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100
Who created the steel plow?
John Deere
100
What is the name of the town where the second atomic bomb was dropped?
Nagasaki
100
What is the name of the president who created many national parks and works, and ironically hunted many animals?
Theodore Roosevelt
100
Where did a 77 day siege take place during the Vietnam war?
Khe Sanh
100
What is the act put in place to cover the rebuilding of Europe after WWII?
The Marshall Plan
200
Who warned the American colonists from Charleston to Lexington of the approach of the Lobsterbacks?
Paul Revere
200
In what city was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
Memphis, Tennessee
200
Who is the first president to be impeached? (Hint: This has nothing to do with the fuzzy fruit)
Andrew Johnson
200
Where did the Civil War of the United States begin?
Fort Sumter
200
What document did Abraham Lincoln read after a union victory at Antietam?
The Emancipation Proclamation
300
Who said "What the hell is going on in Vietnam?"
Walter Cronkite
300
Where did the famous seige take place that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and was a huge turning point in the Civil War?
Vicksburg
300
Which president was involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Warren G. Harding
300
Which general was fired during the Korean War after he suggested the use of nuclear bombs along the Tumen and Yalu rivers on the border between China and North Korea?
General Douglas MacArthur
300
What did president Franklin D. Roosevelt issue that put all Japanese Americans in internment camps?
Executive Order 9066
400
Who was the scientist who led the Manhattan Project and created the atomic bomb?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
400
Where was the treaty signed that ended the Korean War?
Panmunjom, Korea
400
Which president tragically sent 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles to their deaths?
John F. Kennedy
400
What is the main vessel used by the Nazis to impede US trade with Great Britain during WWII?
The U-boat
400
Which trial pit new science against old religion in Dayton, Tennessee?
Scopes Monkey Trial
500
What was the name of the assassin group that Gavrilo Princip was a part of? (Hint: This is the man that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand)
The Black Hand
500
Where was the first settlement of the English in America? (Hint: They mysteriously disappeared off the face of the earth)
Roanoke Island, North Carolina
500
Which president created the idea of the League of Nations, but died before the United States could become a part of it?
Woodrow Wilson
500
What is the last battle of the revolutionary war?
The Siege of Yorktown
500
Who was the first African American to serve as a Supreme Court justice?
Thurgood Marshall