Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621


Context: WORLD HISTORY: More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Portuguese Admiral of the Indian Seas discovered & named the Amirante Islands


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This dominion was created by the British North America Act on July 1, 1867


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On May 9, 1946 this countrys King Victor Emmanuel abdicated in favor of his son Umberto


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1763, as a result of this numerical war, Florida became a British possession


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1864 Austria & Prussia went to war with Denmark, winning Schleswig & this duchy


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1832 Otto, a Bavarian prince, was named the first king of this Balkan country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: City that was the seat of government of the viceroyalty of New Spain


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In the first Punic War, Rome conquered Corsica, Sardinia & this largest island of the Mediterranean


Context: WORLD HISTORY: At a 1943 meeting in this N. African city, FDR & Churchill agreed to an invasion of the soft underbelly of the Axis


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On August 1, 1798 Admiral Nelson delivered a fatal blow to the French fleet near the Rosetta mouth of this river


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1961 this Asian country invaded the small colonies of Daman, Diu & Goa, & defeated the Portuguese


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1530 a statement of faith, or confession, was issued from this German city named for a Roman Emperor


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This countrys King Louis IV was nicknamed Louis From Overseas because he was raised in England


Context: WORLD HISTORY: William Laud, an archbishop of this who opposed the Puritans, was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1645


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The first of this Mongol conquerors many wives was Borte, to whom he was betrothed as a child


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Born in 12 A.D., this cruel & unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Portuguese captured Muscat, now the capital of this sultanate, c. 1508 but were driven out in 1650


Context: WORLD HISTORY: One of historys largest refugee migrations, about 15 million people, took place 1947-1951 between these 2 countries


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This ancient city grew powerful in part because the Tiber provides a convenient route to the sea 15 miles away


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1871 the Treaty of Frankfurt ended the war between France & this German state, led by Bismarck


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Cairo square was the heart of the 18 days of protest that toppled Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Zinoviev & Pyatakov were 2 victims of the 1930s proceedings called these trials due to their being public


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles of this company established a post at Singapore Harbor for Britain


Context: WORLD HISTORY: During the Tang dynasty, 618 to 907, Changan in this country was the most populous city in the world


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Grimaldi family first gained control of this country in 1297


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1944 this island country severed all its formal ties with Denmark & became a republic


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In December 1812 this Venezuelan wrote the Cartagena Manifesto, a famous essay on independence


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1199 this crusader king of England was mortally wounded while besieging the castle of Chalus


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 447 he & his band of Huns devastated the area between the Mediterranean & Black Seas


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1971 this countrys constitution set up 3 cultural regions:  Flanders, Wallonia, & Brussels


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1910 this British scholar & army officer explored Syria on foot


Context: WORLD HISTORY: From 1849 to 1861, he ruled the kingdom of Sardinia


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Mungo Park disappeared in 1806 while exploring this west African river


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Martin Behaim made the worlds first known globe in this year when some say the world was proved round


Context: WORLD HISTORY: An 1888 treaty said this canal was neutral & would remain open even during a war


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The day America declared its independence, this person was on the throne of Russia


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Sostratus of Cnidus built this citys famous lighthouse in the early 3rd century B.C.


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This monk who died in 735 got the info for his history of England through correspondence


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Have you heard the latest buzz? The Mayans domesticated this native insect


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Thessaly, the land from which this Argonaut leader set out, also had a 4th century B.C. ruler of that name


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1950, 2 years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 601 the Lombards destroyed this Italian city, home to a shrewish Kate, but it made a quick comeback


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Both Lord Protectors of Great Britain, Oliver & Richard had this last name


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Montreux Convention of 1936 recognized this countrys right to fortify the Dardanelles


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This liner was sunk by the submarine U-20 on May 7, 1915


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Former slave Jean-Jacque Dessalines ruled this country as emperor Jacque I from 1804-1806


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Englands Henry V won this battle in France on St. Christans Day in 1415


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1963 this former British P.M. became an honorary citizen of the U.S. by an act of Congress


Context: WORLD HISTORY: He was the first president of Gran Colombia; after all , he helped liberate it


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This French king was condemned in mid-January 1793 & was executed January 21


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On June 16, 1963 she blasted into orbit, joining Valery Bykovsky who had been launched 2 days earlier


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by Germany as a result of this 1870-71 war


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Briefly, in 1945, Karl Doenitz succeeded this man as Fuhrer of Germany


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Until a 1969 coup by Muammar al-Qaddafi, King Idris had ruled this country for 18 years


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1756 British soldiers were imprisoned by Indian troops in this 15 x 18 room


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In the Korean War, U.N. forces captured this North Korean capital Ocrober 19, 1950


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1066 he became the last Saxon king to rule England


Context: WORLD HISTORY: When Abel Tasman discovered this island in 1642, he called it Van Diemens Land


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Chinese plan called the Great Leap Forward was initiated by this leader in 1958


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1986 this dictator fled Haiti, ending 28 years of rule by his family


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 405 B.C. Spartan commander Lysander won the final victory over the Athenians in this war


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1358 Lubeck, on the Baltic coast, became the headquarters of this league


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Ferdinand & Isabella promised to make him Admiral of the Ocean Sea if he was successful in his 1492 voyage


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1455 Johann Fust won a judgment against this printer & took the type used to print his famous Bible


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1795 Austria, Prussia & Russia partitioned this country, eliminating its existence


Context: WORLD HISTORY: At the death of Cardinal Mazarin in 1661, this French king declared that he would serve as his own prime minister


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This ancient north African city-state was protected by a high wall about 23 miles in length


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1271 he left Venice for the Far East with his father & uncle; 24 years later, he finally made it back home


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On Feb. 18, 2008 the U.S. recognized this new Balkan state


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In a 1587 edict, Boris Godunov bound these to the land they worked on by forbidding their trade


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Cities like Copan thrived in this Mesoamerican civilizations Classic Period, until about 900


Context: WORLD HISTORY: J.J. Dessalines, who bore scars from his masters whip, wanted to kill all whites on his island, now called this


Context: WORLD HISTORY: After his death on January 21, 1924, Stalin & Trotsky struggled for power in the USSR


Context: WORLD HISTORY: As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1835, Sweden received Norway from this country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Signed in 1912, the Treaty of Fez established this African country as a French protectorate


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Portuguese sailors off course in a 1543 storm became the 1st Europeans to land in this Asian island country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Prussian rulers invasion of Silesia in 1740 led to the War of the Austrian Succession


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1804 this Caribbean country became 1st black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Beginning in 1932 all this countrys kings have been the countrys founder or his sons


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1472 this island group known for its pony & sheepdog was annexed to Scotland


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Visigoth Empire went out of business in 711 when it was defeated by this north African group in Spain


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Term for the period in England from 1760 to 1840 during which steam power & big factories came into vogue


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This doctor lit up China as its provisional president in 1911


Context: WORLD HISTORY: 4,000 years ago, this island was starting its middle Minoan period


Context: WORLD HISTORY: An armistice to end this war was signed at Panmunjom in July 1953


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1429, while leading an attack on Paris, she was wounded by an arrow


Context: WORLD HISTORY: A Greek military coup in 1974 briefly deposed Archbishop Makarios, president of this island nation


Context: WORLD HISTORY: A phase of the Napoleonic Wars, The Peninsular War, 1808-1814, was fought on this peninsula


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1250 the Mamelukes, originally slaves, seized control of this African country & ruled until 1517


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Irish castle famous for its stone was built by Cormac MacCarthy about 1446


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1863 Napoleon III persuaded this Archduke to become Emperor of Mexico


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1453 at Castillon, the French artillery won the last battle of this long war


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1853 Turkey declared war on Russia, beginning this conflict


Context: WORLD HISTORY: King Victor Emmanuel III appionted him prime minister of Italy in 1922


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Parisian school was founded as a college of theology in 1253


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This N. European country was a grand duchy ruled by Russia before gaining its independence in 1917


Context: WORLD HISTORY: A reported attack on 2 U.S. destroyers in this gulf led to the passage of the 1964 resolution named for it


Context: WORLD HISTORY: A 1795 partition ended its existence as a separate state in E. Europe; in 1918 it was back as a republic


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 220 this countrys Han dynasty was overthrown, beginning the period of disunity


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1920 the League of Nations gave this neighboring country a mandate over the territory of Namibia


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1025 Boleslaw I became this countrys first king but died within the year


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In July 1977 the military took over this nation & Gen. Zia ul-Haq became chief martial law administrator


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1579 the Union of Utrecht was formed with this prince of Orange as its leader


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This pair fled the Battle of Actium soon after fighting began, & their forces surrendered to Marcus Agrippa


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Around 981 this explorer was banned from Iceland for 3 years for killing a neighbor in a feud


Context: WORLD HISTORY: From Aug. 19 to 21, 1991, this leader was placed under house arrest during an attempted coup by hardliners


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1969 West Irians voted to remain a part of this nation, & the U.N. recognized its control of Irian Jaya


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The last of Henry VIIIs wives to be beheaded, she was accused of adultery & 2 of her lovers were beheaded as well


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C.


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Geneva Accords of 1954 split this SE Asian country in 2 at 17 degrees North latitude


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 73 B.C. this Thracian gladiator began a 2-year slave revolt against Roman rule


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Called the Sick Man of Europe in the early 20th century, this empire collapsed just after WWI


Context: WORLD HISTORY: During World War II, this queen of the Netherlands headed her government-in-exile from London


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1923 France & Belgium occupied this German industrial region named for a Rhine tributary


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The city of Leipzig, now in this country, was the site of an 1813 battle called the greatest clash of arms before WWI


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In the first major charity event of its kind, a concert was held Aug. 1, 1971 to raise money for this country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Ruling from 1764 to 1795, Stanislaus II was the last king of this country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1910 Korea was annexed by this country that held it for the next 35 years


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In the 1939-1940 Winter War, the vast Soviet war machine was unleashed against this smaller country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On August 8, 1588, the English defeated this fleet of Philip II at the Battle of Gravelines


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Great Russian czars 43-year reign, 1682-1725, was the longest in the Romanov line


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1292 this family of Venetian explorers escorted a Mongol princess to Persia


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In the mid-1500s Akbar the Great, son of Humayun, ruler of Delhi, reigned over this empire in India


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In October 1942 General Bernard Montgomery defeated the Germans at this Egyptian city


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 969 the Fatimids conquered Egypt & made this city a center of the Muslim world


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1776 Spain created a colony called the Viceroyalty of the Rio De La Plata on this continent


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1960 Prince Norodom Sihanouk became leader of this country, but declined the title of king


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1615 this explorer who has a large island & bay named for him searched for the Northwest Passage


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1968 Marcello Caetano replaced this longtime dictator as ruler of Portugal


Context: WORLD HISTORY: He completed vols. 2 & 3 of Karl Marxs Das Kapital


Context: WORLD HISTORY: After being expelled as editor of the Socialist Avanti in 1914, he founded his own fascist paper


Context: WORLD HISTORY: When this conquistador arrived in Mexico in 1519, Aztecs believed he was the god Quetzalcoatl


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This radical club led by Robespierre came to power in 1793 & began the Reign of Terror


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Most of the fighting during this war in the 1850s took place near the Russian port of Sevastopol


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1981 Wojciech Jaruzelski established martial law in this country & outlawed Solidarity


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Great Britain was twice rejected for membership in this economic union; it became a member in 1973


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The middle class that arose in medieval society was called burgesses in England & this in France


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Americans fought in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in this 1936-39 conflict


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Around 1400 Tsong-kha-pa founded the Yellow Hat order of this Tibetan form of Buddhism


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The allies began the invasion of Italy on July 10, 1943 by landing on this island


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1606, Willem Janszoon landed on Cape York Peninsula, becoming the 1st European to visit this continent


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1885 this countrys Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his own personal property


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Archduke Franz Ferdinands assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a member of this dark Serbian terrorist group


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Pragmatic Sanction gave this Holy Roman Empress the legal right to inherit her fathers territories


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1785 this future French emperor graduated from military school in Paris, 42nd in his class of 58


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Barons & churchmen drew up this 1215 document to reduce the power of Englands King John


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1519 he & his men landed at Tabasco & began the Spanish conquest of Mexico


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1936 Italy conquered this Ethiopian capital & Haile Selassie fled to Great Britain


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In this mid-1930s this U.S. naval officer chartered the Edsel Ford mountains in Antarctica


Context: WORLD HISTORY: He became a natl hero when he led the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels in the 1920s


Context: WORLD HISTORY: It took about 20 minutes for this British liner to sink after it was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Winston Churchill was imprisoned in Pretoria during this war but made a daring escape in 1899


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 982 he sailed from Iceland to Greenland with his household & livestock


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1814 & 1815 Napoleon ruled this island as a principality


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The U.N. General Assembly held its first meeting on January 10, 1946 in this European capital


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1967 this country exploded its 1st H-bomb at its Lob Nor test site in Sinkiang province


Context: WORLD HISTORY: A civil war in Paris during his youth convinced this king to build his palace at Versailles


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Long the ruling party in this country, the PRI won the 1988 election by its lowest margin ever


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The 1st great building of the Acropolis was this one built between 447-438 B.C.


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In a famous race, these 2 men reached the South Pole, 1 in December 1911, the other 5 weeks later


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1934 & 1935 this Chinese Communist leader led the Red Army on the Long March


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1826 this Low Country established its first tea plantations on Java


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Before the Battle of Trafalgar, he told his fleet, England expects every man will do his duty


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Stephen I, the son of a Magyar prince, became king of this country in 1000 A.D.


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1920 the League of Nations gave this country a mandate to administer the territory of Namibia


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1981 this country formally annexed the Golan Heights, land it had held militarily since 1967


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Magellan visited these islands in 1521; MacArthur visited them in 1942, then returned in 1944


Context: WORLD HISTORY: After a 22-year reign, this countrys Queen Christina abdicated June 6, 1654


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The 1842 Treaty of Nanking ended the first of these drug wars


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1959 a disgruntled Buddhist monk assassinated this countrys PM Solomon Bandaranaike


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The European recovery program following WWII was also called this, for its originator


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The 1912 alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece & Montenegro was known as this league


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The 3 major battles of this war were at Crecy, Poitiers & Agincourt


Context: WORLD HISTORY: After the king of Caria died in 353 B.C., his widow had this memorial built at Halicarnassus


Context: WORLD HISTORY: After oil was found there in 1932, this island nation became the Persian Gulfs first oil-rich state


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The history of the Tower of London goes back to the fortress built by this conqueror


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1633 he was brought before the Inquisition for believing the doctrine of the Earth moving around the sun


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1812 Napoleons Grand Army of 614,000 invaded this country; months later only 40,000 were left


Context: WORLD HISTORY: German for empire, the first one was the Holy Roman Empire; the second was founded in 1871


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Athenians code was so strict, you could be executed for stealing a cabbage


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of this country twice, in 1925 & 1932


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Before battle on Oct. 21, 1805, he signaled, England expects that every man will do his duty


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1734 this city near Mount Vesuvius became the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1943 this Chinese leader met with FDR & Winston Churchill at the Cairo conference


Context: WORLD HISTORY: At the Congress of Vienna, William I of the Netherlands traded Nassau for this Duchy


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Asias population giant, finally admitted to U.N. in 1971


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Including, in 19th century, one quarter of worlds land & people, the sun never set on it


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Sinatra, Gifford & McGee or Germanic peoples who helped conquer Rome


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Nicaraguan guerrilla group that overthrew Somoza


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1888, it was last country in W. Hemisphere to abolish slavery


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Traditionally said to be founded in 421, this city was later built up on islands in a lagoon by refugees from invading Lombards


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1870 this countrys Isabella II abdicated in favor of her son


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1975 Khalid succeeded this man, assassinated by a nephew, as king of Saudi Arabia


Context: WORLD HISTORY: After succeeding Tiberius, this emperor had Tiberius grandson executed


Context: WORLD HISTORY: For his independence of Soviet influence, Imre Nagy was removed as this countrys premier in 1955


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1191, Berengaria married this king of England in Limassol, Cyprus


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Frances 1778 recognition of this nations independence was a virtual declaration of war on Britain


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Frederick II agreed to lead one of these for the pope, but due to an epidemic he didnt go and was excommunicated


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The congress held here hoped to restore Europe to the way it was before Napoleon


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1570 Spains Phillip II tried to put this queen on the English throne


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This war was thought to be mythical until late 19th century excavations proved it really occurred


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Peter the Great abolished the aristocratic Boyar class in this country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Alessandro, the first Duke of Florence, was an illegitimate member of this family


Context: WORLD HISTORY: During the Napoleonic Wars, the royal family of Portugal fled to this colony


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This German-born archaeologist made a fortune in the Crimean War, which allowed him to look for Troy


Context: WORLD HISTORY: More than 1 million turned out for his funeral procession in the Philippines August 31, 1983


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1071 the Seljuk Turks, who practiced this religion, defeated the Byzantine Army at the Battle of Manzikert


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This King of Aragon freed the Catalan Serfs in 1486 & captured Granada in 1492


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Now in Poland, in 1361 this shipbuilding city became a member of the Hanseatic League


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Around 2500 B.C. the Harappan Civilization sprung up around this river in Pakistan & nothwestern India


Context: WORLD HISTORY: An economic crisis forced this Indonesian leader to resign on May 21, 1998, ending 32 years of autocratic rule


Context: WORLD HISTORY: European production of this fiber began after 2 monks smuggled some worms out of China c. 550


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1929 the Serbo-Croat-Slovene kingdom changed its name to this


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The 1805 battle fought off this Spanish cape established British naval superiority for 100 years


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Janos Kadar took power after this countrys 1956 revolution & ruled it until 1988


Context: WORLD HISTORY: King Gustav III restored autocratic rule to this country in the 18th century


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The African nation Zimbabwe was formerly named for this Englishman


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Because of these law enforcement officers there, the Yukon gold rush was one of the most orderly in history


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Sir Thomas Raffles founded this city on its island of the same name


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1667, in exchange for New York, Britain gave this colony to the Dutch, which they kept until 1975


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This late 18th- early 19th-century French diplomat served at least seven different regimes


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This tribunal flourished in Spain for centuries until it was finally suppressed in 1834


Context: WORLD HISTORY: 4 days after this battle, Napoleon signed his 2nd -- & final -- abdication


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This mystic ate his last meal at the home of Prince Feliks Yusupov, one of the men who killed him


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Some 25 years before our Civil War, this country freed the slaves on Jamaica


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Its widely believed that this great pharaoh is the one written about in the book of Exodus


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In the 3rd century B.C., during the reign of Shih Huang Ti, at least 1 million slaves were used to build this


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Columbus was the first European to reach S. America, landing at the mouth of the Orinoco in whats now this country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Overthrown by the revolution of 9 Thermidor, he died on the guillotine, ending the Reign of Terror


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president


Context: WORLD HISTORY: At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, this king & his son Edward were defeated & captured by Simon de Montfort


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This person was the reigning monarch of Great Britain when the U.S. national anthem was written


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1492 he chartered the Santa Maria from Juan de la Cosa, who became its sailing master


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Until abolished in 404 A.D., gladiatorial games had been held at this Rome site for over 300 years


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On April 10, 1974 she resigned as Israels prime minister but served as a caretaker until June


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In the 1770s this British sea captain circled Antarctica but ice packs kept him from sighting land


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This 16-year-old Black Prince led his men to victory at the battle of Crecy in August 1346


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This countrys Shang dynasty arose in the 1700s B.C. along the Yellow River


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This explorer sailed to North America on 3 different ships: the Hopewell, Half Moon & Discovery


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In June 1955 the Argentine navy staged an unsuccessful revolt against this dictator


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Among those to reach this fabled African outpost in the 19th century were Rene Caillie & Gordon Laing


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Cuban Missile Crisis & the 1967 Arab-Israeli War occurred while he served as U.N. Secretary-General


Context: WORLD HISTORY: From June 1953 to November 1954 Mohammad Naguib & Gamal Abdel Nasser shared power in this country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Upon his death in 1725, this Russian czars second wife, Catherine I, succeeded him


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 241 B.C. the first of these wars ended soon after Rome defeated Carthage in a naval battle off Sicily


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Inuit of Greenland called this associate of Robert Peary mi palyuk, or kind little Matthew


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In January 1823 this son of an Irish immigrant resigned as Chiles supreme director


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In April 1796 this French officer defeated the Sardinians at Mondovi, gaining Savoy & Nice for France


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1517 Cordova became the first Spaniard to reach Mexico when he landed on this east coast peninsula


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In a 1797 Canary Islands battle, this British naval heros right arm was wounded & later amputated


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On July 22, 1969 he designated Juan Carlos as his successor in Spain


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 490 B.C. this Persian king sent an army into Greece but it was defeated at the Battle of Marathon


Context: WORLD HISTORY: When Ferdinand VII died in 1833, his 3-year-old daughter Isabella II ascended this countrys throne


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1191 this Lion-Hearted king of England captured Cyprus & Acre during the Crusades


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This dictators last battle was his defeat of Pompeys sons at Munda in 45 B.C.


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1584 William I of Orange was assassinated in this Dutch city known for its blue & white pottery


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This battleship on which the WWII Japanese surrender terms were signed saw combat during the Gulf War


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 896 Prince Arpad led the Magyar people over the Carpathians & entered this land, their permanent home


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Effective January 1, 1948, Italys new constitution outlawed this political party


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1816 Shaka became leader of this African people & embarked on a program of conquest


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Richard I negotiated a treaty with this Saracen, allowing Christian pilgrims to enter Jerusalem freely


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1669 this loose confederation of North German cities met for the last time


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Effendi, bey, & pasha were titles of nobility in this countrys Ottoman empire


Context: WORLD HISTORY: About 1000 times as many people attended this mans 1970 Cairo funeral as attended his successors


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1934-35, nationalist military pressure forced Mao to lead his Red Army on this 6000 mile trek


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1657, the English parliament suggested he become king, but he turned down the offer


Context: WORLD HISTORY: His 1808 ousting of the king of Spain gave Latin American states the pretext to declare independence


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Toledo military academy class of 1910 grad who went on to become a dictator


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Mindon, as emperor of this country, set up a new capital in 1857 at Mandalay


Context: WORLD HISTORY: His 5 classics were canonized during the Han Dynasty


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Edmund Crouchback founded this branch of the Plantagenets that didnt get on well with the Yorks


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1825, the Decembrists attempted a coup in this country--didnt work


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1912 it was the largest & most luxurious ship ever built; it sank on its 1st voyage


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Bayeux Tapestry is a graphic representation of this mans conquest of England


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Ruling from 1792-1750 B.C., he had the laws of Babylon carved into an 8 high block of stone


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 404 B.C., this city surrendered, ending the 27-year-long Peloponnesian War


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Its said the epitaph on Cyrus the Greats tomb called him the founder of this empire


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This system of ranking social orders was developed by the Aryans in ancient India


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Bartolomeu Dias constructed & outfitted 4 ships for this mans 1497-1498 voyage from Lisbon to India


Context: WORLD HISTORY: During his 46-year reign, this 18th c. king doubled the size of Brandenburg-Prussia


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Many mark the beginning of the French nation with the crowning of this king in 987


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Around 1650 B.C. these people made their capital at Hattusas in central Anatolia in what is now Turkey


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In July 1962 this Soviet leader began building missile sites in Cuba; in October, the U.S. noticed them


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1200 Africas Shona people had a mighty city called Great this, adopted in 1979 as Rhodesias new name


Context: WORLD HISTORY: More than a million died in this countrys civil war that ended with the death of Carranza in 1920


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1793 the Committee of Public Safety would try people & execute them by this method all in the same day


Context: WORLD HISTORY: For most of the 15th century this Indian empire ruled over whats now Mexico


Context: WORLD HISTORY: No one really knows what this French girl, who saved Orleans, looked like; maybe like Leelee Sobieski or Milla Jovovich


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 71 B.C. Spartacus led a slave revolt against this empire


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Queen Victorias prime minister 2nd Viscount Melbourne had a city in this country named for him in 1837


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Catherine of Aragon, a daughter of Ferdinand & Isabella, married this British king


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This world-changing event was first announced in a Barcelona banquet hall in April 1493


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Wladyslaw Gomulka was first secretary of this countrys Communist party from 1956-1970


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1517 the Ottoman Turks took this country & put a pasha in power; today a Mubarak rules


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1740 he became king of Prussia & elector of Brandenburg


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Russian czar spent the last few years of his life composing a list of people he had murdered


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1513 this Spaniard made the first recorded European exploration of what is now the U.S. mainland


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Around 284 B.C. Zenodotus of Ephesus became the first superintendant of this citys library


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Great Brit was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Around 500 B.C. this Persian king built Persepolis; parts of the citys audience hall & palace are still standing


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1402 Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I was captured in the Battle of Ankara by this conqueror from Samarkand


Context: WORLD HISTORY: For defeating Hannibal in the Battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War, Scipio was granted this Latin surname


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1982 he became the first Pope in modern history to visit Sicily


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Ahmose I, who reigned circa 1554-1525 B.C., founded this countrys 18th dynasty


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This queen of the Netherlands married Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1901


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1828 Brazil & Argentina recognized this neighboring country as an independent republic


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This empress of Mexico was a first cousin of Queen Victoria


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The 843 Treaty of Verdun divided his empire; grandson Louis II received lands east of the Rhine River


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Around 4,500 years ago, the bronze age Minoan civilization emerged on this Mediterranean island


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought this Dutchman to power as king of England, Scotland, & Ireland


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In the 5th century B.C., this Greek historian wrote that it took 100,000 men 20 years to complete the Great Pyramid


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Its been estimated that this grand inquisitor put to death about 2,000 people during his term of office, 1483-1498


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Anschluss was the forced union of Austria with this country in 1938


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Contras were a U.S.-backed force battling the government of this country


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Irgun was a secret underground organization fighting to establish this nation


Context: WORLD HISTORY: A record of all the land in England, this Book was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085


Context: WORLD HISTORY: World leaders met at the Congress of this city in 1815 to decide the fate of Europe after Napoleons defeat


Context: WORLD HISTORY: He was tutored by Aristotle, tamed Bucephalus & cut the Gordian Knot; then after lunch...


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague & this other major disaster


Context: WORLD HISTORY: While trying to figure out why there were 2 of these, the 1409 Council of Pisa elected a third one


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1864 the first Red Cross conference was convened in this city


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In February 1961 violence erupted in this Portuguese possession in west Africa


Context: WORLD HISTORY: After the Royal Family fled to this country in 1807, it became the only one in South America from which a European country was ruled


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In a 1918 treaty, this country gave up Ukraine but soon recovered it


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1929, the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats 8: Slovenes became known as this


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The 1867 British North America Act united 3 colonies under this single name


Context: WORLD HISTORY: When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of these French Protestants fled to America


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1835, many of them left Cape Colony & began their historic Great Trek to whats now the Transvaal


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1953 Ibn Saud organized this countrys first cabinet to modernize the government


Context: WORLD HISTORY: During the Spanish Civil War, this Fascist Party founder sent troops to aid General Francisco Franco


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In November 1980 Polands Communist Party officially recognized this trade union


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Later the namesake of an African country, he served as prime minister of Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Aristotle called him the Savior of his country and the ideal lawgiver


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Implicated in a plot to kill Hitler, this Desert Fox committed suicide rather than stand trial


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On Feb. 12, 1912, the last emperor of this dynasty abdicated, ending more than 3,000 years of Chinese monarchy


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The people were seeking guns & gunpowder when they stormed this Paris landmark July 14, 1789


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Tokugawa shogungate ruled this country from 1603 to 1867


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Venetian arrived at the Chinese court in 1275 with his father & uncle


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On Feb. 10, 1840 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married her


Context: WORLD HISTORY: According to legend, he was a swineherd before he conquered the Incas


Context: WORLD HISTORY: As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, this country lost Norway to Sweden in 1814


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Great King of Prussia whose last words were I am tired of ruling over slaves


Context: WORLD HISTORY: He had a wife named Cleopatra, a daughter named Cleopatra, and a famous son, Alexander the Great


Context: WORLD HISTORY: The Cuban missile crisis made this the tensest month of 1962


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Near the end of the fifth century, the Japanese borrowed this nations system of writing


Context: WORLD HISTORY: When Alfonso I was proclaimed king in 1143, it became independent of Castilian & Moorish control


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Prior to independence in 1917, Finland had been a grand Duchy of this country for 108 years


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1512 this king seized Navarre, completing the unification of what is now Spain


Context: WORLD HISTORY: During his 67-year reign, this pharaoh completed many projects, including the temple at Karnak


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1770 Capt. James Cook became the first European to sight Australias fertile east coast, which he named New this


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In the 1540s John Calvin made this Swiss city a center of Protestant might


Context: WORLD HISTORY: By 1833 Spain had lost all of its empire in the New World except Cuba & this island; 65 years later, it lost those, too


Context: WORLD HISTORY: At the urging of this general now on the 5-peso note, Argentina declared its independence from Spain July 9, 1816


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Wheat was introduced to the New World by this explorer in 1493


Context: WORLD HISTORY: On Sept. 3, 1996 the U.S. launched cruise missiles against this country for attacking Kurd territory


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Last name of the brothers who made an overland trek in the 1260s from Bukhara, Uzbekistan to China


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This personal guard of Roman emperors consisted of 9 cohorts of 1,000 soldiers each


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1992 Pres. Alberto Fujimori suspended this countrys constitution & dissolved the legislature


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Hun got an annual tribute of 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1488 this king of Spain sent 100 Moorish slaves to Pope Innocent VIII who gave them as gifts to Cardinals


Context: WORLD HISTORY: She died at Fontevrault in 1204, having survived 2 husbands: Louis VII & Henry II


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Once known as the Gold Coast, it was the first member of the Commonwealth of Nations governed by Black Africans


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This founder of the Mughal Dynasty gained control of Delhi & Agra after victory in the 1526 Battle of Panipat


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This building that opened May 1, 1931 remained the worlds tallest until 1971


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This Macedonian conqueror campaigned along the Indus River in 327-326 B.C.


Context: WORLD HISTORY: This German noble family traced its descent from the counts of Zollern


Context: WORLD HISTORY: In 1954 an agreement between these 2 countries ended the Trieste dispute


Context: WORLD HISTORY: Jerusalem was captured by this king of Babylon in 597 & 586 B.C.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 29, 1765 Patrick Henrys Stamp Act protest was interrupted with this one word


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & a state 59 years later


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Susan B. Anthony was arrested in 1872 for doing this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1949 Henry H. Arnold became the first general of this branch of the armed forces


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In April 1984 this U.S. government agency admitted its role in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: John Hancock held this political position from 1780-85 & from 1787-93


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In December 1974 this former New York governor was sworn in as Vice President


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1951 he told a joint session of congress that he tried to do his duty as god gave him the light to see that duty


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This political party founded around 1789 stood for a strong central government


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: His foes said that in 1877 he agreed to withdraw remaining federal troops from the south in return for electoral support


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1917 the U.S. purchased the islands of St. Croix, St. John & St. Thomas from this country for $25 million


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1791 this Treasury Secretary issued his Report On Manufactures, a critique of American industry


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: When West Virginia became a state in 1863, Wheeling was its capital; this city became the permanent capital in 1885


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1698, after an absence of 15 years, he returned to the colony named for his father


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Aug. 2, 1826 at Bostons Faneuil Hall, this great orator delivered a eulogy on Jefferson & Adams


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Completed in 1856, Californias first railroad ran 22 miles between Sacramento & this prison city


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Between 1856 & 1860, 2,962 of this faith set out from Iowa & Nebraska to Utah in the Handcart Migration


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, The world must be made safe for this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 20, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this transportation method as a way to achieve school integration


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: John OSullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USAs right to cover the continent


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: British commander Sir Edward Pakenham was killed in this battle fought 2 weeks after the War of 1812


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: To reach eastern markets in the 1800s, Texas drovers brought their cattle to Kansas via this trail


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On November 14, 1889, the New York World called her trip, The Longest Journey Known to Mankind


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Mar. 27, 1964 this largest Alaska city was hit by an 8.4 earthquake


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1787 Arthur St. Clair became the first governor of this vast territory north of the Ohio River


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This statue got a new torch in 1986; the old one was 100 years old


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Term for the women of the 1920s who wore bobbed hair, short dresses & long strings of beads


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This Sunshine State once had east & west portions; the western part now belongs to Ala., Miss. & La.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1899 President McKinley took a turn in the Locomobile, a car made by Stanley & propelled by this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Jackson was one of the landowners who founded this Tennessee town overlooking the Mississippi in 1819


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Victor Marie du Pont served as a captain of this states volunteers in the War of 1812


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: When this convened in May 1787, Adams was in London, Jefferson was in Paris & Patrick Henry refused to attend


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Americans began to oocupy this even before we could send Russia the $7.2 million we paid for it


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1818 U.S. troops sacked Pensacola as they marched into this Spanish territory; soon it was ours


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: African Americans, 13% of the U.S., were nearly twice that percentage of U.S. troops in this 1990-91 war


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1960 the last of these locomotives was retired from general use in the U.S. & Diesel ones took over


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In the 1600s most of New York State was occupied by this Native American confederacy


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1899 Secretary of State John Hay proclaimed this welcoming policy to preserve U.S. trading rights in China


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 2 years after exploring the Northwest with William Clark, he was named gov. of the Louisiana territory


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This group of volunteers, created on Mar. 1, 1961, works to improve living conditions in other nations


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 24, 1980 an attempt to rescue 53 hostages in this capital city was called off


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Ullo, Gouverneur!  This signer of the Constitution gave the document its final wording


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Dec. 9, 1992, the first group of U.S. Marines arrived in this African nation to restore order


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: From 1804 to 1806 this pair explored the area between the Mississippi River & the mouth of the Columbia River


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On March 10, 1977, this Cesar Chavez labor group signed an agreement with the Teamsters union


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1920 this president signed legislation returning the railroads to private ownership


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed this compromise of 1820


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The government leasing oil reserves to Mammoth Oil in 1922 caused this scandal the next year


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1787-88 the Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of this document


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After a defeat in 1835 for reelection to Congress from Tennessee, this frontiersman moved to Texas


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: A Ute legend says the Great Spirit created all life on this peak discovered in 1806


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Nickname given in the 1930s to the area seen here in a famous Arthur Rothstein photo


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: When he began his Progressive Party, Teddy Roosevelt said he felt as fit as one of these animals


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1961 he became the first brother of a president appointed to a cabinet position


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On January 21, 1977 this president pardoned several thousand Vietnam War draft evaders


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1915 this Hull House founder helped establish the Womens International League for Peace & Freedom


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On June 21, 1982 he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of President Reagan


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In searching for the 7 Cities of Cibola, he & his men traveled as far north as present-day Lyons, Kansas


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln authorized this govt. agency; its main job then was to protect against counterfeiting


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Captain John Smith became president of this Virginia colonys council in September 1608


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He served as the first chief justice of New York before he became first chief justice of the U.S.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: It was necessary for George Washington to surrender Fort Necessity July 3, 1754, during this war


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This presidents political enemies referred to him as the Beast of Buffalo


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Aaron Burr & Molly Pitcher distinguished themselves at the June 28, 1778 battle of this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This legislative body first met on March 4, 1789 in New York City, but only 8 of its 22 members were present


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Henry Laurens, Thomas Mifflin & Richard Henry Lee were presidents of this body that only lasted for about 15 years


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 18, 1775 he was captured by the British but released; he had to walk back to Lexington


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On September 8, 1974, he was granted A full, free and absolute pardon


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: FDRs statement The United States of America was...deliberately attacked by...Japan was made on this date


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1824 Andrew Jackson received more popular & electoral votes, but the House declared this man president


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Hostilities in the Spanish-American War ended when Manila surrendered to General Merritt & this admiral


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This pact among the U.S., Mexico & Canada took effect in 1994 & aims to eliminate tariffs by 2008


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In the 1880s the Knights of this gave way to the American Federation of this representing workers


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1849, Thomas Ewing, The Logician of the West, became the USAs first Secy. of this Cabinet Dept.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This committee that once claimed 800,000 members was dissolved Dec. 11, 1941


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Gen. Charles Lee was relieved of command after ordering a retreat at this 1778 New Jersey battle


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Because of the potato famine, more than a million emigrated from this country to the U.S. in the mid-1800s


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This 1803 land acquisition included area in what is now 13 of the 50 states


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After winning the disputed 1876 election, he was inaugurated to cries of Rutherfraud


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1730 he assumed full ownership of the Pennsylvania Gazette


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Famous for his debates with Lincoln, he served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 1847 to 1861


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: During his first term as president, the Bill of Rights became law


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1813 the U.S. defeated the British in the Battle of the Thames River in what is now this country


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832 this president declared, The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me; but I will kill it


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In November 1689 Joseph Wadsworth hid this colonys charter from the British by placing it in an oak tree


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He earned his captains commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: At the outbreak of hostilities of the Civil War, he was president of the Senate


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition celebrated the 100th anniversary of this document


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On March 27, 1964, North Americas most intense recorded earthquake, an 8.4, hit this state


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 1 of 3 men who, under the name Publius, wrote The Federalist essays urging ratification of the Constitution


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Just before WWII this British king & his queen Elizabeth became the 1st British monarchs to visit the U.S.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1982 Central High School was made a national landmark in memory of 1957 events there


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: While in the VA. legislature, this 3rd president introduced his religious freedom statute


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Founded in 1607, the Popham colony on the Kennebec River was this states first English settlement


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1952 composer Stuart Hamblen was the presidential candidate of this anti-liquor party


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Dec. 23, 1921 President Harding pardoned this Socialist so that he could have Christmas dinner with his wife


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This soldier & frontiersman won important victories over the British in the Northwest Territory


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Francisco Lopez found this precious metal in California in 1842, before the rush


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1843 Congress allocated $30,000 to string one between Baltimore & Washington; it was completed in 1844


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1873 President Grant proclaimed this city the site of the Centennial Exposition of 1876


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Before cotton became king, this plant that yields a violet dye was a popular southern crop


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In May 1692 this villages jails were filled with witchcraft suspects, eventually totaling 150


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1900 Sanford B. Dole became the first governor of this U.S. territory


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: During the naval battle for this Alabama bay, David Farragut uttered, Damn the torpedoes!  Full speed ahead!


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1888 he won the presidency using the campaign song Grandfathers Hat Fits Ben


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: During the War of 1812, he had command of 3 brigs, 5 schooners & a sloop on Lake Erie


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Shrapnel from a 1916 munitions storage plant explosion in Jersey City, NJ damaged this famous statue


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Frances Perkins was trying to improve working conditions in these in the 1910s, Kathie Lee in the 90s


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The U.S. made this great buy from France in 1803 & would have been happy with just New Orleans


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: If this act hadnt passed July 14, 1798, we would have had just the Alien Acts


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1844 John C. Fremont crossed the Sierra Nevada & this John C. became Secretary of State


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1805 this territory was created from the Indiana one, with all or parts of the lower & upper peninsulas


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In May 1980 at least 26 people were killed when this volcano in Washington erupted


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In September 1664 this governor of New Amsterdam surrendered to the British, ending Dutch power in the New World


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: A 1963 treaty with Mexico settled a boundary dispute between Ciudad Juarez & this Texas city


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Famous 1863 speech by President Lincoln that began, Four score and seven years ago...


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Its the year America celebrated its bicentennial


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Davy Crockett was among nearly 200 men who died defending this mission-fortress in San Antonio, Texas


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After journeying 4,000 miles, this pairs expedition finally reached the Pacific Ocean in November 1805


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: During Bacons Rebellion in 1676 this 1st permanent English settlement in America was burned to the ground


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: A 1928 campaign slogan promised this in every pot and a car in every garage


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Years of political rivalry led to the July 11, 1804 duel between these 2 men


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1776 this silversmith set up a mill to make gunpowder after the colonists ran out of it at Bunker Hill


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Confederate States of America were established in 1861 in this city, the first Confederate capital


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This leader of the Green Mountain Boys was a champion for the creation of the Green Mountain State


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: By 1942 FDR had appointed 7 new men to this body: it took a while, but he got the packing he had wanted


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Congress adopted this document in 1777, but it was not fully ratified by the states for another 4 years


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Slaves, molasses & rum were exchanged in the 3 arms of the colonial practice known as this trade


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Our flag still waves proudly from the walls, William B. Travis said of it, I shall never surrender or retreat


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Nixons Atty-Gen. E. Richardson resigned & Watergate prosecutor A. Cox was fired on this night of the week


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: John Jay, not John Marshall, was the first one


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After the original 13, this was the 1st state admitted to the union


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: These 2 self-governing outlying areas of the U.S. were acquired from Spain in 1898


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In his 1835 book Democracy in America, this Frenchman predicted the present ages 2 superpowers


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Escaped slaves in the 1850s & draft dodgers in the 1960s mainly headed to this country


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Feb. 15, 1901 Carry Nation wrecked one of these establishments with a hatchet


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: A fire in 1851 destroyed some 35,000 volumes in its collection


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In the first census conducted in 1790, this state, with nearly 692,000 people, was the most populous


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 14 years before coming to America, this Quaker was imprisoned in the Tower of London for his beliefs


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1949 the U.S. joined this Western defense pact; our 1st ever peacetime alliance


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Its now thought that an internal explosion, not a mine, caused this ship to sink in Havana Harbor in 1898


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This settlements economy grew after John Rolfe found that tobacco could be successfully grown there


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 19th century term for the belief that U.S. expansion across North America was destined by God


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Custers Last Stand is also known by the oxymoronic name Little Big this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In the 1950s, if your button said, I Like Ike, he was your man


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Born in Tennessee, Davy Crockett died in whats now this state


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: William Codys 2-word nickname, or perhaps what he sent out to his clients at the end of each month


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Contrary to myth, Washington didnt throw one of these across the Potomac; there werent any when he was young


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1774 New Jerseyites dressed as Indians burned this in Greenwich; a similar Party occurred earlier in Boston


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1901 the Senate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, allowing the U.S. to build this in Central America


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1898 Commodore Dewey defeated the Spanish Pacific fleet at the battle of this Philippine bay


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 10, 1692 this colony founded by Cecil Calvert made the Anglican Church its official church


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1939 this state finally finished paying off a $12.4-million debt to the state from which it had separated


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Nickname given the WWII backyard vegetable patches


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In May of 1780, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln was forced to surrender this South Carolina port to the British


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: More than 200 U.S. Marines were killed in 1983 by a truck bomb at their barracks in this Mideast capital


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He related the story of Pocahontas in his General History of Virginia in 1624


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Battle of Palo Alto, fought May 8, 1846, was the first battle of this war


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On February 15, 1898 the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in this Cuban capitals harbor


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This King of the Wild Frontier once claimed to have killed 105 bears during a few months in 1825


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The War on this, approved by Congress in August of 1964, included VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Whats known as the second of these programs began with FDRs January 4, 1935 message to Congress


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: John Smith was among the early members on the Council of Seven that governed this Virginia colony


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This volunteer group was born in may 1898 near the bar in San Antonios Menger Hotel; it existed for just 133 days


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In November 1620 John Carver was elected the first governor of this colony


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1933 this Republican began serving the first of his 2 terms as governor of Kansas


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: While serving in this cabinet post, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. signed the U.N. charter for the U.S. June 26, 1945


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In June 1967 LBJ met with this Soviet premier in Glassboro, N.J. to discuss world problems


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On September 14, 1847, this general led the American army into Mexico City


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This 1803 acquisition doubled the size of the U.S.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Though he said he found dueling abhorent, he participated in one in 1804


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1912, it became 48th & last contiguous state to join The Union


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 1st to hold a nominating convention, this 3rd party ironically chose Mason Wm. Wirt to run for Pres.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Upon leading 1894 march of unemployed on Washington, Jacob Coxey was arrested for this trivial of offenses


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 11, 1918, Pvt. Henry Gunther became the last American casualty in this war


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Remarkably, there were more than 60 survivors when this Zeppelin crashed in New Jersey in 1937


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Elected the 19th U.S. president in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was a member of this political party


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY:   This man awarded the Medal of Freedom to Ronald Reagan on January 13, 1993


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This Indian king for whom a war against American colonists was named was tracked down & killed in 1676


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This 1876 battle in Montana is also known as Custers Last Stand


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In the late 1600s this Asian grain became the main crop of the Carolina coastal lowlands


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1972 George McGovern called this presidents administration the most corrupt in U.S. history


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1813 this hero of Tippecanoe defeated Tecumseh at the Thames River in Canada


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1664 the Duke of York granted land west of the Hudson River to his supporters; it was named this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: History was made on December 1, 1955 when bus driver James Blake called the police & had this person arrested


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Youre in the Army now--in 1940 FDR instituted the first peacetime one of these in U.S. history


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This term for a mechanical device can also be an organization running city politics, like NYCs Tammany Hall


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Edward Brooke was the first African American to hold this post for a state; Eric Holder is the first federal one


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This mans 1807 steamboat run up the Hudson led to an 1824 Supreme Court decision on interstate commerce


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1953, this islands first year as a U.S. commonwealth, 75,000 residents moved to the mainland


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This president collapsed September 25, 1919 & one week later suffered a stroke


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1609 Champlain reached the lake now named for him on the border of New York & this state


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1903 this Badger State became the first to adopt direct primary elections


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On December 2, 1863, ground was broken in Omaha for the construction of this railroad


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On the night of April 14, 1986, U.S. warplanes bombed Tripoli & Benghazi in this African country


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Traffic on this trail between San Antonio & Abilene peaked in 1871 with 600,000 cattle


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Until the late 1840s, this largest North Carolina city was the USAs chief source of gold


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: At the same time that John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State, his brother Allen headed this agency


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 19 members of this Irish-American terrorist society active in 1870s Pennsylvania were hanged


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In the last week of the John Tyler administration, this republic was offered statehood


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In September 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that he acted alone in JFKs assassination


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On December 20, 1860, as a result of Lincolns election, this state seceded from the Union


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1916 President Wilson sent this brigadier general into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1932 this Republican was elected governor of Kansas; he won reelection in 1934


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 22, 1906 they received a patent for an improved model of their airplane


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Samuel Adams referred to this April 19, 1775 battle when he said, What a glorious morning for America!


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Prior to his election to the Tennessee legislature in 1821, this frontiersman was a Justice of the Peace


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 1 of 4 freedoms FDR termed essential in a January 6, 1941 address to Congress


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Of the 3 writers of the Federalist papers, 2 were New Yorkers & he was a Virginian


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 9, 1906 Teddy Roosevelt left the U.S. to personally see the progress on this engineering project


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The British party of this name aimed to limit the kings powers; the U.S. party hoped to limit King Andrew Jackson


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 15, 1972 while campaigning in Laurel, Md., this Alabama governor was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1948 Whittaker Chambers implicated this State Department official as an espionage agent for the Soviets


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Ive had it on my mind that this state has joined the Union 3 times, in 1788, 1868 & 1870


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: A federal law from 1950 prohibited the labeling of colored oleo as this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Dept. of Agriculture began a new version of this program in 1964; by 1975 it was helping over 17 million people


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This commodore became a friend to Japan in 1854, showing them the telegraph & a daguerreotype camera


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Name that completed an 1856 Republican slogan, Free soil, free speech, free men and ...


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This states been on my mind since it entered the Union 3 times, in 1788, 1868 & 1870


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Guerrilla leader Francis Marion earned this nickname for his daring raids from the South Carolina marshes


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Name that completed an 1856 Republican slogan, Free soil, free speech, free men and...


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 15 indentured servants were aboard this ship when it sailed for the new world, Sept. 16, 1620


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He was hanged in Charlestown, Virginia about 6 weeks after he led the attack on Harpers Ferry


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1834 Stephen Austin was held in prison for 8 months in this country


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1818 this general ordered 2 traders arrested & executed for inciting the Seminole Indians


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This Oglala Sioux chief was fatally stabbed Sept. 5, 1877 at Fort Robinson, Nebraska


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: When the British approached, the Concord Militia didnt know about the skirmish at this place earlier that day


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: WWI sales of Liberty these, whose posters showed the statue, raised more than $15 billion


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: You didnt want to make the mistake of following the south instead of the north platte on this pioneer trail


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The U.S. supplied materiel to its allies during WWII through this 1941 Congressional act


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Now sounding oxymoronic, these alliterative Republicans were the partys anti-slavery wing in its early years


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Unaware of the Treaty of Ghent signed earlier, the British attacked this Louisiana city on Jan. 8, 1815


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The British gained Charlestown Peninsula, now in Boston, by winning this June 17, 1775 battle


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 7, 1811 this territorial governor of Indiana lost 62 of his men at Tippecanoe


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1794 this chief justice negotiated a treaty calling for British evacuation of the Northwest


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1912 Alaska became an organized U.S. territory & these 2 states joined the union


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After General Cornwallis Surrendered at Yorktown, this American traitor accompanied him back to England


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This January 1, 1863 document liberated all slaves in regions still under Confederate control


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1609 this captain was injured in a gunpowder explosion & lost his leadership role in Jamestown


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The New Deal refers to the economic recovery & social reforms implemented by this U.S. president


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1898 Americans were urged to remember this battleship that sank in Havana harbor, leading to war with Spain


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1943 Georgia became the 1st state to lower the voting age to this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Black Friday, September 24, 1869, resulted from Gould & Fisks attempt to corner the U.S. supply of this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He was the last Dutch governor of New York, which was New Netherland at the time


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: At the Battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston took this Mexican leader prisoner


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Swedish-born John Ericsson designed this 1st of the ironclads with a revolving turret


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On July 9, 1776 this states legislature met in White Plains & ratified the Declaration of Independence


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 4, 1949, the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France & 8 other nations signed this mutual defense pact


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 8 Americans were killed April 24, 1980 in a failed attempt to rescue American hostages held in this city


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After answering a NASA newspaper notice in the 70s, she became Americas first woman in space


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1919 this future pres. mobilized the Mass. Militia to restore order in the Boston police strike


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This famous transaction in 1803 doubled the territory of the U.S.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In the 1760s these 2 surveyors used milestones to mark the boundary line between Maryland & Pennsylvania


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of this U.S. president in 1974


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This 14-letter term refers to the period of readjustment & rebuilding after the Civil War


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Tragically, in the 1830s, some 4,000 members of this Indian tribe died during a forced march known as the Trail of Tears


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Bleeding Kansas was so named because of violence over this issue in the 1850s


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He obtained a charter to establish Georgia in 1732 & founded Savannah a year later


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This 1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War added over 500,000 square miles to U.S. territory


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This Shawnee chief & his brother, the Prophet, were both defeated in battles by William Henry Harrison


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Dec. 4, 1783 George Washington bade his officers farewell at this New York City tavern


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: As minister to Mexico, he was authorized by President Pierce to buy border land for the railroads


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On October 20, 1803, the senate ratified the treaty for this land acquisition


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Benedict Arnold & this mans Green Mountain Boys captured Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1866 he became general of the U.S. Army; the first officer so designated


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The name of this anti-Jackson party was introduced to the senate by Henry Clay, April 14, 1834


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1843 Daniel Webster resigned as this presidents Secretary of State


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This orator became governor of Virginia in 1776


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 19 convicted witches were executed this way in Salem, Massachusetts


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: A Packard touring car was disguised as a police car for this famous Holiday Holocaust in 1929


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1616 she went to England with her husband, John, & her infant son


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The legal name of this black evangelist-abolitionist was Isabella Van Wagener


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: John Alden was the last surviving signer of this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: For their part in this 1770 Massachusetts riot, 2 soldiers were branded on the thumb


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This monument with a 19-foot seated statue was dedicated by President Harding May 30, 1922


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Supreme Courts 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Though elected to the senate in 1930, this Louisiana governor didnt take his seat until 1932


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In September, 1971, 43 peole were killed during a 4-day riot at this New York prison


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 2 forts were founded in Idaho in 1834: Fort Hall & this one that bore the name of the future capital


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Decade that saw the Freedom Summer & the Freedom Riders


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The only state Reagan didnt carry in 1984 was this one, Mondales home state


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Its the war that was opposed by some Copperheads


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The land purchase he negotiated with Mexico was in part intended for a cross-country railroad he wanted to build


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1833 this area asked to separate from Coahuila to become its own Mexican state


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1901 Buffalo Bill founded this town in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Frances Willard, a president of the WCTU, was the first woman honored in this Capitol building hall


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In a March 1775 speech he also said, is peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The change in the American flag on July 4, 1960 was its first change since July 4 of this year


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In January 1935 she became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: His final regret was I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 22, 1889 Sooners staked claims hours ahead of schedule in Guthrie City in this territorys land grab


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This 1,500-mile-long mountain system divided the Civil War into the eastern & western theaters


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1910 Victor Berger of Wisconsin became the first of this party of Eugene Debs elected to Congress


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After his 1859 hanging, Civil War troops sang of this abolitionists body mouldering in the grave


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Plessy vs. Ferguson, which upheld segregation, was overturned by this 1954 case


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: During WWII America won its 1st major victory over Japan in this naval battle, about 1,200 miles from Hawaii


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Bushrod, the favorite nephew of this president, became a Supreme Court justice in 1798


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Some attribute these 1692 proceedings to the psychotic effects of ergot poisoning


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Federalists called it Mr. Madisons War


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: His 1934 trip to Cartagena, Colombia was the first by a sitting U.S. president to South America


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1856 William Dayton became the first vice presidential candidate of this new party


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1962 this Hawaiian became the first Japanese-American elected to the U.S. Senate


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Nixons running mate in 1960, he was named chief negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks in 1969


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The area thats now the State of Indiana was acquired in this war


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1787 Delaware became the 1st state in the Union; in 1860 this became the 1st state to secede


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1952 this territory adopted its own constitution & became a commonwealth


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1926 Lindbergh had to parachute out of planes 4 times while employed to do this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Wilson, Harding, Coolidge & Hoover refused to recognize this countrys government, but FDR did


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This New Deal agency was symbolized by a blue eagle & used the motto, We do our part


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Aug. 5, 1884 the cornerstone of this landmarks pedestal was laid on Bedloes Island


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 41 male passengers signed this document in Provincetown Harbor, November 11, 1620


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 9, 1995 the Senate, by a vote of 98-0, confirmed John Deutch as director of this agency


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1769 he founded San Diego de Alcala, the first Franciscan mission in California


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1975 200 U.S. Marines recaptured this merchant ship that had been seized by Cambodia


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: 3 months after Congress authorized the Department of Foreign Affairs, it changed its name to this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He died in 1804 the day after his duel with Aaron Burr


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1945-46 the number of these government employees dropped from 12 million to less than 3 million


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1932 Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to this body


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After the original 13 colonies, this was the first state to enter the union


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Though this president chose the general site for the executive mansion, he never lived there


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1836 this republic asked to be annexed to the U.S.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: When asked in 1779 Have you lowered your flag? he reportedly said, I have not yet begun to fight


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: A compromise allowed Maines admission to the union in 1820 as a free state & this as a slave state in 1821


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions were passed in opposition to these 1798 acts


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1850 it became the first state on the Pacific coast admitted to the union


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The U.S. Marine Corps was first established to fight in this war


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Oct. 2, 1967 he was sworn in as the first African-American Supreme Court justice


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Jonathan Edwards was among the leaders of this great religious movement of the 1700s


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1893 3 men serving prison sentences for this riot were pardoned by the governor of Illinois


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This amendment was 3 states short of ratification when its deadline elapsed June 30, 1982


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In October 1867 Gen. Rousseau took formal possession of this territory that the U.S. had bought in March


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1907 Charles N. Haskell of Muskogee became this new states first governor


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Because of his deist beliefs, this Age of Reason author died a social outcast in New York City in 1809


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He was promoted to captain for burning the captured U.S. frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The Continental Congress approved this game to raise money for the army; it never hit $250 million


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After 3 previous acquittals, this reputed crime family boss was finally convicted in New York City on April 2, 1992


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Due to expansive pork processing facilities, this city on the Ohio River was once known as Porkopolis


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He shook up society in the 1960s & later published Revolution for the Hell of It & Steal This Book


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This Spanish explorer, not Ponce de Leon, claimed Florida for Spain in June of 1539


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: From 1757 to 1762 this man was ambassador extraordinaire of the American colonies to Great Britain


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Jan. 19, 1977 President Ford pardoned this woman whod been convicted of treason in World War II


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Lanterns hung in this Old church warned patriots of an impending attack in April 1775


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY:   On November 28, 1946 the Allied Council adjourned their peace talks here at the Waldorf for a dinner of this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This N.Y. womans 1970 campaign slogan was This womans place is in the House -- the House of Representatives!


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: It was the main cause of the 1803 jump in the national debt to $86.4 million


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On August 29, 1877, this leader of the Mormon Church died


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After aiding the U.S. in the Battle of New Orleans, this pirate was pardoned


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In December 1952, this president-elect visited the front lines during the Korean War


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After this waterway opened in 1825, freight rates between Buffalo & NYC were cut by more than 90%


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This man who bought Manhattan from the Indians later served as governor of New Sweden


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Dec. 16, 1773 American patriots dumped 342 chests of tea into this citys harbor


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Abraham Lincoln died across the street from this theatre on April 15, 1865


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In May 1844 he sent a telegraph message using the code hed also invented


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: John Rolfe came to the new world to grow this cash crop; picking up Pocahontas was a bonus


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This president said fear itself is nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: WAC, the Womens Army Corps, was created during this war


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1986 he became the first Italian-American to sit on the Supreme Court


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: What was once the proposed state of Franklin became part of this new state in 1796


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After serving as postmaster general in 1921 & 1922 he became czar of the motion picture industry


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1807 Congress passed this act that forbade American ships from trading abroad; it lasted just over a year


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On October 24, 1952 Eisenhower vowed to go to this country & 5 weeks later, he did


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1732, Vincennes, in this future state, was founded by the French on the Wabash River


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This 1941 act enabled the U.S. to become the Arsenal of Democracy


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 13, 1846, President James K. Polk signed a declaration of war against this country


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Dec. 26, 1799 this general eulogized George Washington in Congress


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: When Thomas Jefferson took office in March, 1801, this river formed the western U.S. boundary


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1890 this GOP senator from Ohio sponsored an antitrust act & the Silver Purchase Act


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1997 this U.N. secy.-general became the first international guest of President Clintons second term


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On Sept. 30, 1953, Pres. Eisenhower named this California governor as Chief Justice of the U.S.


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Signed February 2, 1848, this treaty ended the Mexican War


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1912 this Bull Moose spoke for about 50 minutes with a would-be-assassins bullet lodged in his chest


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The siege of the Alamo gave this Texas general time to prepare for the Battle of San Jacinto


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This Public Enemy No. 1 robbed Midwestern banks until 1934 when he was done in by the Woman in Red


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Lawrence, Kansas was founded by people opposed to this practice


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1960 black sit-ins at segregated lunch counters started in Greensboro in this state


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1692 the Spanish regained control of this future New Mexico capital from the Pueblo Indians


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1639 the Court of Massachusetts ordered that The Colledge...to bee built at Cambridg be called this


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The political slogan As this state goes, so goes the nation dates back to the 1880s


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1857 antislavery forces were set back when the Supreme Court decided the case of this man vs. Sandford


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On July 31, 1972 this Missouri senator withdrew as McGoverns running mate because of earlier psychiatric care


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Lincoln said it was the central act of my administration & the greatest event of the 19th century


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This traitor took a cut in rank from major general in the U.S. Army to brigadier general in the British Army


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1765 Dr. James Baker opened his first factory in Massachusetts to make this - how sweet!


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Mormons say divine intervention sent these birds to stop a cricket infestation in 1848


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1949 the Senate ratified this treaty that joined the U.S. with 11 others in a mutual defense pact


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: After losing his Senate seat to John F. Kennedy, he was made U.S. representative at the United Nations


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1814 & 1815 New England leaders took part in the Hartford Convention to discuss opposition to this war


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1962 the U.S agreed to give Cuba $53 million in aid for the release of 1,113 prisoners taken in this invasion


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1804 Justice Samuel Chase was impeached for comments critical of this presidents administration


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: On August 5, 1864 David Farragut barreled full speed ahead into this Alabama bay, defeating the Confederate navy


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1621 this Wampanoag chief & about 90 of his people shared Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Witchcraft trials held in this town in 1692 led to the hangings of 19 people


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname during the Battle of Manassas, also called the Battle of this creek


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: These Articles served as the basis of our national government from 1781 to 1789


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: When the Mexican War began in 1846, the Army of the West used this trail to invade New Mexico


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Cleanup of this Pennsylvania nuclear power plant following the 1979 meltdown didnt end until 1993


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He was called Black Dan due to his swarthy complexion & Godlike Daniel from his imposing style


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: A branch of the military that was part of the army before it became independent in 1947


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He resigned as Secretary of State April 15, 1959 & died a few weeks later


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: He, not FDR, was the only Democrat Vermont supported for president since the Civil War


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: These unpopular laws that dealt with citizenship & free speech contributed to John Adams defeat in 1800


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: This 1848 event made the California trail the most traveled pioneer road by 1850


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Before becoming chief justice in 1789, he was Secy of Foreign Affairs in the Continental Congress


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1928 this Republican campaigned for president promising a chicken in every pot


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: Judge John T. Raulston presided over this Dayton, Tennessee trial in July 1925


Context: AMERICAN HISTORY: The first gusher in the U.S. occurred in this oil field near Beaumont, Texas in 1901


Context: LITERATURE: In chapter 52 of this novel, a boisterous crowd is gathering for Fagins execution


Context: LITERATURE: 19th c. author known for writing about a venerable mansion with seven acutely peaked gables


Context: LITERATURE: People from the past appear to a brother & sister in Rewards and Fairies by this author of The Jungle Book


Context: LITERATURE: Modern novels with biblical titles include Jane Hamiltons The Book of Ruth & Toni Morrisons Song of him


Context: LITERATURE: Even Grendel would love Seamus Heaneys new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic about this title geat


Context: LITERATURE: Ellen Glasgow, a native of this Virginia capital, set several novels there but called it Queenborough


Context: LITERATURE: Title character who says, Why did you paint it?  It will mock me some day — mock me horribly!


Context: LITERATURE: She wrote in Emma, One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other


Context: LITERATURE: This Madame Bovary author visited Tunisia to research Salammbo, his novel about Carthage


Context: LITERATURE: Eugenie Grandet is considered one of the finest novels in his series La Comedie Humaine


Context: LITERATURE: In F. Scott Fitzgeralds classic novel, Nick Carraway lives next door to this title character


Context: LITERATURE: Part I of this Willa Cather novel is entitled The Wild Land


Context: LITERATURE: His novel Daisy Miller opens at the Trois Couronnes hotel in Vevey, Switzerland


Context: LITERATURE: He published his third novel, A Cool Million, in 1934, one year after Miss Lonelyhearts


Context: LITERATURE: In English, Ivan Turgenevs novel Ottsy i Deti is known by this familial title


Context: LITERATURE: Chapter 13 of this classic novel is called Another View of Hester


Context: LITERATURE: He published the first 4 of his fairy tales in an 1835 pamphlet; The Tinder Box was among them


Context: LITERATURE: Nicodemus Frapp is a narrow-minded evangelist in Tono-Bungay, a 1909 novel by this author of The Time Machine


Context: LITERATURE: This author of The Good Earth based the heroine of her 1938 novel This Proud Heart on herself


Context: LITERATURE: In Wonderland, Alice comes across a large one of these with a snooty caterpillar atop it


Context: LITERATURE: Tai-Pan was a Novel of Hong Kong by James Clavell, & this was his 1975 Novel of Japan


Context: LITERATURE: In Pierre Boulles Planet of the Apes, Zira & Cornelius are this species of ape


Context: LITERATURE: Milan Kunderas Immortality read in this, its original language, may be unbearably light reading


Context: LITERATURE: Goethe called him Faust; Marlowe dubbed him this


Context: LITERATURE: Completes the title of Eldridge Cleavers 1968 memoir Soul on...


Context: LITERATURE: Walt Whitmans 52-section Song Of Myself is the longest work in this collection first published in 1855


Context: LITERATURE: In this Steinbeck novel, Lennie has nightmarish visions of his dead aunt Clara & of a gigantic rabbit


Context: LITERATURE: In this novel, Javert says, There is a brigand, there is a convict called Jean Valjean, and I have got him!


Context: LITERATURE: This James M. Cain novel, which has been filmed twice, was written under the title Bar-B-Q


Context: LITERATURE: This Muriel Spark novel is set at the Marcia Blaine School For Girls in Edinburgh


Context: LITERATURE: A Tale of Two Cities opens as Dr. Alexander Manette is released after 18 years in this prison


Context: LITERATURE: At one point in this 1862 novel, Jean Valjean owns a factory


Context: LITERATURE: In Through The Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the meaning of this nonsense poem


Context: LITERATURE: In the final scene of Rebecca, this stately mansion of Maxim De Winter burns


Context: LITERATURE: The title of this 1965 Frank Herbert novel refers to the desert planet of Arrakis


Context: LITERATURE: Not Natty Dresser but Natty this dies in the novel The Prairie


Context: LITERATURE: This Melville characters artificial leg is carved from the jawbone of a sperm whale


Context: LITERATURE: Jim Hawkins narrates this 1883 novel


Context: LITERATURE: At the start of this Dickens novel, Pip meets an escaped convict who threatens to eat him


Context: LITERATURE: This governor of a Southern state asks his aide to dig up dirt on Judge Irwin, a man of integrity


Context: LITERATURE: Depending on the book, he could be a Jones, a Sawyer, or an Uncle


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote The 3 Musketeers; his son wrote Camille


Context: LITERATURE: Where you cant go again in Thomas Wolfe title


Context: LITERATURE: Irvings bird-like hero chased by the Headless Horseman


Context: LITERATURE: Shaws scorched saint


Context: LITERATURE: Danl Webster was the name of the title amphibian in The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of this County


Context: LITERATURE: Sancho Panza rides a donkey named Dapple in this Cervantes novel


Context: LITERATURE: The final chapter of The Scarlet Letter says that her tombstone bore the letter A


Context: LITERATURE: Archdeacon Claude Frollo was this hunchbacks master


Context: LITERATURE: This Poe tale contains the line, The French army had entered Toledo


Context: LITERATURE: When this group came to power in China, they demanded all literature depict heroes of the working class


Context: LITERATURE: The first sequel to this classic French novel was titled Twenty Years After


Context: LITERATURE: He penned the classic line There was an old man with a beard, who said It is just as I feared


Context: LITERATURE: New Zealander Jane Campion directed the 1996 film version of this Henry James novel


Context: LITERATURE: In 1981 American playwright Beth Henley won a Pulitzer Prize for this criminal play


Context: LITERATURE: Slow and steady wins the race is the famous last line of this fable


Context: LITERATURE: Part of this Robert Louis Stevenson tale takes place in a sinister house called the Laboratory


Context: LITERATURE: This Rex Stout character loves gardening & gourmet foods, as did Stout


Context: LITERATURE: This title character in a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel is the grandson of an earl


Context: LITERATURE: This Booth Tarkington novel tells the tale of a girls attempts to raise her station in life


Context: LITERATURE: In early drafts, the heroine of this novel was named Pansy & her family home was called Fontenoy Hall


Context: LITERATURE: Britannica states that the name Agora was first found in the work of this ancient Greek poet


Context: LITERATURE: This 1953 book title tells us the temperature at which books burn


Context: LITERATURE: In 1900 he wrote the line, The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick


Context: LITERATURE: This 1952 Pulitzer-winning book grew out of Herman Wouks experiences on a WWII destroyer-minesweeper


Context: LITERATURE: Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave this volume of 44 sonnets to Robert in 1847, a year after they eloped


Context: LITERATURE: He based the Red Queen on Miss Prickett, the governess of Alice Liddell


Context: LITERATURE: Atlas Shrugged is the fullest fictional presentation of this authors philosophy, objectivism


Context: LITERATURE: This James Joyce book was first published in France in 1922


Context: LITERATURE: The epistolary novel, in the form of these, was popularized by Samuel Richardsons Pamela in 1740


Context: LITERATURE: Proust paid to publish Swanns Way, the first part of this epic work, after publishers rejected it