"From sea to shining sea"
The Civil War
Prohibition
Al Capone
Slavery
100
The name of the large tract of land purchased by Thomas Jefferson in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
The two sides that fought the Civil War.
What is North and South; Union and Confederacy; Blue and Gray
100
Why did Americans, traditionally, drink so much alcohol?
Because alcohol was safer than water.
100
Al Capone's nickname
What is Scarface?
100
The name of the famous anti-slavery activist who fought the U.S. Marines and tried to start a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
200
Before the mid 1800s, what country owned most of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona?
What is Mexico?
200
The main issue over which the war was fought.
What is slavery?
200
Why did alcohol consumption become a problem in the mid 1800s?
New distilling techniques made it cheaper to produce liquor with a higher alcohol content.
200
The name of Al Capone's ordered shooting of Bugs Moran's men.
What is the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
200
The name for an anti-slavery activist.
What is an abolitionist?
300
The name of the two explorers who explored new American territory.
What is Lewis & Clark?
300
Illinois took this side in the war.
What is the North? (Union)
300
The name of the women's organization that organized against alcohol.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
300
What Capone eventually went to prison for.
What is tax evasion?
300
The name of the machine that separated cotton fibers from seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
400
The name of the Native American guide that guided America's two most famous explorers.
What is Sacagawea?
400
This new type of gun allowed soldiers to shoot farther.
What is rifling?
400
The numbers of the two amendments that illegalized and legalized alcohol (respectively)
What is the 18th and 21st Amendments?
400
Al Capone's boss and mentor.
Who is Johnny Torrio?
400
The reason why cotton was so profitable.
It was used to make clothes.
500
The phrase that means that America was meant to own all the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
What is manifest destiny?
500
This new type of bullet did massive damage to soldiers whom they hit.
What is the Minie Ball?
500
True or false: under the 18th amendment it was illegal to drink alcohol.
False: it was illegal to buy or sell alcohol.
500
Capone retired to this city after serving his prison sentence.
What is Miami?
500
The country to whom the U.S. exported most of its cotton.
What is England?
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