This woman severed as an invaluable resource to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as they encountered several Indian tribes during their voyage to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Sacagawea?
100
While watching "Our American Cousin" at this location, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
What is Ford's Theater?
100
This battle strategy is characterized by using 'hit & run' tactics against a stronger opponent.
What is GUERRILLA WAR?
100
This group was founded by former Confederate soldier Nathan Bedford Forrest in response to the extension of rights to African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
This crop was "King" in the Southern states prior to the Civil War.
What is cotton?
200
This individual (known as the "Long Knife" or "Old Hickory") was a war hero, an American President, and the individual forever linked with the "Trail of Tears."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
Throughout this treacherous journey, Americans forging westward encountered Native American tribes, inclement weather and the Rockey Mountains.
What was the Oregon Trail?
200
This is the name given to the forced relocation of several Native American tribes from the Southeastern US to the Oklahoma Territory during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
What is the "Trail of Tears"
200
These Revolutionary-era Patriots acted out against British taxes through demonstrations, boycotts and sometimes went as far to 'tar and feather' their opponents.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
200
Following the election of Abraham Lincoln, seven southern states broke from the Union to form this new independent nation.
What were the Confederate States of America?
300
This man's photographs of the American Civil war displayed the brutality of the fighting to the American public.
Who is Matthew Brady?
300
Following the Spanish-American War the United States established this Caribbean naval base.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
300
A type of journalism that sensationalizes or embellishes the truth in an attempt to increase sales.
What is Yellow Journalism?
300
These people wanted an American Empire so badly at the end of the 19th century, they did not care if that meant fighting a war to attain it.
Who were the JINGOS?
300
By 1920, this had killed more people than the actual fighting of World War One.
What was the Spanish Influenza?
400
This railroad tycoon owned a home on St. Paul's Summit Avenue, and it is actually now a historical building.
Who is James J. Hill?
400
At a courthouse in this city Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant signifying the end of the American Civil War.
What is Appomattox, VA?
400
These were massive war payments thrust upon Germany by the victorious nations following the first World War.
What were REPARATIONS?
400
Wealthy colonialists payed these individuals to fight and disrupt the British navy during the American Revolution by ocean and sea.
Who were the "PRIVATEERS?"
400
This was Gavril Princip's terrorist group that was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.
What was the BLACK HAND?
500
We know him as Uncle Sam, but be he first appeared by this name during the War of 1812 in an attempt to arouse American patriotism.
Who is Brother Jonathon?
500
The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific met at this location signifying the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
500
Horatio Alger wrote 'dime novels' that inspired readers never to give up their hope of reaching this.
What is the AMERICAN DREAM?
500
This term refers to Northern individuals who profited from businesses established in the post-Civil War South.
Who are CARPETBAGGERS?
500
This is when business own every phase of cultivation, production and sales themselves in an attempt to lower costs to consumers.