B's

Question 1

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Answer 1

A Spanish conquistador who crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean

Question 2

Bank of the United States

Answer 2

The national bank that began in 1823

-operated under the direction of Nicholas Biddle

the bank became a lame-duck agency when President Andrew Jackson vetoed a 1932 bill to recharter it

Question 3

Barbary War

Answer 3

An spontaneous/irregular war that dragged on from 1801-1805 with no decisive settlement - except the gaining of U.S. free access to the Mediterranean

Question 4

Battle of Long Island

Answer 4

The 1776 defeat of General George Washington and his undertrained, underequipped, and badly outnumbered American army by British General William Howe and Admiral Richard Howe

Question 5

Battle of New Orleans

Answer 5

An 1815 battle in which General Andrew Jackson decisively defeated the powerful British forces with an army of frontiersman, blacks, creoles, and pirates

Question 6

Battle of Washington Heights

Answer 6

A 1776 battle on Manhattan in which General George Washington was forced to retreat across New Jersey pursued by the aggressive British General Lord Cornwallis, a subordinate of General Howe

Question 7

W.W. Belknap

Answer 7

President Grant’s Secretary of War, who accepted bribes from corrupt agents involved in his department’s administration of Indian Affairs

Question 8

Bill of Rights

Answer 8

Ratified in 1791, the first ten amendments to the Constitution

Question 9

Black Friday Scandal

Answer 9

A scheme by two unscrupulous businessmen, Jim Fiske and Jay Gould, to corner the gold market; they persuaded President Grant’s brother-in-law to convince the president that stopping government gold sales would be good for farmers; Grant naively complied, and many businessmen were ruined as the price of gold was bid up furiously on “Black Friday”

Question 10

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 10

The name given by the press to a series of violent incidents in Kansas resulting from a virulently proslavery territorial government that was elected by widespread voting fraud and the response by Kansans of denouncing the proslavery government as illegitimate and forming their own free-soil government in an election that the proslavery faction boycotted

Question 11

Daniel Boone

Answer 11

A frontiersman who explored parts of the western trans-Appalachian frontier

Question 12

Booster colleges

Answer 12

The higher education products of religious sectarianism as well as local pride that sprang up in new communities as the population moved west

Question 13

Boston Massacre

Answer 13

An incident, so named - even though the British soldiers involved had acted more or less in self-defense - and widely publicized by Samuel Adams, in which five Bostonians were killed as a result of friction between British soldiers and Boston citizens caused by the Townshend Acts

Question 14

Boston Port Act

Answer 14

One of the Coercive Acts, which resulted in the closing of the port of Boston to all trade until local citizens would agree to pay for the lost tea (they would not).

Question 15

Brer Rabbit tales

Answer 15

Oral literature that was an underground system of ridicule by slaves toward masters

Question 16

Bunker Hill

Answer 16

The scene of what turned out to be the bloodiest battle (1775) of the War of Independence in which more than 1,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded as they attempted - ultimately successfully - to remove the colonists from their Boston fortification

Question 17

Burr Conspiracy

Answer 17

Having lost the election for the governorship of New York with Alexander Hamilton leading the opposition and then challenging Hamilton to a duel, which resulted in Hamilton’s death, Aaron Burr, then a fugitive, became involved in a scheme to take Mexico from Spain and establish a new nation in the West