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100
In 1912 Who was elected president?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson
100
What is this? The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay
Answer: Civil war
100
On December 6, 1904, President Roosevelt presented his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, promising what?
Answer: No interference with a country conducting itself with decency in matters of trade and politics.
100
What marked the official end to World War I, then called the Great War?
Answer: Versailles peace conference
100
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Answer: Nothing
200
Where was George Washington born?
Answer: Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia
200
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848 ended the ????
Answer: Mexican War
200
The message came as a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire
Answer: Zimmerman telegram
200
What was the 16th amendment?
Answer: The 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax
200
What is Teddy Roosevelt's most famous quote?
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
300
When was James A. Garfield elected president?
Answer: 1880
300
______? originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which began in February 1895
Answer: Spanish-American war
300
Who founded the pony express?
Answer: The Pony Express was founded by William H. Russell, William B. Waddell, and Alexander Majors
300
What was a lucrative deal for the congressmen, because they helped themselves by approving federal subsidies for the cost of railroad construction without paying much attention to expenses, enabling railroad builders to make huge profits?
Answer: Credit Mobilier scandal
300
There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Answer: Watermelon
400
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. The event thrust who into presidency?
Answer: Lyndon Johnson
400
Nearly two years following the end of the Civil War, Congress finally forged a complete plan for _____
Answer: Military Reconstruction Act
400
What treaty ended the Mexican War?
Answer: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
400
What event in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America?
Answer: The Purchase of Alaska
400
What are 2 of Wilson's Fourteen Points?
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500
A series of bitter political quarrels between _______ and Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction policy in the South nearly led to his impeachment.
Answer: Andrew Johnson
500
What was the key peace treaty at the end of World War I
Answer: The Treaty of Versailles
500
On September 15, 1857, businessman and financier John Butterfield of Utica, New York won a coveted six-year, $600,000-a-year federal contract to transport mail twice a week between Where? and how long did it take?
Answer: St. Louis, Missouri and San Francisco in 25 days.
500
A social fraternity bent on reversing the federal government's progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.
Answer: Ku Klux Klan
500
Who said "Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them?"
Answer: Leo Tolstoy