Not the President
This first Treasury Secretary's face graces the $10 bill, though he never held the nation's highest office.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Confederate artillery opened fire on this Charleston harbor fort in April 1861, starting four years of war.
What is Fort Sumter?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while drawing a geographic line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The June 1972 break-in at this Democratic headquarters began the scandal that toppled Nixon.
What is Watergate?
Colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea into Boston Harbor in December 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Known as “The Great Compromiser,” this Kentucky senator helped delay the Civil War but never became president.
Who is Henry Clay?
The "shot heard 'round the world" was fired at this Massachusetts town in April 1775, beginning the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington (or Concord)?
Announced in 1823, this doctrine warned European powers not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1920s scandal involved secret leasing of naval oil reserves in Wyoming during the Harding administration.
What is the Teapot Dome scandal?
This 1786 rebellion by Massachusetts farmers exposed weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This FBI director served under eight presidents from 1924 to 1972, amassing secret files that gave him unofficial power over Washington.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
An actor's derringer ended this president's life at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1854 act allowed settlers to decide the slavery question by popular sovereignty, leading to violence in “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas–Nebraska Act?
After accusing numerous Americans of communist ties, this senator was formally censured in 1954.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Pennsylvania farmers violently resisted Hamilton's 1791 tax on this corn-based liquor until Washington sent troops in 1794.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
As Chief Justice from 1801 to 1835, this Federalist established judicial review and shaped constitutional law for generations.
Who is John Marshall?
This Texas city’s Dealey Plaza became synonymous with a presidential assassination in 1963.
What is Dallas?
This 1947 policy committed the United States to containing communism abroad.
What is the Truman Doctrine (or Policy of Containment)?
This 1870s scandal involved railroad companies overbilling the federal government for construction contracts.
What is Crédit Mobilier?
Led by a Virginia enslaved preacher in 1831, this rebellion intensified Southern fears of revolt.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
His "Cross of Gold" speech electrified the 1896 Democratic convention, but this populist orator lost three presidential bids.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This 1995 bombing of a federal building killed 168 people and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
What is the Oklahoma City bombing?
An 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld "separate but equal," drawing a legal boundary that would stand for nearly 60 years.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Oliver North shredded documents related to this 1980s affair involving secret arms sales to fund Nicaraguan rebels.
What is Iran-Contra?
Federal troops and marshals crushed this 1894 Chicago railroad strike after President Cleveland sent them over Governor Altgeld's objections.
What is the Pullman Strike?