African American casualty of the Revolutionary War.
Who is CRISPUS ATTUCKS
100
All told, only about ____% of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family.
What is 25%
100
In the l864 election, the Democratic party nominated ____ to oppose Lincoln's reelection.
Who is George McClellan
100
The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was
What is Roman Catholicism.
100
The ____ Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th
200
The soldier and explorer whose leadership in establishing French colonies earned him the title "Father of New France" was
What is Samuel de Champlain
200
The original prophet of the Mormon religion was
What is Joseph Smith
200
The ____________ Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to take a competitive examination.
What is PENDLETON
200
The end of the Cuban War came after the last substantial Spanish fleet was destroyed at the Battle of
What is Santiago.
200
Soviet specialist George F. Kennan framed a coherent approach for America in the Cold War by advising a policy of_______________
What is CONTAINMENT
300
An armed march in Philadelphia in 1764, protesting the Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy toward the Indians was known as
What is March of the Paxton Boys.
300
Ireland's great export in the 1840s was
What is PEOPLE
300
The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately readmitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was
What is TENNESSEE
300
Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel Gompers called the ____ "labor's Magna Carta."
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
300
The Eisenhower-promoted public works project that was far larger and more expensive than anything in Roosevelt's New Deal was the
What is the interstate highway system.
400
The physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in what colony?
What is South Carolina
400
The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was
Who is HENRY CLAY
400
During the debate of 1850, ____ argued that there was a higher law than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from the territories.
Who is William H. Seward
400
Republican isolationists successfully turned _____________ 1920 presidential victory into a death sentence for the League of Nations.
What is WARREN G. HARDING
400
The surprise Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was
Who is Wendell L. Willkie.
500
The Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs was
What is Handsome Lake.
500
Perhaps the key battle of the War of 1812, because it protected the United States from full-scale invasion and possible dissolution, was the Battle of
What is PLATTSBURGH
500
America's first billion-dollar corporation was
What is United States Steel.
500
While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the____________
What is THE SQUARE DEAL
500
The cross-channel invasion of Normandy to open a second front in Europe was commanded by General