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Who was the first President of the United States.
George Washington
100
The job or responsibility of the Supreme Court
What is Interpret the law and Constitution?
100
The major job of this branch of our Government.
What is make laws?
100
The oldest English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
100
Who did James Early Ray assassinate in Memphis in April 1968?
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.
200
Who became US president after Herbert Hoover?
What is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)
200
This was set up by the decision in the Marbury v Madison case, 1803.
What is Judicial Review?
200
All bills coming into Congress go to this type of committee.
What is a standing committee?
200
This spanish city was the first European settlement in America and is the oldest city in America today.
What is St. Augustine?
200
This presidential couple were implicated in the Whitewater affair.
Who are the Clintons
300
Which two signers of the Declaration of Independence went on to serve as president of the United States?
What is John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
300
Set up by the Plessy v Ferguson Case, 1896
What is Separate but Equal?
300
If a bill changes from one house of Congress to the other, the bill goes to this type of committee before being voted on.
What is a conference committee?
300
This city was a major cause of problems (murders, harbor, and battle site) for the British during their colonial rule.
What is Boston?
300
This person set up Hull House in Chicago as a place to help immigrants adjust to life in America.
Who was Jane Adams?
400
This President was not elected, but appointed.
Who is Gerald Ford?
400
This Supreme Court Case desegregated public schools.
What is Brown v Board of Education, 1955?
400
The three Giants of Congress in the 1800's.
Who were Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Henry Clay
400
This city was created as a compromise for support of the economic plan of Alexander Hamilton.
What is Washington, D.C.?
400
Henry Clay wrote these two compromises to try to get the United States to get along.
What were the Missouri Compromise of 1819 and the Compromise of 1850 (Clay-Omnibus Bill)?
500
This person ran for President unsuccessfully four times, but was a prominent politician in American History.
Who was Henry Clay?
500
This case of the Supreme Court set up interstate commerce as Federal domain.
What is the Gibbons v Ogden Case?
500
Two major powers of Congress that are checks on the President's power.
What are power to declare war and the power of the purse?
500
This city is home to Ellis Island, the United Nations, and the Statue of Liberty.
What is New York City?
500
I was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, had a bounty of $40,000 on my head - dead or alive, and will soon be on the twenty dollar bill.
Who is Harriet Tubman?