Famous Women
She was kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the 1630s for preaching antinominaism and defying the patriarchy.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Known for the widespread, but probably not true, story about getting stuck in a White House bathtub.
Who is William H. Taft?
This conquistador "conquered" the Aztec and founded New Spain in 1521.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This supreme court case defined the purpose of the Supreme Court as one of judicial review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
He led the only successful Native rebellion against colonial New Spain in the 1680s.
Who is Pope?
With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she co-organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Lucretia Mott?
His campaign slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!"
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This alliance between the USSR and its satellite states was meant to counter the influence of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Shays' Rebellion dealt a final blow to which American governing document?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A British social reformer, he received a grant from the King to create Georgia as a penal colony and experiment in rehabilitating debtors.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
She was appointed by President Reagan to serve as the first female Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
He is the first of the two Presidents to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Named for the Attorney General, these led to hundreds of "radical" immigrants being deported from the United States in 1919 and 1920.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This enacted a permanent system of graduated income tax on the whole United States.
What is the 16th Amendment?
His book series "The Influence of Sea Power on History" strongly influenced Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt to build up the US Navy.
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
She wrote A Century of Dishonor and the romance novel Ramona to try to draw attention to the government's mistreatment of Native Americans.
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
The only President to graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill
Who is Polk?
The first mention of secession of US states came at what New England meeting during the War of 1812?
What is the Hartford Convention?
Name any TWO of the four components of Alexander Hamilton's financial plan.
What is:
-a tax on distilled liquor -assumption of states' debts -create a national bank -protective tariffs for industry
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He was the first openly gay politician elected in the US. He was famously assassinated by a disgruntled ex-colleague.
Who is Harvey Milk?
A controversial Progressive-era advocate for birth control, she eventually helped found Planned Parenthood.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
Either of the two Presidents for whom John Hay was Secretary of State?
Who is McKinley or T. Roosevelt?
At this July 1945 conference, President Truman informed Stalin that the US had detonated a working atomic weapon.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
What was the first large "wildcat" strike that spread across the country?
(hint...includes a year)
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 (must include year!)
The most well-known painter of the Hudson River School of artists.
Who is Thomas Cole?