A major staple crop in colonial America, sometimes referred to as "corn"
what is maize?
100
This environmental politician ran and lost against Bush and Gore in 2000.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
Economic downturn in 1929 due to overspeculation.
What is The Great Depression.
100
The Act that replaced the Embargo Act and would open its ports to all nations except Britain.
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?
100
This 1794 uprising over Hamilton's Excise Tax left three "Whiskey Boys" Dead
What is the Whiskey Rebellion
200
John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan created this type of empire.
what is a monopoly?
200
This major agricultural movement quadripled farming efficiency around the world.
What is the Green Revolution?
200
Popular 1920s novel about the Jazz era
What is The Great Gatsby.
200
Also known as the "large-state plan." It called for a bicameral legislature.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
Second cousin to the second president, this founding father was the leading SPIRIT in the Boston Tea Party and also has a beer company named after him.
Whho is Samuel Adams
300
This theory claimed that if one country fell to communism, the other countries would fall as well.
What is the domino theory?
300
The minority political group appeared during the late 1800s.
What is the Greenback Labor Party?
300
Religious reivival that spread in the 1730s.
What is The First Great Awakening.
300
George Kennan's response to the Soviet Union's post-war years; he outlined what became known as ___________.
What is the containment policy?
300
This all female anti-alcohol organization was created in 1874, advocating prohibition.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
400
Nixon claimed that one of the gifts he received and would not return was a cockerspaniel that his daughter named in this speech.
What is the Checkers Speech?
400
This Revolutionary War officer was renowned for driving British out of Georgia and South Carolina.
Who is Nathaniel Greene?
400
Trans-Mississippi frontier for pioneering families.
What is The Great Plains.
400
In 1950, Congress passed this act; it required, Communists and Communist front organizations to register with the attourney general.
What is the Internal Security Act?
400
A deranged hatchet-slinging radical (also known as the Kansas Cyclone), she smashed saloon bottles and bars in her attempt to rid the nation of alcohol.
Who is Carrie Nation?
500
The creation of military forces into Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf was the U.S. operation response to Iraqian invasion.
What is Operation Desert Shield?
500
This treaty was signed in 1795 between U.S. and Miami Indians.
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
500
The movement of people from England to the New World that lasted from 1630-1642.
What is The Great Migration.
500
Those who wanted to reform the Church of England were known as this group of people.
Who are the Puritans?
500
This group of Adventists, numbering several hundred thouand, rose up from the "super-heated" soil of the burned over region and believed christ would return to Earth on October 22nd, 1844.