Slavery/Jim Crow
What regions did the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade encompass and what was being traded?
What court case ruling from 1973 has the current possibility of being overturned?
Roe v. Wade
What Presidential address became the template for US international policy up until WW1?
George Washington's farewell address.
Name two Presidents who didn't own slaves before the civil war.
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and/or James Buchanan
What pamphlet is responsible for uniting a Patriot cause against the British and remains the all-time best-selling American title?
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
What year did the first slaves arrive in the British North American colony?
1619
What court case established the Supreme Court's great power of judicial review in the early 1800's?
Marbury v. Madison
What Polk slogan was used when advocating for the annexation of the entire Oregon territory.
Fifty-four forty or fight!
Who became the first Catholic President in the United states after about 180 years of Protestant presidency.
John F. Kennedy
What decree by the Pope gave the legal grounds for Spanish and Portuguese conquest in the New World?
Papal Bull: Inter Caetera
Sharecropping and/or tenant farming.
What court case established that all African Americans, free or slave, could not be citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What immigration quota in the 1920's only allowed 2%, of each nationality in the 1990 census to immigrate to the US.
Immigration Act of 1924
Who was the only president in US history who spoke English as a second language?
Martin Van Buren
Which book kicked off the Environmentalist movement during the 1960's and who was the author?
Silent Spring by Rachel Carlson
What Supreme Court Case ruling in the late 1800's ruled public spaces could be segregated between whites and blacks?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What 1824 Supreme Court Case involved "states rights," and "commerce?"
Gibbons v. Ogden
What mutual agreement removed all tariffs between Canada, The US, and Mexico?
North American Free Trade Agreement
Besides Trump,(pfft liberals) who is unanimously considered to be the worst president in US history, and who was the great president who followed?
James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln
Who is a well renowned American author that was also a key member in the Anti-Imperialist League joining in 1903?
Mark Twain
What President possibly fabricated the exclamation "My God!" in response to reports of African American war veteran being lynched?
Harry Truman
Brown v. Board of Education
Name 5 US overseas possessions that gave them most or all land through military force.
Puerto Rico, Panama, Guam, Philippines, Hawaii, Nicaragua, and/or Cuba
What President was assassinated by a former member of the Oneida Commune?
James A. Garfield
In the 1930's, what is the name of the book and author adapted into a radio broadcast, on halloween, that convinced many of a Martian invasion?
War of the Worlds by H.G Wells