Rebels and Rebellions
This 1770 skirmish sparked an American rebellion.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This then representative from Ohio, and future president, had a monumental tariff named after him.
Who is William McKinley?
These two Japanese cities were where the U.S. ushered the world into the Atomic age.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Duke Ellington and Zora Neale Hurston led this movement of artists during the Roaring 20s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This woman went subterranean to help slaves escape bondage.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This man, although not a rebel in the traditional sense, rebelled against all encompassing greed in favor of philanthropy in a famous Gilded Age gospel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This president had a famous doctrine of containment.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This war ended with Andrew Jackson successfully defending New Orleans from the British.
What is the War of 1812?
This Supreme Court Case opened the door for the U.S. to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons V Ogden?
Upton Sinclair wrote this novel whose argument convinced America to reform the meat-packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
This outspoken Civil Rights figure pushed back against MLK's non-violent rhetoric.
Who is Malcolm X?
This former Vice President gave an unpopular president a get out of jail free card in the 1970s.
Who is Gerald Ford?
Yellow Journalism blew this ship out of proportion.
What is the USS Maine?
This economic term, which describes a wicked brew of two economic indicators of death, haunted Jimmy Carter.
What is stagflation?
What are the 18th and 19th Amendments?
This 18th-century rebel wrote down his ideas in a vernacular that everyday people could understand.
Who is Thomas Paine?
An early president with bad teeth surveyed this land for the Crown.
What is the Ohio Country?
Who are War Hawks?
This Gilded age era man looks in a certain type of jacket... and calls the shots in the city.
Who is Boss Tweed?
This reformer of the Early Republic was the protege of William Lloyd Garrison and wrote for The Liberator.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
These rebellions were instrumental in arguments against overreach of governmental authority? (List 3)
What is Shay's Rebellion, Boston Tea Party, Whiskey Rebellion, Paxton Boy, Bacon's Rebellion, etc.
These two presidents facilitated Texas' statehood.
Who are John Tyler and James K. Polk?
These four states (plus a fifth for an extra 200 points) were border states during the Civil War, where slavery was legal but allegiance was generally Union.
What are Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri (And West Virginia)?
These three New Deal programs gave young men jobs, gave farmers subsidies to not produce more crops, and gave funded millions of jobs in wide-scale public works projects across the U.S.
What are the CCC, AAA, and WPA?
This oil-hating reformer shares a first name with another Gilded Age reformer who reported on Southern lynchings.
Who is Ida Tarbell?