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100
This Civil War officer was the mythological inventor of baseball.
Who was Abner Doubleday?
100
This battle took place September 17, 1862.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
100
Two factors that allowed United States to make the most of the communication revolution.
What are widespread literacy and the United States Post Office?
100
Before the Revolution, this percent of white males could vote.
What is 60%?
100
Andrew Jackson elected in this year.
What is 1828?
200
This man invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel F B Morse?
200
This case was the first major step in carving out the Supreme Court's powerful role in the federal government.
What is Marbury V. Madison?
200
He was the richest man in the world.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
This is the number of amendments in the original bill of rights.
What is 10?
200
The bloodiest slave revolt occurred on this date.
What is August 22, 1831?
300
This is the sweeping religious revival started by the preaching of Charles Finney.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
300
This city was banned from all slave trade after the Compromise of 1850.
What is the nation's capitol, Washington D.C.
300
This person invented the first single-wire telegraph system.
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
300
This is Deism?
What is 'the belief that God has stepped back from the world after creating it, and did not interfere, coining the phrase "The Great Clockmaker"'?
300
The year Kentucky established universal suffrage.
What is 1792?
400
The first vehicle representing the technological leap that enabled the transportation revolution.
What is the Steamboat?
400
This man led the bloodiest slave rebellion in American history on August 22, 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
400
This is the amount of time it took the first successful steamboat (Robert Fulton's Clermont) to travel up the Hudson River to Albany?
What is 32 hours?
400
The reason John Marshall never sent the commissions that John Adams signed for 42 new Justices of the Peace.
What is 'he believed that once the commissions had been signed and sealed, they were official and the new administration would be obligated to send them'?
400
This man created baseball in this year.
Who is Alexander Cartwright in 1845?
500
This was the Supreme Court's first permanent meeting place.
Where is the basement of the Capitol Building?
500
This man was the head of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator."
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
500
This famous American poet endorsed baseball.
Who was Walt Whitman?
500
This concept was prevalent in antebellum America, driving westward expansion and partly caused the Mexican-American War.
What was manifest destiny?
500
South Carolina left the union on this date.
What was December 20th 1860?