US History- Quiz Bowl| 323 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison used the pseudonym Publius for what series of 85 essays supporting the Constitution? correct answer: The Federalist Papers Pickett's Charge failed to take Cemetary Ridge in what 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that is often considered the war's turning point? correct answer: Gettysburg John Quincy Adams successfully defended the 53 former residents of Sierra Leone who had escaped and taken over what Spanish slave ship in 1839? correct answer: Amistad What cavalry officer, who graduated last in his class at West Point in 1861, led the ill-fated expedition to meet the Sioux at the Little Bighorn? correct answer: George Custer What seven-letter word can describe a traveler to a holy place or a Puritan who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower to settle in Massachusetts? correct answer: pilgrim The Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver lost their cargo on December 16, 1773, during what event in which Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawks? correct answer: Boston Tea Party What president left on a ten-month African safari immediately after the inauguration of his successor, William Howard Taft? correct answer: Theodore Roosevelt Stephen Douglas authored what 1854 law that authorized popular referenda on slavery in its two namesake territories? correct answer: Kansas-Nebraska Act Which Secretary of State who served from 1861 to 1869 was derided for his "folly" of purchasing Alaska? correct answer: William Seward Montgomery was the intended destination of three civil rights marches from what Alabama city, the namesake of Marge and Patty Bouvier's sister? correct answer: Selma What woman was inspired by London's Toynbee Hall to work with Ellen Gates Starr to create the Chicago settlement home called Hull House? correct answer: Jane Addams Which president warned against planners of war collaborating with business interests in a military-industrial complex in his 1961 farewell address? correct answer: Dwight Eisenhower What Union general who was victorious at Shiloh and Vicksburg accepted the surrender of Robert E. Lee at the end of the Civil War? correct answer: Ulysses Grant West Branch, Iowa, was the boyhood home of what Secretary of Commerce for Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge who was elected president in 1928? correct answer: Herbert Hoover