President during the Civil War, he was also father to a little boy who lived in the President’s Mansion until he died of typhoid in 1862.
What is Abraham Lincoln
100
Besides the executive branch, which is headed by the President, these are the other two branches of the United States Government.
What are the judicial and legislative branches?
100
The movie “Zero Dark Thirty” is about how multiple US government agencies used technology, and even torture, to find this man.
Who is Osama Bin Laden?
100
This leader of the Federalists wanted the United States to have an even stronger federal government, but he was bitterly opposed.
Who is Alexander Hamilton? (Why was he opposed?)
100
The accompanying poster, designed to convince women they have an essential role, was made during this war effort.
What is World War II?
200
They are the second and third presidents of the United States, and though they were friends in old age, they were bitter enemies around 1800.
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
200
This category of people could not vote before the 19th Amendment, despite what Abigail Adams told her husband was right.
What are women?
200
Charles Cornwallis was the name of a leading general sent to crush the colonial rebels in this uprising.
What is the American Revolution?
200
In a speech earlier this month, President Trump seemed to think this black abolitionist, former slave, and great writer was still alive.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
This is the social problem illustrated in the accompanying photograph by journalist Jacob Riis
What is poverty (or inequality)? (What's the Progressive-era name for journalists like Riis?)
300
This author of the Declaration of Independence has a complex role in American history, because while he wrote “all men are created equal,” he also owned slaves himself.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This issue followed Americans for years, complicating their politics and economy, and eventually driving them so wide apart they declared war over it.
What is slavery
300
After WWII, the United States saw its mission as preventing the spread of communism, an idea that led to this failed American war.
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This odd term is used to describe the American fantasy that the country should extend all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, over the whole continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
This event from the beginning of the century changed the direction of American history. For example, terrorists no longer hijack planes to demand ransom.
What are the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 ("9/11")? (Think about second part of question.)
400
In 1865 at Appomattox Court House, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to this future US President, ending the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
400
President Jefferson was quick to make this deal with France, as he got enormous tracts of land for a very low price.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
400
If you go to Lexington, Massachusetts, just a short bike ride from Harvard, you can see the place where the first shots were fired in this war that began in 1775.
What is the American Revolution?
400
At first only a minor social movement, this name for people opposing slavery became the driving force behind the Republican party in the 1860 election.
What is abolitionism?
400
Both the USA and Germany raced to develop weaponry, but the USA got it first, thanks to this massive nation-wide research and development effort.
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
There are many conspiracy theories surrounding this tragic event from November 23, 1963.
What is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?
500
The Articles of Confederation first established the federal government of the United States upon ratification in 1781. But it was replaced nine years later by this document.
What is the US Constitution. Additional question: what was the biggest problem of the government established by the Articles?
500
President Woodrow Wilson was deeply concerned about the Russian Revolution. He sent American troops to help this side of the war.
What are the White Russians. (In other words, he opposed the Red army.)
500
Anti-communist sentiment was strong in the USA. Not only did it drive American men to Vietnam, it drove others to this location on July 20, 1969.
What is the Moon?
500
Irresponsible financial speculation always makes the financial system unstable. This was illustrated by this enormous event after World War I.
What is The Great Crash? (Or the Great Depression)