Loaded Questions 4/21/22 - American History
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1. What Democratic senator from Wisconsin who served from 1963 to 1981 helped organized the first Earth Day in 1970?
2. "The Perils of Power" and "States' Rights" are both chapters in what 1960 book by Barry Goldwater?
3. The protest group Women Strike for Peace led to the 1963 passing of what pact signed by 126 countries, including the US and USSR?
4. What 1797 legislation about laying down on the side of the road ends with the line "Hewa nō, make." or "Break this law, and die"?
5. "Bleeding Kansas" was an 1850s event where pro-slavery Missouri citizens moved into Kansas to force the state to accept slavery. What two-word name is given to those individuals who moved into Kansas?
6. Name the 1901 event and the concert hall where the assassination of William McKinley occurred by Leon Czolgosz.
7. What German printer was sued for libel by William Cosby in 1735 in what was the first major freedom of the press issue in the US? Andrew Hamilton defended this man who printed the New York Weekly Journal.
8. Kay Ivey became the second female governor of Alabama in 2017, the second after what woman, who followed her husband in 1967?
9. The world's first supercarrier was named in honor of what man who had served as Secretary of the Navy before becoming the first Secretary of Defense in 1947? Two months after Truman forced him to resign in 1949, this man committed suicide jumping out of a clinic's window.
10. What founder of SNCC and who popularized the term "black power" studied with both President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah and President of Guinea Sekou Toure?
11. What person and what tribe are mentioned in the subtitle of the 2000 historical book by Merrill Beal "I Will Fight No More Forever"?
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1. What Democratic senator from Wisconsin who served from 1963 to 1981 helped organized the first Earth Day in 1970? Gaylord Nelson
2. "The Perils of Power" and "States' Rights" are both chapters in what 1960 book by Barry Goldwater? The Conscience of a Conservative
3. The protest group Women Strike for Peace led to the 1963 passing of what pact signed by 126 countries, including the US and USSR? Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
4. What 1797 legislation about laying down on the side of the road ends with the line "Hewa nō, make." or "Break this law, and die"? Law of the Splintered Paddle
5. "Bleeding Kansas" was an 1850s event where pro-slavery Missouri citizens moved into Kansas to force the state to accept slavery. What two-word name is given to those individuals who moved into Kansas? Border Ruffian
6. Name the 1901 event and the concert hall where the assassination of William McKinley occurred by Leon Czolgosz. Pan-American Exposition, Temple of Music
7. What German printer was sued for libel by William Cosby in 1735 in what was the first major freedom of the press issue in the US? Andrew Hamilton defended this man who printed the New York Weekly Journal. John Peter Zenger
8. Kay Ivey became the second female governor of Alabama in 2017, the second after what woman, who followed her husband in 1967? Lurleen Wallace
9. The world's first supercarrier was named in honor of what man who had served as Secretary of the Navy before becoming the first Secretary of Defense in 1947? Two months after Truman forced him to resign in 1949, this man committed suicide jumping out of a clinic's window. James Forrestal
10. What founder of SNCC and who popularized the term "black power" studied with both President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah and President of Guinea Sekou Toure? Stokely Carmichael
11. What person and what tribe are mentioned in the subtitle of the 2000 historical book by Merrill Beal "I Will Fight No More Forever"? Chief Joseph, Nez Perce