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100

The deadly assault on protestors in Massachussetts during the build-up to the American revolution?

What is the Boston Massacre?

100

The group of men who actually elects the President.

What is the Electorate College?

100
The single most important thing that the Civil War was fought over.

What was slavery?

100

The years during which the Civil War occurred.

What is 1861-1865?

100

The Austrian-American movie star who became governor of California.

Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?

200

The group of religious people that came over from England led by John Winthrop

Who were the Puritans?

200

A word for the widening gap between Liberals and Conservatives.

What is polarization?

200

The most famous general and often the leader of the southern armies during the Civil War.

Who was General Robert E Lee?

200

The name for the group of states that ceded from the USA to form their own nation.

What is a the Confederacy or the Confederate States of America?

200

The year that the USA entered the 2nd World War.

What is 1941?

300

The document proclaiming that America was no longer a British colony.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

300

Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia?

What are the swing states or the battleground states?

300

The general-in-chief that lead the North to victory in 1865.

Who was (Ulysses S.) Grant?

300

The fort under assault that lead to the declaration of the Civil War.

What is Fort Sumter?

300

The ceremony of the American movie industry aka. The Oscars.

What is the Academy Awards?

400

Added to "the pursuit of happiness" these two concepts are among the "inalienable rights".

What is Life and Liberty?

400

The two animals symbolizing the Democrats and the Republicans, respectively.

What is the donkey and the elephant?

400

A decisive place of battle that also prompted the famous address by Abraham Lincoln.

What is Gettysburg?

400

The political party that Abraham Lincoln belonged to.

What is the Republicans?

400

The name and number of the space mission that took Americans to the moon in 1969.

What is Apollo 11?

500

What John Winthrop compared the Puritan plantation with meaning that all the world could see it.

What is A City Upon a Hill?


500

The surnames of the two Vice Presidential candidates, one of whom is now the Vice President elect.

What is Vance and Walz?

500

The 1863 document that essentially freed the slaves.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

500

The famous pre-Civil War novel about slavery by Harriet Beecher-Stowe.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

500

The three-word slogan that the American oil industry presumably likes to hear from Donald Trump.

What is "Drill, baby, drill"?

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