C.L. Exam 161-180

Question 0

What does CIA stand for?

Answer 0

Central Intelligence Agency

Question 1

What does FBI stand for.

Answer 1

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Question 2

What is the selective service?

Answer 2

Over saw the drafting and induction into the army

Question 3

What is mandatory for 18 year olds to do on their birthday?

Answer 3

Sign up for the draft

Question 4

What is a jury’s job?

Answer 4

To decide weather or not an caused person is guilty or not

Question 5

How many people are in a jury?

Answer 5

12

Question 6

What did brown vs board of investigation represent

Answer 6

A law suit

Question 7

What was the board of investigation vs brown about?

Answer 7

Racism

Question 8

Who is the head of the department of state?

Answer 8

Secretary of State

Question 9

What is the Secretary of States job?

Answer 9

Handling foreign affairs

Question 10

This is a play

Answer 10

Peter Pan

Question 11

What land is in Peter Pan?

Answer 11

Never never land

Question 12

What did Edgar Allen Poe write?

Answer 12

Poetry

Question 13

This man was an American author of the 19th century

Answer 13

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 14

Who was roots written by

Answer 14

Alet Halley

Question 15

Alet Haley

Answer 15

Who wrote roots?

Question 16

Nathaniel Howthrone

Answer 16

Who wrote the scarlet letter?

Question 17

Hester Pyrone

Answer 17

Wo was the woman in the scarlet letter

Question 18

Who was Nathaniel Howthrone?

Answer 18

An American novelist and short story writer

Question 19

What was one of Nathaniel Howthrones books?

Answer 19

The scarlet letter

Question 20

What was the battle of Chancellorville.

Answer 20

An important battle of the civil war

Question 21

When was the battle of Chancellorville?

Answer 21

At the beginning of the civil war

Question 22

This was a skilled frontier trapper

Answer 22

Who was kit Carson?

Question 23

This person helped to open the territory to California

Answer 23

Who was kit Carson?

Question 24

This person helped the texans gain independence from Mexico

Answer 24

Who was Sam Houston

Question 25

Sam Houston was elected this just before the war

Answer 25

Governor of the texans

Question 26

What was Jean Lafitte?

Answer 26

A French pirate

Question 27

When was Jean Lafitte a pirate?

Answer 27

The early 19th century

Question 28

What is the Democratic Party?

Answer 28

A a political party that began in the 1820s

Question 29

What party did the Democratic Party branch off from?

Answer 29

The democratic-republican party

Question 30

What is the mason dixonline?

Answer 30

The boundary line between southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland

Question 31

What was the mason Dixon line symbolic of?

Answer 31

The division between slaveholding states and free states

Question 32

What is the most numerous tribe of native Americans in the U.S.?

Answer 32

The Navahos

Question 33

Who forced the Navahos to move?

Answer 33

Kit Carson

Question 34

What was Tecumseh?

Answer 34

A Shawnee chief

Question 35

When was Tecumseh chief?

Answer 35

Late 18th and early 19th centuries

Question 36

When was the war of 1812 fought?

Answer 36

Who fought in the war of 1812?

Question 37

Who fought in the war of 1812

Answer 37

Britain and America

Question 38

What was the Underground Railroad?

Answer 38

A series of houses

Question 39

Where would the escaped slaves go to ?

Answer 39

The northern states or Canada