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Who operated the first successful steamboat on the Hudson River in 1807?
Who is Robert Fulton
Who is the Father of the Constitution?
Who is James Madison
What law in 1934 halted the sale of the tribal lands to individuals and enabled tribes to regain title to their unallocated lands?
What is the Indian Reorganization Act
Henry Clay's five proposals that he packaged in an omnibus bill became known as this
What is the Compromise of 1850
What is Yellow Dog Contracts
Whose Campaign to protect the wilderness led to the establishing of the Yosemite National Park and founding of the Sierra Club?
Who is John Muir
Name of the explorer who led the expedition that investigated the southern part of the Louisiana Purchase
Who is Zebulon Pike
This occurred when a group of Sioux Indians surrendering to a group of soldiers. An accidental rifle shot caused a massacre where close to 200 Indians and 25 soldiers were killed.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee
What abolitionist newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
What is the Liberator
Formed to protest and correct the condition of the Western and Southern farmers and silver miners, who were suffering from overproduction and low prices, while there was widespread poverty throughout the U.S James B. Weaver was their candidate.
What is the Populist Party
Who was the "champion of the dispossessed"-that is, the poor and minorities- in the 1930s?
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt
Which New Deal critic gained national popularity by promising to give every family $5,000?
Who is Huey Long
After this event the Japanese government finally began to discuss the acceptance of surrender terms
What is the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The open warfare that occurred within the territory created in 1854 became known as what?
Bleeding Kansas
The Union Army's victory in the capture of this city was critical to Lincoln's reelection in 1864
What is Atlanta
President Polk sent this individual to negotiate a treaty to conclude the Mexican War
Who is Nicholas P. Trist
Head of the Nez Perce Indians. Despite their peaceful nature, he lead a rebellion against the United States to avoid reservation life. He is famous for his 1,500 mile retreat that nearly brought his people to Canada. Ultimately he was captures and sent to Oklahoma.
Who is Chief Joseph
Signed in 1982 by 62 nations, it renounced war, making it a criminal act on the part of any nation signing the agreement. It proposed the peaceful negotiation, but lacked enforcement provisions
What is the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
What Supreme Court case declared that racial quotas were unconstitutional but race could be taken into account as one factor in college admissions?
What is Bakke
During WW2 the U.S government commissioned the production of synthetic "blank" in order to offset the loss of access to prewar supplies in East Asia?
What is Rubber
In early 1923, this individual and his accomplices looted the government of about $200 million, chiefly in connection with the building of "veterans" hospitals.
Who is Charles Forbes
Who was nicknamed the "Happy Warrior", was a popular New York Governor and the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928?
Who is Alfred Smith
Reduction of the gold reserve and government purchases of silver, decline of farm purchasing power, and unsound railroad financing. Businessmen lost confidence in the currency due to the drop in the gold reserve.
What is the Depression of 1893-1897
A letter from De Lome criticizing President McKinley for weakness, was stolen and published in the U.S.; the battleship Maine was sunk by an explosion in February, 1898, 260 Americans died.
What is the Spanish-American War
A group of actors, writers, and producers during the McCarthy Era, refused to cooperate before the House of Un-American Activities to "name names". In order to appease congress, these people were blacklisted. What were they called?
What is the Hollywood 10