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Q In what battle of the Civil War were the
heaviest casualties sustained?
A Battle of Gettysburg
Q What were whiskey farmers protesting
before launching the Whiskey Rebellion of
1794?
A An excise tax on whiskey
(NOTE: Students do not need to include
“excise” in answer)
Q What president signed into law the Indian
Removal Act of 1830?
A (Andrew) Jackson
Q In what year was the Battle of Gettysburg
fought?
A 1863
Q What was the name given in the 1700s to
the vast tract of land lying north of the Ohio
River, west of Pennsylvania, and east of the
Mississippi River?
A Northwest Territory
Q Who was the leader of the congressional
Joint Committee of Fifteen, which passed
several harsh measures on reconstruction?
A (Thaddeus) Stevens
Q What was the name of the program in which
the United States assisted European nations in
their economic recovery after World War II?
Q What major concern for Europe following
World War II led to the implementation of the
Marshall Plan?
A Marshall Plan
A That communism would spread
Q What were the four countries that occupied
Germany after World War II?
A Soviet Union (or Russia), Great Britain (or
United Kingdom), France and the United
States
Q What was the name given to the historic
effort by which France, the United Kingdom,
and the United States supplied West Berlin
entirely by air during a Soviet blockade in the
1940s?
Q Of the four countries that occupied
Germany after World War II, which controlled
the eastern zone?
A Soviet Union (or Russia)
Q To what two countries did Japan lose all
claims following World War II?
A China and Korea
A Berlin Airlift
Q In 1945, who was sent to China by President
Truman to help end the civil conflict between
the country’s nationalists and communists?
A (General George) Marshall
Q Who was the Republican candidate of 1948?
A (Governor Thomas E.) Dewey
Q Who was the Democratic presidential
candidate of 1948?
A (Harry S.) Truman
Q Of what state was Thomas E. Dewey
governor?
A New York
Q What does the acronym N.A.T.O. mean?
Q What is N.A.T.O.’s primary purpose?
A To protect its member countries against
military attack
A North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Q Name three of the countries that were the
original founding members of N.A.T.O.
A United States, Canada, Great Britain (or
United Kingdom), Itlay, Belgium, France,
Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway,
Iceland, Portugal
Q What is stipulated in the Twenty-second
Amendment?
A No person shall serve more than two terms
as president of the United States
Q What act of 1950 required the registration
of communist organizations with the federal
government?
A Internal Security Act or McCarran Act
Q To what country did Japanese forces
occupying Korea north of the 38th parallel
surrender following World War II?
A Soviet Union (or Russia)
Q What led to the break out of the Korean
War?
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A North Korean forces crossed the 38 parallel
and invaded South Korea
Q Who was appointed commanding general of
the UN forces in Korea in 1950?
A (General Douglas) MacArthur
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(Note: The reference to the 38 parallel is
optional)
Q What was the first war in which the United
Nations played a major role?
A Korean War
Q What country’s troops forced the United
States armed forces to retreat from North
Korea below the 38th parallel during the
Korean War?
A China’s
Q Why was General MacArthur removed from
command during the Korean War?
A He threatened to launch an attack on China
Q Who served as President Eisenhower’s vice
president during both of his terms?
A (Richard) Nixon
Q Who won the presidential election of 1952?
A (Dwight D.) Eisenhower
Q What had the United Nations forces
achieved at the conclusion of the Korean War?
A Pushed back North Koreans beyond the 38th
parallel
Q What was the name of the 10-year plan
implemented in 1961 to promote the
development of Latin American countries?
Q Which of the late President Kennedy’s
programs did President Johnson propose
continuing as the best “memorial” to the late
president?
A Alliance for Progress
A New Frontier
Q What was the name of the commission
appointed by President Johnson to investigate
President Kennedy’s assassination?
Q What domestic plan did President Johnson
propose in his 1964 State of the Union
address?
A Warren Commission
A “War on Poverty”
Q What act, passed in 1964, provided, among
others, education and job training for the
underprivileged and loans to small businesses
and farmers?
Q What act prohibited discrimination in hotels
and restaurants and in employment, among
others, and established equality in voting
rights and school desegregation? (Provide the
name and year of the act.)
A Economic Opportunity Act
A Civil Rights Act of 1964
Q Who ran against President Johnson in the
election of 1964?
Q Who was President Johnson’s vice
president?
A (Barry) Goldwater
A (Hubert) Humphrey
Q How did the presidential election of 1968
differ from previous elections?
A It was the first time residents of the District
of Columbia (or Washington, D.C.) voted in a
presidential election
Q What amendment permits citizens in the
District of Columbia to vote for electors for
president and vice president?
A Twenty-third Amendment
Q What treaty of 1963 prohibited the testing
of nuclear weapons in the air, outer space or
under water?
A Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Q Which of the following legislative programs
developed by President Kennedy had Congress
passed at the time of his assassination: civil
rights, foreign aid, tax reductions, and/or the
establishment of a Department of Urban
Affairs?
Q What was the name given to the emergency
communication system between Washington
and Moscow intended to reduce the risk of
accidental nuclear war?
A “Hot Line” system
Q What term refers to the political philosophy
of Andrew Jackson, which emphasized, among
others, equal voting rights for all white men,
rather than only land owners?
A Jacksonian Democracy
A None
Q What term refers to the doctrine that held
that it was inevitable that the United States
would eventually control the area all the way
to the Pacific Ocean?
A Manifest Destiny
Q Why was the Whig Party organized?
A To oppose Andrew Jackson’s policies
Q In what early war did George Washington
serve on General Braddock’s staff, and lead
the Virginia militia?
A French and Indian War (or Seven Years’ War)
Q Name one of the two early leaders of the
Whig Party.
A (John Q.) Adams or (Henry) Clay
Q Name one of the two presidents elected
from the Whig Party.
A (William Henry) Harrison or (Zachary) Taylor
Q What term, which originates with the name
of a United States senator, is used to describe
claims made in the 1950s that communists had
been permitted to hold positions in the State
Department during the Truman and
Eisenhower administrations?
Q Name one of the two issues about which the
Whig Party failed to take a position, ultimately
resulting in the disintegration of the party.
A Slavery or free soil issues
Q Who invented the electric telegraph?
A (Samuel) Morse
A McCarthyism
Q During what war did the factory system
begin its rapid expansion in the United States?
Q What was the largest industry of the factory
system of the mid-1800s?
A War of 1812
A Textile industry
Q Who invented the first power loom for
textile mills?
Q Who discovered the method of vulcanizing
rubber in 1844?
A (Francis C.) Lowell
A (Charles) Goodyear
Q What two elements comprised the economy
of the South prior to the Civil War?
Q What was the United States’ main export in
the early 19th century?
A Cotton and slavery
A Cotton
Q What country was the largest importer of
American cotton in the 19th century?
Q What was the established church of the
Southern colonies?
A England (or United Kingdom or Great
Britain)
A Anglican Church
Q What church of Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and Connecticut developed from
Puritanism?
Q What country defaulted on reparation
payments to Allied nations following World
War I?
A Congregational Church
A Germany
Q Name one of the two unsuccessful plans
developed by the United States to assist
German recovery following World War I?
A Dawes Plan and Young Plan
Q In what month and year did the Cuban
Missile Crisis occur?
A October, 1962
Q In what country had the Soviet Union placed
nuclear missiles and jet bombers in 1962?
Q Who was the Soviet premier during the
Cuban Missile Crisis?
A Cuba
A (Nikita) Khrushchev
Q Under what condition did Soviet premier
Khrushchev agree to the United States’
demand that he remove missiles placed in
Cuba?
Q What president was elected in 1876?
A (Rutherford B.) Hayes
A That the United States not invade Cuba
Q What two southern states remained under
the control of federal troops in 1877?
A South Carolina and Louisiana
Q What historical era ended with the removal
of federal troops from two southern states in
1877?
A Reconstruction
Q What president followed Theodore
Roosevelt?
Q To what political party was President Taft
affiliated?
A (William Howard) Taft
A Republican
Q Under whose presidency was the Parcel Post
system developed?
A (William Howard) Taft
Q In what month and year did the most
devastating stock market crash in the history
of the United States occur?
A October 1929
Q What is the name given to the 12-year
period of sustained downturn in economic
activity that followed the stock market crash
of 1929?
Q What president formed the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation to lend money to
railroads, banks and other businesses during
the Great Depression?
A Great Depression
A (Herbert) Hoover
Q What was the popular name given to the
communities of shantytowns built by people
who had become homeless during the Great
Depression?
A Hoovervilles
Q What was the name of the congressional act
of 1930 that raised United States tariffs on
over 20,000 imported goods to record levels,
and brought protests from importers, bankers
and industrialists?
A Smoot-Hawley (Tariff)
Q What term was used to describe influential
Republicans who refused to support their
party's presidential candidate, James G.
Blaine, in 1884?
Q What candidate did the “Mugwumps”
support in 1884?
A (Grover) Cleveland
A Mugwumps