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US History- Quiz Bowl Exam|323 Q’s andA’s
John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison used the pseudonym
Publius for what series of 85 essays supporting the Constitution? - -The
Federalist Papers
-Pickett's Charge failed to take Cemetary Ridge in what 1863 Civil War
battle in Pennsylvania that is often considered the war's turning point? - -
Gettysburg
-John Quincy Adams successfully defended the 53 former residents of Sierra
Leone who had escaped and taken over what Spanish slave ship in 1839? - -
Amistad
-What cavalry officer, who graduated last in his class at West Point in 1861,
led the ill-fated expedition to meet the Sioux at the Little Bighorn? - -George
Custer
-What seven-letter word can describe a traveler to a holy place or a Puritan
who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower to settle in Massachusetts? - -
pilgrim
-The Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver lost their cargo on December
16, 1773, during what event in which Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawks? -
-Boston Tea Party
-What president left on a ten-month African safari immediately after the
inauguration of his successor, William Howard Taft? - -Theodore Roosevelt
-Stephen Douglas authored what 1854 law that authorized popular
referenda on slavery in its two namesake territories? - -Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Which Secretary of State who served from 1861 to 1869 was derided for his
"folly" of purchasing Alaska? - -William Seward
-Montgomery was the intended destination of three civil rights marches from
what Alabama city, the namesake of Marge and Patty Bouvier's sister? - -
Selma
-What woman was inspired by London's Toynbee Hall to work with Ellen
Gates Starr to create the Chicago settlement home called Hull House? - -
Jane Addams
, -Which president warned against planners of war collaborating with business
interests in a military-industrial complex in his 1961 farewell address? - -
Dwight Eisenhower
-What Union general who was victorious at Shiloh and Vicksburg accepted
the surrender of Robert E. Lee at the end of the Civil War? - -Ulysses Grant
-West Branch, Iowa, was the boyhood home of what Secretary of Commerce
for Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge who was elected president in 1928? -
-Herbert Hoover
-Which oldest U.S. Cabinet-level department was first headed by Thomas
Jefferson and was originally known as the Department of Foreign Affairs? - -
Department of State
-What British explorer who sailed for Holland visited the east coast of North
America, including New York City, where a river is named for him? - -Henry
Hudson
-Which secretary of state to James Monroe drafted most of the Monroe
Doctrine and was himself elected president in 1824? - -John Quincy Adams
-General John Pershing unsuccessfully pursued what man who sacked the
town of Columbus, New Mexico, a notorious Mexican rebel and bandit? - -
Pancho Villa
-Which Louisiana native nicknamed "Little Napoleon" captured Fort Sumter
and created the Confederate Army of the Potomac? - -Pierre Beauregard
-The Declaration of Sentiments was issued at what 1848 women's rights
conference in New York organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton? - -Seneca Falls
-Abraham Zapruder became famous for his 1963 footage of what president's
assassination? - -John Kennedy
-What leader of the Pottawatomie Massacre was an abolitionist who was
hanged after an 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry? - -John Brown
-What president supported the 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Act after he
assumed office following the assassination of James Garfield? - -Chester
Arthur
, -For 15 million dollars, the U.S. bought nearly all of the present American
Southwest under the terms of what 1848 treaty ending the Mexican War? - -
Guadalupe Hidalgo
-After pleading no contest to a tax evasion charge, which former governor of
Maryland resigned from the vice presidency in 1973? - -Spiro Agnew
-Which 1978 agreement signed by Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin that
tried to bring peace to the Middle East was named for a presidential retreat?
- -Camp David Accords
-August 21, 1959, saw the admission to the U.S. of what 50th state whose
nickname is the Aloha State? - -Hawaii
-What woman's grandson Charles Francis published the first set of her
letters to her husband John illustrating life before and after the Revolution? -
-Abigail Adams
-Birch Bayh, the father of current Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, was defeated
for re-election to the Senate in 1980 by what future vice president? - -Dan
Quayle
-In 1969 journalist Seymour Hersh broke the news of what March 16, 1968,
massacre of 504 Vietnamese civilians by U.S. Army troops? - -My Lai
-What organization was founded after the Haymarket Square riots by
Samuel Gompers and later merged with the Congress of Industrial
Organizations? - -AFL
-The destruction of what American battleship on February 15, 1898, led to
calls for war against Spain by American journalists? - -USS Maine
-What Depression-era creator of the "Share the Wealth" program and
autocratic governor of Louisiana was known as the "Kingfish"? - -Huey Long
-What plant was processed by Richard Arkwright's water frame after having
its fibers and seedpods sepaarated by the "gin" of Eli Whitney? - -cotton
-What general who led the "Buffalo Soldiers" during the Spanish-American
War commanded the American Expeditionary Force in France during World
War I? - -John Pershing
-At the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray
assassinated what civil rights leader? - -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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