American History Trivia Page - 9

Trivia Questions

A compromise allowed Maine's admission to the union in 1820 as a free state & this as a slave state in 1821

The Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions were passed in opposition to these 1798 acts

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

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

The Supreme Court's 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War

Though elected to the senate in 1930, this Louisiana governor didn't take his seat until 1932

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

Nickname given the WWII backyard vegetable patches

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

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