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100
He is the only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
100
He was the hero of Gettysburg, recipient of the Medal of Honor, president of Bowdoin College and Governor of Maine.
Who is Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain?
100
He was the editor of The Liberator, the Boston based abolitionist newspaper.
Who is William Loyd Garrison?
100
He was a German professional soldier responsible for training the Continental Army at Valley Forge.
What is Baron Von Steuben?
100
Known as the nutmeg state.
What is CT?
200
He was Tippecanoe's vice president.
Who is John Tyler?
200
This city was the first capital of the Confederacy.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
200
This southern state defied President Andrew Jackson in 1831 by nullifying a federal tariff law.
What is South Carolina?
200
He was a young french aristocrat that served on General Washington's staff and became like a son to Washington.
Who is Lafayette?
200
This year saw the Candlemas Massacre and the Salem witch trials.
What is 1692?
300
He was the last president born in the 18th century.
Who is James Buchanan?
300
This is the northern name for the Battle of Sharpsburg, as it was known in the south.
What is Antietem?
300
This American author created the character Natty Bumpo.
Who is James Fenimore Cooper?
300
He was a rotund Boston bookseller that moved captured British cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in 1775, forcing the British to sail away.
Who is Henry Knox?
300
This was the last New England state.
What is Maine?
400
He was the only president to serve on the Supreme Court.
Who is William Howard Taft?
400
This son of a Boston abolitionist died leading the 54th Massachusetts during an attack on Battery Wagner in South Carolina in 1863.
Who is Robert Gould Shaw?
400
President James Polk started it and then Congressman Abraham Lincoln decried him for it.
What is the Mexican War?
400
This battle in upstate NY was an American victory and led to a French alliance.
What is Saratoga?
400
He founded Rhode Island based on the concept of religious tolerance.
Who is Roger Williams?
500
He was the only president born in Vermont.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
500
This southern city on the Mississippi River finally fell to Union forces a day after the battle of Gettyburg ended.
What is Vicksburg?
500
He was the first president of The Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
500
This British general ended the Revolution when he surrendered at Yorktown.
Who is Cornwallis?
500
This mainland town succeeded Nantucket as New England's whaling capital.
What is New Bedford?
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