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100
How many institutions schools are there in the University of North Carolina system of Higher Education?
What is 17 campuses
100
During the American Revolution, American victory at this fort was important because it controlled the main route between Canada & the Hudson River Valley & we gained important weapons here. What fort was this? (ch. 5, Am book)
What is Ticonderoga
100
Fascist dictator of Italy who was part of the Axis Powers during WWII?
What is Benito Mussolini
100
What country did we get the idea of the republic from?
What is Rome
100
This man turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state- a nation in which a single party controls the government and every aspect of human life. Who is he?
What is Joseph Stalin
200
This area has a concentration of people, jobs, services, and entertainment & North Carolina has several of these areas (i.e. Charlotte, Cary, Raleigh, Durham). What area is this?
What is metropolitan
200
This was the first official plan for government post American Revolution. What was it? (ch. 7, Am bk)
What is Articles of Confederation
200
American President who signed off on dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan & had a doctrine of containment of communism in Europe. (ch. 25 Am bk)
What is Harry S Truman
200
What country did the founding fathers adopt the idea of a Democracy from?
What is Greece
200
On December 7, 1941 Japanese bombers launched a surprise attack on this US Naval base in Hawaii killing more than 2,000 people causing the United States to enter WWII. What base was this?
What is Pearl Harbor
300
Why did the use of downtown areas decline in the late 20th century in major cities throughout the state? (red word, chap.)
What is urban sprawl
300
What two explorers explored the new Louisiana territory to report their findings of the area to President Thomas Jefferson? (ch. 9)
What is Lewis and Clark
300
First American President to resign (leave office) after the Watergate scandal of the 1970's? (am. bk 27)
What is Richard Nixon
300
The growth of trade linked the rise of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula in the 600's. Who was the founder of this religion and their prophet of Allah? (ch. 1, Am bk)
What is Muhammad
300
Translate this term from Latin to English- "Veni, vidi, vici"! This phrase reportedly extends from a letter Julius Caesar wrote to the Roman Senate after achieving victory in his short war against Pharnaces II of Pontus in the city of Zela around 46 B.C
What is "I came, I saw, I conquered."
400
North Carolina has boomed with more than 150 companies in this area in our state. What does the acronym RTP stand for?
What is Research Triangle Park
400
What is the term for "the right for women to vote"?
What is women's suffrage
400
American President who was assassinated in Ford's Theater when John Wilkes Booth shot in in the back of his head?
What is Abraham Lincoln
400
in 1517, this German monk demanded the Catholic Church reform leading to the Reformation period? (am. bk, ch. 1)
What is Martin Luther
400
Suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks. (am. ch. 24)
What is kamikaze
500
Due to having so many military bases within our state & having five local operations in our state that contribute to the economic growth of our state, how many jobs did East Carolina University estimate were added to North Carolina (ch. 15 sec. 1)?
What is 300,000
500
Which amendment in the US constitution ended prohibition in our country?
What is 21st amendment
500
Name the three major industrialists of the Industrial Revolution?
What is John Rockefeller, JP Morgan, & Andrew Carnegie
500
Famous North Carolina pirate whose real name was Edward Teach?
What is Blackbeard
500
Was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1959–1975), and emerged on the winning side.
What is Viet Cong