Law and Order
Scoundrels and Scandals
Social Reform
Scopperloit
Miscellaneous
100
This man was the Supreme Court Justice in the early 19th century and had perhaps made the most important decisions a judge ever made.
Chief Justice John Marshall
100
Boss Tweed was a symbol and figurehead of corruption due to the widespread political machine. Name the political cartoonist who brought him down.
Thomas Nast
100
Which woman was the head of prison reform among other domestic progression movements?
Dorothea Dix
100
This man led numerous slave uprisings and killed dozens of people in Bleeding Kansas.
John Brown
100
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and ______ composed the Federalist papers.
John Jay
200
This was a case of reverse discrimination in collegiate admittance. hint: im going going back back to Cali Cali.
University of California vs. Bakke
200
Who killed Alexander Hamilton in a gun duel?
Aaron Burr
200
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote ________________ which turned many into anti slavery sympathizers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
200
This object was used to beat an antislavery senator on the Senate floor and roused public support throughout the South.
Cane
200
William Lloyd Garrison edited this pioneering abolitionist newspaper.
The Liberator
300
Name TWO of the four most famous accused communists in the red scare.
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, Sacco and Venzetti
300
Which president went against his ideals which he previously stressed in order to acquire land?
Thomas Jefferson
300
The most famous meeting for women's rights was held where?
Seneca Falls Convention
300
A northerner who moved south in search for profit in the mid-1800s was called a __________. They tagged the southerners as ____________.
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
300
This man influenced the American Revolution in his literary work, Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
400
Name three colonial representations of early self-government prior to the foundation of our nation.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, New England Town Meetings, Virginia House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact
400
This was when Albert Fall sold large amounts of petroleum from the federal government for a low price and without required competitive bidding.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal
400
The _____ Amendment called for the prohibition of alcohol in order to end domestic violence. However, it was unsuccessful.
19th
400
This man was a Civil Rights activist, the brother of an assassinated president, and was also assassinated prior to running for office.
Robert Kennedy
400
Jacob Riis took a shocking photograph called....
How the other half lives
500
Schenk vs. United States was enacted for restriction of civil liberties guaranteed in the Constitution. In which war was this issued?
World War I
500
Which president was impeached but not removed from office for denying an affair with a woman after swearing under oath?
Bill Clinton
500
On the Meaning of Progress was written in order to show the wrongdoings toward which culture?
Native American
500
This president ruined the peoples confidence in their executive officials more than any other. hint: before Barack Obama
Richard Nixon or Andrew Jackson
500
This group led the Boston Tea Party as a beginning to the revolution.
Sons of Liberty
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