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Name for the theory that if one country falls to communisim, others around it will quickly fall down as well.
What is Domino Theory?
100
The Confederacy's president during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
North Carolina's largest city:
What is Charlotte?
100
President responsible for the Lousiana Purchase; from Virginia:
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Author of "The White Man's Burden":
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
200
Event where the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear war; the USSR was sending nuclear missiles to Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Location where the first shots were fired triggering the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
Another name for the Roanoke colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh:
What is The Lost Colony?
200
Only U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms:
Who is Grover Cleveland?
200
Name of the U.S. battleship that sunk in harbor in Cuba, triggering the Spanish-American War:
What is the Maine?
300
Soviet leader during WWII who expanded Russia's sphere of influence throughout eastern Europe following the war.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
300
General who famously held his troops at Manassas "like a stonewall."
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
300
Captial city of North Carolina:
What is Raleigh?
300
President who served as Union general under Abraham Lincoln; 18th President:
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Name of the policy allowing Imperial powers access to China for trade purposes:
What is the Open Door Policy?
400
Name for a wall in Germany that came to signify the divide between
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
Nurse for the Union who founded the American Red Cross?
Who is Clara Barton?
400
Highest peak east of the Mississippi River:
What is Mount Mitchell?
400
Born in NC; "Old Hickory"; lawyer from Tennessee; general in the War of 1812; Indian Removal Act:
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
This took ten years to construct; is forty miles long; must pay a fee to enter:
What is the Panama Canal?
500
Name for the line that separates North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
500
Name for the Union plan to divide the Confederacy through the Mississippi and controlling ports.
What is the Constrictor or Anaconda Plan?
500
Number of counties in North Carolina:
What is 100?
500
The first president to have a son also become president:
Who is John Adams?
500
Journalism that uses images, language, and stories that are sensational, exaggerated, and less than truthful:
What is Yellow Journalism?