"Remember the Alamo" was a phrase spoken by individuals fighting for the independence of what present day U.S. state?
What is TEXAS
100
What party was founded when the Free-Soil Party joined forces with the northern Whigs and others?
What is the REPUBLICAN PARTY
100
As the ending point of most cattle drives and the home of legendary frontier figures Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, what Kansas city is most often associated with the Wild West?
What is DODGE CITY
100
What animal did the Plains Indians depend on for their food, shelter, and clothing?
What is the BUFFALO
200
Which colony was established for the purpose of economic profit (especially tobacco)?
What is VIRGINIA
200
Wht issue is most closely associated with abolitionists?
What is SLAVERY
200
What percent of the population was needed to take a loyalty oath to the Union under Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?
What is 10 PERCENT
200
Members of which group were most likely to belong to the Populist Party & National Grange?
What is FARMERS
200
What business leader was famous for building his business through both horizontal and vertical integration?
What is ROCKEFELLER
300
Trading, shipbuilding, and fishing were the main economic activities of what colonial region of the US under British rule?
What is NEW ENGLAND
300
Which nineteenth-century social reformer is best known for working to improve treatment of people with mental illnesses?
What is DOROTHEA DIX
300
The practice of assisting escaped slaves to reach safety is associated with what nineteenth-century social activist?
Who is TUBMAN
300
Congressional investigators condemned, but did not punish, Colonel John lvy Chivington for his actions at what Native American massacre?
What is WOUNDED KNEE
300
To protect the rights of all Christians to practice their religion what act was passed in Maryland in 1649?
What is THE MARYLAND ACT OF TOLERATION
400
The British defeat to Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans boosted American morale during what war?
What is the WAR OF 1812
400
John O’Sullivan’s conviction that Americans should “overspread the continent allotted . . . for free development of our yearly multiplying millions” was known as
What is MANIFEST DESTINY
400
Congress passed three Enforcement Acts in 1870 and 1871 to protect the public against what group?
What is the KKK.
400
Which group of settlers was known as Exodusters?
What were AFRICAN AMERICANS
400
What prominent Republican in Congress thought Lincoln’s Ten Percent was far too lenient?
Who is THADDEUS STEVENS
500
in the 1803 Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison they said: Those who apply the rule to particular cases must,
of necessity, expound and interpret that rule. What fundamental principle of U.S. government is expressed in that statement?
What is JUDICIAL REVIEW
500
In the case of Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court ruled that the national government had the sole right to regulate
What is INTERSTATE COMMERCE
500
In what compromise did Congress decide to settle a disputed presidential election by having leaders promise to
withdraw federal troops from the South?
What is COMPROMISE OF 1877
500
What technological development of the mid nineteenth century most revolutionized the U.S. steel industry?
What is the BESSEMER PROCESS
500
What Constitutional amendment promised equal legal protection to former slaves?