US History Flashcards
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Pennsylvania flood of 1889
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Johnstown flood
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Party of the first two presidents
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Federalist
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He organized the U.S. Communist Party in 1919
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John Reed
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They participated in the “Kitchen Debate” - 1959
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Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushschev
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Father of the Great Awakening - fire and brimstone preacher
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Jonathan Edwards
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“The Great Compromiser;” he negotiated the Treaty of Ghent
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Henry Clay
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He funneled arms sales profits to Nicaraguan Contras
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Oliver North
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Rock concert at Bethyl - New York - 1969
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Woodstock
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Utah point where the transcontinental railroad met
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Promontory Point
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He launched first liquid fuel rocket - 1926
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Robert Goddard
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Tennessee senator who held organized crime hearings - 1951
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Estes Kefauver
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Transportation route - completed 1869
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Statue that was dedicated in 1886
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Statue of Liberty
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Base on the Moon - 1969
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Tranquility Base
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Land purchase - 1867 - a.k.a. Seward’s Folley
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Alaska Territory (7.2M)
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He was 14-year-old U.S. chess champion in 1957
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Bobby Fischer
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City of the Great Fire - 1871
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Chicago
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“Old Fuss and Feathers;” he captured Mexico City in 1847
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Winfield Scott
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Voting league established - 1928
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League of Women Voters
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US land purchase of 1803
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Louisiana purchase (15M)
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He established the first auto assembly line - 1913
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Henry Ford
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Man-made waterway that opened in 1825
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Erie Canal
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) party
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Prohibition party
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William Howard Taft’s policy toward Latin America
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Dollar Diplomacy
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First legislature in Virginia - 1619
House of Burgesses
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U.S. capital from 1775-1783
Philadelphia
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What was the first permanent settlement in North America - 1565?
St. Augustine
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Computer used by U.S. Census Bureau - 1951
UNIVAC
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First computer - 1950
ENIAC
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"The Pathfinder" who was governor of the Arizona Territory
John C. Fremont
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_Time_ magazine editor involved with Alger Hiss
Whitaker Chambers
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1896 William Jennings Bryan Speech
"Cross of Gold"
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Law that opened up governemnt files - 1966
Freedom of Information Act
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Gun bill named for White House press secretary
Brady Bill
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Northwest land dispute motto - 1844
"54-40 or fight"
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1820 compromise that temporarily ended slavery dispute
Missouri Compromise
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First president under the Articles of Confederation
John Hanson
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Man given the correct answers to quiz show questions
Charles Van Doren
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First U.S. nuclear powered submarine - 1954
Nautilus
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Teddy Roosevelt's independent party
Progressive or Bull Moose Party
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1894 rail workers strike
Pullman Strike
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Great Robbery of 1950
Brinks robbery
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Political party established by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
Whigs
44
News program established to cover Iran hostage crisis
Nightline
45
He directed the Watergate Hotel burglary
E. Howard Hunt
46
Pilgrim known as "Little Shrimp"
Miles Standish
47
He broke the sound barrier in 1947
Chuck Yeager
48
He raided Harpers' Ferry - 1859
John Brown
49
Generation that followed baby boomers
"Generation X"
50
Puritan husband of Maria Cotton
Increase Mather
51
Chicago to L.A. highway; "Main Street of America"
Route 66
52
Pocahontas' father
Powhattan
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"Paper note party"
Greenbacks
54
Analyst who leaded the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg
55
Number of days of the Iran hostage crisis
444
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Boston hall - "The Cradle of Liberty"
Faneuil Hall
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John Adams' cousin and Boston Tea Party organizer
Samuel Adams
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Army Chief of Staff - 1948
Omar Bradley (last five star general)
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He led unsuccessful slave rebellion - 1831
Nat Turner
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Nightclub comedian arrested for obscenity - 1961
Lenny Bruce
61
Wyoming oil leasing scandal - 1923
Teapot Dome Scandal
62
This became an American territory in 1978
American Samoa
63
He set around-the-world flying record - 1938
Howard Hughes
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Pirate who aided in Battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafitte
65
Ads banned - 1971
Cigarette ads
66
Site where gold was discovered in1848
Sutter's Mill
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Tennessee frontiersman killed at Alamo
Davy Crockett
68
"Separate - but equal" Supreme Court Decision - 1896
Plessy vs. Ferguson
69
Man who burned the Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor - 1804
Stephen Decatur
70
He broadcast "The War of the Worlds" in 1938
Orson Welles
71
Mail delivery service - 1860-61
Pony Express
72
Baseball scandal 1919-20
"Black Sox" Scandal
73
Five-time Socialist presidential candidate - starting 1900
Eugene Debs
74
Bus boycott city - 1955
Montgomery
75
Langtree - Texas judge - "The law west of the Pecos"
Judge Roy Bean
76
Louisiana Purchase explorers of northern territory
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
77
"Saloon Smasher " 1910
Carry Nation
78
Man who captured New Orleans in 1815
Andrew Jackson
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Designer of the American Flag
Francis Hopkins
80
Territory bought from Mexico in 1853
Gadsden Purchase
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He purchased Manhattan from the Indians
Peter Minuit
82
Louisiana Purchase explorer of southern territory
Zebulon Pike (Pike's peak)
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American Railway Union founder - 1893
Eugene Debs
84
Tombstone - AZ - marshall - 1881
Wyatt Earp
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Colonial seamstress
Betsy Ross
86
Colonial silversmith - engraver and gunpowder maker
Paul Revere
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Agency created to prevent unfair business practices - 1914
Federal Trade Commission
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Ship that exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898
Maine
89
Colonial capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
90
Settlers trapped in Sierra Madres - 1846-47
Donner Party
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Georgia founder
James Oglethorpe
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Major police strike - 1919
Boston police strike
93
Oil artery finished in 1977
Alaska pipeline
94
Peace agreement worked out by President Carter - 1979
Camp David Accords
95
Group of dams built as part of the New Deal
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
96
"The boss of Tammany Hall" in the 1860s
(William Marcy) "Boss" Tweed
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Site of first postwar atomic bomb test in 1946
Bikini Atoll
98
Famous Tombstone - AZ - gunfight - 1881
Gunfight at the OK Corral
99
William Clark's fronteirsman brother
George Rogers Clark
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Pacific site of first H-bomb test -1951
Eniwetoc
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First constitution - Nov. 15 - 1777
Articles of Confederation
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Massachusetts colony - 1620
Plymouth
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U.S. capital from 1789-1790
New York City
104
Harriet Beecher Stowe's preacher brother
Henry Ward Beecher
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Congressional act giving land to settlers - 1862
Homestead Act
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"The Son of Morning Star" who died at Little Big Horn
George Armstrong Custer
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Site of nuclear power accident - 1979
Three Mile Island
108
U.S. capital - 1783
Annapolis
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Roadway across the Appalachians
Cumberland Road
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States fighting in the Toledo war
Ohio and Michigan
111
Pre-Revolutionary War patriotic societies
Sons of Liberty
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Disaster that killed 6000 in 1900
Galveston Hurricane
113
1854 act that nullified Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska act
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Statesman convicted of lying to HUAC - 1948
Alger Hiss
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Beaumont - Texas oil field
Spindle Top Field
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First U.S. steamship commander - he negotiated a trading treaty with Japan in 1853
Commodore Matthew Perry
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American pilot exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolph Abel
Francis Gary Powers
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Continental Congress last president
Cyrus Griffin
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Railroads that met at Promontory Point
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
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LBJ's social program
Great Society
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San Antonio shrine of Texas War of Independence
Alamo
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Law that banned export of alcohol - 1919
Volsted Act
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Disease first recognized in Philadelphia - 1976
Legionaire's Disease
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Commission that presided over Iran-Contra hearings
Tower Commission
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New England religious revival - 1730-1750
Great Awakening
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Dutch governor of New Netherlands
Peter Stuyvesant
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Chicago riots - 1886
Haymarket riots
128
Man Pocahontas saved
John Smith
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Nuclear weapons treaty of 1963
Test Ban Treaty
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Eli Whitney's invention - 1791
Cotton gin
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Company given 1.5 billion governemnt bailout in 1973
Chrysler
132
Supreme Court anti-segregation decision - 1954
Brown vs. Board of Education
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Territory of states in the Ohio Valley and northward
Northwest Territory
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White House lawyer caught up in Watergate
John Dean
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Treaty that ended Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidgalgo
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First U.S. underwater tunnel - 1927
Holland Tunnel
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U.S. gold repository - established in 1935
Fort Knox
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Diplomatic incident with France in 1797
XYZ affair
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Supreme court decision - 1857 (a slave is not a citizen)
Dred Scott Decision
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Virginia colony - 1607
Jamestown
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Commission set up to investigate JFK assassination
Warren Commission
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Feuding families of West Virginia and Kentucky - 1882
Hatfields and McCoys
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Pocahontas' burial place
Gravesend Church - England
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Massachusetts farmers rebellion of 1786
Shays' Rebellion
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Banker whose conviction was overturned in 1993
Charles Keating
146
Member of the Weavers and political activist
Pete Seeger
147
Head of committee investigating Watergate
Sam Irvin
148
It rang for the last time in 1835
Liberty Bell
149
Street clash that killed five colonists in 1770
Boston Massacre
150
Harding pardoned this Socialist in 1921
Eugene Debs
151
Case declared unconstitutional by Supreme court in 1803
Marberry vs. Madison
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Militia who had an 81 day standoff with the U.S. government - 1996
Montana Freemen
153
American Frigate launched in Boston - 1797
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides)
154
Liquor tax rebellion of 1794
Whiskey Rebellion
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He founded the Bank of America - 1791
Alexander Hamilton
156
Sex researcher at Indiana University - 1948
Alfred Kinsey
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Secretary of Interior convicted of taking bribes - 1929
Albert Fall
158
Trade agreement ratified in 1993
NAFTA
159
Fort bombed by British in 1814
Fort McHenry
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J.F. Dulles' brother and head of the CIA
Allen Dulles
161
Cities of Martin Luther King's 1965 Freedom March
Selma to Montgomery
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Winner of the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813
Oliver Hazard Perry
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Oil baron who was first billionaire in the U.S.
J.D. Rockefeller
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Man who created first state board of education
Horace Mann
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Boston to New York road established in 1672
Boston Post Road
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Act passed by British Parliament in 1763
Stamp Act
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Law that banned closed union shops - 1948
Taft-Hartley Act
168
Doctor defended by F. Lee Bailey before the Supreme Court in 1962
Sam Shepard
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War that commenced in 1898
Spanish-American War
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Louisiana senator shot - 1935
Huey Long
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Birthplace of the Conestoga wagon
Lacaster - PA
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He instituted the national banking system
Salmon P. Chase
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1912 health claims act
Pure Food and Drug Act
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Man who claimed Virginia for England
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Nixon's attorney-general who resigned in1972
John Mitchell
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He married Pocahontas
John Rolfe
177
Fort Orange location
Albany
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1890 trust busting act
Sherman anti-trust act
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Increase Mather's son
Cotton Mather
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Virginia namesake
Queen Elizabeth I (The Virgin Queen)
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Dutch settlement in the Americas - 1624
New Netherlands
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"Ignorant party"
Know Nothings
183
Boston night club fire in which 491 people were killed - 1942
Coconut Grove
184
New York City's original name
New Amsterdam
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Date of the stock market crash
October 29 - 1929 ("Black Tuesday")
186
Nixon's White House Chief of Staff
H.R. Haldeman
187
First pilgrim at Plymouth Rock and colonial barrel maker
John Alden
188
Document established in 1787
U.S. Constitution
189
Volcano that erupted in 1980
Mt. St. Helens
190
Railroad "robber baron" who organized U.S. Steel in 1901
J.P. Morgan
191
Air quality standards act of 1970
Clean Air Act
192
"Hollywood Ten" spokesman
Humhrey Bogart
193
First English colony in the Americas - 1588
Roanoke Island
194
Colonial legislature established in 1774
First continental Congress
195
FDR established this holiday in 1933
Bank Holiday
196
"Hollywood Ten" were investigated by this committee
HUAC
197
1815 treaty that officially ended the War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent (Belgium)
198
Failed Cuban invasion site - 1961
Bay of Pigs
199
High school integration city - 1957
Little Rock
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Spring - 1968 - North Vietnam offensive
Tet Offensive
201
Providence and Rhode Island founder
Roger Williams
202
Laws enacted for segregation in the 1880s
Jim Crow laws
203
World Trade agreement ratified 1994
GATT
204
Bill intended to balance U.S. budget - 1985
Grahan-Rudman (Hollings)
205
Post WWII generation
"Baby Boomers"
206
Man who wrote _Star Spangled Banner_ in 1814
Francis Scott Key
207
Short-lived U.S. state in western Tennessee
Franklin
208
U.S. declined to join this body in 1920
League of Nations
209
FDR's 1933 program to end the depression
New Deal
210
Maryland founder
Cecil Calvert (second Lord Baltimore)
211
Disaster that killed 500 - 1906
San Francisco earthquake
212
He chased Pancho Villo into Mexico
John (Black Jack) Pershing
213
Body representing the colonies - 1774-1789
Continental Congress
214
He won the Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Commodore George Dewey
215
First governor of Plymouth - died during first winter
John Carver
216
Commander at the Alamo - 1836
William Travis
217
Kentucky frontiersman - 1775
Daniel Boone
218
Tennessee trial on teaching evolution in schools - 1925
Scopes (monkey) trial
219
Detroit founder
Antoine Cadillac
220
Name of the Apollo 11 space capsule
Eagle
221
Philadelphia founder
William Penn
222
Knife inventor killed at the Alamo
Jim Bowie
223
Doctrine warning Europe not to interfere in Western Hemisphere - 1823
Monroe Doctrine
224
Continental Congress president - 1775-1777
John Hancock
225
Pony Express Terminals
St. Joseph - MO and Sacramento - CA
226
Admiral indicted over Iran-Contra affair
John Poindexter
227
Idaho site of FBI standoff - 1992
Ruby Ridge
228
British acts legislated because of the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
229
Central US banking authority created in 1913
Federal Reserve System
230
Statesman awarded Nobel Peace Prize - 1945
Cordell Hull
231
Environmental act of 1973
Engangered Species Act
232
Virginia rebellion - 1676
Bacon's rebellion
233
Plymouth father - elected Plymouth governor 30 times
William Bradford
234
He debated with Abe Lincoln - 1858
Stephen Douglas
