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Who acceded to the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Lyndon Baines Johnson
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
A nativist American political party in the 1850s.
What was the Second Bank of the United States?
The second and final nationalized U.S. bank.
What did the Great Plank Road link?
Beaverton, Oregon to Portland.
Who founded the organization that later became Planned Parenthood?
Margaret Sanger
Who was the Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln for most of the Civil War?
Edwin Stanton
What is Area 51 conjectured to contain?
Remains of aliens and alien spacecraft.
What was the significance of the Battle of Iwo Jima?
U.S. Marines overran a heavily-entrenched Japanese Army position at high cost in 1945.
Who was the 25th President of the United States?
William McKinley
What is Betsy Ross credited with?
Designing the first United States flag.
What did pre-Columbian civilizations use to travel along the coast of South America?
Rafts.
Who was Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
A Spanish conquistador who crossed the Isthmus of Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
Who was Ernesto 'Che' Guevara?
An Argentinian Marxist revolutionary key to the 26th of July Movement in Cuba.
Who was François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier?
The president and autocratic dictator of Haiti from 1957 until 1971.
What happened during the War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay?
A full third of the male population was killed.
What year did Lyndon B. Johnson become president?
What was the main ideology of the Know-Nothing Party?
Nativism.
When did the Second Bank of the United States operate?
From 1816 to 1836.
What was the purpose of the Great Plank Road?
To provide a transportation link to Portland.
What major event is associated with Margaret Sanger?
The birth control movement in America.
What was Edwin Stanton's role during the Civil War?
Secretary of War.
What is a popular conspiracy theory about Area 51?
It contains alien technology.
Why is the Battle of Iwo Jima notable?
It was a costly battle in the Pacific during World War II.