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History Bowl Tournament
U.S. History
1. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) acceded to the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).
2. The Know-Nothing Party was a nativist American political party in the 1850s.
3. The Second Bank of the United States was the second and final nationalized U.S. bank.
4. The Great Plank Road linked Beaverton, Oregon to Portland, which was founded near the endpoint of the Oregon Trail.
5. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was an American birth control activist and founder of the organization that later became Planned Parenthood.
6. Edwin Stanton (1814-1869) was the Secretary of War for most of the Civil War under President Abraham Lincoln.
7. Area 51 is a U.S. Air Force base that is conjectured to contain remains of aliens and alien spacecraft.
8. The Battle of Iwo Jima was a 1945 battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, in which U.S. Marines overran a heavily-entrenched Japanese Army position at high cost.
9. William McKinley (1843-1901) was the 25th President of the United States from 1897 to 1901.
10. Betsy Ross (1752-1836) is generally credited with having designed the first United States flag, although this claim was mostly advanced by her family and its truth is disputed to this day.
Latin American and Caribbean History
1. Rafts were used by pre-Columbian civilizations to travel along the coast of South America, as proved possible by Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition.
2. Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador who, in 1513, crossed the Isthmus of Panama, becoming the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
3. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentinian Marxist revolutionary who was a key figure in the 26th of July Movement that brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba.
4. Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier (1907-1971) was the president and autocratic dictator of Haiti from 1957 until 1971.
5. A full third of the male population of Paraguay was killed during the War of the Triple Alliance, which was started by its president, Francisco Solano Lopez.
History Bowl Tournament
U.S. History
1. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) acceded to the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).
2. The Know-Nothing Party was a nativist American political party in the 1850s.
3. The Second Bank of the United States was the second and final nationalized U.S. bank.
4. The Great Plank Road linked Beaverton, Oregon to Portland, which was founded near the endpoint of the Oregon Trail.
5. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was an American birth control activist and founder of the organization that later became Planned Parenthood.
6. Edwin Stanton (1814-1869) was the Secretary of War for most of the Civil War under President Abraham Lincoln.
7. Area 51 is a U.S. Air Force base that is conjectured to contain remains of aliens and alien spacecraft.
8. The Battle of Iwo Jima was a 1945 battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, in which U.S. Marines overran a heavily-entrenched Japanese Army position at high cost.
9. William McKinley (1843-1901) was the 25th President of the United States from 1897 to 1901.
10. Betsy Ross (1752-1836) is generally credited with having designed the first United States flag, although this claim was mostly advanced by her family and its truth is disputed to this day.
Latin American and Caribbean History
1. Rafts were used by pre-Columbian civilizations to travel along the coast of South America, as proved possible by Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition.
2. Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador who, in 1513, crossed the Isthmus of Panama, becoming the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
3. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentinian Marxist revolutionary who was a key figure in the 26th of July Movement that brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba.
4. Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier (1907-1971) was the president and autocratic dictator of Haiti from 1957 until 1971.
5. A full third of the male population of Paraguay was killed during the War of the Triple Alliance, which was started by its president, Francisco Solano Lopez.
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