U.S. History Flashcards
$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
vote
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1884 the Central Labor Union selected the first Monday in this month for their “workingmen’s holiday”
September
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This president’s second inaugural address was 135 words long; he had us at “Fellow citizens”
Washington
$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
Nicaragua
$6000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 1967 saw the amendment on presidential succession pass & this future V.P. become governor of Maryland
Spiro Agnew
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| William McGuffey compiled his first one in 1836
a reader
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| At Jefferson Davis’ suggestion, in 1855 Congress bought some of these animals from Egypt for the Southwest
camels
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Franklin Pierce’s hope for glory in this war ended when he was thrown from his horse & injured
the Mexican-American War
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Founded in 1886, it became the major rival of the Edison Electric Company
Westinghouse
$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
Panama City
$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
The Hague
$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”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On August 21, 1959 it became our 50th state
Hawaii
$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
John Quincy Adams
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It’s the period, 1920 to 1933, when alcoholic beverages were illegal
Prohibition
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Stephen Douglas proposed the act that repealed the Missouri Compromise & created these 2 territories
Kansas & Nebraska
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| A 1924 law gave citizenship to all these members of what were called “domestic dependent nations”
Native Americans
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive
William Tecumseh Sherman
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1949 he presented his “Fair Deal” as part of his State of the Union address
Truman
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The U.S. blockade of this country was made public October 22, 1962
Cuba
$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”
the police
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1851 students at VMI couldn’t stonewall this professor of natural & experimental philosophy
(Stonewall) Jackson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Marcus Garvey, born on this island nation in 1887, was deported back there by the U.S. in 1927
Jamaica
$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
Iran-Contra
$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
Cuba
$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
Omar Bradley
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Nickname of the area abandoned by the Okies & Arkies in the 1930s to go to California
Dust Bowl
$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
Lusitania
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Popular name of the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944
G.I. Bill of Rights
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1787 Patrick Henry refused to go to this convention; it’s said that he “smelt a rat”
the Constitutional Convention
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1864, not a hurricane, but this general caused a path of destruction almost 300 miles long & 60 wide
William T. Sherman
$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
Joseph McCarthy
$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
The Homestead Act
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| An ink used in a newspaper cartoon in the 1890s gave us this term for sensationalist reporting
yellow journalism
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In March 1836 he was named commander of the Texas army; by October he was president of the republic
Sam Houston
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In May 1968 the Post Office celebrated the 50th anniversary of this kind of service
air mail
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The base camp Richard Byrd dubbed Little America in 1929 is on this continent
Antarctica
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Job Corps came out of Lyndon Johnson’s “War on” this
Poverty
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On July 8, 1853 Matthew Perry presented a letter from President Fillmore to the emperor of this country
Japan
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1992 Nathan E. Cook, the last veteran of this war, died
the Spanish-American War
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Dating back to the revolution, it’s the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States
West Point
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This president signed the bill to create a transcontinental railroad; he didn’t live to see its completion
Abraham Lincoln
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1876 Boss Tweed fled to Spain & in 1877 this famous Sioux leader fled to Canada
Sitting Bull
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Carpetbaggers were northerners who moved south after the Civil War to take part in this process
Reconstruction
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Production was halted on the B-1 bomber in 1977 & the development of this building-saving bomb was announced
Neutron bomb
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The hot case in the headlines of 1921 concerned this pair of anarchists accused of robbery & murder
Sacco & Vanzetti
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Post held by General George C. Marshall when he announced his “plan” June 5, 1947
Secretary of State
$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
Richard Sears
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1937 FDR’s opponents accused him of trying to “pack” this
The Supreme Court
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1972 the “T” in the newsmaking SALT stood for this, not “treaty”
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This paper that had sent Stanley to find Livingstone merged with the New York Tribune in 1924
New York Herald
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Geronimo was buried in this state in 1909, 2 years after statehood
Oklahoma
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Since 1937 this military post has been the site of the United States’ gold bullion depository
Fort Knox, Kentucky
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Total number of stars on the U.S. flag in 1777
13
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He’s the leader of the Union forces, seen here
Ulysses S. Grant
$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
(Thanksgiving) Turkey
$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
Mikhail Gorbachev
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1965 President Johnson flew to this state to sign the Medicare bill with a former president as witness
Missouri
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| A 1906 disaster in this city destroyed about 28,000 buildings & killed hundreds, maybe thousands
San Francisco
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1878 an amendment for this was introduced in Congress; its adoption didn’t occur until 1920
Women’s suffrage
$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
Benjamin Franklin
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1913 Pancho Villa used this Texas city on the Rio Grande as his headquarters
El Paso
$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
Maine
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 8 days after his March 4, 1933 inauguration, he gave his first Fireside Chat
Franklin D. Roosevelt
$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
Televisions
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| W.E. B. Du Bois & others founded this organization on Lincoln’s 100th birthday in 1909
NAACP
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| His 1830 “Liberty and Union” speech to the Senate was spread over 2 days
Daniel Webster
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 50 years after buying Alaska from Russia, the U.S. bought the Virgin Islands from this country
Denmark
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Radical Republicans impeached & tried to remove this president in 1868
Andrew Johnson
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This avuncular nickname for the government was coined by those against the War of 1812
“Uncle Sam”
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| When East & West were linked by this in October, 1861, the days of the Pony Express were numbered
the telegraph
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1851 Stonewall Jackson became an instructor at VMI, this school
Virginia Military Institute
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This Secretary of State retired in 1869, 2 years after his “folly”
William Seward
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It was the last battle in which George Armstrong Custer saw action
Little Big Horn
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Her first attempt to fly around the world ended in March 1937 when her plane crashed in Hawaii
Amelia Earhart
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Of the AFL, NFL or NHL, the one Samuel Gompers helped found
AFL (American Federation of Labor)
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Cuban hill that was stormed by the Rough Riders on July 1, 1898
San Juan Hill
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1952 Congress approved this commonwealth’s new constitution
Puerto Rico
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1890 this senator’s Anti-Trust Act was passed
John Sherman
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Battle sites in this war include Buena Vista, Los Angeles & Monterrey
Mexican-American War
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The cover of the May 29, 1943 Saturday Evening Post featured this “Female War Worker”
“Rosie The Riveter”
$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
Whigs
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| His golden-voiced speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention clinched his nomination
William Jennings Bryan
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1830 one of these raced the locomotive Tom Thumb & beat it
horse
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 19th century feminists denounced the 14th Amendment for putting this 4-letter word in the constitution
male
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| At noon April 30, 1789 George Washington was sworn in as president in this city
New York City
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| During the War of 1812 the British took over his American Fur Company post in the Oregon Country
(John Jacob) Astor
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Developed in the 1860s, these vehicles made it possible to ship fresh produce across the nation
refrigerated cars
$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
Boss Tweed
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| John Adams appointed this John chief justice
John Marshall
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| President who signed the Alaskan Pipeline Act during the energy crisis
Richard Nixon
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 created this agency that guarantees bank accounts
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This state’s constitution of 1849 led married women retain control of their own property
California
$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
Abolitionists
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Thoroughly restored for its 100th birthday in 1986, on July 3 that year, its torch was relit
Statue of Liberty
$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.
Monitor
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 10 minutes, this May 31, 1889 disaster destroyed a town & killed over 2,200 people
The Johnstown Flood
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In September 1847 this general led the American troops that captured Mexico City
Winfield Scott
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Big events in 1835: Mr. & Mrs. Clemens had a bouncing baby boy, Samuel, & this comet circled by
Halley’s Comet
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1915 he called San Francisco from New York City & spoke with Dr. Thomas A. Watson
Alexander Graham Bell
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1807 this former VP was tried & acquitted on a charge of treason
Aaron Burr
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On May 30, 1911, with a time of 6:42:08, Ray Harroun won the first running of this
Indianapolis 500
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This general addressed a joint session of Congress April 19, 1951
Douglas MacArthur
$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
Colorado
$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
Electric chair
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On Sept. 17, 1796 he issued his farewell address
George Washington
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Built to replace the Challenger, this space shuttle made its maiden voyage in May of ‘92
Endeavour
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| John Sevier was the first governor of Tennessee & the first & only governor of this short-lived state
Franklin
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This western state sent its first refrigerated trainload of oranges back east February 14, 1886
California
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On December 6, 1847 this future president took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1956 Jonas Salk & Leonard Scheele said Salk’s vaccine should eliminate this disease within 3 years
polio
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This president commuted Patty Hearst’s jail sentence & was instrumental in a Mideast peace treaty
Jimmy Carter
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Name given to the module that landed the first men on the moon July 20, 1969
the Eagle
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Edmund Randolph’s Virginia Plan was used as the basis for this important American document of 1787
The Constitution
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Some of Wells Fargo’s stagecoaches came from a factory in this New Hampshire capital
Concord
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| After the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Virgil Earp lost his job as this city’s marshall
Tombstone
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1900 the Taft Commission supervised the transfer of military to civil govt. in these Pacific islands
Philippines
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The first major engagement for U.S. troops in this 20th century war was the Battle of Belleau Wood
World War I
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The 1902 Spooner Act authorized the purchase of this “zone” from Colombia
Panama Canal Zone
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Under the 1783 Treaty of Paris, this river became the western boundary of the U.S.
Mississippi River
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1972 he resigned as attorney general to head CREEP, the president’s reelection committee
John Mitchell
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| His “Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas & Japan” was published in 1856
Commodore Matthew Perry
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This Denison, Texas native had never held elective office before he was U.S. president
Dwight D. Eisenhower
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This 1803 territorial acquisition gave the U.S. free navigation of the Mississippi River
Louisiana Purchase
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| At age 26 Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey was the youngest signer of this 1787 document
The Constitution
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On December 6, 1976 this congressman was chosen to replace Carl Albert as Speaker of the House
Tip O’Neill
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1973 L. Patrick Gray resigned as head of this agency because he destroyed Watergate records
FBI
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Successor to the Manhattan Project, this agency, the AEC, was established in 1946
Atomic Energy Commission
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1981, just minutes after President Reagan was sworn in, the 52 hostages in this country were released
Iran
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1950 2 Puerto Rican nationalists made an attempt on this president’s life
Harry S. Truman
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Robert McNamara served in this post 1961-68
Secretary of Defense
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Philanthropist Gerrit Smith helped finance this man’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This 1890 act was designed in part to prevent monopolies
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The U.S. added the Badlands of South Dakota through this acquisition of land
The Louisiana Purchase
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Passed in 1913, the 17th Amendment allows for the direct election of these members of Congress
Senators
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Following his “Gospel of Wealth”, this steel magnate gave away over $350 million
Andrew Carnegie
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| When the market for this crop bottomed out in the 1870s, central Floridian farmers began growing oranges
Cotton
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Named for 3 cities, this railway connected Kansas to California
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The “New Frontier” was the domestic program of his 1961-63 administration
John F. Kennedy
$4400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1898, as a result of this war, the U.S. paid $20 million for the Philippines
the Spanish-American War
$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
Waco
$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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
$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”
Lindbergh
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| These 2 Tug Valley families, whose feud goes back to at least 1878, were related
the Hatfields & the McCoys
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The May 1970 Kent State protest was in reaction to U.S. troops entering this country
Cambodia
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| For the Cherokees this infamous trail led to Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
the Trail of Tears
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On May 9, 1846 he asked the Cabinet if he should recommend to Congress a war against Mexico
Polk
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee was in command of this ship when it blew up February 15, 1898
The Maine
$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
“America” (or “My Country, ‘Tis Of Thee”)
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 1840s guidebooks could lead you landmark by landmark along this trail from Independence to Astoria
Oregon Trail
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt & Alfred E. Smith all held this political post
Governor of New York
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Treaty of New Echota said these Indians would move west for $5 million & 7 million acres
Cherokee
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Frank Harris’ 1908 novel “The Bomb” deals with this 1886 U.S. incident
the Haymarket Riot
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He was first called “The Father of His Country” in a 1779 almanac published in Pennsylvania
George Washington
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1867 the first railroad to cross this state was completed from the Mississippi to Council Bluffs
Iowa
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Founded in 1874, this political party advocated printing more money to help farmers
Greenback Party
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In March 1814 this general defeated the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend, in what is now Alabama
Andrew Jackson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| For leading a slave rebellion in August of 1831, he was tried, convicted & hanged that November
Nat Turner
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1959 Walter Williams, said to be the last surviving veteran of this war, died at age 117
the Civil War
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1776 Sgt. Ezra Lee led the first known attack in one of these submersible crafts
a submarine
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1927 this aviator became the first person to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
(Charles) Lindbergh
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1909 the Lincoln penny replaced this one, which had been in circulation for 50 years
the Indian head
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1770 Robert Treat Paine prosecuted the British troops indicted for murder in this incident
the Boston Massacre
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1885 the Post Office began this service that sent mail more quickly for an extra fee
special delivery
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1913 the 16th Amendment was ratified, authorizing a tax on this
income
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1790 Philadelphia replaced this city as the new capital of the U.S.
New York City
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| During an 1832 expedition, Lake Itasca was discovered to be the source of this river
the Mississippi
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 2 of the 4 men upon whom the new rank of 5-star general was conferred in 1944
(2 of) MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshall, Hap Arnold
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other
Tennessee
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Most early American pioneers wore clothing made of this material that was part linen & part wool
Linsey-Woolsey
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 1 of 2 presidents who appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as a delegate to the U.N.
Truman & Kennedy
$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
Hartford, CT
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Andrew Mellon held this cabinet post under 3 pres.: Harding, Coolidge & Hoover
Secretary of the Treasury
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Known as “Gentleman Johnny”, this British gen. surrendered at Saratoga in 1777
John Burgoyne
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1838 Congress granted mail carrier status to this new form of transportation
Railroads
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| America’s first successful world exposition was held in 1876 in this Pennsylvania city
Philadelphia
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The territory acquired by the 1853 Gadsden Purchase is now part of these 2 states
Arizona & New Mexico
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Marquis De Lafayette served in the American Revolution, the Lafayette Escadrille in this war
World War I
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This last president from the Whig party rode Lincoln’s funeral train from Batavia, N.Y. to Buffalo
Millard Fillmore
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| If you want to see the grave this abolitionist “lies a-mouldering in”, go to North Elba, N.Y.
John Brown
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It’s where Lafayette spent the winter of 1777-78
Valley Forge
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Ray Ginger’s book “Six Days Or Forever?” covers this famous 1925 Tennessee trial
Scopes Trial
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1865 he was granted a patent for his car designed with upper & lower berths
George Pullman
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Laws designed to maintain racial segregation were nicknamed this, after a minstrel show character
Jim Crow Laws
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This cemetery on the Potomac is on land originally part of Martha Washington’s estate
Arlington National Cemetery
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1634 the first English settlers in this colony founded the city of St. Mary’s
Maryland
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Henry Flagler, a founder of Miami, was one of the original stockholders in this Ohio-based oil company
Standard Oil
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Term used to describe white Southerners who joined with carpetbaggers during Reconstruction
Scalawags
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Papago & Pima Indians were early residents of what is now this state
Arizona
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Date during WWII on which the Allies put Operation Overlord into action
June 6, 1944 (D-Day)
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1763 these surveyors began work to settle a boundary dispute between the Penns & the Calverts
Mason & Dixon
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1964 it was established as the “Domestic Peace Corps”
VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America)
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| State in which Nat Turner led a slave revolt in 1831
Virginia
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Formally organized in the 1870s, it began as a secret order of garment workers in 1869
the Knights of Labor
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Teddy Roosevelt’s attorney general, Charles Bonaparte, was this man’s grandnephew
Napoleon
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Black Shawl was the wife of this Indian who helped lead the charge against Custer
Crazy Horse
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Roger Williams founded R.I. after he was banished from this colony for his religious beliefs
Massachusetts
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This state recently marked the 400th anniversary of the English settlement on Roanoake Island
North Carolina
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Cajuns migrated to Louisiana from there
Nova Scotia
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3
Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Century in which the most states, 29, were admitted to the union
the 19th century
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| John Q. Adams & Henry Clay were among those who negotiated the Treaty of Ghent that ended this war
the War of 1812
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The 1st English settlement in Maine occured in this same year as the settlement of Jamestown
1607
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This disease transmiited by the Aedes Aegypti mosquto was brought to America on slave ships
yellow fever
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1954 he was elected to the senate from South Carolina by a write-in vote
Strom Thurmond
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This receiving station for immigrants in New York Bay opened January 1, 1892
Ellis Island
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On March 3, 1847 Congress authorized the 1st ones of these, & with adhesive backs to boot
Postage Stamps
$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
Cuba
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| An 1886 labor rally in this city’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot
Chicago
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| A presidential order got her released from jail February 1, 1979
Patricia Hearst
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It’s the present-day successor of the old Federal Radio Commission
the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Number of the Continental Congress which adopted the Declaration of Independence
the second
$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
the symbol of the Republican Party
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Liberty Bell cracked July 8, 1835 while tolling this Chief Justice’s death
(John) Marshall
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The verdict in the 1982 trial of John Hinckley Jr. for attempting to murder the president
not guilty by reason of insanity
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1924 Congress finally passed a law making all these first Americans US citizens
Indians
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| When JFK commanded PT-109, his superior was this man, later Attorney General under Nixon
John Mitchell
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| William Jennings Bryan died just a few days after the conclusion of this
the Scopes Trial
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 1787 law governing the area north of Ohio River; it became a model for territories entering the Union
Northwest Ordinance
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| By the end of 1845, Mormon industry had turned it from swampland into the largest city in Illinois
Nauvoo
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Of 9 “wars” in which the U.S. has been actively involved, these 2 lasted the longest
Vietnam and the Revolutionary War
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This First Lady was committed to a mental hospital in 1875, 10 years after her husband’s death
Mary Todd Lincoln
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1782, a preliminary treaty ending the Revolution was signed in this European city
Paris
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1818, this country & the U.S. agreed to joint occupation of the Oregon territory
Great Britain
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Within 6 weeks in 1912, this & Arizona were admitted as the 47th & 48th states
New Mexico
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In the 1968 election, he won 13 1/2 percent of the popular vote & carried 5 southern states
George Wallace
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Demonstrators were kicked out of this city’s Lincoln Park August 27, 1968
Chicago
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Country to which the U.S. began beaming Radio Marti in May 1985
Cuba
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Though popular in early 1800s this Tennessee congressman was even more popular in the 1950s
Davy Crockett
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This president vetoed more legislation than any other
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The 1st permanent English settlement in America
Jamestown
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| “Reconstruction” was the 13-year period following this
the Civil War
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Only U.S. civilians ever executed in America for espionage
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Some 30 years before his cousin’s New Deal, he gave us a “Square Deal”
Theodore Roosevelt
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1870s cartoonist Thomas Nast gave Democrats & GOP these symbols
the donkey and the elephant
$300 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Pres. Wilson founded this world organization which America never joined
the League of Nations
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The Spanish-American War led to this Caribbean country’s independence
Cuba
$500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He was the first American in space
Alan Shepard
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 19th century flag nicknamed “Stars & Bars”
the Confederate flag
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Its full name is “Liberty Enlightening the World”
the Statue of Liberty
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This popular tourist destination was annexed in 1889 due to pressure from sugar planters
Hawaii
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It was his partner, James Marshall, who actually discovered gold at his California mill in 1849
Sutter
$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
Maine
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In ‘63, 200,000 Washington marchers heard him say, “I have a dream”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The last occasion Congress declared war on any country
World War II
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Only state carried by George McGovern in ‘72 election
Massachusetts
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Justice Hugo Black, a leading supporter of school desegregation, was once member of this group
the KKK
$100 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This colonial inventor suggested Daylight Saving Time
Benjamin Franklin
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On the eve of the Civil War, some 2,000 slaveholders were of this race
black (or negro)
