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Getting Mrs. Kabins off-topic
100

This heroine of the Civil War was nicknamed "Moses"

Who is Harriet Tubman?
100

This part of the Statue of Liberty was funded by the American people

What is the pedestal?

100

How British soldiers passed the time during the Revolutionary War

What is acting in plays?

100

It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

100

In the late 1800s, some individuals believed that consuming powdered mummies could cure various ailments.

What is "corpse medicine"?

200

This Founding Father was the first Postmaster General of the US

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

200

These two presidents had pet alligators in the White House

Who are Herbert Hoover and John Quincy Adams?

200

This confirmed that Canada did not want to be part of the United States

What is the War of 1812?

200

Influential movement in African American literary history

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

200

The first state in the United States to pass a law allowing women to vote

What is Utah?

300

The second woman to receive the Peace Prize, she founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919

Who is Jane Addams?

300

This foreign attack on US soil only lasted an hour and fifteen minutes

What is Pearl Harbor?

300

Before he became a great Union general, he was demoted for apparent insanity

Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?

300

He tore up his American flag, shredded his Bible, and refused to sign the treaty that had redrawn the reservation's boundaries

Who was Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce?

300

A man's pig wandered into a neighbor's garden and ate his vegetables, leading to a heated dispute that escalated into a full-blown riot involving more than 100 armed settlers

What was the Great Pig War of 1859?

400

This Civil War general put down a slave revolt in less than an hour

Who is Robert E. Lee?

400

This term refers to the increase in the black population in Chicago and Detroit in the early 1900s

What is the Great Migration?

400

World War 1 started with this assassination

Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

400

This workplace tragedy killed 146 employees, many of whom were immigrants

What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

400

In 1919, a large vat containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst in Boston, Massachusetts, causing a massive wave of molasses to flood the streets

What is the Great Molasses Flood?

500

Nicknamed "the Commodore", he was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping

Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?

500

Referring to shantytowns occupied by homeless Americans in the 1930s

What are "Hoovervilles"?

500

The first National Park

What is Yellowstone?

500

WW2 Bomber crews often requested to be escorted by these “Red Tails”

Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?

500

A wave of hysteria during which several people were accused of witchcraft and ultimately executed

What were the Salem Witch Trials?