LHS Quiz Bowl - US History Set #1

This man spearheaded COINTELPRO, which aimed to get leftist organizations like the Black Panthers to operate against others. What man ordered wiretaps of the phone of Martin Luther King, Jr. as the first director of the FBI?

J. Edgar Hoover [or John Edgar Hoover ]

This island represented one of Ronald Reagan's few foreign military exercises when he ordered Operation Urgent Fury. In 1983, Reagan ordered the military to invade what Caribbean island governed from Saint George's?

Grenada

Clan Mothers owned and operated these places, as enforced by the Great Law of Peace. Name these communal dwellings of the Iroquois.

longhouse s

The Second Quartering Act was included in this set of laws, leading to the passage of the Third Amendment. Britain's response to the Boston Tea Party was what collection of five measures that, among other measures, closed Boston's port?

Intolerable Acts [or Coercive Acts; or Punitive Acts]

These people adopted the Eye of Providence and are led by a Grand Master, who leads at Grand Lodges. Name these fraternal organizations that began with stoneworkers.

Free mason s

This group, which constructed Fort Clatsop, was assisted by Toussaint Charbonneau. Name this group sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.

Lewis and Clark expedition [or Corps of Discovery ]

After this man became ill, he gave up control to William Travis. Davy Crockett died at the Alamo alongside what pioneer, who carried a long-bladed knife?

James Bowie

Abraham Lincoln's opposition to this case's outcome led Stephen Douglas to state that he wanted "warfare on the Supreme Court." What Supreme Court decision ruled that people of African descent who were brought to America as slaves were not U.S. citizens?

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Through mergers, this businessman formed the first billion-dollar company, U.S. Steel. Name the Wall Street banker who teamed with the Rothschild family during the Panic of 1893 to supply the U.S. Treasury with gold.

J. P. Morgan [or John Pierpont Morgan Sr.]

This squadron docked in 1908 in Yokohama to meet Emperor Taisho. In 1907, President Roosevelt ordered 16 battleships on a voyage around the world as part of a "fleet" known by what name?

Great White Fleet

General John Pemberton retreated to this city's fortified location after Ulysses S. Grant captured Jackson. What is this city along the Mississippi River that fell on July 4, 1863, the day after Gettysburg?

Vicksburg

This president signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act and tried to overturn his predecessor's "voodoo economics." Name this president who promised "no new taxes" and lost the 1992 election to Bill Clinton.

George H. W. Bush [or George Herbert Walker Bush; accept answers like the elder George Bush; prompt on George Bush ]

This woman met her brother Cameahwait, who she believed was long lost. Traveling over 3,000 miles while caring for an infant child, what Shoshone was the wife of a French trapper and was a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition?

Sacagawea

Name this home state of the creator of the American Plan and three-time candidate for president, Henry Clay.

Kentucky

Name this politician from South Carolina who gave a filibuster lasting over 24 hours against the Civil Rights Act.

Strom Thurmond

This man was supposedly told to "make the desert blossom like a rose" in founding a settlement at Deseret. Millard Fillmore appointed what religious leader as the first governor of the Utah territories?

Brigham Young

Prior to this battle, B.W. Mitchell discovered Special Order 191, which was disguised as a cigar wrapper. The Bloody Lane was a site of fighting at what battle, the bloodiest in American history?

Battle of Antietam

The de Lôme letter partly inspired this war, in which "Butcher" Weyler implemented reconcentration camps. George Dewey destroyed the enemy fleet in Manila harbor during which war that gave the U.S. control of Cuba?

Spanish-American War

This politician piloted the A-4E Skyhawk light bomber in Vietnam and sponsored a campaign reform act along with Democratic Senator Russ Feingold. Taking over Barry Goldwater's seat in the Senate in 1987, what senior Senator from Arizona lost the presidency to Barack Obama in 2008?

John McCain

Who was this labor leader who ran for president five times under the Socialist Party?

Eugene Victor Debs

This nonprofit was opened in Brooklyn in defiance of the Comstock Act by Margaret Sanger. The Casey case concerned what nonprofit, a reproductive health services organization?

Planned Parenthood

Despite this president's opposition, Congress passed the Clean Water Act to regulate pollutants. Name this president who created the Environmental Protection Agency.

Richard Milhous Nixon

At this university, Florida runaway Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over the body of Jeffrey Miller in John Filoís Pulitzer Prize-winning photo. Name this university where a 1970 shooting occurred during a protest of the Vietnam War in Ohio.

Kent State University

Richard Nixon prevented a scandal by interrupting this man, who was found strangling columnist Drew Pearson in a cloakroom. A list of "enemies from within" was kept by what Wisconsin Senator and anti-communist?

Joseph McCarthy

This man stated, "Too many people, too crowded, I want more elbow room" when he was asked why he left Kentucky. The Wilderness Road was blazed by what early American settler?

Daniel Boone

Meriwether Lewis committed suicide while traveling a road named for these people southwest of Nashville. A forest trail from Nashville to Mississippi is a "Trace" named for what Native American tribe?

Natchez

This politician was the first vice president to face criminal charges, and he was the 3rd U.S. Senator to represent New York. What politician, Thomas Jefferson's vice president, dueled Alexander Hamilton?

Aaron Burr

This politician was elected as a representative, senator, and president, but never finished a full term in any of those offices. Who was this Mississippi politician who was the only president of the Confederacy?

Jefferson Davis

This president refused an honorary degree from Oxford, stating that "No man should accept a degree… he cannot read." Name this president who was the last to represent the Whig Party, who took office after the death of Zachary Taylor.

Millard Fillmore

August Spies was accused of organizing this event, which took place at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Plant. Name this riot in 1886, caused by a bomb going off in Chicago as workers rallied for an 8-hour workday.

Haymarket Square Riot

This general led troops at a battle after discovering Special Order 191, which was wrapped around cigars. Name this Union general who commanded the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Antietam.

George Brinton McClellan

This man once stated, "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" Name this man who said, "If this be treason," in his 1775 speech, "Give me liberty, or give me death."

Patrick Henry

A city in Colorado with this name is known as the "Steel City," while a spy ship with this name was at the center of a 1968 incident with North Korea. What is this name, which also names the Native American peoples including the Hopi and Zuni whom the Spanish named after their word for "town"?

Pueblo

This initiative was first referenced in a 1964 speech at Ohio University, and a speech two weeks later in Ann Arbor established more specifics, such as installing Medicaid and Medicare. What was this set of domestic programs established by Lyndon B. Johnson?

Great Society

This president served on the Warren Commission in the wake of President Kennedy's death and was the only one to never deliver an inaugural address. Name this president who pardoned Richard Nixon.

Gerald Ford

Name the decade in which Cyrus McCormick perfected the reaper, Webster and Hayne held their debates on states' rights, Texas declared its independence from Mexico, and Andrew Jackson finished his term.

1830 s

The Pony Express began in Saint Joseph in this state, though Saint Joseph has since been eclipsed by Independence, the hometown of Harry Truman. Name this state governed from Jefferson City.

Missouri

The Adena culture in this state built the Great Serpent Mound. A senator from this state was known as "Mr. Republican" and co-wrote the Taft-Hartley Act. Name this home state of Ulysses S. Grant.

Ohio

Ronald Reagan supported this politician with his "A Time for Choosing" speech. The Conscience of a Conservative was written by what Arizona senator, who lost the 1964 presidential election to Lyndon B. Johnson?

Barry Morris Goldwater

During the 1970s, this politician's son represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate. The UN ambassador during the Cuban Missile Crisis was which Democratic presidential nominee in both 1952 and 1956, a former governor of Illinois who lost twice to Eisenhower?

Adlai Stevenson II

This politician was the first U.S. delegate to the United Nations. A concert for Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial was arranged by what First Lady, who nursed her husband with polio?

E leanor Roosevelt [or Anna E leanor Roosevelt; prompt on Roosevelt ]

This native of Frederick, Maryland, was the first Cabinet nominee to be rejected by the Senate. Succeeding John Marshall, what chief justice presided over the Dred Scott case?

Roger Brooke Taney

This man published An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light after he noticed that people burned candles at night but slept past dawn. Who was the first to propose Daylight Saving Time?

Benjamin Franklin

This politician's death occurred after a cross-country speaking tour, during which he became ill in Seattle. Formerly a senator from Ohio, what president faced the Teapot Dome scandal and succeeded Woodrow Wilson?

Warren Gamaliel Harding

This speech notes that God inflicts "woe unto the world because of offenses." The line "With malice toward none, with charity for all" concludes what March 4, 1865 speech by Abraham Lincoln?

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address [prompt on partial answers]

This man argued against the death penalty in a case centering partly on Nietzsche's influence on two University of Chicago students. Leopold and Loeb were defended by what lawyer, who defended John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial"?

Clarence Darrow

This U.S. state's capital city was Milledgeville during the Civil War; its current capital city was originally known as Terminus. What is this state, whose second capital was Augusta, and faced Sherman's March to the Sea in Savannah?

Georgia

This program was introduced in a press conference that was described as lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house is engulfed in flames. An early alliance with President Franklin Roosevelt enabled Winston Churchill to obtain crucial aid from the U.S. through what Act of Congress?

Lend Lease Act

This movement lent its name to the organization known as the WCTU, founded by Frances Willard. Bootlegging spiked as a result of the 18th Amendment, which enforced what movement advocating for the prohibition of alcohol?

temperance movement [accept prohibition of alcohol before read]

These vehicles were the subject of a Supreme Court case involving a young Cornelius Vanderbilt that targeted Robert Fulton's monopoly. Gibbons v. Ogden concerned what water-powered vehicles?

steamboat s [prompt on ship s or boat s]

This election year resulted in the House of Representatives deciding between the two Democratic-Republican candidates. Both Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson received 73 electoral votes in the presidential election of what year?

1800

This colony established self-rule after the Massachusetts General Court granted land rights to dissatisfied Purit

In 1639, Representatives from three towns in what colony banded together to write the Fundamental Orders, the first constitution in the New World? ANSWER: Connecticut

Facing Clarence Darrow in the Scopes trial, name this "Great Commoner" who gave the "Cross of Gold" speech.

William Jennings Bryan

"A law repugnant to the Constitution is void" was written in what 1803 decision, which gave the court the power to overturn laws?

Marbury v. Madison

The Johnson County War was fought in this state from 1889 to 1893 over water and grazing rights for cattle on the open range. Dick Cheney served what state, nicknamed the "Equality State," which is governed from Cheyenne?

Wyoming

Much of the Fair Deal agenda was blocked after one of these elections installed much of the "Do-Nothing Congress." What is the name for an election that does not include the president on the ballot, such as in 2022?

midterm elections

After his win, this president's advisors joked that he should consider selling Maine and Vermont to Canada. Who was the winner of the presidential election that featured the largest Electoral College margin in history, 515 votes, a 523-8 landslide in 1936?

F ranklin Delano Roosevelt [or FDR; prompt on Roosevelt ]

During this battle, forces under J. E. B. Stuart captured a Union wagon train that slowed his cavalry down, preventing them from arriving at the battlefield. Pickett's Charge took place at what 1863 battle, after which Abraham Lincoln gave a namesake address?

Battle of Gettysburg

He was known in Beijing as the "bicycle-riding envoy" because he spent many hours cycling with his wife Barbara. When offered any top diplomatic post he wanted in 1974, which future vice president and president chose one to China?

George H.W. Bush [or George Herbert Walker Bush; accept Bush 41 or Bush Sr.; prompt on Bush or George Bush ]

This man served as personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln and co-wrote a biography of the late president. What politician later served as Secretary of State under William McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt, supporting the Open Door Policy for China?

John Hay

Alaska and Hawaii, the 49th and 50th states, were admitted to the Union during the term of this US President. The "military-industrial complex" was discussed by what president, who succeeded Harry Truman?

Dwight David Eisenhower

As a second lieutenant, this future politician was badly wounded by the Germans in April 1945, leaving him with limited mobility in his right arm. What U.S. senator from Kansas ran against Bill Clinton in 1996 as the GOP presidential nominee?

Bob Dole [or Robert Joseph Dole ]

A man with this first name won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Arab-Israeli Armistice Agreements and had the last name Bunche. Give this first name of a Baptist minister and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. with the surname Abernathy.

Ralph

One of these places in Anacostia Flats was where the Bonus Army formed. During the Great Depression, many homeless Americans lived in shanty towns commonly known by what nickname that derided the president?

Hooverville s

In 1826, William Morgan was arrested for stealing a shirt and a tie after criticizing members of this organization. "Grand Lodges" were established by what fraternal organization that started as a stoneworkers guild?

Free mason s

From 1969 to 1983, this woman was New York's congressional representative for the majority Black 12th district that included parts of Brooklyn. In 1972, who was the first Black woman to seek the Democratic presidential bid?

Shirley Chisholm

The reporter Herbert Morrison, who wrote about this event, stated, "Oh, the humanity." A British engineer concluded that static electricity was the likely cause of what German airship explosion over Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937?

Hindenburg disaster

This slogan was used by a candidate opposed by Charles Evans Hughes in an election who also originated the term "America First." Woodrow Wilson won re-election in the 1916 presidential election in part because of what six-word campaign slogan?

" He kept us out of war "

He served the Continental Army as chief artillery officer and brought back to the Boston siege the captured cannons from Fort Ticonderoga across frozen rivers. The fort that is the United States Bullion Depository was named for what Massachusetts Founding Father?

Henry Knox

This project was deemed a "folly" for DeWitt Clinton, who was the governor at the time it was created. The completion of what transportation route in 1825 resulted in a huge population increase in upstate New York?

Erie Canal

A woman with this married surname and first name Myrlie was a chair of the NAACP. Byron de la Beckwith was convicted in the murder of a Civil Rights activist with what surname, who worked in Mississippi and had the first name Medgar?

Evers

In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called this organization "the greatest threat to the internal security of the U.S." Huey P. Newton led what radical "Party for Self-Defense" of African Americans?

Black Panthers

In 1768, in what is now this state, Native Americans gave up their rights to land between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River. Name this state crossed by the Appalachians that is governed from Charleston.

West Virginia [or WV ]

Among the valuables what "Unsinkable" woman lost on the Titanic were boxes of antiquities that she had obtained for the Denver Museum?

Molly Brown [or Margaret Brown ]

This man's prominence grew after he gave an address at the Cotton States and International Exposition, the Atlanta Compromise. W.E.B. DuBois had a rivalry with what author of Up From Slavery, who founded the Tuskegee Institute?

Booker Taliaferro Washington

After being asked about "whose authority do you act," this man stated, "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." Name this commander who captured Fort Ticonderoga with his Green Mountain Boys.

Ethan Allen

This author of the Westmoreland Resolution was one of the first two Senators from Virginia. What man wrote a "Resolution for Independence" passed two days before the Declaration of Independence and was from the same family as "Light-Horse" Harry?

Richard Henry Lee

These documents, whose release prompted Henry Kissinger to call one man "the most dangerous man in America," were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg. Proof that the United States had secretly bombed Cambodia was in what documents, first leaked on June 13, 1971?

Pentagon Papers

This man, whose father Jedediah wrote the first geography book ever published in the United States, is remembered for the expression "What hath God wrought?" Name this man who invented a coding system that enabled telegraph messages.

Samuel Morse [or Samuel Finley Breese Morse ]

Chief Justice John Marshall first administered this president's oath of office, and he may have fathered children with Sally Hemings. Name this president from Virginia whose personal book collection became the basis for the Library of Congress.

Thomas Jefferson

On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists disguised as this tribe boarded three British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. Name this tribe from upstate New York, who name a type of hairstyle.

Mohawk

While this man was Secretary of State, the U.S. nearly doubled its territorial extent through the Oregon Treaty and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Name this Pennsylvania Democrat, whose term ended just before the Civil War.

James Buchanan

Ellen Gates Starr pulled from the work at Toynbee Hall for this institution, which had a nursery and a library. Jane Addams was the founder of what settlement house in Chicago?

Hull House

This city honored Andrew Jackson with the first U.S. statue of a man on horseback. Plessy v. Ferguson came out of what city, which was the largest of the Confederacy?

New Orleans

This man told the Republican Party in 1884, "If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve." Known for namesake "neckties," what Civil War general led his March to the Sea to Georgia?

William Tecumseh Sherman

On the US Constitution, an "n" is missing from the name of this state above the names of two of its signers, James Wilson and Robert Morris. Benjamin Rush responded to a yellow fever epidemic in what state, home to Benjamin Franklin?

Pennsylvania [or PA ]

Super Tuesday occurs in either this month or the preceding month, while until 1933, US presidents were inaugurated in this month. Women's History Month occurs in what month?

March

This institution was founded in 1636 to train ministers, and it was led for two decades by Increase Mather. A rival institution in New Haven was created after a dispute with what oldest US university, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts?

Harvard University

Name this signer of the Interstate Commerce Act, who had two non-consecutive terms.

Grover Cleveland

Henry H. Rogers helped this journalist publish stories in McClure's Magazine, which included an expose of railroad rate manipulation. What journalist is best known for her pioneering investigative reporting that led to the breakup of Standard Oil's monopoly?

Ida Tarbell

After reporting on this disaster, journalist Jerb Morrison uttered the phrase, "Oh the humanity!" Name this 1937 disaster in New Jersey, the explosion of the world's largest zeppelin.

Hindenburg disaster

After desegregation efforts in this city picked up, a Supreme Court decision was issued with the phrase "with all deliberate speed." The landmark civil rights case, Brown v. Board of Education, involved the Board of Education of what Midwest capital city?

Topeka

This man used the alias Ramon George Sneyd while traveling with a fake Canadian passport. The largest and most expensive manhunt in the FBI's history, from its inception through 1968, involved capturing what assassin of MLK?

James Earl Ray

This state, which leads the world in the production of blueberries, names a ship that exploded in 1898, leading to the Spanish-American War. Name this state governed from Augusta.

Maine

This activist stated, "Freedom is never granted: It is won. Justice is never given: It is exacted." With Bayard Rustin, what founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organized the March on Washington?

Asa Philip Randolph

Despite winning the American Football League's MVP in 1965, this man served as George H.W. Bush's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Name this politician who was Bob Dole's running mate in the presidential campaign won by Bill Clinton.

Jack Kemp

Thomas Preston was acquitted after being tried for this event, during which Crispus Attucks died. What event occurred on March 5, 1770, and involved a group of young American colonists and a squad of Redcoats?

Boston Massacre

The original title of "The Star-Spangled Banner" alludes to this fort. Name this fort that was bombed during the War of 1812, which was observed by Francis Scott Key.

Fort McHenry

Millions of Americans bought these items after the publishing of Joe Rosenthal's immortal photo of American soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima. The Series E was a type of what loans, which were taken out by the government to combat inflation during conflicts?

war bonds

Which politician's last name precedes the word "Agonistes" in the title of a 1970 biography by American journalist Gary Wills? This president's reelection campaign was chronicled in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

Richard Milhous Nixon