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In what year did the Pilgrims from the Mayflower voyage land at Plymouth Rock?
1511
1536
1557
1620
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What was the name of the American women's suffragist who organized the campaign in the 1910's to get the Nineteenth Amendment passed and afterwards spent fifty years as the leader of the National Women's Party?
Alice Paul
Ruth Garvey
Bonnie Travers
Amelia Roosevelt
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Joseph Smith was an American religious leader who founded which of the following religions?
Catholicism
Methodism
Lutheranism
Mormonism
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Which of the following was a term for the crowded and run-down apartments most people in the cities lived in during the 19th and 20th centuries?
Beltons
Rackers
Tenements
Forhoppes
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What was the name of the final Queen of Hawaii who was overthrown by a movement to have the islands join the United States?
Liliuokalani
Lunalilo
Ranijinlo
Makayla
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Which American president was the commander of United States forces in The Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812?
Zachary Taylor
Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
James Madison
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Who was the first female American Secretary of State?
Helga Meir
Hillary Clinton
Francesca Ohm
Madeleine Albright
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In the early 1990's, what South African legal system of segregation and discrimination came to an end?
Segregacio
Apartheid
Divissen
Seperadol
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What Underground Railroad Conductor was nicknamed "Black Moses" because of how many people they delivered into freedom?
William Still
Samuel Burris
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
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When Thomas Jefferson accepted the Louisiana Purchase, what French ruler did he buy this new land from?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis XVI
Napoleon III
Robespierre
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The term "sodbuster" was a nickname used in Nineteenth Century America for people of what occupation?
Blacksmith
Great Plains Farmer
Union soldier
Grocer
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Which of the following terms means a system where one party controls all governmental functions and, therefore, most aspects of the lives of the citizenry?
Unilateral parliament
A totalitarian state
A bicameral legislature
An oligarchical-council structure
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What President campaigned with the promise of a "Square Deal," or equal chance of success, for all Americans?
Chester A. Arthur
James Garfield
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
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What was the name of the rebellion from 1786-1787 that was one of the primary reasons Americans decided to replace the Articles of Confederation?
The Whiskey Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion
The Stanford Incident
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The musician Scott Joplin was responsible for the popularization of which of the following musical genres in his time?
Expressionism
Ragtime
Bluegrass
Rock and Roll
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Which of the following terms refers to the patronage system of rewarding supporters with political power?
The Spoils System
Ladder-Stepping
Milton-Trailing
Gerrymandering
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What legendary African-American regiment of Union soldiers in the Civil War was recruited by Frederick Douglass and led the attack on Fort Wagner in 1863?
The 42nd Maine Regiment
The 73rd Vermont Regiment
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment
The 34th Ohio Regiment
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On December 25th 1901, Cuba accepted what amendment to its constitution that allowed the United States to involve itself in their politics and have control over Guantanamo Bay?
The Platt Amendment
The Corteo Amendment
Giovanni's Amendment
The Big Brother Amendment
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The dreadful event known as the Bataan Death March that claimed the lives of thousands of P.O.W.'s happened during which of the following wars?
The Vietnam War
The Korean War
WWII
WWI
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What battle on September 13th 1759 was the deciding battle of the French and Indian War?
The Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of Fort William Henry
The Battle of Fort Oswego
The Battle of Quebec
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What was the name of the trials set up after World War Two that convicted Nazi leaders of their crimes against humanity?
The Allied Excommunication Trials
The Nuremberg Trials
The Berlin Conviction Spree
The Eisenhower Tirals
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The day known as "Black Tuesday" is regarded as the first day of which of the following dreadful historical periods?
The Great Depression
Prohibition
World War One
World War Two
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What late 1800's philanthropist opened up the legendary charitable institution Hull House in Chicago to help the poor in her time?
Jane Addams
Margaret Stone
Louis McAllistor
Jennifer Riker
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In the late Twentieth Century, the Communist organization Khmer Rouge took over which of the following Asian countries?
China
Japan
Cambodia
Mongolia
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What is the name of the famous Native American woman who served as a guide on the legendary Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the land gained from the Louisiana Purchase?
Maltarhe
Sacajawea
Merriot
Bowdash
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What man led the first voyage around the entire earth, though he died before seeing it to its completion?
Ponce de Leon
Bartholomew Diaz
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
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What was the code-name for the World War Two Allied invasion of Europe?
Operation Conquest
Operation Overlord
Operation Dragon-Fire
Operation White Flag
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed The United States to use military force against which country without a formal declaration of war?
Vietnam
Iraq
Afghanistan
Korea
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What state was settled thanks in part to the missions set up there by friar Junipero Serra?
Texas
Utah
California
Ariznona
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What is the name of the location where gold was discovered on January 24th 1848 to begin the California Gold Rush?
The Red Pine Creek
Stone-Skip River
Donnel's Canyon
Sutter's Mill
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What newspaper was started by the famous entrepreneur and journalist William Randolph Hearst?
The New York Tribune
The Wall Street Journal
U.S.A Today
The New York Journal
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The Treaty of Kanagawa opened up trade between America and ports in what country?
Japan
The Philippines
Guam
Korea
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What man wrote the book Uncle Tom's Children to expose to the world the violence that was being perpetrated against southern African-Americans in his day?
Richard Wright
Langston Hughes
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Amiri Baraka
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What was the nickname for the period in American history stretching throughout the late 1800's and early 1900's that was coined by Mark Twain and was meant to express the gap between the rich and the poor of the time?
The Lacking Age
The Age of Leaps and Bounds
The Gilded Age
The Age of Chasms
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Aqueducts were channels used in ancient American civilizations to aid agriculture by transporting what?
Fertilizer
Water
Seeds
Reeds
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