Varsity - Social Sciences Flashcards by Andrew Berding

Name the country that the ancient Romans referred to as Hibernia.

Ireland

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What feminist is probably most famous for writing the “Declaration of Sentiments” that she presented to the first women’s rights conference in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848?

(Elizabeth Cady) Stanton

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The Pacific island, Tahiti, is a territory of what nation?

France

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Name the embroidered cloth nearly 230 feet long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England and culminating in the Battle of Hastings?

Bayeux (Bie-you) Tapestry

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What country did the United States consider as a protectorate under the Platt Amendment, which was passed by Congress in 1901?

Cuba

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Name the Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology whose work focuses on people’s efforts to compensate for their self-perceived inferiority to others.

(Alfred) Adler

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Name the permanent committee of the House of Representatives which makes recommendations to the House on all bills for raising revenue.

(House) Ways and Means (Committee)

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Name the social and political movement that developed in America between 1870-1920 as a reaction to rapid industrialization.

Progressivism or Progressive (Movement)

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Give the FULL economic term for the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a specific time period.

Gross Domestic Product

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Name the 18th century European was fought between Great Britain and Prussia on one side and France, Austria, and Russia on the other, of which the American French and Indian War was a part.

Seven Years’ (War)

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What political party, split from the Whigs in 1845, nominated Millard Fillmore as the party’s presidential candidate in 1856, and had the goals of limiting the power of Irish Catholics and other immigrants?

American (Party) (or Know-Nothings)

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Identify the city that is the world’s second-largest metropolitan area with over 25.6 million people. It has been considered a leading global city since an economic boom called the ‘Miracle on the Hand River’ (pronounced Hawn)

Seol, (South Korea)

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Fought in 1823, what battle was the first clear defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army, leading to Napoleon’s exile the following year?

(Battle of) Leipzig (Lie-pt-szig)

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The Republican Party was formed, in part, to protest what act allowed residents of two territories to decide by popular vote whether they wanted slavery or not?

Kansas-Nebraska (Act)

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Dams built along what Russian river have interrupted the migration of sturgeon which provide the eggs used for caviar?

Volga (River)

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Name the American general who in 1952 said, “It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win,” in reference to the U.S. military policy in Korea.

(Douglas) MacArthur

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What 1733 invention doubled the amount of cloth weavers could make, and is considered to mark the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?

flying shuttle

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Which religious denomination was the first to embrace abolition before the Civil War?

the Quakers (the Society of Friends)

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At what 1814 meeting did European leaders restore pre-revolutionary governments to Europe?

Congress of Vienna

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What President was responsible for opening up diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and the US?

(President Richard) Nixon

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What legislation outlawed closed union shops in 1947?

Taft-Hartley Act

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Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are famous as proponents of what ethical theory?

Utilitarianism

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Name the two Italian-born anarchists whose controversial murder trial in the 1920’s led to a worldwide outcry over
their conviction and eventual executions.

(Nikola) Sacco and (Bartolomeo) Vanzetti

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What is the term for a rare dissociative disorder in which two or more personalities with distinct memories and
behavior patterns apparently exist in one individual?

Multiple Personality Disorder (also accept Dissociative Identity Disorder) DO NOT ACCEPT
SCHIZOPHRENIA OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

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The prime minister of what country resigned in 2014, paving the way for 39-year-old Matteo Renzi to become the country’s youngest prime minister in history.

Italy

Name the three sitting presidents who received the Nobel Peace prize while in office.

Theodore Roosevelt, (Woodrow) Wilson, and (Barack) Obama

What term describes the process by which an individual is made a U.S. citizen by law, rather than by birth?

Naturalization

Who became the first prime minister of Israel in 1948?

(David) Ben-Gurion

What name is given to the riots that occurred in southern California during WW2, attributed to prejudice against young Hispanic men who wore baggy, pleated pants and jackets with wide lapels?

Zoot Suit (riots)

Name the landlocked microstate in Southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees Mountains and bordered by Spain and France, that is the sixth smallest nation in Europe and whose capital is the highest capital city in Europe.

Andorra

Give the name of Pol Pot's oppressive regime that ruled Cambodia in the late 1970's.

Khmer Rouge

U.S. troops in the Philippines at the beginning of WWII surrendered and were forced to march across what peninsula by their Japanese captors?

Bataan

Under the U.S. Constitution, before a person may be charged for a serious crime in Federal Court, a group of between 16 and 23 people must hear evidence to determine if that person should stand trial. What is this body of people called?

Grand Jury (must give both terms)

What explosive phrase is used to describe the Balkan area of Europe in the early 20th century before World War I?

Powder Keg (of Europe) or Balkan Powder Keg

What two U. S. states were created entirely out of other states?

Maine (from Massachusetts) and West Virginia (split off from Virginia to join the Union side during the Civil War)

Name the Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his studies with children, who declared in 1934 that "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual."

(Jean) Piaget (pronounced Pee- ah- zhay)

In an imperial monarchy, what is the full title of the eldest son who is first in line to inherit the throne?

Crown Prince

Name the American journalist, muckraker, and author of the book "The History of the Standard Oil Company", whose work led to the breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly.

(Ida) Tarbell

In economics, what term describes the purchase of a good or asset, not intended for final consumption, but rather in the expectation of future sale at some higher price?

Speculation

Name the world leader who is currently the head of state of the largest number of independent nations?

(Queen) Elizabeth II (Windsor)

Which Alabama governor is credited with saying on January 14, 1963, “I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny? And I say, Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!”

(George) Wallace

What is the term for the type of land created in the Netherlands where the Dutch built dikes along the shoreline to reclaim land from the sea?

Polders

Name the city in which a rebellion against British rule by Irish Republicans began on Easter Sunday, 1916.

Dublin

What judicial term names the process during which a person accused of a crime appears in a courtroom to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty?

Arraignment

What French monarch laid the basis for a unified French state when he went to war with King John of England in 1202?

Philip Augustus/ Philippe Auguste or Philip II/Philippe II (do NOT accept just Philippe/Philip)

What term describes the action of a government allowing a foreigner into the country to provide a safe haven from persecution in his own country?

(Political) asylum

Who was the Mexican guerrilla leader who led raids into the United States prior to World War I?

(Pancho) Villa

Name the Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist who invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology used in the discipline today but is, perhaps, best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth.

Eratosthenes (of Cyrene)

Name the pioneer settlement social worker who is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States and in 1931 became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Jane) Addams

Name the term, coined by US economist Thorstein Veblen in his work, The Theory of the Leisure Class, which describes buying unnecessary and expensive products and services to show off wealth.

Conspicuous Consumption

Identify England's first Tudor king whose forces defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and healed the breach between the rival house by marrying the Yorkist heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of King Edward IV.

Henry VII (Tudor)

What violent uprising in Western Massachusetts in 1786 helped convince many Americans that the Articles of Confederation needed to be revised?

Shays' Rebellion

Currently in its 11th Edition, what “Newly Revised” book is known as the “authority” on running effective and efficient meetings for organized societies?

Robert's Rules (of Order)

Which DEPARTMENT of the executive branch of the U.S. government oversees such programs as the National School Lunch Program; Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program; and Crop and Livestock Insurance Programs?

(Department of) Agriculture (accept USDA)

President Theodore Roosevelt is credited with negotiating what treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War?

(Treaty of) Portsmouth

Name the first female Latina Supreme Court Justice, appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama.

(Sonia) Sotomayer

By the year 500, what Germanic tribe had effectively taken control of the Italian peninsula, ending the Western Roman Empire?

Ostrogoths

What American reform movement of the late 1800's advocated service to the poor?

Social Gospel (Movement)

Name the noted American psychologist who suggested that humans are motivated by five basic needs: physical safety and security, love, acceptance, esteem, and self-actualization.

(Abraham) Maslow

The Janissaries were a class of civil servant-slaves who also fought as soldiers in the 1400s, but continued to be seen in the imperial capital of Constantinople well into the 1700s. What empire did the Janissaries serve?

(The) Ottoman (Empire)

The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song “Ohio” is a protest song written in reaction to the 1970 shooting of unarmed students by the Ohio National Guard at what university?

Kent State (University)

Name the cartographer, philosopher and mathematician who was the first to use the term "atlas" for a collection of Maps. He is best known for his world map of 1569, based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines.

(Gerardus) Mercator

What city in Spain was the center of art and scholarship under the Muslim Umayyads?

Cordoba (also accept Cordova)

During which presidential administration did the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandals occur?

(Warren Gamaliel) Harding

Identify the country from which the Japanese army retreated eastward during World War II because of guerrilla tactics used by the British-led Chindits.

Burma (Do not accept Myanmar; need to give the name during the specific time period)

What name is given to a vote of a legislative body that is used to end debate, countering a filibuster?

Cloture

Name the pre-Civil War legislation that abolished slavery in the District of Columbia, established a strong fugitive slave law, and admitted California to the Union as a free state.

Compromise of 1850

Name the separate peace treaty signed in March of 1918 between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers.

(The Treaty of) Brest-Litovsk

Name Japan's second-largest and northernmost island, home to the Ainu (EYE-new) people.

Hokkaido (hoe-KY-do)

What president, when addressing Congress, made his Fourteen Points as essential to a consideration of world peace in January of 1918?

(President Woodrow) Wilson

How many people have to die for the infant Prince George of Cambridge to become the King of England?

Three (Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and Prince William)

Identify the Sea in Europe bordered by Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to the east, and by Scandinavia to the north and west.

Baltic (Sea)

In 1984, who became the first woman to be nominated by a major party for the vice-presidency of the United States?

(Geraldine) Ferraro

According to Muslim teachings, which angel appeared to Muhammad in a dream instructing him to submit to God's will?

Gabriel (accept also Jibreel)

What volcano, in present-day Indonesia, erupted in 1883 causing an explosion that was heard 3,000 miles away and caused at least 36,417 deaths?

Krakatoa

Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were all developed after the Reconstruction to prevent former slaves from doing what?

voting

Who was the leader of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980?

(Marshal Josip/Joseph Broz) Tito

What river is said to flow from the toe of Vishnu?

(The) Ganges

Who were the two competing attorneys in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial?

(Clarence) Darrow and (William Jennings) Bryan

Which British Colony was returned to Chinese rule in 1997?

Hong Kong

What form of business organization does NOT focus on financial gain for its investors?

a non-profit (organization)

Name the pre-Civil War policy in which the settlers of a territory would determine by vote whether or not slavery was permitted.

popular sovereignty

What sporting event was revived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1896 in its ancient city of origin?

The Olympics (in Athens)

What are the three types of Delegated powers the Constitution gives to the Federal Government?

Expressed, Implied, Inherent (any order)

The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of what previously expressed policy of the United States?

Monroe Doctrine

In 1967, Yasser Arafat brought his al-Fatah political party into the PLO, becoming its leader. What does PLO stand for?

Palestine Liberation Organization

What was the first federal law to regulate railroads and other forms of transportation?

Interstate Commerce Act

Name the Louisiana politician who decided that FDR’s New Deal was insufficiently radical, opted to run for the presidency to make “Every man a king” through his Share Our Wealth platform, and was assassinated in 1935.

(Huey Pierce) Long

Give the first and last name of the Scottish economist who stressed the importance of the "invisible hand," the way in which self-interest pursued in free markets leads to the most efficient possible use of economic resources?

Adam Smith (must have both names)

Which member of Rome's First Triumvirate was tasked with destroying Spartacus's Slave Rebellion?

Crassus

The Republican Party underwent a split when which high tariff was passed by Congress with the grudging support of President Taft?

Payne-Aldrich (Tariff)

Name the international postgraduate award for selected foreign students to study at the University of Oxford that was established in 1902 and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship."

Rhodes (Scholarship)

Which French philosophe (fil-uh-ZAWFF) published his ideas in "The Spirit of the Laws" in 1748, and argued that the government functioned through a separation of powers controlled by checks and balances?

(Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de) Montesquieu

What American Indian entity was comprised originally of the Five Nations of the Mohawk, Onondaga (OH-nun- DAH-guh), Oneida (oh-NYE-duh), Cayuga, and Seneca?

The Iroquois League (also accept Iroquois Confederacy or Confederation)

Name the 20th-century Egyptian leader who after commanding the Egyptian air force during the Yom Kippur War, was named vice president in 1975 and became president after Anwar Sadat’s death.

(Hosni) Mubarak

The highest parliamentary body in the United States is the Supreme Court. What is the name of the highest court of appeals in Great Britain?

The House of Lords

In what town did John Brown capture the U.S. arsenal in 1859 in his plan to help free slaves?

Harpers Ferry (Virginia)

What type of experimental design, used in psychology and other sciences, mandates that neither the subjects nor the experimenters shall know which is the experimental group and which is the control?

Double-blind (study)

What Russian foreign minister negotiated with both Hitler and Stalin in World War II, but is immortalized in his namesake “cocktail,” a mixture of kerosene and gasoline with a rag fuse stuffed in a glass bottle?

(Vyacheslav) Molotov

Name the 1890 law which began federal efforts to curb monopolies.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

To visit the ruins of Persepolis, an ancient ceremonial capital of Persia, you would have to travel to what present-day country?

Iran

Before the unification of Italy into a single kingdom in the 19th century, the country consisted of various city-states. By what title was the leader of the city-state of Venice known?

The Doge (of Venice) (pronounce dozh)

The Nobel Prize, an international award, is given in six categories. Name any three.

physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature, peace

The "Open Door" notes of John Hay requested European nations and Japan not interfere with U. S. trading rights in what country?

China

According to the Psychodynamic perspective of psychology, what defense mechanism is used to force memories of painful experiences into the unconscious mind?

Repression

Which German princess became Empress of Russia in 1762 and enlarged Russia’s territory at the expense of Poland and Turkey?

Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (Do NOT accept just Catherine)

Where were U.S. ships allegedly attacked in August, 1964, resulting in an escalation of U.S. forces in Vietnam?

Gulf of Tonkin or Tonkin Gulf

Give the complete name for the abbreviation A.M., meaning before noon.

Ante meridiem

In 1901, the colonies of Victoria and Queensland became states of what new commonwealth?

Australia

Name the husband and wife executed in 1953 at Sing Sing Prison for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

Julius & Ethel Rosenburg or the Rosenbergs

What sociological term can be defined as an unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different?

Xenophobia

What series of laws were passed by the British Parliament in the late 17th century in an attempt to regulate trade with the American colonies?

Navigation Acts

What law gave the President the authority to give western lands to the Native Americans in exchange for lands they were living on that the American citizens wanted?

Indian Removal Act (of 1830)

What is the largest Arabic-speaking country in terms of population?

Egypt

What former African head of state was convicted of war crimes by an international court in April of 2012?

(Former Liberian President) (Charles) Taylor

To what achievement was Teddy Roosevelt referring when he called it "the greatest task of its own kind that has ever been performed in the world at all!"

(The) Panama Canal

What is the term for a vast, flat grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia?

steppe

What international organization was founded in 1919 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I and was intended to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security?

League of Nations

Which U.S. President asked Congress to declare war on Mexico in 1846?

(James K.) Polk

Name the Federal Act of 1938 that established a minimum wage and a maximum workweek of 40 hours. This act also forbade the employment of children under 16.

Fair Labor Standards (Act)

This siege by the German Army lasted from September 1941 to January 1944. Name the Russian city that withstood this onslaught.

Leningrad

What President, who brought about an end to Reconstruction, was elected through the help of the Compromise of 1877?

(Rutherford B.) Hayes

What is the correct term for a depository institution that is a non-profit and owned by the account holders, all of whom are required to be members?

Credit Union

This siege by the German Army lasted from September 1941 to January 1944. Name the Russian city that withstood this onslaught.

Leningrad

What President, who brought about an end to Reconstruction, was elected through the help of the Compromise of 1877?

(Rutherford B.) Hayes

What is the correct term for a depository institution that is a non-profit and owned by the account holders, all of whom are required to be members?

Credit Union

What is the name of the widespread transfer of plants, animals, humans, diseases, technology, and ideas between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia in the 15th and 16th centuries?

Columbian Exchange

What is the name of the 1955 protest which started because Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus?

Montgomery Bus Boycott

What "robber baron" industrialist penned the article, "Wealth", in 1889, in which he asserted that the wealthy should give away their fortunes for the betterment of society during their lifetimes rather than leaving it either to their heirs or to be distributed after their deaths.

(Andrew) Carnegie

What attempt to destroy British Parliament in 1605 was prevented by the capture of Guy Fawkes?

(The) Gunpowder Plot or Gunpowder Treason

Written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, what book helped expose the meat packing industry's poor health standards and led the way for reform.

The Jungle

The author of Utopian works including Walden II, which psychologist is famous for his work in operant conditioning and behavioral modification?

(B.F.) Skinner

What British naval officer defeated the combined French and Spanish armadas in the Battle of Trafalgar?

(Admiral Horatio) Nelson

What unit of all-black airmen trained in Alabama and were sent to Europe, where they won a Distinguished Service Citation for their work in providing air cover for the Allied invasion of Sicily?

Tuskegee Airmen

What legal term refers to the situation when a lawyer or doctor fails to provide the quality of care that would be reasonably expected by a customer?

malpractice

This leader’s body was hung upside down in the Square of the 15 Martyrs in Milan in 1945. Name this fascist dictator who led Italy during World War II.

(Benito) Mussolini

What Barber County, Kansas native was a leader in the Temperance Movement and Prohibition in Kansas and the nation?

Carrie Nation

What term is given to the long-standing disagreement over whether heredity or environment is more important in the development of living things, especially humans.

nature-nurture or nature vs. nurture (controversy)

Name the first President of France's Fifth Republic, who was also the leader of the Free French forces during World War Two.

(Charles) (Andre Joseph Marie) De Gaulle

What crisis brought the Soviet Union and the United States to the brink of nuclear war in 1962?

The installation of missiles in Cuba or Cuban Missile Crisis

What is the term for an amphitheater-like basin of glacial origin, typically found in mountain valleys?

cirque (pronounced sirk)

Give the full name of the woman from whom Henry VIII (Henry the eighth) sought an annulment in the 1520s; an event that would eventually lead to England’s schism from the Roman Catholic Church.

Catherine of Aragon (do NOT accept just Catherine)

Who was the Secretary of State who most historians consider to be the actual author of the Monroe Doctrine?

John Quincy Adams (MUST give middle name)

What act did Congress approve in 1935 to help workers, retired workers, and their families achieve a level of economic protection?

Social Security (Act)

Name the treaty brokered by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 that, among other things, returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt and guaranteed Israeli access to the Red Sea and Suez Canal.

(The) Camp David Accords

Name the Civil War battle in which Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally shot and died 8 days later of pneumonia.

(Battle of) Chancellorsville

If the President of the Senate is absent, what is the title of the person who presides over the Senate?

President Pro Tempore or President Pro Tem

Name the term for a general pardon granted by governments for political reasons.

amnesty

Name the eighth president of the United States who was defeated by the Whigs for re-election in 1840.

(Martin) Van Buren

Which article of the Constitution states that "the Constitution," "the Laws of the United States," and "all Treaties made, shall be the supreme law of the land?"

(Article) VI (6)

In 1931, the Japanese army marched into which province in Northern China, taking control of rich coal, oil, and iron ore deposits?

Manchuria

What was the largest public works project during Eisenhower’s presidency?

Interstate Highway (system)

Name the first woman to be elected party leader in either house of Congress.

(Nancy) Pelosi

During the cold war, what did the acronym M A D (say each letter separately) stand for?

Mutual Assured Destruction or Mutually Assured Destruction

What new political party, with considerable strength in Western farm states, won several electoral votes in the 1892 election.

(The) Populists, or People's Party

What Semitic language was considered the common tongue of the Middle East when the Middle East was the crossroads of the world in the first and second centuries?

Aramaic

Give the name of the unicameral national legislature of Israel.

Knesset (pronounced Kuh-ness-et)

Members of what Native American tribe assisted U. S. intelligence efforts during World War II to transmit secret messages in their native language?

Navajo

Name the South American city that lies in a namesake savannah north of the Páramo de Sumapaz [PAH-rah-moh “day” soom-AH-paz], near a tributary of the Magdalena River, has a populaton of nearly 7 million, and is the most populous city in the country of Colombia.

Bogota

These ancient cities were part of what civilization? Bubastis, Memphis, Heliopolis (pronounce Hee-lee-ah-poe-lis), Giza, and Alexandria.

Egypt

During which Revolutionary War battle did British General Burgoyne surrender 5800 British soldiers in a dramatic defeat that convinced the French to support the American cause?

(Battle of) Saratoga

Which strait, the world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia as it connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara?

Bosphorus (also accept Bosporus)

Which leader was inspired by the ideas of the American Revolution and the Enlightenment, to lead the liberation of much of South America from Spain?

(Simon) Bolivar

This quotation from the 1840's best expresses what widely-held American belief of the time: "If the Creator had separated Texas from the Union by mountain barriers, the Alps or the Andes, there might be plausible objections; but He has planed down the whole [Mississippi] Valley including Texas, and united every atom of the soil and every drop of the water of the mighty whole, and united the whole for the dominion of one government, the residence of one people."

Manifest Destiny

What is the term for a written accusation prepared by a grand jury that states there is sufficient evidence to bring the accused person to trial?

indictment (pronounced [in-dight-ment])

Who started a war with France to unify Germany in 1871? He was known as "The Iron Chancellor."

(Otto von) Bismarck

Name the Shawnee Indian Chief who was defeated by troops led by Indiana Governor Anthony Wayne in 1811.

Tecumseh

What Presidential advisory group is comprised of the highest ranking members of the military branches?

Joint Chiefs (of Staff)

Which school of psychological thought involves concepts of defense mechanisms, Oedipus and Electra complexes, and subconscious thought?

psychoanalysis or Freudian (school)

What leader of the Committee of Public Safety was responsible for the arrest and death of thousands of people during the Reign of Terror and was himself guillotined in 1794?

(Maximilien) Robespierre

Name the Emporia, Kansas, newspaper publisher and author who helped form the Bull Moose Party in 1912.

(William Allen) White

What is the name of the city in the Netherlands where the World Court is located?

(The) Hague

What native Missourian was the leader of the American ground troops during World War I?

Pershing (or John J. Pershing)

What is the name for a bowl-shaped circular depression caused by the destruction of the peak of a volcano, such as in Crater Lake, Oregon.

caldera

Identify the form of government in which the executive branch is under direct control of the legislative branch.

Parliamentary (government)

What U. S. government corps, formed in the 1930’s, hired a quarter-million jobless men between 18 and 25 for reforestation, road construction, flood control, erosion control, and national park development?

Civilian Conservation (Corps) or CCC

In geography, what term refers to the transferring locations from the spherical earth to a 2-dimensional map?

Projection

In World War II, who was the tank commander known as “The Desert Fox,” who made his reputation fighting the British in North Africa?

(Field Marshal Erwin) Rommel

Name the African-American woman who, in 1843, was the first woman orator to speak out against slavery.

Sojourner Truth

Name the Portuguese explorer who commanded the first fleet to reach India from Europe, and was given the title "Admiral of the Indian Sea."

(Vasco) da Gama

Name the British prime minister at the beginning of World War II, who was known for his appeasement foreign policy and was replaced by Winston Churchill in 1940.

(Neville) Chamberlain

What is the name of the Marine biologist who wrote Silent Spring, which claimed the use of chemicals was permanently harming the ecological balance of the world?

(Rachel) Carson

Who was the constructionist theorist in psychology, who believed that children are social beings and develop their minds through interactions with parents, teachers, and other knowledgeable people?

(Lev) Vygotsky

What Puritan leader ruled England as its "Lord Protector" for 11 years?

(Oliver) Cromwell

What Wisconsin senator is widely known for provoking the "Red Scare" of the 1950s?

(Joseph or Joe) McCarthy

Name the man who succeeded Thurgood Marshall and became the second African-American justice on the Supreme Court.

(Clarence) Thomas

What term was used by Karl Marx in his book, Das Kapital, to refer to a class of people who were of the lowest social order and who survived by selling their labor?

Proletariat

What was the name of the 1887 act that served to divide American Indian lands and allot them to various tribes?

(The) Dawes (Act)

What is the economic term used to describe all buildings, money, equipment, and human skills used to produce goods and services?

Capital

In 1536, what religious leader set up a church government in Geneva, Switzerland, emphasizing the idea of predestination?

(John) Calvin

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions were the states’ responses to what two acts of Congress passed during the Quasi-War with France during the presidency of John Adams?

Alien Act and Sedition Act (accept Alien and Sedition Acts)

What is the name of the term that refers to the promotion of a product or service by identifying it with distinct characteristics usually associated with public perception, quality, or effectiveness.

Branding

Brought into effect by a treaty signed on April 4, 1949, what strategic alliance constitutes a system of collective defense, meaning that its member states agree to mutual defense if any involved state is attacked by an external party?

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

The "War Powers Act" was passed by Congress in 1973 over the veto of what American President?

(Richard M.) Nixon

What term describes the legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one State is returned to that State?

Extradition

What is the term for one nation welcoming and protecting a citizen of a foreign nation from having to return to the individual's home country because of the threat of persecution or oppression?

asylum

On May 4, 1886, on what Chicago site were 11 killed and more than 100 injured when a bomb was thrown during a labor protest?

Haymarket Square

From which amendment is the following taken: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy trial, by an impartial jury."

Sixth (amendment)

On behalf of what nation did China wage war against the United Nations, starting in November of 1950?

North Korea

Which Feminist leader and co-founder of the N.O.W., born in Illinois in 1921, campaigned for women's rights and wrote her ideas in a book called, The Feminine Mystique?

(Betty) Friedan

What is the term for the complete set of rules employed by the Federal Reserve System in its efforts to influence the behavior of banks, businesses, and consumers?

monetary policy

In 1971, with which country did the United States end its 21-year embargo on trade? President Nixon referred to the citizens of this country as "great and vital people who should not remain isolated."

China

What plan, officially known as the "European Recovery Program", was aimed at assisting 16 western European nations after World War II.

(The) Marshall Plan

Which U.S. President appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first non-white to serve on the Supreme Court in 1967?

(Lyndon) Johnson

What conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin?

Yalta (Conference)

Fifteen thousand Cherokee were forced to leave their Georgia homeland and journey west. Four thousand died on the journey. What is that journey called?

The "Trail of Tears"

Identify the two-word phrase that refers to a person’s salary prior to any deductions for taxes, insurance, and other necessary withholding.

gross pay or gross salary

In 1947, India was freed from British rule and divided into what 2 main areas?

India and Pakistan (Pakistan had eastern and western parts - but it was all Pakistan)

What philosophy used to justify laissez-faire economics was promoted by the British philosopher Herbert Spencer in the late 1800's?

Social Darwinism (must give the complete name)

What do we call the clause in the U.S. Constitution that guarantees that states will recognize legal documents from other states?

Full Faith and Credit (clause )

What phrase is used to describe the Parliamentary coup that ousted King James II and replaced him with William and Mary in 1688?

Glorious Revolution

What was the legislative assembly established in 1619 in Virginia, now known as the General Assembly of Virginia called?

House of Burgesses

Name the sleep disorder that is characterized by excessive day-time sleepiness.

Narcolepsy

Ignacio Zaragoza's victory over General Lorencez (Lo-ren-say) at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 is commemorated by which Mexican holiday?

Cinco de Mayo

Name the Wisconsin Senator from 1947 till 1957, that is best known for his accusations that led to televised congressional hearings investigating Un-American Activities and the suspected infiltration of our government by Communists.

(Senator Joseph ‘Joe’) McCarthy

Name the Chinese dynasty that reigned from about 1750 to 1122 B.C. and it well known for its art of bronze casting?

Shang

What famous American helped defend British soldiers in Boston Massacre trial?

John Adams

What present day group is not a political party but rather a grass-roots movement expressing discontent with American politicians and current tax policies?

The Tea Party

Identify the trade associations of craft workers and merchanter in the middle ages which set standards of prices and qualities of goods.

Guilds

Name the concept, popular in the 1840’s, which maintained that the United States was destined to expand across North America to the Pacific.

Manifest Destiny

Name the disorder in which a person’s inappropriately alternates between elation and depression.

Bipolar (Disorder)

Who was the Roman Emperor in the year 33 AD when Jesus was crucified?

Tiberius

At what location in Cuba was the failed 1961 CIA supported invasion of the island by Cuban exiles?

Bay of Pigs

What do we call a period of general economic decline; typically defined as a decline in GDP for two or more consecutive quarters?

Recession

What 1648 peace treaty marked the end of the Thirty Years War?

Peace of Westphalia

What law passed by Congress in 1941 allowed The United States to provide material aid to Great Britain and the Soviet Union as they fought Nazi Germany?

The Lend-Lease Act

Give the French phrase that refers to the process by which prospective jurors are examined to ensure their judgments will be impartial?

voir dire ( vwa-dear )

What two-word term is used to designate the cause of death when soldiers are killed by their own forces?

friendly fire

What political party was formed in 1854 to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the extension of slavery to the territories?

Republican (party)

The islands of Mull, Lewis, St. Kilda,Islay, and Skye are members of which collection of islands off the coast of Scotland?

The Hebrides (Heb-ri-deez)

Name the first country to officially recognize the independence of Mexico.

United States

What U.S. president reversed the long standing foreign policy of non- recognition by the U.S. of the People's Republic of China?

(Richard M.) Nixon

Name the school of psychology, founded by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior.

Psychoanalysis or Psychoanalytic

Give the name of the Enlightenment philosopher who authored Leviathan.

(Thomas) Hobbes

Name the era of reform in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, exemplified by the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson.

Progressivism or Progressive

What economic term describes a person that has drive and ambition to combine land, labor, and capital resources to produce goods or offer services.

Entrepeneur

Which two African countries managed to maintain their independence from Europe throughout the 19th and 20th centuries?

Liberia and Ethiopia

What President used the words "Peace has come" to announce that Egypt and Israel had just signed a peace treaty at the White House resulting from the Camp David Accords of 1978?

(Jimmy) Carter

What country's Kiel Canal connects the Baltic and North Seas and runs parallel to its border with Denmark, about 50 miles north of Hamburg?

(Federal Republic of) Germany

Under which Islamic Dynasty did development of vast trading networks, new methods of doing business, and the increased movement of peoples and goods take place between the 8th and 13th centuries?

Abbasid (dynasty)

Which US Presidential Doctrine was intended to save Greece and Turkey from the clutches of communism in the 20th century?

Truman (Doctrine)

Identify the floating islands of land anchored to the lake bottom on which the Aztecs grew corn, squash, and beans.

Chinampas

Name the agreement that brought an official end to the War of 1812.

Treaty of Ghent

What was the name of the economic legislation passed in 1807 in an attempt to keep the U.S. out of the Napoleonic Wars by limiting U.S. exports?

The Embargo Act

In the Supreme Court Case, Schenck v U.S. (1919) the court upheld the government's right to restrict freedom of speech if what condition exists?

a clear and present danger

In 1910 what type of aircraft was the first to offer commercial service?

Dirigible (accept airship)

Which colony, whose 1649 Toleration Act only applied to Trinitarian Christians, was founded as a refuge for Roman Catholics by the Calvert family?

Maryland

What economic measurement tells whether a nation's economy is growing or declining?

GDP or (Gross Domestic Product)

In what European country did a 1980 strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk jumpstart the anti-Communist Solidarity movement led by Lech Walesa?

Poland

Which Jamaican immigrant, with his calls for black nationalism, urged African Americans to take pride in their heritage and develop their own institutions in an effort to reject assimilation into white society.

(Marcus) Garvey

What person is considered to be the "Father of Psychology"?

(Wilhelm) Wundt [pronounced Vundt]

In what city AND what nation is the World Court located?

The Hague, Netherlands

Name the political party that was opposed to tyranny during the American Revolution and had members Zachary Taylor and William Henry Harrison elected to the office of President of the U.S.A.

Whig party

What strategy is employed in the U.S. Senate by the minority party to block voting on a bill by making long speeches or introducing irrelevant matters?

Filibuster

Name the woman who was Queen of France, Queen of England, and the mother of Richard the Lionhearted.

Eleanor (of Aquitaine)

What was the name of the 1894 railroad strike that tied up all railroads going west from Chicago until federal troops were brought in?

Pullman (Strike)

What Act of Congress of 1973 limits the President's use of troops overseas without the approval of Congress?

War Powers Act

What Supreme Court Landmark Case addressed the following topic? Matthew N. Fraser, a student at Bethel High School, was suspended for three days for delivering an obscene and provocative speech to the student body. In this speech, he nominated his fellow classmate for an elected school office. The Supreme Court held that his free speech rights were not violated.

Bethel School District #43 vs. Frazer (1987)

What Supreme Court Landmark Case addressed the following topic? In Veronia School District vs. Acton (1995), the Supreme Court held that random drug tests of student athletes do not violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. Some schools then began to require drug tets of all students in extracurricular activities. The Supreme Court in Earls upheld this practice.

Board of Education of Independent School District #92 of Pottawatomie County vs. Earls (2002)

What Supreme Court Landmark Case addressed the following topic? In Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court sanctioned segregation by upholding the doctrine of "separate but equal." The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People disagreed with this ruling, challenging the constitutionality of segregation in the Topeka, Kansas, school system. In 1954, the Court reversed its Plessy decision, declaring that "separate schools are inherently unequal."

Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)

What American politician ended an 1896 Presidential campaign speech with the following: “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold”?

(The Cross of Gold Speech by) William Jennings Bryan.

Who crowned Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France in May of 1804?

(He crowned) himself

What government policy requires most employers to take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discrimination?

Affirmative Action

What Supreme Court Landmark Case addressed the following topic? In the New York school system, each day began with a nondeminational prayer acknowledging dependence upon God. This action was challenged in Court as an unconstitutional state establishment of religion in violation of the First Amendment. The Supreme Court agreed, stating that the government could not sponsor such religious activities.

Engel vs. Vitale (1962)

What historical document, signed in 1776, granted Americans independence from the British Crown, and to this day, American independence is still celebrated on July 4?

The Declaration of Independence

What was the movement established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel?

Zionism

Who was the first female British prime minister?

Margaret Thatcher

What Supreme Court Landmark Case addressed the following topic? Gideon was accused of committing a felony. Being indigent, he petitioned the judge to provide him with an attorney free of charge. The judge denied his request. The Supreme Court ruled for Gideon, saying that the Sixth Amendment requires indigent criminal defendants to be provided an attorney free of charge.

Gideon vs. Wainwright (1963)

What Supreme Court Landmark Case addressed the following topic? Nine students at an Ohio public school received 10-day suspensions for disruptive behavior without due process protections. The Supreme Court ruled for the students, saying that once the state provides an education for all of it citizens, it cannot deprive them of it without ensuring due process protections.

Goss vs. Lopez (1975)

Between 1348 and 1350, what temporarily halted the Hundred Years War?

Bubonic Plague (Black Death) or (Black Plague)

What is the name of the domestic policy promoted by President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960’s?

The Great Society

By what term do we know the part of the US Constitution that establishes itself as the supreme law of the land and requires all state and federal officials to abide by it by oath or affirmation?

supremacy clause

What was the name of the World War II battle, a turning point in the war in North Africa, at which British general Montgomery routed the forces of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel?

El Alamein or Al Alamayn

Name the third party formed in 1948 by Democrats who were disenchanted with the Civil Rights platform.

Dixiecrat (Party) or States' Rights Democratic (Party)

What legal principle, which protects people’s rights to life, liberty, and property, is contained in both the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution?

Due process (of law)

Name the two cities that were capital cities in the divided Germany from 1949 to 1990.

Bonn and Berlin (order not specific)

Name the program established by the U.S. Government in 1965 that made grants available to states in order to help the elderly and poor citizens meet their medical costs.

Medicaid

Which Article of the Constitution provides for the procedure of amending the Constitution?

Article V (5)

Name the two houses of England involved in the War of the Roses.

(The houses of) York and Lancaster

Name the term used to describe the strategy of seeking ways to relax tensions between adversaries to reduce the possibility of war that is often used in reference to the tensions between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

Détente (pronounced day-taunt)

What is the economic system under which a business can be conducted freely with very little government intervention?

free enterprise

Give the last name of the father and son leaders, nicknamed "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc," who served as presidents of Haiti in the 20th Century.

Duvalier (Doo-val-ee-ay)

Name one of the two major pieces of legislation passed in the U.S. as a result of the publication of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

The Meat Inspection Act or the Pure Food and Drug Act

What term was coined in 1883 by Sir Francis Galton, and is defined as using breeding to correct social problems, especially to filter out undesirable human characteristics?

Eugenics

Give the term that identifies a victory at ruinous cost; named for the Greek general who defeated a Roman force at the cost of 4000 of his own men.

A Pyrrhic (victory)

What railroad fireman organized the American Railway Union, helped lead the Pullman Strike, and ran for president five times as a Socialist?

(Eugene) Debs

What is it called when a desert forms on the leeward side of a mountain due to lack of moisture?

Rain shadow (effect) or Orographic effect

Identify the term given to the period of time in which there were two or even three popes of the Catholic Church.

The Great Schism

A federal arsenal at what site in Virginia was seized by John Brown in an 1859 raid?

Harper's Ferry

What occurs in an economy when the goods and services produced increase, but the money supply stays constant?

Deflation

What sport sparked a war between El Salvador and Honduras, after an unpopular referee’s call in 1969?

Soccer

Name the American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later become the United Farm Workers.

(César) Chávez

Give the name of the group of 538 citizens that meets after the Presidential election to choose the U.S. President and Vice President.

Electoral College

Which 15th century English King assured his ascension to the throne by having his two nephews jailed in the Tower of London and later killed?

Richard III (3rd)

Name the Mexican Revolutionary who, in 1916, raided New Mexico border towns prompting a response by the U.S. Army under general John J. Pershing.

(Pancho) Villa

What term refers to the least number of members that must be present for a legislative body to conduct business?

Quorum

Which Norwegian explorer was the first to reach the South Pole and led the first successful and undisputed expedition to the North Pole in 1926?

(Roald) Amundsen

The name of this Southern city appears both in a 1953 Manifesto and in Dr. King's Letter from a Jail. Name the Alabama city.

Birmingham

Name the newest presidential cabinet position.

Homeland Security

What is the name of the African king who ruled the kingdom of Mali from 1312 to 1337 and is remembered for giving away gold?

Mansa Musa

In 1901, Andrew Carnegie sold his steel company to a group headed by which investment banking tycoon, resulting in the creation of the U.S. Steel Corporation?

(J. P.) Morgan

Name the condition of the stock market that is characterized by rising prices.

Bull Market

Who was the president of Serbia during the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and was later put on trial for crimes against humanity in connection with the wars in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo?

(Slobodan) Milosevic

Who was serving as the U.S. Secretary of State when the U.S. purchased Alaska from the Russians?

(William) Seward

Who is the only U.S. President to never be elected to either the Vice-Presidency or the Presidency.

(Gerald) Ford

What ruler known as "the Great" began the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740 when he seized the region of Silesia for Prussia?

Frederick the Great or Frederick II (Hohenzollern)

The Gateway Arch of St. Louis is a memorial to which president's vision of westward expansion?

(Thomas) Jefferson

What term describes the three-way division of power in the federal government?

separation of powers

The Portuguese initially led world exploration due to the efforts of what Portuguese leader?

(Prince) Henry (the Navigator)

What former governor of Louisiana was a harsh critic of FDR’s New Deal Policy and proposed using a tax system to take money from the wealthy and redistribute it to the poor, a program he dubbed “Share Our Wealth”?

(Huey P.) Long

Name the dictator of Cuba who was overthrown in a revolution led by Fidel Castro.

(Fulgencio) Batista

What 1790s Pennsylvania insurrection was a reaction to Alexander Hamilton's plan to pay down national debt?

Whiskey Rebellion

What is the term for the written explanation of the views of one or more judges that disagrees with the decision reached by a majority of the court?

dissenting opinion

Who led the Russian Provisional Government after the 1917 March Revolution?

(Aleksandr) Kerensky

Name two of the four American presidents that have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Woodrow) Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt (both names must be given), (Jimmy) Carter, and (Barrack) Obama.

What is a tax on imports used primarily to raise government revenue without restricting imports?

Tariff

Name the man who, along with Edmund Hillary, reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.

(Tenzing) Norgay aka (Sherpa Tenzing)

What emergency program did the United States undertake to deliver supplies to Western Berlin in 1948 and 1949 after the Soviet Union blocked other access routes?

Berlin Airlift

Under the terms of the 22nd Amendment, what is the maximum number of years an individual can serve as President of the United States?

10 (A vice-president who becomes president, and serves half or less of his predecessor's term, is still eligible for two full terms of his own.)

Identify the federal agency that insures the deposits of about 97 percent of the banks in the U.S.

FDIC or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

The Japanese Emperor Hirohito was born one hundred years ago on April 29, 1911. Name the "flowery" throne to which he ascended.

Chrysanthemum (Throne)

What was the flow of African-Americans from the South to the North during WW II to take jobs in the factories that changed the make-up of northern states called?

The Great Migration

Which German president installed Adolph Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany?

(Paul) von Hindenburg

What was the name of the group of World War I veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 asking to receive their pension bonus early?

Bonus Army

What is an underground or illegal market in which goods are traded at prices above their maximum prices or in which illegal goods are sold?

Black Market

The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution placed term limits on the office of President of the United States. Who was the first president that this amendment applied to?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

After a brief civil war in 1971, East Pakistan became what independent nation?

Bangladesh

What two-word term describes the basic principle of the American system of government and asserts that the people are the source of any and all governmental power, and government can exist only with the consent of the governed?

Popular Sovereignty

What was the name of the political party that was active in 1848 and 1852, nominating Martin Van Buren for the Presidency in 1848? They opposed any westward expansion of slavery and were later absorbed by the Republican party.

Free Soil (Party)

What two-word term describes the period in China, beginning in 1966, when Mao Tse Tung’s Red Guards attacked, imprisoned, and “re-educated” teachers, intellectuals, former businesspeople and anyone else found lacking in wholehearted support for the Communist Revolution?

Cultural Revolution

Name the river formed by two headstreams in the Black Forest, which delineates part of the border between Slovakia and Hungary and empties into the Black Sea.

The Danube

Name the United States president who denied the rechartering of the Second National Bank of the United States and was furiously opposed by Nicholas Biddle, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay in what became known as the Bank War.

(Andrew) Jackson

Name the Roman General who issued the Donations of Alexandria and was defeated at the Battle of Mutina. He was attacked in Cicero's Philippics and aided Herod the Great in retaking Jerusalem, but is better known for his defeat by Octavian at Actium, and his affair with Cleopatra.

Marcus Antonius (or Mark Antony)

Name the permanent committee of the House of Representatives which makes recommendations to the House on all bills for raising revenue.

(House) Ways and Means (Committee)

Created during World War II, what American intelligence apparatus preceded the CIA?

The Office of Strategic Services (accept OSS)

What does the acronym OPEC stand for?

Oil & Petroleum Exporting Countries

What political principle provided for a national government and multiple regional and state governments in the United States?

Federalism

What two crimes does the U.S. Constitution specify along with “other high crimes and misdemeanors” as grounds for impeachment?

Treason and bribery

What 1917 statement proclaimed British support for a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine?

The Balfour Declaration

In what nation in 1991 did the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo on the island of Luzon coupled with Typhoon Yunya lead to the death of at least 847 people?

(The) Philippines

Name the September, 1862 Civil War battle that acted as a prelude to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

(Battle of) Antietam (Creek) (Accept also Battle of Sharpsburg)

What 1973 law limits the President's use of troops overseas without the approval of Congress?

War Powers Act

Which amendment to the Constitution states the following: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people?"

Amendment X (10) (Also accept Tenth Amendment or Tenth)

What name was given to the group of journalists who, during the Progressive Movement, exposed corruption in business, politics, and society?

(The) Muckrakers

When Hitler referred to himself as the creator of the Third German Reich, he claimed to succeed both the First German Reich, created by Charlemagne, and the Second German Reich, established by what German leader?

(Otto Von) Bismarck

What name is given to the series of lakes that run through the whole eastern side of the African continent from north to south?

(The) Rift Valley Lakes

Which World War II battle, in which the United States lost one carrier in exchange for four Japanese carriers, is thought of as the turning point of the Pacific Theater campaign?

(Battle of) Midway

Who led a successful slave revolt against the French in Haiti in 1791?

Toussaint L'Ouverture (too-SAN loo-ver-TYUR)(accept reasonable attempts)

What Russian region was used by both the Czars and the Soviets as a place of internal exile for political dissidents?

Siberia

Name the 2 presidential candidates who took part in the first ever televised presidential debates.

Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy

What ruler is credited with building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

Nebuchadnezzar

What two-word term describes a written explanation of the views of one or more judges who support a decision reached by a majority of the court but wish to add or emphasize a point that was not made in the majority decision?

Concurring Opinion

Which US president created the National Forest Service?

Theodore Roosevelt

Who began a series of revolutions in South America after Napoleon was deposed, and became known as the "liberator"?

(Simon) Bolivar

What is the process called in which a state breaks down into several smaller states, as in Yugoslavia, in the early 1990's?

Balkanization

The 23rd Amendment granted the District of Columbia the same number of electoral votes as the least populous state in the union. How many electoral votes does this represent?

What is the economic term that measures how much output an economy or organization can generate from a given amount of input?

Productivity

What committee was ironically led by Robespierre until his execution in 1794?

The Committee of Public Safety

What American President was nicknamed "the great engineer"? His term was from 1929 to 1933.

Herbert Hoover

Name the division of the United Nations that is responsible for settling legal disputes put forth to it by member nations.

The International Court of Justice

Identify the type of operant conditioning used in the following example: Getting an A on a test for which you studied really hard.

positive reinforcement

Who was the first president of the U.S. to receive protection from the Secret Service?

Theodore Roosevlet

What country, ruled by Britain until 1948, was once called Ceylon?

Sri Lanka

What is the term for the maximum number of people that a given territory can support sustainably with food, water, and other essential resources?

Carrying Capacity

In what war did U.S. troops fight in the battle of Guadalcanal?

World War II

What European nation ruled Vietnam as a colony until its defeat in the First Indochina War in 1954?

France

Name both the branch of government and the department under whose jurisdiction the FBI falls.

The Executive Branch and the Justice Department.

What term describes the government's ability to take private property for public use with compensation?

Eminent domain

Name the 18th century British parliamentarian and abolitionist who fought the injustice of slavery in his day.

(William) Wilberforce

Give the economics term defined as "the fall in value of an asset or a currency."

Depreciation

What is the modern term for the state once known as Seward’s Folly?

Alaska

England’s Glorious Revolution began with the accession of which monarchs?

William and Mary or William of Orange and Mary Stuart

What is the branch of psychology that studies the mental processes involved in perception, learning, memory and reasoning?

Cognitive (Psychology)

Identify the speaker in the following quote: “In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note, to which every American was to fall heir.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Very few temples in India are dedicated to what four-headed husband of Sarasvati (suh-RUSS-vuh-tee) who lives on Mount Meru and is the creator god of the Hindu trinity?

Brahma (not Brahman)

What is the name of the Presidential power used to withhold information from the public and Congress in the interest of national security?

Executive Privilege

Name the New Deal organization created in 1933 to control flooding in its namesake region and to supply cheap electricity to Southern States.

Tennessee Valley Authority (accept TVA)

What three nations orchestrated and gained territory in the partitioning of Poland in the 18th century?

Russia, Prussia, and Austria (any order)(do not accept Austria-Hungary)

In what 1944 Supreme Court case did the court rule against the defendant saying, "Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of restrictions which curtail the civil rights of single racial group?"

Korematsu v. United States (any order) (accept also U.S. for United States)

What alliterative policy, adopted by President William Howard Taft, sought to increase US investments abroad to keep foreign governments stable?

Dollar Diplomacy

What sort of compact is a constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states create a central government but limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals?

Confederation (accept Confederacy)

Roads, systems for the distribution of electricity and water, and transportation systems are collectively known as a country’s what?

infrastructure

What name is given to the Chicago riot on May 4, 1886, during which 11 were killed and more than 100 others wounded when police tried to break up a labor protest?

Haymarket (Square) (Riot)

In the 18th century, the Mughal (moog-HAL) rulers of India faced a separatist movement headed by members such as Guru Gobind Singh. What religion did they follow, which is still practiced by members of the Punjab culture today?

Sikhism (or Sikh religion)

In experimental psychology, a study in which neither the participants nor the researchers know who is receiving the treatment is called what type of study?

double-blind

Name the New York editor whose acquittal of a libel charge in 1745 has been considered a major precedent for freedom of speech and press in the United States.

Peter Zenger

How many English monarchs did the Tudor line produce?

5 (Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth)

In 2013, Kevyn Orr was appointed emergency manager of what city, whose July 2013 Chapter 9 filing made it the largest U.S. city ever to go bankrupt?

Detroit, Michigan

Which President, seeking to avoid war with Great Britain over the issue of the Oregon Territory, offered to settle the dispute by extending the Canadian boundary along the 49th parallel, from the Rockies to the Pacific?

James K. Polk

Guinea borders it to the North and the Cavalla River forms its Eastern border. Name this West African nation founded in 1847 by freed American slaves, whose capital, Monrovia, is on the St. Paul River.

(Republic of) Liberia

What term describes a person or group of people who are made to bear blame for others?

scapegoat

Which United States President is responsible for implementing the Interstate Highway system?

(Dwight D.) Eisenhower

Name the ruler advised by the Duc (Duke) de Sully, who issued the Edict of Nantes (nahnt) after becoming the first Bourbon king of France.

Henry IV or Henry of Navarrone (or Navarre)

What is the name of the legislative process that involves referring a piece of legislation directly to the voters on a ballot?

Referendum

Which former governor of Chihuahua led a raid on Columbus, New Mexico that prompted a 1916 punitive expedition led by General John Pershing?

Pancho Villa

In September of 1919, what U.S. president collapsed after making 40 speeches around the nation supporting the Treaty of Versailles, and effectively ending his presidency?

Woodrow Wilson

What is the name of the great grasslands of Southern Brazil and Argentina?

pampas

In 1947, India was freed from British rule and divided into what 2 main areas?

India and Pakistan

What philosophy used to justify laissez-faire economics was promoted by the British philosopher Herbert Spencer in the late 1800's?

Social Darwinism (must give the complete name)

What do we call the clause in the U.S. Constitution that guarantees that states will recognize legal documents from other states?

Full Faith and Credit (clause )

What phrase is used to describe the Parliamentary coup that ousted King James II and replaced him with William and Mary in 1688?

Glorious Revolution

(The Cross of Gold Speech by) William Jennings Bryan.

Who crowned Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France in May of 1804?

(He crowned) himself

What government policy requires most employers to take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discrimination?

Affirmative Action

Name the sleep disorder that is characterized by excessive day-time sleepiness

Narcolepsy

Ignacio Zaragoza's victory over General Lorencez (Lo-ren-say) at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 is commemorated by which Mexican holiday?

Cinco de Mayo

(Senator Joseph ‘Joe’) McCarthy

What clause in the enumerated powers gives Congress the right to make all laws “necessary and proper” for carrying out its other delegated powers?

Elastic (Clause) or Clause 18 of Article I, Section 8

Who was the Roman Emperor in the year 33 AD when Jesus was crucified?

Tiberius

Which Supreme Court Case stated that “speech that represents a clear and present danger to the security of the United States" is in violation of the principle of the First Amendment?

Schenck v. U.S.

Name the route the Vietcong used to transfer supplies from North to South Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh (Trail)

What was the name of the country invaded by the Soviet Union, which led to President Carter announcing a boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games?

Afghanistan

Give the current name and the capital city of the country previously known as Burma.

Myanmar, Yangon

What do we call a period of general economic decline; typically defined as a decline in GDP for two or more consecutive quarters?

Recession

What 1648 peace treaty marked the end of the Thirty Years War?

Peace of Westphalia

What law passed by Congress in 1941 allowed The United States to provide material aid to Great Britain and the Soviet Union as they fought Nazi Germany?

The lend-lease Act

Give the French phrase that refers to the process by which prospective jurors are examined to ensure their judgments will be impartial?

voir dire ( vwa-dear )

At what 1814 meeting did European rulers restore the pre-Napoleonic order to Europe?

Congress of Vienna

Amercia's worst nuclear accident happened in 1979 at what station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania?

Three Mile Island

Give the three letter acronym, or two-word phrase that refers to such non-state actors as the International Red Cross, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, and Doctors Without Borders.

NGO or NGO's or Non-government(al) organizations

The Wilmot Proviso sought to ban slavery in the territory that the U.S. acquired from what nation?

Mexico

In primarily which two countries do people of Basque descent live?

Spain and France

Name the series of international agreements that date back to the 1800s and sets rules for how civilians and captured troops should be treated during wartime

Geneva Conventions

The basis for what political state was established with Donation of Pepin to the Roman Catholic Pope in 754?

The Papal States

Name the American Socialist candidate for president in 1920 who received nearly a million votes even though he was serving time in a Federal Penitentiary.

(Eugene) Debs

What 1794 treaty with Great Britain ended naval hostilities between the United States and Great Britain, but also required the United States to honor pre-Revolution debts?

Jay's Treaty

Name the two observer states of the United Nations.

Palestine and Vatican City

What two-word term is used to designate the cause of death when soldiers are killed by their own forces?

Friendly Fire

In 1983, Shi'ite Muslims bombed an American Embassy and US Marine Barracks in what city?

Beirut

What theory, created by Herbert Spencer, sought to apply the theory of evolution to human society?

Social Darwinism

What term refers to the average number of people living in a given area?

Population Density

What name is given to the unsuccessful 1961 attempt by American-backed Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow the Castro regime?

The Bay of Pigs (Invasion)

Name the two leaders who struggled for control of mainland China after WWII.

Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek

What Queen of England was also a child of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain?

Catherine of Aragon, (one of King Henry VIII’s wives)

What Supreme Court litigant won his case against the state of Arizona in 1966 and thereby codified the right of defendants to be made fully aware of their legal rights prior to questioning by police?

(Ernesto) Miranda

Identify the presidential candidates in what was called the "First Mass Media" election where the candidates appeared together on TV to debate the issues.

John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon

Name the oil rich emirate city that boasts it has the tallest building in the world.

Dubai

What two churches formed when the Christian church split in 1054?

Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic

Name any 3 territories that the United States acquired because of the Spanish-American War.

Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guantanamo Bay [any 3]

What treaty recognized the new nation of the United States of America in 1783?

(Treaty of) Paris

In what country would you find mountain ranges called the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental?

Mexico

Name the treaty signed by Germany and Russia in March 1918 to end their hostilities during WW1.

(Treaty of) Brest-Litovsk

Name the Republican Senator from Wisconsin who gained fame and later disgrace, through his anti-communism crusades.

(Joseph) McCarthy

Name the country in the southern hemisphere where you can ski in the Drakensberg Mountains.

South Africa

At what battle during the 100 Years' War did British troops under Henry V utilize their longbows to defeat the French?

(Battle of) Agincourt

Which was the only Southeast Asian country to retain its independence in the 1800s?

Thailand (Siam)

Name the hill that was the site of the famous WWII photograph of the raising of the U.S. flag by the 3rd Marine Division.

Mount Suribachi

What is the economic term for the point where the aggregate demand and aggregate supply curves intersect?

Equilibrium (price level)

What political party was formed in 1854 to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the extension of slavery to the territories?

Republican (party)

What name is given to the purchase of territory in southern New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico for $10 million in 1853?

Gadsden Purchase

Name the King of the Zulus from 1818 to 1828, who built the Zulu tribe into the dominant force in southern Africa.

Shaka (Zulu)

Give the two-word term used to describe imported goods that were produced under conditions where workers and land owners are both compensated at or above market value?

Fair Trade

What was the name of the group that did not want to ratify the U.S. Constitution until there was more protection of individual rights?

The Anti-Federalists

The islands of Mull, Lewis, St. Kilda, Islay, and Skye are members of which collection of islands off the coast of Scotland?

The Hebrides (Heb-ri-deez)

William the Conqueror defeated the army of what English ruler at the Battle of Hastings?

King Harold II or Harold Godwinson

What national park, once the home of the Calusa tribe, is still home to American crocodiles, and is the south Florida wetlands?

Everglades National Park

Name the U.S. Secretary of State who championed the European Recovery Plan in 1947 and for whom the plan is often named.

(George) Marshall

What empire, known for utilizing elephants, rockets and matchlock rifles in battle, brought Muslim rule to most of India and built the Taj Mahal?

Mughal (moo-gahl) empire (Mongol is NOT acceptable)

Name the first country to officially recognize the independence of Mexico.

United States

What 1963 Supreme Court case upheld the 6th Amendment's guarantee of counsel for all persons facing a felony charge, regardless of their ability to pay for it?

Gideon v. Wainwright

In which Central American nation did the United States secretly support the Contras in an attempt to overthrow the Communist Sandinistas in the early 1980s, which led to the Iran-Contra Scandal?

Nicaragua

Who was the progenitor of the Carolingian dynasty, grandfather of Charlemagne, and was known as “the Hammer”?

Charles Martel

Name the English economist who developed the theory that unchecked population tends to increase in a geometric ratio while means of subsistence tend to increase in an arithmetic ratio. He expounded this theory in his work, "An Essay on The Principle of Population.”

(Thomas) Malthus

In what state would you find a community called, "Truth or Consequences"?

New Mexico

Who were the first Europeans to establish a direct trade relationship with China?

Portugal (or Portuguese)

Give the first and last name of the militant crusader from Medicine Lodge, Kansas who smashed saloons as a protest against liquor.

Carry Nation

Name the first African American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall

Name the long, narrow lakes in the center of New York State that resemble parts of the human hand.

Finger Lakes

Which leader's armies created an empire that extended from China to Eastern Europe by the 13th century?

Genghis Khan (or Temujin)

Name the 1899 to 1901 revolt against Western influence and the Unequal Treaties which was led by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists in China.

Boxers (or Boxer Rebellion or Boxer Uprising)

Who was the psychologist whose most famous experiments in behavioral psychology involved a "box" named for him?

(B.F.) Skinner

What U.S. president reversed the long standing foreign policy of non- recognition by the U.S. of the People's Republic of China?

( Richard M.) Nixon

What name was given to the Cold War policy of the U.S. intended to prevent Communist power from expanding beyond its geographical boundaries after World War II?

Containment

Name the Soviet leader who succeeded Khrushchev in 1964, and hosted President Nixon at the historic Moscow Summit of 1972.

(Leonid) Brezhnev

Give the name of the Enlightenment philosopher who authored Leviathan

What parliamentary procedure was adopted in 1919 in the United States Senate that allows the body to end a filibuster?

Cloture

What event resulted in Theodore Roosevelt becoming president in 1901?

(President William) McKinley was assassinated OR The McKinley assassination (by Leon Czogolz)

What event led the British government to take direct control of India from the British East India Company?

The Sepoy Mutiny

What two-word term describes psychologist Carl Jung's theory that humankind shares a common mythic understanding of human existence that resides in the unconscious mind?

Collective Unconscious

Who was banished from Massachusetts in 1635 and traveled to Providence where he established a settlement offering complete religious toleration?

Roger Williams

Which two Great Lakes do the Straits of Mackinac connect?

(Lake) Michigan and (Lake) Huron

What French proclamation of 1598 allowed Protestant worship to continue in areas where they were a majority, but barred Protestant worship in Paris and other Catholic strongholds?

Edict of Nantes

What term is often used to describe the US foreign policy of non-involvement in world affairs prior to WWII?

Isolationism

In what city AND state is the military college, The Citadel, located?

Charleston, South Carolina

What was the result of Executive Order 9981, issued by President Truman in 1948?

a desegregated military (or armed forces)

Name the pro-democracy movement that erupted in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and was quickly crushed by the Soviet Union.

the Prague Spring

Name the current U.S. state that contains the proposed state of Sequoyah, which applied for admission in 1905 but was merged with a neighboring territory in 1907.

Oklahoma

Name the commander of the American forces in the Korean War, whose strategy prompted the Chinese to enter the war.

(General Douglas) MacArthur

In the late 1800s, Otto von Bismarck anticipated what when he said this? "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans."

World War I

What term defines a steep cliff that separates two level areas?

Escarpment

What West Virginia town changed hands 8 times between the Confederacy and the Union during the Civil War, and was the site of John Brown’s last raid?

Harper’s Ferry

Mehmed II was the Ottoman ruler that conquered what city in 1453?

Constantinople

In a criminal case where the defendant is brought before a judge or magistrate for the first time, the process is known as what?

Arraignment

What large-scale package of programs did Lyndon Johnson launch to address problems of poverty and racial discrimination in American society?

The Great Society

Name the series of negotiations that restored the Bourbon dynasty to France and expanded the territory of the Netherlands, Prussia, and the Hapsburgs after the fall of Napoleon.

Congress of Vienna

Ronald Reagan was known for his support of what economic theory that supposes that a lower tax burden on the wealthy will lead to an eventual rise in the standard of living for all Americans?

Trickle-down economics or supply side economics

In order to decrease the responsibility of the Federal government, what was President Nixon's plan to distribute a portion of the federal power to state and local governments called?

New Federalism

What Catholic assembly met periodically from 1545 through 1563, and articulated the Church’s answer to the problems of internal corruption and Protestantism?

Council of Trent

Geologists have identified what supposedly extinct volcano in the Cascades of Washington as being potentially "the most dangerous volcano in the whole United States”?

Mt. Rainier

What law divided the Northwest Territory into townships and also provided for the sale of public lands?

Land Ordinance of 1785

What 2500-year-old manual, which includes the maxim: “Know your enemy and know yourself, and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles,” was written in China by the legendary Sun-Tzu?

The Art of War

Give the two-word term economist Adam Smith used to represent the idea that people seeking their own economic self-interest benefit society more than if they tried to benefit society directly.

Invisible Hand

Name the import tax levied in 1930 during the Great Depression that became the highest in U.S. history and backfired when it served to slow international trade.

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

In a parliamentary system of government, what name is given to administrations formed by the political alliance of two or more parties for political purposes?

Coalition or Coalition Government

By what new method has it been proposed to finance K-12 public education in Kansas?

Block Grants

What clause within the 14th amendment was the basis of the Brown v Board of Education decision, and inspires the current "Black Lives Matter" movement?

(the) Equal Protection (Clause)

Name the philosopher, generally regarded as the founder of modern Utilitarianism, whose works, including the essay "Offences Against One’s Self, were considered radical in their day because they advocated for such things as universal suffrage and the decriminalization of homosexuality.

(Jeremy) Bentham

Identify the U.S. Supreme Court decision which protected student free speech rights after several students wore arm bands to protest the war in Vietnam.

Tinker v. Des Moines

What was the name of the labor system whereby young people were paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years?

Indentured servitude

In which Southeast Asian country did Corazon Aquino become President in 1986 after Ferdinand Marcos fled to exile?

The Philippines

Name the Freudian defense mechanism by which one diverts mental energy of biological impulse for pleasure into a more socially acceptable use.

Sublimation

Name the former American political party which elected Presidents William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor and which was mostly known for opposing Jackson and the Democrats.

Whig party (Whigs)

Name the agreement signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following 12 days of secret negotiations.

Camp David Accords

Into what body of water does the Volga River empty?

Caspian Sea

What three U.S. cities have served as the capitol of the United States?

New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington DC

What is the term used to describe a swampy, slow moving or stationary body of water that was once part of a lake, river, or gulf?

bayou

Name the woman who established Hull House in Chicago in the 1800s in order to help the poor.

Jane Addams

What rebellion, occurring in southwestern Pennsylvania, was put down by an army led by George Washington himself; demonstrating the power of the new national government to provide security within its own boundaries?

Whiskey (Rebellion)

Name the leader of the Free French during World War II.

(Charles) de Gaulle

What is the term for something of value that a borrower lets the lender claim if a loan is not repaid?

collateral

The Mayflower Compact remained in force until the Plymouth Colony was absorbed by which colony in 1691?

Massachusetts Bay (Colony)

What was the nickname given to the American fighting forces in World War 1?

Doughboys

The continuous circulation of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the earth is known as what?

The hydrologic cycle

Which industry was affected by the Pullman Strike in the late 1800s?

the railroad industry

What three-word motto summed up the ideals of the French Revolution?

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite (Accept Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood or Fraternity)

Identify psychologist Abraham Maslow's theory that states the needs of each level must be met or satisfied before the next level can be attempted or completed.

Hierarchy of Needs

During American colonial days, rice and indigo were grown in the tidewater regions of South Carolina and Georgia. What was the primary crop of the tidewater areas of Virginia and North Carolina?

Tobacco

Name the only fascist leader to survive WWII. He assumed power during the Spanish Civil War, and kept it until his death in 1975.

(General Francisco) Franco

Name the 5 freedoms established in the first amendment to the Constitution.

Religion, speech, press, petition, assembly.

American Cavalry leader George A. Custer was killed at what battle in 1876?

Little Bighorn

What Empire is known for being the largest contiguous land Empire in history?

The Mongolian Empire

What is the process by which an alien or foreigner becomes a United States citizen?

Naturalization

Name the college graduate who wrote of the frustrations and limitations women felt in the book The Feminine Mystique.

(Betty) Friedan

Name the smallest geographic unit used for the conduct of elections; it is also called a voting district.

Precinct

Name the French officer whose conviction of spying for Germany in 1894 was the result of antisemitism in French society.

(Alfred) Dreyfus

Known as the "Crime of the Century,” in March of 1932 the infant son of which famous American was kidnapped and murdered, resulting in a law which made kidnapping a federal offense under certain circumstances?

(Charles) Lindbergh

What movement propelled Japan into its modern period and brought an end to the Tokugawa Shogunate?

Meiji Restoration (occurred in 1868)

Income earned on the sale of real estate is what type of income?

Capital Gain or Capital Gains

The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) reversed the Supreme Court's decision in what Supreme Court Case?

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)

Name the famous edict of the Roman emperor Constantine which introduced the official policy of toleration for Christians in the Roman Empire.

Edict of Milan

Name the three current female U.S. Supreme Court Justices.

(Ruth Bader) Ginsburg, (Sonia) Sotomayor, (Elena) Kagan

Name the 1863 Civil War battle at which General Lee defeated a much larger Union force, but lost General Stonewall Jackson to "friendly fire.”

(Battle of) Chancellorsville

What Russian ruler opened trade with England in 1553?

Ivan the Terrible

In psychology, what do we call a mental picture learned from repeated experience or exploration?

cognitive map

What event did Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck both record in their own way?

The Great Depression

Give the name for the war between British and Dutch settlers in South Africa from 1899-1902.

Boer War

What term is defined by the discriminatory practice of denying minority groups funding to purchase homes in traditionally white neighborhoods?

Redlining

Name the politician who mentioned his dog Checkers in his televised speech on September 23, 1952 in response to accusations that he had a "secret slush fund."

(Richard) Nixon

What English king had the nicknames "Longshanks" and "the Hammer of the Scots"?

Edward I

What is the term for a formal accusation of a crime?

indictment

Give the term for the branch of economics that focuses on factors affecting individual consumers and firms?

microeconomics

Name the first American to win the Nobel peace prize for his work in helping to end the Russo-Japanese war.

Theodore Roosevelt

Cardinal Richelieu was Minister of France or Chief Minister under which French king?

Louis XIII

What is the name given to the Republicans who supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in the election of 1884?

The Mugwumps

Name the first European explorer to lead expeditions to Australia, New Zealand, and the Sandwich Islands, now called Hawaii.

(Captain) James Cook

What is the name for the process by which a person belonging to one culture adopts the customs of another thereby becoming a member of another culture?

Assimilation

What October 2001 act was passed in order to strengthen national security controls and finds its name in the acronym "Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"?

(The) Patriot Act (of 2001)

What dynasty ruled France from 1589 through the early phases of the French Revolution?

(The) Bourbon (Dynasty)

What is the term commonly used for a severe, long-lasting form of depression experienced by new mothers?

Postpartum Depression

Which amendment repealed the 18th amendment?

21st

Due to the extensive time it took for the news of peace to reach the front, what battle took place after The Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812?

(The Battle of) New Orleans

Name the psychological act of attributing an aspect of our own personality to someone else.

Projection

Which American politician created a massive "Red Scare," or fear of Communism, during the early 1950s?

Joseph McCarthy

Which of the major schools of Chinese philosophy is seen as the most strict, especially when it comes to punishments for crimes?

Legalism

What psychosis is marked by sharp swings of mood between excitement and exhilaration on one hand, and deep depression on the other?

Bipolar disorder (accept also manic depression)

From what city did Martin Luther King Jr. lead thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to Montgomery, Alabama, on March 25th, 1965?

Selma, (Alabama)

In what valley in Asia did the first early Indian civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, develop?

The Indus Valley

What amendment prohibits Judge Bean from issuing a sentence requiring a felon to be hung by his ankles from a flagpole and rubbed with poison ivy while listening to an endless tape of Chipmunk songs?

8th amendment

The United States provided military and political support for Panama’s fight for independence from what country?

Colombia

Which philosopher published his ideas in The Spirit of the Laws (1748) and argued that the government functioned through a separation of powers controlled by checks and balances?

Montesquieu

By what name was Belize formerly known?

British Honduras

During the spring of 1863, Ulysses S. Grant and his army laid siege to what Confederate city, a critical post on the Mississippi River?

Vicksburg

What two countries were the main combatants in the Crimean War of the 1850s? Answer: Russia and Turkey

Russia and Turkey

Who is considered to be the “Father” of American Psychology?

(William) James

Name the US President who violated the Tenure of Office Act, which resulted in his impeachment.

Andrew Johnson

What agreement involving Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia was Neville Chamberlain referring to in 1938 when said that he had achieved "peace in our time"?

Munich Pact

Name Jung’s term for the part of the psyche that is in touch with the subconscious.

Animus

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