| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This historian claimed that white supremacy was central to justification by Confederates who enslaved people while fighting for freedom in his For Cause and Comrades. This historian argued that the gun rights movement was rooted in backlash to the Emancipation Proclamation in the book Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. This historian placed the Civil War in the cultural aftermath of the Mexican- American war in his Pulitzer-winning 1988 work. For the point, name this American Civil War historian, the author of Battle Cry of Freedom. | James M (unro) McPherson |
| This onetime vice president of Eastern Air Transport claimed that FDR's decision to give the U.S. Army Air Corps the responsibility to deliver mail constituted a legalization of murder. With Barney Everitt, this man started a namesake automobile company. The commander of the 94th Aero Squadron, this man was given a Medal of Honor for his actions near Billy [[bee-YEE]] in France. Obtaining 26 aerial victories between 1917 and 1919, for the point, who was this decorated American ace of World War One? | Eddie Rickenbacker (or Edward Vernon Rickenbaker; accept Rickenbacker Motor Company) |
| John James brought the suit in this case, as he stood to collect half of the fine involved as an informant. This case occurred when one institution issued bills unstamped by the Western Shore Treasury. One line from this Supreme Court case’s opinion, borrowed from Daniel Webster, claimed that “the power to tax is the power to destroy.” For the point, name this Supreme Court case in which the John Marshall court rejected a certain state’s attempt to tax the Second Bank of the United States. | McCulloch v. Maryland (or James McCulloch v. The State of Maryland) |
| By defeating Jubal Early's troops at the Battle of Cedar Creek, this general effectively ended Confederate raids into Maryland. Along with George Bird Grinnell and George Vest, this man lobbied for the creation of Yellowstone National Park. As head of the department of the Missouri, this man purportedly said, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." For the point, name this Union general who led an aggressive 1864 "scorched earth" campaign in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and names a light tank in use during the late twentieth century. | Philip Henry Sheridan (accept Sheridan tank; accept M551 Sheridan AR/AAV) |
| Reverend Benedict Rosinski recorded his attempt to convert this man from his irreligious ways while head of St. Stanislas Church in Cleveland. An African-American man named James Parker was the first person to apprehend this figure after he completed one act, a show of violence perpetrated at the Temple of Music after bandaging his arm to hide a revolver. The Pan-American Exposition was the site of the assassination of William McKinley by, for the point, what Polish-American anarchist? | Leon F. Czolgosz [[CHAHL-gosh]] |
| The Fort Hill Address was prepared during this event by a politician who drafted a set of papers with James Hamilton, Jr. A tax drafted by Gulian C. Verplanck attempted to end this event, which led to the passage of the Force Bill. Federal troops were sent to South Carolina to enforce a high protective tariff during this event, which escalated the threat of a civil war. The Tariff of 1833 ended, for the point, what Jackson-era crisis over whether or not states have the power to invalidate federal laws? | Nullification Crisis |
| This building was constructed upon the site where Obadiah Bruen Brown led a meeting house for the First Baptist Church. 22 clerks died when interior floors of this building partially collapsed in 1893, and Samuel J. Seymour was the final surviving witness of an event at this location. An event that took place in this location made use of a Derringer and involved an actor shouting the words "Sic semper tyrannis." For the point, name this theatre in which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. | Ford's Theatre (accept Ford's Theatre National Historic Site) |
| A toast by a soldier from this state inspired a phrase that was the subject of the case Wooley v. Maynard, in which it was found that this state could not force groups with moral reservations to include its state motto on their license plates. The application of the Contracts Clause to private corporations was the subject of a case that arose at an institution in this state which came about when trustees deposed the university's president. For the point, the case Dartmouth v. Woodward surrounded events transpiring in which state? | New Hampshire |
| This author of the memoir A Soldier's Story once referred to admirals in the Navy as "fancy dans who won't hit the line with all they have on every play unless they can call the signals." Ernie Pyle originated this man's nickname, "GI General," and, while leading the Twelfth Army Group, this man had a force of 1.3 million soldiers under his command. Under Harry Truman, this man became the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For the point, name this general, the most recent to receive the rank of General of the Army. | Omar N (elson) Bradley |
| This person co-founded Howard University’s student newspaper, The Hilltop, with Louis King. Alain Locke published this person’s first short story, “John Redding Goes to Sea.” Fearing its effects on Black schools, this person opposed the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and this person’s work was largely forgotten until Alice Walker published an article about her in an issue of Ms. magazine. For the point, name this woman, the author of Mules and Men. | Zora Neale Hurston (accept "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston") |
| This explorer named one of his discoveries after the daughter of malted milk magnate William Horlick, one of his financiers. This discoverer of Mount Sidley oversaw Operation Deep Freeze for the Navy, during which the Bay of Whales and McMurdo Sound bases were established. In 1926, this man collaborated with Floyd Bennett to navigate the airplane Josephine Ford on a landmark-claiming expedition that started at Spitsbergen. For the point, name this explorer, the first to fly over both the North and South Poles. | Richard Byrd (or Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr.) |
| Members of this political party were also members of the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, although awareness of such membership was broadly denied. The “Bloody Monday” riots in Louisville, Kentucky were sparked by this political party’s nativist policies. This party, also known as the "Native American Party," opposed both immigrants and Catholics. For the point, what was this political party whose name was derived from a response they gave when asked about specifics by outsiders? | Know Nothings (accept Native American Party or American Party before mentioned) |
| After this man’s victory at the Battle of Bloody Run, British general Jeffery Amherst announced a bounty on his head. In response to an ambush led by this follower of Neolin, the Paxton Boys massacred Susquehannock civilians in Pennsylvania. This man is the namesake of a conflict that began with an ambush at Fort Detroit, during which William Trent distributed blankets tainted with smallpox. For the point, name this Odawa chief who led a namesake 1760s rebellion in the Great Lakes region. | Pontiac (or Obwaandi'eyaag; accept Pontiac's Rebellion, Conspiracy, or War) |
| One effort during this war prompted the sitting president to say, "the Navy and Marines have never shone more brightly than this morning." The People's Volunteer Army first saw combat in this war in which fighting along the Naktong River occurred during attempts to break a 140-mile long line of defense. Matthew Ridgway was promoted to general during this war, following the resignation of Douglas MacArthur. For the point, the Battle of Pusan Perimeter was fought during what 1950 to 1953 war? | Korean War (accept 625 War; accept 625 Upheaval; accept Fatherland Liberation War; accept Han War) |
| This politician resigned from one position, claiming that he was "not willing to preside over….cannibals." This man's 2012 presidential campaign is the most indebted campaign of all-time and is technically still active due to his inability to pay what is owed. This politician was named Time’s Person of the Year after his Contract with America led to the Republicans re-taking the House in 1994. For the point, name this former Georgia representative, the Speaker of the House for much of the 1990s. | Newt Gingrich (or Newton Leroy Gingrich) |
| Although this song was performed at the funerals of Winston Churchill and Robert Kennedy, CBS would not let Judy Garland perform this song at President Kennedy’s funeral. During the Civil War, James Freeman Clarke allegedly challenged this song’s writer to rewrite the lyrics to pre-existing music. The lyrics to this song were first published in The Atlantic Monthly, and Confederate soldiers sang different lyrics to this patriotic song. For the point, name this song, written to the music of “John Brown’s Body," with lyrics by Julia Ward Howe. | "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (accept "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"; accept "Glory, Glory Hallelujah") |
| When a hotel owner asked this man where a never-found box was, this man replied, "I'll tell you later, Seymour." This man’s son chaired the Senate Finance Committee and held so much influence that the Wall Street Journal once called him “the fourth branch of government.” A medical professional who used an FN Model 1910 pistol to assassinate this man in 1935 was named Carl Weiss. For the point, name this “Kingfish," a Louisiana politician who promoted wealth redistribution. | Huey Long (or Huey Pierce Long, Jr.; prompt on “Kingfish”; prompt on "Long"; do not accept or prompt on "Russell B (iliu) Long") |
| As a result of successful financial management of this event, Peter Ueberroth was named commissioner of Major League Baseball. A John Williams "fanfare" debuted at this event, after which Carl Lewis and Mary Lou Retton became household names. McDonald's ran out of Big Macs and lost millions of dollars staging an ill-conceived free food giveaway tied to U.S. success at this event, which opened at Memorial Coliseum. For the point, at what sporting contest did the host country, the U.S., win an unusual number of medals due to a Soviet-led boycott? | 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics (accept 1984 Summer Olympics; prompt on partial answers) |
| The Kinkaid Act amended one of these acts, the subject of a George Henry Evans campaign in which he called on people to "Vote Yourself a [certain region]." Over a century after their initiation, the 1976 FLPMA oversaw the phasing out of these acts, one example of which attempted to increase the number of "virtuous yeomen." 1.6 million people affected by these acts received a total of 160 million acres, mainly west of the Mississippi River. For the point, name these acts which gave away government land to settlers. | Homestead Act[s] (accept Homestead Act of 1862) |
| This figure was the GOP Senate candidate in Virginia in 1994 but lost to Lyndon Johnson’s son-in-law, Chuck Robb. This figure led the sale of weapons to the Khomeini regime with the hope of securing the release of hostages held in Lebanon. This figure was ousted as president of a lobbying group after trying to remove Wayne LaPierre, and this man was convicted of defrauding the government while trying to channel money to Nicaraguan rebels. For the point, name this brief president of the NRA who was the face of the Iran-Contra Affair. | Oliver North (or Oliver Laurence North) |
| After being sentenced to thirty days in a workhouse, this activist became the first woman to be force-fed during a hunger strike in American history. This lobbyist was moved after watching the death of Sadie Sachs, and this activist's The Woman Rebel was published expressly to challenge the Comstock laws. For the point, name this author of "What Every Girl Should Know" and Family Limitation who opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. | Margaret Sanger (or Margaret Higgins Sanger; or Margaret Louise Higgins; or Margaret Sanger Slee) |
| John Snyder was murdered by a leader of this group after beating Milt Elliott. That leader, James Reed, led this group to a supposed shortcut, the Hastings Cutoff across the Wasatch Range. This group, including the namesake brothers George and Jacob, left the Oregon Trail before being stopped on the shores of Truckee Lake. 48 of the 87 members of this group survived the winter of 1846-47 after resorting to extreme measures. For the point, name this group of pioneers who, after getting stuck in the Sierra Nevada, resorted to cannibalism. | Donner Party (or Donner-Reed Party; accept George Donner; accept Jacob Donner) |
| After surrendering to Charles Bare Gatewood, this man was displayed by the US government at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and the second inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt. After his family was killed at the Massacre at Janos, this man launched a campaign to kill Mexican soldiers whenever possible. This man led three breakouts of Indian reservations before being confined to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. For the point, name this Apache leader whose name was later shouted by airmen jumping out of planes. | Geronimo (or Goyathlay) |
| This state's ghost town of Buford was auctioned off to two Vietnamese men who sold imported coffee at its convenience store. Robert C. Reamer designed the Canyon Hotel in this state in addition to a Gilded Age inn by the Firehole River. A historic medicine wheel is located in the north of this state in the Bighorn Mountains. In the 1930s, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and other conservationists began buying a valley in this state named Jackson Hole. For the point, name this least-populous U.S. state, in which Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872. | Wyoming |
| One organization founded by this man conducted Project Normandy to infiltrate one city's government. That organization founded by this man attempted to discredit journalist Paulette Cooper through Operation Freakout. In a book often called "Book One," this man outlined his principles on engrams and auditing. The creator of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, for the point, who was this science fiction author of Battlefield Earth and founder of the Church of Scientology? | L. Ron Hubbard (or Lafayette Ronald Hubbard) |
| A politician who served this many Senate terms was implicated along with his fellow statesman, Dennis DeConcini, in a scandal involving Lincoln Savings/Continental Homes. In 2021, Rita Hart lost an Iowa Congressional election by this many votes. This is the number of Senate terms John McCain served and is the last digit in an election year in which Bill Weld ran alongside a Libertarian governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson. For the point, give the number of electoral votes that both Kansas and Nevada held in the 2020 presidential election. | Six |
| Armani Curtis’s experiences during this event are the subject of the book Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere. The title character of a Dave Eggers book is a Syrian- American owner of a painting business who helps victims of this event. After this event, Skeetah conducts a search for her dog in a work by Jesmyn Ward, titled Salvage the Bones. Abdulrahman Zeitoun borrows a canoe to look for survivors of this event in a work inspired by the project Voices of the Storm. For the point, name this 2005 natural disaster, exacerbated by the breaking of levees from Lake Ponchartrain, the deadliest hurricane to strike the USA this century. | Hurricane Katrina |
| This man negotiated arms treaties with Mikhail Gorbachev and became embroiled in the Iran-Contra affair while serving as national security advisor under Ronald Reagan. This man's many awards include two Presidential Medals of Freedom and the NAACP Spingarn Medal. In 2003, this man addressed the UN Security Council to argue in favor of military action against Iraq. For the point, name this public servant who, in 2004, was allegedly forced to resign as secretary of state by George W. Bush. | Colin Powell (or Colin Luther Powell) |
| In 1997, this city elected its first African-American mayor, Lee Brown. During the Second War War, Herman and George R. Brown founded a shipbuilding company in this city where Ellington Field was established. A nearby city's Spindletop resulted in the growth of one industry in Beaumont and this larger city, the seat of a county named for John Richardson Harris. John B. Magruder organized Confederate troops prior to the Battle of Galveston in, for the point, what city named for the first president of the Republic of Texas? | Houston (accept Sam (uel) Houston) |
| To protect people in this occupation, Robert Hurley signed a 1941 occupational health law. People in this profession who worked for the D.E. Loewe company were fined for organizing illegal secondary boycotts in a case colloquially named for these people in Danbury, Connecticut. People in this profession often suffered namesake "shakes" or became "mad" due to exposure to mercury used in animal pelt processing. For the point, name these people who manufactured objects such as derbies and fedoras. | Hatters (or Hatmakers; or Milliners; accept Mad hatter; accept Hatter's shakes; accept word forms; accept Danbury Hatters' Case; do not accept or prompt on "haberdasher") |
| The lawsuit which became this case was filed by Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee. This case and Doe v. Bolten were delayed until a ruling could be made in Younger v. Harris to determine jurisdiction. Blackmun’s majority opinion in this Supreme Court case described “penumbras” in the Constitution, such as the right to privacy, but his discussion of “trimesters” was later removed from this case. For the point, name this 1973 Supreme Court case, which was overturned by Dobbs and guaranteed the right to an abortion. | Roe v. Wade (or Jane Roe, et al. v. Henry Wade, District Attorney of Dallas County) |
| A man with this surname, known as "Sewanee's Fighting Bishop," was the founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the CSA. That man, Leonidas, had this surname, as did one of the named partners of a prominent law firm co-founded by Allen Wardwell and presidential candidate John W. Davis. After serving as Speaker of the House and governor of Tennessee, a man of this surname went on to acquire the Oregon Territory during his presidency. For the point, give this surname of a president who was elected in 1844 with the first name James. | Polk (accept James K (nox) Polk; accept Leonidas Polk; accept Frank Lyon Polk; accept Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP) |
| Veterans of this conflict suffered from a namesake “syndrome” which is thought be be a result of the combination of tropical disease vaccinations and organophosphate insecticides. Sheikh Jaber al-Sabah fled his nation during an invasion conducted as part of this conflict. During a meeting in Helsinki, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to intervene in this conflict, during which many casualties occurred along the “Highway of Death." For the point, name this early 1990s conflict in which a Saddam Hussein-led Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait. | First Persian Gulf War (accept Iraqi invasion of Kuwait before "Kuwait" is mentioned; accept Gulf War Syndrome; prompt on “Iraq War"; prompt on "Desert Storm" or "Desert Shield") |
| The Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995 was sponsored by this politician. Chief Justice John Roberts criticized this man for saying, "You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions," a warning made to Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch with regard to a potential anti-abortion vote. After defeating Al D'Amato, this man rose to the Senate, where he was unanimously chosen as successor to Harry Reid in a leadership position. For the point, name this senator from New York who became majority leader in 2021. | Chuck Schumer (accept Charles Ellis Schumer) |
| This man served as the fourteenth chancellor of the College of William and Mary, and his family surname ultimately derives from a suburb of Sunderland near Newcastle upon Tyne. This man married a woman who hailed from the Dandridge family and had initially been married to Daniel Custis. A set of apocryphal stories about this man was written by Parson Mason Weems. For the point, who was this Virginian who may have died from inflammation of the epiglottis in 1799 at his plantation named Mount Vernon? | George Washington |
| An ayre by John Dowland inspired the title of a work by this author in which the singer Jason Taverner is a genetically engineered member of the elite "Sixes." Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a work by this author who used the term "retiring" to refer to killings in another work. That work by this author focuses on the bounty hunter Rick Deckard and his attempts to go after a group of androids. The film Blade Runner was based on, for the point, what science fiction author's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K (indred) Dick (prompt on "PKD") |