US History

The story of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln CORRECT ANSWERS: involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration. The Supreme Court held in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) CORRECT ANSWERS: the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. During Reconstruction, the Southern school system CORRECT ANSWERS: eventually reached forty percent of all black children. The 1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate CORREC...

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? corre...