C.L Exam 161-180

Question 0

161. What happened in 1973?

Answer 0

The armed forces became an all volunteer military and the system was placed on stand by

Question 1

161. What is the selective service system?

Answer 1

From 1940 through 1973, the selective service system oversaw the drafting and induction of men into the armed forces

Question 2

162. Whats a jury?

Answer 2

Twelve people chosen for their impartially has the job of deciding whether a person accuse dog a crime is guilty or innocent

Question 3

162. Whats another kind of jury?

Answer 3

The grand jury

Question 4

163. What was Brown vs. Board of Education?

Answer 4

It represented a lawsuit

Question 5

163. Where did it make its way to?

Answer 5

The U.S.

Question 6

164. What is the Secretary of State?

Answer 6

The head of the Department of State of the U.S.

Question 7

164. What rank is the Secretary of State?

Answer 7

Highest

Question 8

165. What was Peter Pan?

Answer 8

A play by the Scotish author James Matthew Barrie about a boy who lives in a place called never land

Question 9

165. What does Wendy decide?

Answer 9

To return every spring

Question 10

166. Whi was Edgar Allan Poe?

Answer 10

An American author of the 19th century, known for his poems of great sadness and short stories of great horror

Question 11

166. Who became his grandfather?

Answer 11

John Allan

Question 12

167. What are roots?

Answer 12

Wriiten by Alex Haley that won a Pullizter prize

Question 13

167. What award did this win?

Answer 13

A Pullizter prize

Question 14

168. What is the Scarlett letter?

Answer 14

A novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 15

167. Why did she have to wear a Scarlett A on her dress?

Answer 15

A sign of guilt

Question 16

169. Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Answer 16

American Novelist and short story writer

Question 17

169. How long did he live from?

Answer 17

1804-1864

Question 18

170. Important battle of civil war?

Answer 18

Battle of Chancellorsville

Question 19

170. Battle at the beginning of the civil war?

Answer 19

Battle of Chancellorsville

Question 20

171. Skilled frontier of the 19th century?

Answer 20

Kit Carson

Question 21

171. Skilled trapper of the 19th century?

Answer 21

Sam Huston

Question 22

172. A soldier and political leader of the 19th century

Answer 22

Sam Huston

Question 23

173. Often thought of as a fictional character?

Answer 23

Jean Lafitte

Question 24

173.A French pirate of the early 19th century?

Answer 24

Jean Lafitte

Question 25

174. A political party that began in the 1820s?

Answer 25

Democratic Party

Question 26

175. Boundary line between southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland

Answer 26

Mason Dixon Line

Question 27

175. Laid out by Charles Mason and Jermiah Dixon?

Answer 27

Mason Dixon Line

Question 28

176.A tribe of Native American?

Answer 28

Navajos

Question 29

176. They were forced to move up to the mid west?

Answer 29

Navajos

Question 30

177. A Shawnee chief of the late 18th century?

Answer 30

Tecumseh

Question 31

177. He took arms and fought the movement of American settlers?

Answer 31

Tecumseh

Question 32

178. A war between Britain and the us?

Answer 32

War of 1812

Question 33

178. The second American war for independence?

Answer 33

War of 1812

Question 34

178. Helped free slaves to Canada from the us?

Answer 34

Underground Railroad

Question 35

180. An American general of the revolutionary war?

Answer 35

Benedict Arnold

Question 36

180. He preformed notably in the early days of the war?

Answer 36

Benedict Arnold

Question 37

168.A women in the 17th century of New England?

Answer 37

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 38

172.He served as a U.S senate?

Answer 38

Sam Huston

Question 39

174.The party generally opposed the national bank, high taxes, and federal aid for improvement?

Answer 39

Democratic Party