put an end to”, it’s the term for reformers like Wm. L. Garrison who wanted to end slavery

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Abolitionists

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Thoroughly restored for its 100th birthday in 1986, on July 3 that year, its torch was relit

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Statue of Liberty

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In March 1974 it was announced that the wreck of this Union ironclad had been found off Cape Hatteras, N.C.

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Monitor

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 10 minutes, this May 31, 1889 disaster destroyed a town & killed over 2,200 people

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The Johnstown Flood

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In September 1847 this general led the American troops that captured Mexico City

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Winfield Scott

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Big events in 1835: Mr. & Mrs. Clemens had a bouncing baby boy, Samuel, & this comet circled by

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Halley’s Comet

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1915 he called San Francisco from New York City & spoke with Dr. Thomas A. Watson

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Alexander Graham Bell

101
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1807 this former VP was tried & acquitted on a charge of treason

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Aaron Burr

102
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On May 30, 1911, with a time of 6:42:08, Ray Harroun won the first running of this

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Indianapolis 500

103
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This general addressed a joint session of Congress April 19, 1951

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Douglas MacArthur

104
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1858 it was “Pikes Peak or Bust!” for gold miners who rushed to this state to find their fortune

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Colorado

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1890 William Kemmler was in the hot seat as he became the first criminal to die by this method

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Electric chair

106
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On Sept. 17, 1796 he issued his farewell address

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George Washington

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Built to replace the Challenger, this space shuttle made its maiden voyage in May of ‘92

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Endeavour

108
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| John Sevier was the first governor of Tennessee & the first & only governor of this short-lived state

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Franklin

109
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This western state sent its first refrigerated trainload of oranges back east February 14, 1886

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California

110
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On December 6, 1847 this future president took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois

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Abraham Lincoln

111
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1956 Jonas Salk & Leonard Scheele said Salk’s vaccine should eliminate this disease within 3 years

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polio

112
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This president commuted Patty Hearst’s jail sentence & was instrumental in a Mideast peace treaty

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Jimmy Carter

113
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Name given to the module that landed the first men on the moon July 20, 1969

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the Eagle

114
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Edmund Randolph’s Virginia Plan was used as the basis for this important American document of 1787

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The Constitution

115
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Some of Wells Fargo’s stagecoaches came from a factory in this New Hampshire capital

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Concord

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| After the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Virgil Earp lost his job as this city’s marshall

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Tombstone

117
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1900 the Taft Commission supervised the transfer of military to civil govt. in these Pacific islands

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Philippines

118
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The first major engagement for U.S. troops in this 20th century war was the Battle of Belleau Wood

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World War I

119
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The 1902 Spooner Act authorized the purchase of this “zone” from Colombia

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Panama Canal Zone

120
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Under the 1783 Treaty of Paris, this river became the western boundary of the U.S.

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Mississippi River

121
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1972 he resigned as attorney general to head CREEP, the president’s reelection committee

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John Mitchell

122
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| His “Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas & Japan” was published in 1856

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Commodore Matthew Perry

123
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This Denison, Texas native had never held elective office before he was U.S. president

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

124
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This 1803 territorial acquisition gave the U.S. free navigation of the Mississippi River

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Louisiana Purchase

125
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| At age 26 Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey was the youngest signer of this 1787 document

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The Constitution

126
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On December 6, 1976 this congressman was chosen to replace Carl Albert as Speaker of the House

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Tip O’Neill

127
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1973 L. Patrick Gray resigned as head of this agency because he destroyed Watergate records

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FBI

128
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Successor to the Manhattan Project, this agency, the AEC, was established in 1946

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Atomic Energy Commission

129
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1981, just minutes after President Reagan was sworn in, the 52 hostages in this country were released

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Iran

130
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1950 2 Puerto Rican nationalists made an attempt on this president’s life

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Harry S. Truman

131
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Robert McNamara served in this post 1961-68

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Secretary of Defense

132
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Philanthropist Gerrit Smith helped finance this man’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown

133
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This 1890 act was designed in part to prevent monopolies

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

134
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The U.S. added the Badlands of South Dakota through this acquisition of land

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The Louisiana Purchase

135
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Passed in 1913, the 17th Amendment allows for the direct election of these members of Congress

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Senators

136
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Following his “Gospel of Wealth”, this steel magnate gave away over $350 million

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Andrew Carnegie

137
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| When the market for this crop bottomed out in the 1870s, central Floridian farmers began growing oranges

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Cotton

138
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Named for 3 cities, this railway connected Kansas to California

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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

139
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The “New Frontier” was the domestic program of his 1961-63 administration

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John F. Kennedy

140
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$4400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1898, as a result of this war, the U.S. paid $20 million for the Philippines

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the Spanish-American War

141
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On April 19, 1993 the Branch Davidian compound near this Texas city burned to the ground after a 51-day siege

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Waco

142
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In January 1946 this former first lady was the only woman on the U.S. delegation to the U.N.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

143
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On May 20, 1927, according to the New York Times, he said, “‘So long’ as if he were off on an automobile trip”

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Lindbergh

144
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| These 2 Tug Valley families, whose feud goes back to at least 1878, were related

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the Hatfields & the McCoys

145
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The May 1970 Kent State protest was in reaction to U.S. troops entering this country

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Cambodia

146
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| For the Cherokees this infamous trail led to Fort Gibson, Oklahoma

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the Trail of Tears

147
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On May 9, 1846 he asked the Cabinet if he should recommend to Congress a war against Mexico

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Polk

148
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee was in command of this ship when it blew up February 15, 1898

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The Maine

149
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Samuel Smith wrote this song to a melody he found in a German book, not knowing it was England’s anthem

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“America” (or “My Country, ‘Tis Of Thee”)

150
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 1840s guidebooks could lead you landmark by landmark along this trail from Independence to Astoria

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Oregon Trail

151
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt & Alfred E. Smith all held this political post

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Governor of New York

152
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Treaty of New Echota said these Indians would move west for $5 million & 7 million acres

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Cherokee

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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Frank Harris’ 1908 novel “The Bomb” deals with this 1886 U.S. incident

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the Haymarket Riot

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He was first called “The Father of His Country” in a 1779 almanac published in Pennsylvania

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George Washington

155
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1867 the first railroad to cross this state was completed from the Mississippi to Council Bluffs

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Iowa

156
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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Founded in 1874, this political party advocated printing more money to help farmers

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Greenback Party

157
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In March 1814 this general defeated the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend, in what is now Alabama

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Andrew Jackson

158
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| For leading a slave rebellion in August of 1831, he was tried, convicted & hanged that November

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Nat Turner

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1959 Walter Williams, said to be the last surviving veteran of this war, died at age 117

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the Civil War

160
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1776 Sgt. Ezra Lee led the first known attack in one of these submersible crafts

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a submarine

161
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1927 this aviator became the first person to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross

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(Charles) Lindbergh

162
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1909 the Lincoln penny replaced this one, which had been in circulation for 50 years

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the Indian head

163
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1770 Robert Treat Paine prosecuted the British troops indicted for murder in this incident

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the Boston Massacre

164
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1885 the Post Office began this service that sent mail more quickly for an extra fee

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special delivery

165
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1913 the 16th Amendment was ratified, authorizing a tax on this

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income

166
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1790 Philadelphia replaced this city as the new capital of the U.S.

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New York City

167
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| During an 1832 expedition, Lake Itasca was discovered to be the source of this river

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the Mississippi

168
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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 2 of the 4 men upon whom the new rank of 5-star general was conferred in 1944

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(2 of) MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshall, Hap Arnold

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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other

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Tennessee

170
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Most early American pioneers wore clothing made of this material that was part linen & part wool

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Linsey-Woolsey

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 1 of 2 presidents who appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as a delegate to the U.N.

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Truman & Kennedy

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The 1st accident insurance policy in the U.S. was written by the Travelers Ins. Co. in this New England city

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Hartford, CT

173
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Andrew Mellon held this cabinet post under 3 pres.: Harding, Coolidge & Hoover

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Secretary of the Treasury

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Known as “Gentleman Johnny”, this British gen. surrendered at Saratoga in 1777

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John Burgoyne

175
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1838 Congress granted mail carrier status to this new form of transportation

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Railroads

176
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| America’s first successful world exposition was held in 1876 in this Pennsylvania city

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Philadelphia

177
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The territory acquired by the 1853 Gadsden Purchase is now part of these 2 states

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Arizona & New Mexico

178
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Marquis De Lafayette served in the American Revolution, the Lafayette Escadrille in this war

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World War I

179
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This last president from the Whig party rode Lincoln’s funeral train from Batavia, N.Y. to Buffalo

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Millard Fillmore

180
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| If you want to see the grave this abolitionist “lies a-mouldering in”, go to North Elba, N.Y.

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John Brown

181
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It’s where Lafayette spent the winter of 1777-78

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Valley Forge

182
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Ray Ginger’s book “Six Days Or Forever?” covers this famous 1925 Tennessee trial

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Scopes Trial

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1865 he was granted a patent for his car designed with upper & lower berths

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George Pullman

184
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Laws designed to maintain racial segregation were nicknamed this, after a minstrel show character

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Jim Crow Laws

185
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This cemetery on the Potomac is on land originally part of Martha Washington’s estate

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Arlington National Cemetery

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1634 the first English settlers in this colony founded the city of St. Mary’s

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Maryland

187
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Henry Flagler, a founder of Miami, was one of the original stockholders in this Ohio-based oil company

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Standard Oil

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Term used to describe white Southerners who joined with carpetbaggers during Reconstruction

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Scalawags

189
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Papago & Pima Indians were early residents of what is now this state

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Arizona

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Date during WWII on which the Allies put Operation Overlord into action

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June 6, 1944 (D-Day)

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1763 these surveyors began work to settle a boundary dispute between the Penns & the Calverts

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Mason & Dixon

192
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1964 it was established as the “Domestic Peace Corps”

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VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America)

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| State in which Nat Turner led a slave revolt in 1831

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Virginia

194
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Formally organized in the 1870s, it began as a secret order of garment workers in 1869

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the Knights of Labor

195
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Teddy Roosevelt’s attorney general, Charles Bonaparte, was this man’s grandnephew

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Napoleon

196
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Black Shawl was the wife of this Indian who helped lead the charge against Custer

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Crazy Horse

197
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Roger Williams founded R.I. after he was banished from this colony for his religious beliefs

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Massachusetts

198
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This state recently marked the 400th anniversary of the English settlement on Roanoake Island

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North Carolina

199
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Cajuns migrated to Louisiana from there

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Nova Scotia

200
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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3

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Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Century in which the most states, 29, were admitted to the union

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the 19th century

202
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| John Q. Adams & Henry Clay were among those who negotiated the Treaty of Ghent that ended this war

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the War of 1812

203
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The 1st English settlement in Maine occured in this same year as the settlement of Jamestown

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1607

204
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This disease transmiited by the Aedes Aegypti mosquto was brought to America on slave ships

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yellow fever

205
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1954 he was elected to the senate from South Carolina by a write-in vote

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Strom Thurmond

206
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This receiving station for immigrants in New York Bay opened January 1, 1892

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Ellis Island

207
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On March 3, 1847 Congress authorized the 1st ones of these, & with adhesive backs to boot

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Postage Stamps

208
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In December 1962, this country agreed to let 1,113 POWs go in exchange for over $50 mil. in U.S. supplies

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Cuba

209
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| An 1886 labor rally in this city’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot

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Chicago

210
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| A presidential order got her released from jail February 1, 1979

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Patricia Hearst

211
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It’s the present-day successor of the old Federal Radio Commission

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the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)

212
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Number of the Continental Congress which adopted the Declaration of Independence

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the second

213
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| A cartoon by Thomas Nast in an 1874 Harper’s Weekly was the 1st to use an elephant as this

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the symbol of the Republican Party

214
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Liberty Bell cracked July 8, 1835 while tolling this Chief Justice’s death

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(John) Marshall

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The verdict in the 1982 trial of John Hinckley Jr. for attempting to murder the president

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not guilty by reason of insanity

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1924 Congress finally passed a law making all these first Americans US citizens

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Indians

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| When JFK commanded PT-109, his superior was this man, later Attorney General under Nixon

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John Mitchell

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| William Jennings Bryan died just a few days after the conclusion of this

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the Scopes Trial

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 1787 law governing the area north of Ohio River; it became a model for territories entering the Union

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Northwest Ordinance

220
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| By the end of 1845, Mormon industry had turned it from swampland into the largest city in Illinois

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Nauvoo

221
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$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Of 9 “wars” in which the U.S. has been actively involved, these 2 lasted the longest

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Vietnam and the Revolutionary War

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This First Lady was committed to a mental hospital in 1875, 10 years after her husband’s death

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Mary Todd Lincoln

223
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1782, a preliminary treaty ending the Revolution was signed in this European city

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Paris

224
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1818, this country & the U.S. agreed to joint occupation of the Oregon territory

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Great Britain

225
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Within 6 weeks in 1912, this & Arizona were admitted as the 47th & 48th states

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New Mexico

226
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In the 1968 election, he won 13 1/2 percent of the popular vote & carried 5 southern states

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George Wallace

227
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Demonstrators were kicked out of this city’s Lincoln Park August 27, 1968

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Chicago

228
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Country to which the U.S. began beaming Radio Marti in May 1985

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Cuba

229
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Though popular in early 1800s this Tennessee congressman was even more popular in the 1950s

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Davy Crockett

230
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This president vetoed more legislation than any other

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

231
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The 1st permanent English settlement in America

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Jamestown

232
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| “Reconstruction” was the 13-year period following this

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the Civil War

233
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Only U.S. civilians ever executed in America for espionage

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

234
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Some 30 years before his cousin’s New Deal, he gave us a “Square Deal”

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Theodore Roosevelt

235
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1870s cartoonist Thomas Nast gave Democrats & GOP these symbols

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the donkey and the elephant

236
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Pres. Wilson founded this world organization which America never joined

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the League of Nations

237
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Spanish-American War led to this Caribbean country’s independence

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Cuba

238
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He was the first American in space

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Alan Shepard

239
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 19th century flag nicknamed “Stars & Bars”

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the Confederate flag

240
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Its full name is “Liberty Enlightening the World”

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the Statue of Liberty

241
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This popular tourist destination was annexed in 1889 due to pressure from sugar planters

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Hawaii

242
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It was his partner, James Marshall, who actually discovered gold at his California mill in 1849

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Sutter

243
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In return for Missouri’s admittance as a slave state, this N.E. state was brought in as a free state

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Maine

244
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In ‘63, 200,000 Washington marchers heard him say, “I have a dream”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

245
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The last occasion Congress declared war on any country

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World War II

246
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Only state carried by George McGovern in ‘72 election

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Massachusetts

247
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Justice Hugo Black, a leading supporter of school desegregation, was once member of this group

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the KKK

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This colonial inventor suggested Daylight Saving Time

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Benjamin Franklin

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On the eve of the Civil War, some 2,000 slaveholders were of this race

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black (or negro)

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