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100

Who was the fourth President of the United States?

James Madison

100

This 1803 Supreme Court Case established the precedent of judicial review.

Marbury v. Madison

100
What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled to North America in 1620?
What is The Mayflower
100

This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

John Wilkes Booth

100

In 1917 Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on this country that was practicing "cruel and unmanly" submarine warfare.

What is Germany?

200
Who became US president after Herbert Hoover?
What is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)
200

This 1896 SCOTUS case established "separate but equal" as constitutional.

Plessy v. Ferguson

200

This 1807 Act restricted trade with France and Great Britain.

What is The Embargo Act of 1807

200

This man is associated with the second red scare for his many accusations of communists in the government.

McCarthy

200

Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs are pictured on a set of stamps celebrating this; its general route is depicted on the back of the pane

The Underground Railroad

300

Which president first gained fame as a military hero in the War of 1812?

Andrew Jackson

300

This 1954 SCOTUS case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown vs. Board of Education

300
What was the name of the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957?
What is Sputnik
300

In 1964, this president declared in his state of the union address an "unconditional war on poverty in America."

Lyndon B. Johnson

300

On the 250th Anniversary of the 1st of these bodies, a stamp quotes its letter to King George III: "We Ask But for Peace, Liberty, and Safety"

What is the Continental Congress?

400
Name all three presidents who have been impeached.

Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump

400

This 1857 SCOTUS case establishes slaves as "property" and states that African Americans do not have the right to sue in a federal court.

Dred Scott v. Sanford

400

In September 1862, this bloody battle in Maryland ended the first Confederate invasion of the North.

The Battle of Antietam
400

This president was chosen in the Compromise of 1877.

Rutherford B. Hayes

400

It's the -ism that promotes the common man and in 2023 Mike Pence bemoaned "The Siren Song of" it "Unmoored to" conservative ideas.

What is Populism?
500
Name all four presidents who were assassinated.

Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy

500

In this 1824 SCOTUS case, the court held that it is the role of the federal government to regulate commerce and that state governments cannot develop their own commerce-regulating laws.

Gibbons v. Ogden

500

On February 1, 1960, 4 students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this New York city in protest over segregation.

Greensboro

500

This WWI general led the American Expeditionary Forces.

John J. Pershing

500

In 1735, attorney Andrew Hamilton spoke in defense of Freedom of the Press at this man's trial

Who is John Peter Zenger?