What is the word for an institution in which people are forced to work without pay and without rights?
Slavery
100
What is the name of the person who assassinated President Lincoln in Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865?
John Wilkes Booth
100
What was the name of the rail project built by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies?
Transcontinental railroad
100
Who was known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park?"
Thomas Edison
100
What is the name of the British passenger ship sunk by a German U-boat in May, 1915?
Lusitania
200
Which abolitionist led a raid at the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859?
John Brown
200
The words "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" are found in what document?
The Gettysburg Address
200
On June 25, 1876, Colonel George Armstrong Custer and 210 members of his Seventh Cavalry were massacred at this site in Montana.
Little Big Horn River
200
Who developed the steel industry in the United States?
Andrew Carnegie
200
What is the name of the person who declared, "The world must be made safe for democracy?"
President Woodrow Wilson
300
Which abolitionist is known for being an escaped slave, speaker, author, and publisher of the anti-slavery newspaper called the "North Star?"
Frederick Douglas
300
What was the term given to a Northerner elected to a political office in the South who took advantage of the Southerners?
Carpetbagger
300
On December 28, 1890, all fighting between the Plains Indians and the U.S. soldiers concluded with the massacre of 290 Native Americans at this South Dakota location.
Wounded Knee
300
What is the name of the steel and granite structure that was called "the eighth wonder of the world" at its 1883 opening?
Brooklyn Bridge
300
A delightful snack, usually sold at theme parks and carnivals, is also the name given to American soldiers during World War I.
Doughboy
400
What is the name of the publisher of the "Liberator," a Boston-based anti-slavery newspaper?
William Lloyd Garrison
400
The results of this September 1862 battle enabled President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam (or Sharpsburg)
400
What was the name of the act passed by Congress in 1862 that gave settlers 160 acres of land if they agreed to live on it for five years?
Homestead Act
400
What is the name of the African-American scientist who changed farming in the South?
George Washington Carver
400
Discovery of this secret note (or telegram) brought the U.S. into World War I.
Zimmerman Note (or Zimmerman Telegram)
500
This act, as part of the Compromise of 1850, forced Northerners to recapture runaway slaves to their owners in the South.
The Fugitive Slave Act
500
What is the name of the 1876 presidential candidate who lost the popular vote, and failed to get a majority of votes in the electoral college, but still won the election?
Rutherford B. Hayes
500
What is the name of the leader of the Nez Perce' tribe that tried to escape to Canada to avoid further fighting with U.S. soldiers?
Chief Joseph
500
What is the name of a facility where oil is made into different products?
Refinery
500
The pistol shots fired by this person killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand, his wife Sophie, and ignited World War I in 1914.