Recent global history
This war included the first U.S. use of the terms "D-day" and "H-hour" in military combat at Saint-Mihiel [[SANH-mee-HYEL]]. Omar Bundy helped lead men in this war at a battle at which Lloyd Williams quipped, "Retreat? Hell, we just got here." The pigeon Cher Ami [[SHEHR ah-MEE]] helped save the Lost Battalion in this war during the Battle of the Argonne Forest. The idea of the Devil Dog came from this war's Battle of Belleau Wood. The Harlem Hellfighters fought in what "war to end all wars"?
World War 1
This city was home to an early ecumenical [[ECK-yoo-MEN-ih-kull]] council which ruled that Gentiles were not required to keep Jewish laws. A religious leader in this city drove out moneylenders and kicked over tables in a temple he calls a "house of prayer." This city is home to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher [[SEH-pull-kuhr]], which claims to be the location of Jesus's tomb. The location of the Last Supper, what is this Israelite city where Jesus was crucified?
Jerusalem
Albert Toven and Randy Lawrence discovered aluminum versions of these objects which had been released in 1974, but were told they were government property. A large version of these objects included Wreath, Flowing Hair, and Draped Bust variants. Victor Brenner designed the Wheat stalk variety of these objects, many of which depict Abraham Lincoln. Made of zinc and copper, it is debated whether these coins are still necessary. Name this smallest denomination of U.S. coinage.
US penny
When analyzing this event, Slavoj Zizek [[SLAH-voh ZEE-zek]] applied Marxist and Lacanian analysis in the book Welcome to the Desert of the Real. This event inspired Borradori's [[boh-rah-DOH-rees]] dialogues with Habermas [[HAY-behr-mahs]] and Derrida [[DEH-rih-dah]], published under the title Philosophy in a Time of Terror. Name this terrorist attack, in which al-Qaeda agents destroyed two skyscrapers in New York.
9/11
This acquisition was retroactively confirmed by the decision American Insurance Co. v. Canter. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin informed the sitting president that this acquisition was protected by the treaty-making provision in the Constitution. The costliness of the Haitian revolution led to this sale of territory by Napoleon to the United States. The Jefferson administration facilitated what "Purchase" which doubled the size of the United States?
Louisiana Purchase
This region was home to three confederacies, together known as the Samhan, who fought against Qin Kai [[CHIN KAI]] and the Yan. Wei Man invaded this region to end a dynasty supposedly founded by Dangun and a mythical bear-woman. Four Han Commanderies, including Leland and Lintun, were set up after this region's state of Gojoseon [[GOH-joh-sun]] was captured. This region's three kingdoms were Baekje [[BECKjeh]], Goguryeo [[GOH-guhr-yuh]], and Silla. Name this peninsula which today includes a country led by Kim Jong Un.
Korean Peninsula
The annexation of what is now this state was facilitated under the Newlands Resolution during the William McKinley administration. This state was formerly a Republic which was led by Sanford Dole. Sugarcane planters overthrew this modern day state’s native ruler, Queen Liliʻuokalani [[lee-lee-woh-kah-LUH-nee]]. Name this state in which an attack on a base which included Battleship Row served as a precursor to U.S. entry into World War Two.
Hawaii
English biologist Thomas Huxley became known by the canine nickname "Darwin's [this animal]" following a famous debate with William Wilberforce on the factuality of evolution.
Bulldog
In this state, market manipulation and megawatt laundering by traders under false names like “Death Star” and “Red Congo” led to rolling blackouts during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The murder of 15-year old Latasha Harlins by Soon Ja Du was one of the factors that increased racial tensions and led to the 1992 riots in this state. The successful recall of this state’s governor, Gray Davis, in 2003 led to the eventual election of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. For ten points, name this state with the cities of Sacramento and Los Angeles.
California
Under these laws, a high concrete wall was used to divide off the Eight Mile-Wyoming Area. Ferris State University contains a memorabilia museum that houses artifacts related to these laws, which created a "ghetto domestic sector." These laws were almost circumvented in the 1875 Civil Rights Act, which the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional. Leading to "colored" restrooms being a norm, what were these racial segregation laws in the Southern United States?
Jim Crow Laws
This proto-state intentionally opened the Nuaimiya Dam near Fallujah to deprive the Shia majority population of water. Late 2016 campaigns led to the loss of this organization’s stronghold of Mosul and its capital of Raqqa [[ROK-ah]]. Donald Trump approved of Operation Kayla Mueller, which killed this leader’s “Caliph” Abu Bakr AlBaghdadi. Name this terrorist state which controlled portions of Iraq and Syria.
ISIS
Ferdinand Lot questioned whether this man actually defeated 430 thousand enemy soldiers, though Ernest Desjardins [[day-zhar-DAH]] credited that number to a transcription error. Aulus Hirtius [[OW-luss HEAR-shus]] wrote the eighth book of one of this man's works which features Vorenus and Pullo. A work by this man describes his defeat of Vercingetorix [[VEHR-sin-GET-or-rix]], and this man wrote Commentaries on the Gallic Wars. Known for crossing the Rubicon, who was this Roman who was killed on the Ides of March?
Julius Caesar
Confederate sympathizers from this nation led by Vernon Guyon Locke captured and commandeered a Union steamer in the Chesapeake Affair. Rebels from this nation entered U.S. waters while aboard the Caroline, which was later burned by British forces. The death of General Richard Montgomery occurred during an invasion of this nation, leading to Benedict Arnold taking over and heading an ineffectual siege of Quebec City. Name this northern neighbor of the United States.
Canada
Abram Joseph Ryan was considered the "Poet-Priest" of one side of this war for poems like "The Conquered Banner." Allen Tate wrote a modernist poem as an “Ode” to this war’s dead, told by a narrator in a graveyard on an "Ambitious November.” Ambrose Bierce’s experiences during this war inspired his short story “Chickamauga.” Jim Conklin dies from blood loss in an engagement in this war, causing Henry Fleming to flee the battlefield. Name this war depicted in The Red Badge of Courage.
American Civil War
The Lincoln Penny first appeared in 1909, having been ordered on the way out of office by this Republican president who considered himself to be Lincoln's political heir.
Theodore Roosevelt
This general’s recapture of Manila fulfilled the promise he made three years earlier in a speech stating, "I came through, and I shall return" following his retreat from the Philippines during World War Two.
Douglas McArthur
Herman Melville's novel The Confidence-Man depicts travelers telling stories along this body of water. In one novel, a pair of con artists traveling on this body of water pretend to be King Louis XVII and the Duke of Nonesuch [[NUN-such]]. A memoir titled Life on [this body of water] was written by Mark Twain, who set many of his novels along this waterway. Name this long U.S. river, on which Jim and Huckleberry Finn float in a raft.
Mississipi River
This governor of Texas repeatedly refused to request FEMA or military aid during Winter Storm Uri, prompting speculation that Beto O'Rourke would challenge him in 2022.
Greg Abott
Contributing to the violence of the Chicago Race Riot, the Hamburg Athletic Club, which included future mayor Richard J. Daley, was composed primarily of what white immigrant ethnic group that fiercely guarded neighborhoods like Bridgeport and Back of the Yards.
Irish-Americans
This program was allegorized as Fascism by Kurt Weill [[VILE]] and Maxwell Anderson in Knickerbocker Holiday. Democrat Jouett Shouse [[JO-ett SHOUSS]] opposed this program which was attacked by the American Liberty League, including Empire State Building creator John J. Raskob and the du Pont brothers. This program created the FDIC and allowed for farmers to have electricity in the Rural Electrification Act. The TVA was created under what set of FDR-created programs which aided Americans in the Great Depression?
The New Deal