Early Mid 1800s
Imperialism
The Civil War
Woodrow War Wilson World I
Secret History
100
What is ironic about the Nullification Crisis?
Bonus - The concept of nullification first emerged with the passage of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions during whose presidency?
100
What document written in 1854 served as communication from three U.S. diplomats advocating the US seizure of Cuba from Spain to Secretary of State William Marcy?
Ostend Manifesto
Bonus: When the United States actually did decide to invade Cuba and throw out Spanish rule, they supported what exiled Cuban poet who had been residing in New York?
100
Why may the Emancipation Proclamation be considered a turning point of the Civil War?
- Why might the Battle of Gettysburg be considered a turning point of the Civil War?
- Why did the Emancipation Proclamation not free slaves in the border states?
100
127 American citizens were killed when a German u-boat sank what British liner?
Lusitania
Bonus: German again provoked US entry into WWI with what message, which informed Mexico that Germany would support a war effort to take back territories lost the in previous century if it would attack the US?
Bonus: What Secretary of State disagreed fundamentally with Wilson's belief that Americans should be able to travel overseas as they pleased despite the ongoing war?
100
Fill in the missing word:
Harvey is a huge ____________
Who bathes in a bay that is bottomless
His mouth is as large
As a riverboat barge
And he weighs ten times more than a lot of us
There was a young fellow of ____ / Who was so exceedingly neat / When he got out of bed / He stood on his head / To make sure of not soiling his feet.
There once was a runner named ____ / Who could speed even faster than light. / He set out one day / In a relative way / And returned on the previous night.
200
What is the relationship between America, its ideals, and the birth of utopian religious movements?
amount of space allowed people to develop their own communities relatively undisturbed; American emphasis on liberty made US fertile ground for radical experiments
- As a result of the Second Great Awakening, what state became a significant center of religious vitality through the works of Charles G. Finney and existence of a "Burned-Over District"?
- The proliferation of strong religious sensations in that state may perhaps be explained by the easy and fast communication facilitated by what infrastructure?
200
Explain the situation surrounding the annexation of Texas with relation to the presidencies of John Tyler and James Polk
Tyler proposes the annexation of Texas in his last days, Polk tries to buy Texas, eventually challenges the Mexicans at the border over the river thing
Bonus: Pro-slavery support for the annexation of western territories naturally opposed what legislation, which would have prohibited the extension of slavery into any territory gained from Mexico?
Bonus: What is the name give to the deal that settled the final acquisition of land in the continental United States when the United States paid Mexico $10 million for a strip of land in southern New Mexico and Arizona.
200
How did women gain new opportunities during the Civil War and why?
- worked as medics because people were dying and medicine was atrocious
Bonus: What woman was named "Superintendent of Female Nurses" during the war, later going on to champion the reform of mental institutions?
Bonus: Elizabeth Blackwell organized what commission, which worked to improve the medical services and treatment for the wounded during the War?
200
What two laws passed during WWI restricted the criticism of America's involvement in WWI or its government, flag, military, or officials and vaguely prohibited against obstructing the nations war effort respectively?
Sedition and Espionage Acts
- What decision of the US Supreme Court upheld the Sedition and Espionage Acts?
- What resident of Chicago openly opposed the war and sought international mediation to end it, though she cooperated with the US government's Food Administration and urged residents of Chicago to plant vegetable gardens?
200
The word "sup" is a contraction of what three words?
- What is the archaic English equivalent of "I have become"?
- Slangify this sentence using the least letters and words possible: "Hello brother, I am about to go to the store."
300
The switch to a new market economy consisting of corporations rather of individuals during the early 19th century coincided with what developments?
- American system (expanded roads and canals), invention of the telegraph, Lowell MA and other places, banks hold loans in their portfolio (expanding amount of money in circulation which is helpful to commerce)
Bonus: The Supreme Court expanded its federal power to regulate economics in a variety of cases, one of which, McCulloch v. Maryland, created what stipulation?
Bonus: What is the significance of Gibbons v. Ogden?
300
What argument did the phrase "the Constitution follows the flag" imply?
- the rights of U.S. citizens should be extended to any people living in a territory conquered by the United States
Bonus: Remind us what the Roosvelt Corollary is.
Bonus: What president would own a Toyota Corolla if were living in the 21st century?
300
What the plan of "colonization" propose leading up to the Civil War?
Bonus: What name did Union generals give to former slaves who escaped to Union lines and worked in support of their cause?
Bonus: During the Revolutionary War, what British general freed slaves to fight for the British cause?
300
What economic reforms did Wilson successfully make, distinguishing him from Taft and Roosevelt?
- Underwood-Simmons tariff (reduced tax on imported goods by 10%), public investigation into lobbyists, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, slaps JP Morgan, creation of the Federal Trade Commission
Bonus: While Woodrow Wilson told JP Morgan to shut up, Taft had allowed JP Morgan to negotiate a large international loan to China in accordance with what policy?
Bonus: Create a coherent sentence using words that start only with w.
300
Everyone: Take a piece of paper and list as many distinct birds as you can in the next 2 minutes. Whoever has the most wins.
Is this A) an eagle B) a pidgeon C) an albatross D) a pterodactyl 
400
What is the significance of "Daguerreotypes" and "Tintypes" with reference to the Civil War?
- Rather than photographing the environment, what generation of artists active in the 1820s and 1830s set out to show the rural American landscape to the nation and the world through painting idealized pictures of the rural country?
- What literary movement embodied the same ideas as the the thing above and was represented by authors such as George Washington Irving?
400
America first endeavored the conquer territory from people other than Native Americans during what conflict? (and explain specifically what this was)
- War of 1812; Canada
Bonus: Native Americans helped the British in the War of 1812 because they were salty about what 1795 Treaty, where they were forced to cede most of the present state of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin?
Bonus: The Indian chieftain Tecumseh was especially eager to help the British because what future President had razed the Indian village of Prophetstown in 1811?
400
Identify and explain some changes that the nation's economy and financial system deliberate underwent during the Civil War
- Jay Cooke solicits the creation of bonds that both banks and individuals could buy
- International Revenue Service began a federal income tax
- greenbacks issued based on the government's promise to pay rather than actual gold or silver
400
Wilson and Bryan believed that what elements of what conflict, which proved to be the most difficult foreign policy issue for Wilson's first term, were part of a battle between British and American oil companies?
Mexican Revolution
Bonus: What Mexican revolutionary created an international incident when he attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico, provoking US pursuit for months until the US withdrew without success?
500
What is the significance of McGuffey's Reader, a widely used English textbook for schools?
- designed to create a unified, literate, patriotic society; taught morality and also sought to create a common American pattern of speaking that replaced regional dialects
Bonus: McGuffey's Reader also influenced American culture throughout the follow century by depicting what sort of behavior in a negative light?
Bonus: Catherine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, advocated for what change in education?
500
Roosevelt strong-armed Cuba into agreeing to what formal stipulation, which stated that Cuba could not create a treaty with another nation without US approval and stated that the US had the right to intervene in Cuba affairs if domestic order dissolved?
Platt Amendment
- What did the Teller Amendment do?
500
What name is given to the members of the Democratic Party during the Civil War that advocated immediate peace with the Confederacy on terms that it would be allowed to leave the Union, believing that the Civil War was actually a plan by Abraham Lincoln to destroy the South?
Peace Democrats/Copperheads
- The opposition that the Peace Democrats offered to Lincoln parallels the resistance that what organization made towards FDR and the New Deal?
- Opposition to the war in the North also manifested through what Irish-immigrant protest which escalated into class and racial warfare?
500
What government agency during WWI sought to shape public opinion in support of the war effort through newspapers, pamphlets, speeches, films, and other media?
Committee on Public Information
- Under the muckracker George Creel, the CPI launched the "War Americanization Plan" which had what purpose?
- What was the significance of Herbet Hoover during WWI?