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Were you here?
100

This branch sets the budget for the US government.

What is the legislative branch? (Congress)
100

The original US had this many colonies.

What are 13 Colonies?

100

This type of society is led by a woman and is the antithesis of the patriarchy.

What is a matriarchal society?

100

This cartoon shows the power of Robber Barons during this period of US history.

What is the Gilded Age?

100

This score on the GED will allow you to avoid taking developmental classes in college. 

What is above 165?

200

This government position serves for life with good behavior.

What is a Federal Judge or Supreme Court Justice?

200

This famous event in 1692 led to the death 20 people and the arrest of more than 200 in a Massachussetts town.

What are the Salem Witch Trials?

200

This meeting in upstate New York in 1848 was the first national meeting on women's suffrage.

What is the Seneca Falls Convention?

200

This cartoon represents this concept for the three branches of government that protect from having a single power.

What are the checks and balances/seperation of powers?

200

Clara Barton founded this organization working as a field nurse during the Civil War.

What is the American Red Cross?

300

This was the year that the US Constitution was signed.

What is 1787?
300

This war was an effort by the United States to stop the spread of communist ideas.

What is the Cold War?

300

This golden age starlet left her hometown in St Louis to become a star of  the stage in France. Later, she also spied for the Allies during WWII.

Who is Josephine Baker?

300

These countries all had female leaders located along the Nile, western Africa, and in the Andes. Name the countries, each 100pts. 

What are Egypt, Benin (Dahomey), and Peru?

300

If a man earns $50,000 per year how much a Hispanic woman earn at the same job?

What is $25,000? (Half) 

400
A presidential veto to a bill can be overridden by this percent or fraction of the US Congress.

What is 2/3 super majority ?

400

Term for segregation mandated by law, often seen in the Southern states after the Civil War.

What are Jim Crow Laws?

400

This leader of women's suffrage movement wrote about the "Destructive Male" 

Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

400

This map shows how a president wins which uses this special process.

What is the Electoral College?

400
There are several Amendments that protect a person's rights in court; name 2 of them for 200pts each.

What are Amendments 5, 6, 7, 8?

500

This is the number of Amendments to the Constitution that altered who can vote. BONUS 100pts for each number of the amendement.

What is 3?  

15th - gave non-white men

19th -gave women

26th -gave 18+ ability to vote

500

During the 1800s there were numerous reforms to life in the US, name 5 systems that were altered.  (100pts each)

Abolition (Slavery)

Industrialization

Workers' Rights

Education

Prison

Temperance (Alcohol)

500

This first lady told her soon-to-be president husband, John, "Don't forget the ladies." 

Who is Abigail Adams?

500

If you spend $1200 in total per month, this would be spend on food.

What is $240 for food?
500

These 5 states were part of the Union during the Civil War, but kept slavery until the 13th Amendment was signed. Name them  for 100pts each

What are:

Delaware

Maryland

West Virginia

Kentucky

Missouri

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