Loaded Questions 10/10/22 - American History
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1. Other than Harry Truman, name the other two people who held the title "VP under FDR".
2. What June 28th, 1778 was the last major battle of the Northern theater of the Revolutionary War? An inconclusive result, Charles Lee was court-martialed for his actions, and Molly Pitcher became a folk legend in this battle.
3. What senator who represented Kansas from 1866 to 1871 famously was the senator that chose acquittal regarding the removal of Andrew Johnson? He is one of the senators featured in "Profiles in Courage".
4. What gentleman's club in 1700s England is best remembered today for a drinking song that whose melody was adapted into the Star-Spangled Banner?
5. What Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan is best known for trying to mediate the Falklands War, as well as for stating "I am in control here" at a White House press conference shortly after the Reagan assassination attempt?
6. While Navajo code talkers were seen in WW2, eight members of what tribe served as code talkers during WW1, the first code talkers in US history? This tribe is the third-largest federally recognized tribe (after Cherokee and Navajo), and the name Oklahoma comes from this tribe’s language.
7. What Supreme Court justice famously noted "I know it when I see it" in his opinion for the 1964 case Jacobellis v. Ohio?
8. Which Arizona city is named for a pioneer woman who traveled to the Arizona territory around 1900 with her husband, who was condemned from Missouri for his Presbyterian views?
9. The 1964 voting registration campaign Freedom Summer, organized by SNCC, targeted voters in what state?
10. Forming in Fort Erie, Ontario, what movement created by WEB Du Bois in 1905 called for equality for African-Americans?
11. What famous Californian individual enslaved thousands of Native Americans in his 19th century settlement New Helvetia or New Switzerland?
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1. Other than Harry Truman, name the other two people who held the title "VP under FDR".
John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace
2. What June 28th, 1778 was the last major battle of the Northern theater of the Revolutionary War? An inconclusive result, Charles Lee was court-martialed for his actions, and Molly Pitcher became a folk legend in this battle.
Monmouth
3. What senator who represented Kansas from 1866 to 1871 famously was the senator that chose acquittal regarding the removal of Andrew Johnson? He is one of the senators featured in "Profiles in Courage".
Edmund G. Ross
4. What gentleman's club in 1700s England is best remembered today for a drinking song that whose melody was adapted into the Star-Spangled Banner?
Anacreontic Society
5. What Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan is best known for trying to mediate the Falklands War, as well as for stating "I am in control here" at a White House press conference shortly after the Reagan assassination attempt?
Alexander Haig
6. While Navajo code talkers were seen in WW2, eight members of what tribe served as code talkers during WW1, the first code talkers in US history? This tribe is the third-largest federally recognized tribe (after Cherokee and Navajo), and the name Oklahoma comes from this tribe’s language.
Choctaw
7. What Supreme Court justice famously noted "I know it when I see it" in his opinion for the 1964 case Jacobellis v. Ohio?
Potter Stewart
8. Which Arizona city is named for a pioneer woman who traveled to the Arizona territory around 1900 with her husband, who was condemned from Missouri for his Presbyterian views?
Sedona (for Sedona Schnebly)
9. The 1964 voting registration campaign Freedom Summer, organized by SNCC, targeted voters in what state?
Mississippi
10. Forming in Fort Erie, Ontario, what movement created by WEB Du Bois in 1905 called for equality for African-Americans?
Niagara Movement
11. What famous Californian individual enslaved thousands of Native Americans in his 19th century settlement New Helvetia or New Switzerland?
John Sutter