Alliterative Name
Presidents
Show Me the Dough
Scandals
Seminal Places
100
The President who led us into World War I. He came up with the postwar 14 points.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
100
He was the president that signed in the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson
100
After Slavery had ended, many African-Americans in the South still stayed on the lands and cultivated it, in this system.
What is sharecropping
100
The Principal figure, an obscure marine lieutenant, that was involved in The Iran-Contra Scandal.
Who is Oliver North
100
The site of an american battle during the civil war. A union victory which prompted Abraham Lincoln to give a speech dictating his goal of emancipation.
What is Antietam.
200
A royal figure in Austria-Hungary. He was assassinated by the Gavrilo Princip, which was the spark that started World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
200
He was the president that Theodore Roosevelt picked to succeed him.
Who is William Howard Taft
200
The nickname for the 7.2 million purchase from Russia. Although in hindsight it was a good decision, many mocked it.
What is Seward's Folly.
200
Although they were cleared of wrongdoings, this major scandal surrounded the Clintons on some of their banking and real estate ventures.
What is the Whitewater Affair
200
The Site of a June 3, 1989 massacre in China in response to a mass movement for greater democratization.
What is Tiananmen Square.
300
He was the president who was in office at the start of the stock market crash that instigated the Great Depression.
who is Herbert Hoover.
300
The President who came into office with the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
300
The main reason for this expenditure was to open up lands for the United States to build a Transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase.
300
Warren G. Harding secretly leased rich naval oil reserves from the Department of the Interior to two wealthy business men who in return gave "loans".
What is Teapot Dome Scandal.
300
The Place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
What is Apomattox Courthouse.
400
The female reformer who emerged as the face of the asylum and prison reform movements.
Who is Dorothea Dix
400
Although a General at the time, he was the one sent to provoke and start the Mexican American War over a border dispute.
Who is Zachary Taylor
400
Signed into law in 1930, it was the largest tariff in the 20th century.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
400
A bogus response that was fabricated so that the United States could enter the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
400
A presidential retreat in Maryland where Jimmy Carter invited Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to come to a Peace Treaty.
What is Camp David.
500
The Democrat who ran against Nixon. His nomination was followed by a bloody riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Who is Hubert Humphrey
500
The President who sent troops to quell the Pullman Strike.
Who is Grover Cleveland.
500
He was the president of The National Bank of the United States from 1823 until Andrew Jackson got rid of the National Bank.
Who is Nicholas Biddle
500
Occurred after the Civil war, was one of many scandals to come out of the Grant presidency. It was this construction company's stock that was given to key member's of congress.
What is Credit Mobilier
500
The place that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met, in Utah,
What is Promontory Point