| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| These works were opposed by essays written under the pseudonym Brutus. The president can choose not to seek "advice and consent" from the Senate when making treaties according to an argument in these works, the 78th entry of which is the foundation for the concept of judicial review. Publius was the pseudonym used to author, for the point, what series of essays largely written by Alexander Hamilton in support of the Constitution? | The Federalist Papers |
| In Smith v. Goguen, laws protecting these objects were ruled unconstitutionally vague. The Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade destroyed these objects to protest Ronald Reagan’s policies at the 1984 Republican National Convention. This object's namesake "Code" includes often unenforced bans on turning this object into clothing or using it in advertising. For the point, name this object that children salute while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. | American Flags |
| During this campaign, civilians were massacred at Huế [[HWAY]], which briefly resulted in the seizure of an embassy. Walter Cronkite’s coverage of this military campaign was an influence on LBJ’s decision to not seek re-election. For the point, name this 1968 offensive in which the Viet Cong attacked U.S. forces on the Vietnamese New Year. | Tet Offensive (prompt on “Vietnam War”) |
| The “Silver Gray” faction of this political party was named for the hair of Francis Granger. This political party once tried to split the vote by running four different presidential candidates. This political party, which was named similarly to the British opponents of the Tories, advocated the “American System." For the point, name this political party that supported politicians such as William Henry Harrison and Henry Clay. | Whig Party |
| The author of this novel published a "Key" seeking to support its content with "Facts and Documents." Two characters in this novel bring their pursuer Tom Loker to a doctor after shooting him. The title character of this novel receives a lock of hair from the deeply religious Eva St. Clare, whom he saves from drowning, and he is sold to the abusive Simon Legree. For the point, name this anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. | Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly |
| This device’s design originated with Catherine Greene, according to Matilda Joslyn Gage’s article “Women as Inventor.” The invention of this device is believed to have single-handedly reversed the decline of slavery in the U.S. South. This device consisted of a roller with wires that strained out debris, and a second roller with brushes to soften the product. For the point, name this device for removing seeds from a certain crop, invented by Eli Whitney. | Cotton Gin (or Cotton Engine; prompt on “Roller Gin”) |
| Victor Berger and Meyer London were the only two Congressional representatives of this party, whose leadership once included IWW head “Big Bill” Haywood. A presidential candidate for this party was imprisoned under the Espionage and Sedition Acts for opposing World War One and received six percent of the vote in 1912. Eugene Debs ran under, for the point, what left wing party, many of whose members joined the more radical Communist Party? | Socialist Party of America (accept American Socialist Party) |
| After the nationalization of oil refineries, this policy was put into place in 1960, with exceptions for medical purposes. The subject of this policy is central to the Helms-Burton Act, as well as Clinton-era measures to prevent foreign subsidiaries from circumventing it. First enforced with regards to arms sought by Fulgencio Batista's regime, this is, for the point, what policy that bans American business from trading with a Caribbean country? | United States Embargo against the Republic of Cuba (accept República de Cuba or Erekusú in place of Republic of Cuba in answers) |
| This government was the target of Sullivan’s Expedition, a scorched earth campaign. This government signed the Covenant Chain agreements with the American colonies. According to tradition, this government was founded by the Mother of Nations and the Great Peacemaker. This government’s constitution was the Great Law of Peace, which was commemorated with wampum belts. For the point, name this Native American confederacy of western New York. | Iroquois Confederacy (accept Longhouse Confederacy; or Haudenosaunee; or Five Nations; or Six Nations; prompt on constituents, such as the “Mohawk,” “Onondaga,” “Oneida," “Cayuga,” “Seneca,” or “Tuscarora”) |
| This location was manned by a lighthouse keeper before it was the subject of a 91-man retreat from Fort Moultrie. This location was commanded by Major Robert Anderson, who served as General P.G.T. Beauregard’s artillery instructor at West Point. For the point, name this South Carolina location where Lieutenant Henry Farley opened fire in 1861 to spark the American Civil War. | Fort Sumter |
| This man’s mentor, Charles Hamilton Houston, insisted he should be “a social engineer” and not a "lawyer." Prior to being appointed by Lyndon Johnson to the Supreme Court, this man argued 112 cases, including Chambers v. Florida and, as the NAACP’s legal counsel, Brown v. Board of Education. For the point, name this first African American to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. | Thurgood Marshall |
| In 2009, this company’s parent company purchased it for $5.9 billion from General Electric. Kanye West proclaimed that “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people” during a relief special for Hurricane Katrina aired by this network, which employed Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. The Olympics and Sunday Night Football have historically been aired by, for the point, what Comcast-owned broadcasting company headquartered in a building called 30 Rock? | NBC (or National Broadcasting Company) |
| While standing on the steps of a capital building in this city, Martin Luther King Jr., gave the “How Long, Not Long” speech. This city’s Bloody Sunday crackdown on protestors occurred at the culmination of a march that originated in Selma. For the point, name this Alabama city where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, sparking a wave of civil protest. | Montgomery |
| Racially integrated alternatives to speakeasies in this place were called buffet flats. Historic entertainment venues in this place include the Apollo Theater and Savoy Ballroom. A literary movement named for this place was led by poets such as Claude McKay and Langston Hughes. For the point, name this historically Black neighborhood in New York that experienced a namesake renaissance. | Harlem (accept Harlem Renaissance; prompt on "New York" or "New York City") |
| Colorado senator John Hickenlooper’s uncle served as governor of this state, which he also represented in the Senate alongside Jack Miller. This state’s Madison County is famous for its covered bridges, and a senator from this state controversially claimed she knew how to “cut the pork” because of her time castrating hogs. Joni Ernst represents, for the point, what Midwestern state where senator Chuck Grassley represents the interests of Des Moines? | Iowa |
| This man was elegized in the brief poems “This Dust Was Once the Man” and “Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day.” This man’s death was commemorated in the poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,” and, in another poem, this man is “fallen cold and dead.” For the point, identify this president, the subject of the poem “O’Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman. | Abraham Lincoln (accept "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight") |
| In 1886, a man of this ethnicity sued over a fine for operating a San Francisco laundry without a license. The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was clarified in a court case involving a man of this ethnicity who had traveled abroad, and Central Pacific Railroad hired people of this ethnicity to build the Transcontinental Railroad. For the point, name this Asian ethnicity, whose immigration to the U.S. was banned by a namesake Exclusion Act. | Chinese Americans (accept equivalents) |
| This author of Death by Black Hole followed in Carl Sagan's footsteps as host of the show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. In the show The Big Bang Theory, this man was confronted by Sheldon Cooper for demoting the status of one celestial object. This scientist is the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. For the point, identify this American astrophysicist and science communicator who led the campaign for Pluto's reclassification a s a dwarf planet. | Neil deGrasse Tyson |
| Samuel Huntington was empowered by this document, the first to mention the concept of perpetual union. John Dickinson presented the Committee of Thirteen’s draft of this document, which was ratified by Maryland after other states ceded their western claims. The phrase "not worth a continental" referred to money printed by this document's government. The Continental Congress adopted, for the point, what group of "articles" that were succeeded by the Constitution? | Articles of Confederation (or Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union) |
| When this man joined the “Hundred Conventions” Project, he was chased and beaten by a mob in Indiana. At the Lynn Central Square Station, this person and James N. Buffum were thrown off a train for refusing to sit in a segregated railroad coach. Unbeknownst to him, in 1872 this man became the running mate of Victoria Woodhull and the first African American nominated for vice president. For the point, name this abolitionist who published The North Star. | Frederick Douglass |
| This man urged Robert Cooper Grier to vote with the majority in a case described as the Supreme Court's "greatest self-inflicted wound." This man worked with John Mason and Pierre Soulé to sign the Ostend Manifesto, and he rose to the presidency after defeating the earliest Republican candidate, John C. Frémont, four years before an election in which Stephen Douglas was defeated. For the point, name this bachelor president who won the Election of 1856. | James Buchanan Jr. |
| This man once denied "that the American people have surrendered to any set of men" in a speech comparing "wage-workers in industry" to "tillers of the soil." In one speech, this man rejected "the doctrine of ignoble ease," instead embracing "the doctrine of the strenuous life." This man was shot while delivering a speech, declaring "it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." For the point, name this president who succeeded William McKinley. | Teddy Roosevelt (accept Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; accept T.R.; prompt on "Roosevelt") |
| The Coercive Acts were passed as a response to this event, which was partially spurred by Thomas Hutchinson’s refusal to go back to England. The Sons of Liberty orchestrated this event, which targeted the Beaver, Eleanor, and Dartmouth. For the point, name this event in which colonists, dressed as Native Americans, protested taxation by throwing crates of a certain caffeinated leaf into a New England harbor. | The Boston Tea Party |
| People of this ethnicity fought in New York City's Orange Riots. Members of this ethnicity protested the use of the King James Bible in schools and founded Fordham, the first Jesuit university in the U.S. After immigrating on "coffin ships," people of this ethnicity were characterized as violent, drunk criminals, and were often refused work. For the point, name this ethnicity who faced discrimination after coming to the U.S. during a great potato famine. | Irish-Americans (accept equivalents) |
| The original funds for this institution were invested in treasury bonds issued by Arkansas that almost immediately defaulted. Funding for this institution was restored at the insistence of John Quincy Adams using the will from its Canadian namesake. This organization is run from “The Castle,” a red-brick building located in the National Mall. For the point, identify this institution that operates the National Zoo and the Air and Space Museum. | Smithsonian Institution (prompt on “United States National Museum”) |
| William Rosecrans drove Braxton Bragg out of this state during the Tullahoma campaign. This is the southernmost of the two states which were central to the Confederate Heartland Campaign. Confederate General Albert Johnston was killed in this state during the Battle of Shiloh, and the former military governor of this state was Andrew Johnson. For the point, name this Confederate state which came under Union control following the capture of Nashville. | Tennessee |
| Trombonist Kid Ory led this city’s first Black band to make recordings on tour in California. This city’s Black population originated its now iconic tradition of a marching band accompanying a casket, and this city’s red light district of Storyville was the origin of performers such as Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong. The first ever jazz record was made by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band of, for the point, what Black cultural hub in Louisiana? | New Orleans |
| Otto Katz claimed that he "discovered" this place like "Columbus discovered America." The Waldorf Statement was written in response to allegations made against a group named for this place that included Dalton Trumbo. That group, who was banned from working in this place, consisted of ten individuals accused of Communist leanings by the HUAC. For the point, name this Southern California location that is associated with the American film industry. | Hollywood (accept Hollywood Ten; prompt on "Tinsel Town" and other similar answers) |
| Joseph Pulitzer led a crowdfunding campaign asking school children to give coins to help move this object to its current location. This object was adapted from blueprints titled for its figure Carrying the Light to Asia, which was intended to stand near the Suez Canal. This statue’s disembodied arm was displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. For the point, name this copper statue that once welcomed immigrants to Ellis Island. | Statue of Liberty (or Liberty Enlightening the World) |
| Thomas L. Connelly's book The Marble Man focuses on this man, who was the subject of a biography by Douglas Southall Freeman. After a defeat at Cheat Mountain, this man took part in the Seven Days' Battles. A group of Marines were brought in by this man to counter John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. A man nicknamed "Stonewall" reported to this man, who himself reported to Jefferson Davis. For the point, name this Virginian and leading Confederate general. | Robert E. Lee (or Robert Edward Lee) |
| The Book of Mormon may have inspired this movement’s belief that a special kind of shirt could protect the wearer from bullets. Followers of this movement were massacred at the Pine Ridge Reservation, and this movement, which was led by Wovoka, prayed for the return of buffalo and the expulsion of white men. The Paiute [[PYE-yoot]] tribe originated, for the point, what Native American religious movement that centered on a namesake rhythmic ritual? | Ghost Dance (or Nanissáanah) |