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Franz Kafka

Czech author of "Amerika"

Daniel

Jewish hero in Babylon who interpreted dreams

Richard I

Plantagenet king from 1189-1199, who fought in the Third Crusade and was succeeded by his younger brother, John

Edward Hopper

1930's New York artist whose art is often of lonely street scenes and include "Early Sunday Morning" and "Nighthawks"

Boyle's Law

a gas law which states that PV=k

Bram Stoker

author of "Dracula"

USS Maine

the US ship that was destroyed while anchored off of Havana, Cuba, and was an instigator of the Spanish-American War

42

the answer to life, the universe, and everything, according to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

William Golding

the author of "Lord of the Flies" who joined the Royal Navy when WWII broke out

Hagia Sophia

the basilica constructed in Constantinople, bearing a name which translates from Greek to "Holy Wisdom"

KGB

the initials of the Soviet Union's Secret Police, called in English the Committee of State Security

Tarzan

the jungle man created by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Aeolus

the keeper of the winds in Greek mythology

anaconda

the largest snake in the world, found in South America, that can grow to 36 feet in length and 1100 pounds

algebra

the literal meaning of this Arabic term for mathematics is "combining broken parts"

gyrus

the plural form of the word which describes the ridges on the brain's gray matter

Grand Canyon

217-mile long natural landmark found in northwest Arizona

George Gershwin

American composer who wrote "Rhapsody in Blue"

Arthur Miller

American dramatist whose works include "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible"

Rachel Carson

American marine biologist who authored "Silent Spring"

Franz Liszt

Hungarian composer famous for Hungarian Rhapsodies and his Faust Symphony

Methodist

a denomination of the Church of England whose name derives from John Wesley's desire to study religion "by rule and method"

Sigmund Freud

the founder of psychoanalysis, for whom a cigar is just a cigar

Adenosine Triphosphate

the source of chemical energy in cells, releasing energy when a bond is broken between two of its phosphate groups

silk

the strongest of natural fibers obtained from the cocoons of a certain worm and used in the textile industry

Jupiter

the supreme god in Roman mythology, brother of Neptune and husband of Juno

jihad

the term for an Islamic Holy War

thermodynamics

the term that literally means "heat movement" and describes the science of heat transfer in chemical reactions

On the Road

a book that recently sold for $2.43 million because it was written on a two-week amphetamine-fueled rush by its author, Jack Kerouac

Sydney Opera House

a building with geometric roof shells that opened "Down under" with the performance of Prokofiev's "War and Peace"

Beowulf

a descendent of Skyld who used his sword (named Hrunting) to kill Grendel and its mother

cacophony

a harsh or discordant sound

Sisyphus

a man punished by Zeus to roll a boulder up a hill in Hades for eternity

Battle of Actium

a naval battle in 31 BC, after which Augustus Caesar became leader of the Roman Empire

Morpheus

the Greek god of dreams

Mowgli

the Indian boy raised by wolves and is the central figure of "The Jungle Book"

Our Town

the Pullitzer winning play by Thornton Wilder set in Grover's Corners

Becquerel

the SI unit of radioactivity, named for the 1903 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry

Mariana Trench

the deepest known point in the Pacific Ocean

Bosworth Field

the final battle of the War of the Roses, fought on August 22, 1485

Harvard

the first college established in the US

technetium

the first element to be synthetically created, with a symbol of Tc

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

the first president to visit an overseas war zone, to appear on television, to be related to eleven former presidents, and the only president to be elected to four terms in office

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Italian composer famous for his operas and his works, "Cinderella," "The Barber of Seville," and the William Tell Overture

caveat emptor

Latin for the common phrase "buyer beware"

Odin

Norse god whose name was given to Wednesday

Edvard Munch

Norwegian painter best known for expressing emotional distress as seen in "The Sick Child," "The Vampire," and "The Scream"

Constantine

Roman Emperor to become the first Christian Emperor after issuing the Edict of Milan in 313 AD

Jupiter

Roman god of rain, thunder, and lightning

Mickey Mantle

a New York Yankee Hall of Fame member who set league records in runs scored, home runs, and batting despite continual injuries to his knees and leg muscles

Jean Paul Sartre

a POW in WWII, a French intellectual who openly opposed Nazi occupation of France, and a Nobel Laureate who refused to accept the prize for his works "Nausea," "No Exit," and "Being and Nothingness"

Wilmot Proviso

a Pennsylvanian Congressman who proposed a bill in 1846 to ban slavery in any territory gained from Mexico at the end of the war

Ayn Rand

a Russian immigrant who wrote against socialpolitical systems in "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead"

Charles Dickens

author of "American Notes"

Erich Maria Remarque

author who based his best-selling novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front," off of real-life experiences attained while in the German army

Jesse Owens

the man who embarrassed Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin when he won four gold medals

cork

the material first found in the centers of baseballs at the championship in 1910 between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago Cubs

Allegheny Mountains

the mountain range from Pennsylvania to Viginia, parallel to the Appalachian Mountains, and rising to more that 4,900 feet

Scotland Yard

the name of the detective department of the London metropolitan police force

trichinosis

the name of the sickness rumored to have killed Mozart that comes from eating undercooked pork

vitamins

"essential nutrient factors" for which Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins received the Nobel Prize in 1929

Fugitive Slave Law, 1850

) fleeing slaves couldn't testify on their own behalf, (2) the federal commissioner who handled the case got $5 if the slave was free and $10 if not, and (3) people who were ordered to help catch slaves had to do so, even if they didn't want to.

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Commonwealth v. Hunt

A Massachusetts Supreme Court case regarding the issue of worker unions; it ruled that unions were not illegal conspiracies provided that their actions were honorable and peaceful. While this did not legalize the worker strikes, it was a milestone for later acts regarding worker unions.

Tennessee Valley Authority

A New Deal agency created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven-U.S.-state region . It created many dams that provided electricity as well as jobs.

Anne Hutchinson

A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.

Joseph McCarthy

A Republican Senator known for his blatant accusations of people for being suspected communists creating a "witch-hunt" for communists. He reflected a time where there was a great fear or the Soviets and communism. In addition, he ruined the lives of many innocent Americans.

Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

Marshall Plan

A U.S developed plan designed to revive the economies of Europe after the war. It proved vital for the Europeans since it allowed them to rejuvenate their economies.

Charles Guiteau

A U.S. lawyers and a stalwart. He killed Garfield and led to people thinking that Conkling killed Garfield

Battle of New Orleans

A battle during the War of 1812 where the British army attempted to take this southern city. Due to the foolish frontal attack, Jackson defeated them, which gave him an enormous popularity boost.

Saratoga

A battle that took place in New York where the Continental Army defeated the British. It proved to be the turning point of the war. This battle ultimately had France to openly support the colonies with military forces in addition to the supplies and money already being sent.

Black Panthers

A black political organization that was against peaceful protest and for violence if needed. The organization marked a shift in policy of the black movement, favoring militant ideals rather than peaceful protest.

Gibbons v. Ogden

A case that arose from an attempt by New York State to grant a monopoly of steamboat operation between New York and New Jersey. One man was licensed to operate the ferry and argued that navigation commerce was a state regulated thing, but The other man had his own ferry business incensed by a statue enacted by congress. The court disagreed claiming that Congress had as much power over commerce as navigation. This established a broad interpretation of the constitution.

Model T

A cheap and simple car designed by Ford. It allowed for more Americans to own a car.

Voting Rights Act

A civil rights legislation passed by Johnson in 1965. It prohibited the use of literacy tests as a part of the voter registration process.

Americans With Disabilities Act

A civil rights legislation that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. This moved American more towards the left in social politics. The legislation also helped many disabled people.

James Madison

A co-author of the Federalist Papers, he was an influential delegate of the Constitutional Convention later to be called the Father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. By writing the Bill of Rights, he secured the faith of those who were not sure about the Constitution.

Matthew Perry

A commodore in the American navy. He forced Japan into opening its doors to trade, thus brining western influence to Japan while showing American might.

As You Like It

A complicated tale of sibling rivalry; Oliver vs. Orlando; Duke Frederick vs. his brother. Orlando is in exile, as is the disguised Rosalind. In the end, all rivals are reconciled; Orlando and Rosalind marry.

Great Compromise

A compromise that proposed two houses of Congress; one where the population would determine how many representatives a state has, and another to ensure that all states are represented equally. Created the House and Senate while resolving the dispute between the large and small states. - Roger Sherman

Phyllis Schlafly

A conservative female political activist. She stopped the ERA from being passed, seeing that it would hinder women more than it would help them.

Marbury v. Madison

A court case that came from a dispute between two men where IT established the basis for the exercise of judicial review and made the judicary branch equal in power.

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

A declaration of rights at the Stamp Act Congress It argued against the duties of the Townshend acts in this publication.

XYZ Affair

A diplomatic incident when made public in 1798, nearly involved the United States and France in war The incident ended the Franco-American treaty and resulted in the undeclared war between the two countries and prompted the build up of the U.S. Navy.

Oregon Question

A dispute between the British and the Americans over the boundary of Oregon. However, it was resolved by declaring the 49th parallel the official border, preventing war yet again.

Watts

A district in Los Angeles where a six day race riot occurred. The riot showed that many blacks were becoming disillusioned with peaceful means.

Truman Doctrine

A doctrine developed by this namesake president in accordance with the containment policy that promised economic aid to those fighting communists. The doctrine would later drag the U.S into more conflicts such as Vietnam and Korea.

Mayflower Compact

A document signed by 41 of the male passengers on the Mayflower in 1620 prior to their landing at Plymouth that agreed to form a body politic to submit to the majority's rule; This set the precedent for future constitutions to be written

Letters from an American Farmer

A document written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer posing the famous question, "What, then, is the American, this new man?" This is the only critical edition available of what is regarded as the first ever work of American literature.

Peculiar Institution

A euphemism for slavery and the economic ramifications of it in the American South. The term aimed to explain away the seeming contradiction of legalized slavery in a country whose Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal". It was one of the key causes of the Civil War.

Thomas Nast

A famous caricaturist and editorial cartoonist in the 19th century and is considered to be the father of American political cartooning. His artwork was primarily based on political corruption. He helped people realize the corruption of some politicians

Brown v. Board of Education

A famous court case where schools were sued on the grounds that the segregation of schools was unequal. The unanimous decision by the Supreme Court reversed the policy of segregation, declaring it unconstitutional, thus allowing the desegregation of all public facilities.

Ida Tarbell

A female reporter who published an expose on Standard Oil. Revealed the evils of Standard Oil Company.

Manuel Noriega

A former CIA agent, he was the de facto leader of Panama during the '80s until 1992. His government/soldiers continually harassed U.S. soldiers and civilians, drawing American into armed conflict.

Servicemen's Readjustment Act

A government legislation designed to solve the problem of what the 15 million soldiers would do once they got back home. It allowed all servicemen to have free college education once they returned from the war, and it created the Veterans'; Administration allowing them to take out loans.

Lend-Lease Act

A government legislation that authorized the lending of arms and supplies to countries. It was a sign that the U.S was clearly no longer isolationist, and brought it closer to war.

Fair Labor Standards Act

A government legislation that dealt with wages and child labor. It established a minimum wage and prohibited child labor in harsh and dangerous conditions.

Social Security Act

A governmental legislation created to give money to those in need. It created a federal insurance program based on the automatic collection of taxes from employees and employers throughout people's working careers.

Boston Tea Party

A group, disguised as Indians boarded the ships and dumped all the tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act. It angered the British, and led to the closure of Boston harbor as well as the other Coercion Acts.

Crittenden Compromise

A last-ditch effort to resolve the secession crisis by compromise. It proposed to bar the government from intervening in the states' decision of slavery, to restore the Missouri Compromise, and to guarantee protection of slavery below the line. Lincoln rejected the proposal, causing the gateway to bloodshed to be open.

Molasses Act

A law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies; it was aimed to reserve a monopoly of the colonies. This caused anger among colonials due to the fear of increased prices of rum, since they felt that the British West Indies could not meet the needs of the colonies.

Ex Post de Facto

A law that makes illegal an act that was legal when committed increases the penalties for an infraction after it has been committed, or changes the rules of evidence to make conviction easier This was prohibited by the constitution in order to keep the justice system equal and fair.

Ralph Nader

A leftist American politician who promotes the environment, fair consumerism, and social welfare programs. His book Unsafe at Any Speed brought attention to the lack of safety in American automobiles.

National Organization for Women

A major feminist organization founded in the 1960s. The organization marked the coming of the feminists, calling for an end to sexual discrimination.

Stamp Act

A means of raising revenue in the colonies, and was passed by Parliament. It stated that all legal documents, contracts, licenses, pamphlets, and newspapers must carry a stamp that is taxed. It angered the colonists greatly, and led to the creation of the Stamp Act Congress.

Eli Whitney

A mechanical genius who invented the cotton gin, which was a machine that separated the cotton from the seed; This greatly improved efficiency, and the South was able to clear more acres of cotton fields, which also increased the demand for slaves. Eventually led to the rapid expansion of the textile industry

Eli Whitney

A mechanical genius who invented the cotton gin, which was machine that separated the cotton from the seed. This greatly improved efficiency, and the South was able to clear more acres of cotton fields, which also increased the demand for slaves.

Women's Christian Temperance Union

A militant female anti-alcohol organization. Helped influence the passing of the 18th amendment.

The Jazz Singer

A movie, made in 1927, that started a demand for dancers who could fulfill the expectations of the 1920s. It encouraged the "flappers" and the sexual attitude of the period.

Isolationism

A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries.US foreign policy prior to WWI

Cumberland Road

A national road that stretched from Maryland to Illinois. It was the first national/interstate highway, and it was a milestone for the eventual connection of all the states by highways, thus increasing trade.

Pearl Harbor

A naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by the Japanese. The attack forced the U.S to go to war.

Henry Clay

A northern American politician. He developed the American System as well as negotiated numerous compromises.

Panic of 1857

A notable sudden collapse in the economy caused by over speculation in railroads and lands, false banking practices, and a break in the flow of European capital to American investments as a result of the Crimean War. Since it did not effect the South as bad as the North, they gained a sense of superiority.

Know-Nothing Party

A party which pushed for political action against these newcomers. They displayed the feelings of America regarding newcomers that were different and therefore, the double standard of the country.

Open Door Policy

A policy that asked powerful and influential countries to respect Chinese rights and promote fair trade with low tariffs. This policy was accepted by other countries and prevented any country from creating a monopoly on Chinese trade.

Federalists

A political group who believed in a strong and powerful central government/executive branch. They were influential during Washington's presidency and taught America how to walk. Initiated political party system with the Republicans.

Whig Party

A political party that lasted from 1834 to 1860, formed to oppose the policies of President Andrew Jackson, The creation of the party signified the end of one party rule.

Huey P. Long

A presidential candidate in the 1936 election known for his Share the Wealth program. He and other demagogues pushed FDR to move the New Deal to help people directly.

Neutrality Proclamation

A proclamation issued by Washington that proclaimed that The United States was a neutral state when war erupted again between France and England This illustrated the truism that self-interest is the glue of alliances.

Medicare

A program part of the Great Society that provided medicine for the elderly. It made a significant step for social legislation and helped establish the growing population of the elderly as a pressure group.

Medicaid

A program that provides health care insurance to low-income or disabled persons. It helped those who were disadvantaged economically.

Rosie the Riveter

A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part.

Equal Rights Amendment

A proposed amendment that would ban any discrimination based on sex. Although defeated, the popularity of the amendment showed how far the feminists had come.

complex numbers

A quadratic equation with a negative discriminant has these numbers as its solutions. These numbers consist of a real plus an imaginary number ini the form of a+bi.

Queen Liliukalani

A queen of Hawaii who was opposed to the continuing American attempts to seize control of Hawaii. She posed a problem to American settlers who desired to control the islands.

Henry VIII

A retelling of TITLE's first divorce, from Katherine, in his search for an heir. TITLE falls in love with Ane Boleyn; Wolsey will arrange the divorce but cannot support the remarriage. Wolsey falls from office, but dies before he can be tried. Cranmer supports the King, including his break with Rome. This was the last play performed at the Globe before the theater burned after an errant shot by a stage cannon.

Bear Flag Revolt

A revolt of American settlers in California against Mexican rule. It ignited the Mexican War and ultimately made California a state.

Gaspee Incident

A schooner was beached in Providence, RI, This upset Americans because it was one of the last of the customs racketeering ships. It was burned down by local inhabitants. It greatly angered the British and showed how militant the colonials were becoming.

Second Great Awakening

A second religious fervor that swept the nation. It converted more than the first. It also had an effect on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and moral reasoning against slavery.

Atlantic Charter

A secret meeting between FDR and Winston Churchill that discussed the war. Their public statement expressed their ideas of a postwar world, and frowned upon aggression, affirmed national self-determination, and endorsed the principles of collective security and disarmament.

Sons of Liberty

A secret society of patriots which was organized in 1765 in the colonies. They formed a Committee of Correspondence to defend themselves against British actions. It was one of the first forms of organized resistance against the British parliament, and members took part in the Boston Tea Party.

Bleeding Kansas

A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.

Dust Bowl

A series of dust storms in the Central U.S caused by many years of bad farming techniques.

Free-Soil Party

A short lived political party that was against the expansion of slavery into new territories. They had enough people in Congress to influence certain decisions.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement Helped establish the National Woman's Suffrage Association

Giotto di Bondone

A student of Cimabue, this Italian artist painted a fresco cycle chronicling the Life of Christ in the Arena Chapel in Padua.

Separation of Powers

A system that distributed the powers of government into three braches to limit arbitrary excesses by the government. It led to the system of checks and balances so that the government would not become centered on one branch.

Checks and Balances

A system that ensured that no particular branch of government gained too much power over another. It demonstrated the fear of absolute power in one group/individual as well as preventing one branch from overpowering the others.

Iron Curtain

A term made famous by Winston Churchill about Cold War tensions. It described the political and idealogical boundaries that divided Europe after WWII.

Potsdam Conference

A war time conference held in Germany that was attended by Truman, Attlee, and Stalin. It agreed on the establishment of the Oder-Neisse line as the border of areas administrated by government of Poland, the expulsion of the German populations remaining beyond the borders of Germany, war reparations, reversion of all German annexations in Europe after 1937, statement of aims and means of the occupation of Germany, and the prosecution of Nazi war criminals.

Yalta Conference

A war time conference held in the USSR, that was attended by FDR, Churchill, Stalin. It agreed on the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and it's occupation, status of Poland , citizens of the Soviet Union and of Yugoslavia were to be handed over to their respective countries, regardless of their consent, the United Nations once it was agreed that each of the five permanent members of the Security Council would have veto power, and Stalin's entry against Japan.

Elizabeth Blackwell

A woman who challenging the taboo of professional women. She graduated from medical college, thereby proving that women are able to do what men can.

Carrie Chapman Catt

A women's suffrage leader, she was twice the president of the NAWSA She was one of the main people attributed to woman's suffrage.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

A writer and relative of Catherine Beecher. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Volstead Act

AKA the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the sale of alcohol in America. It enforced the 18th amendment, effectively banning alcohol in respect to its legality.

Tea Act

Act eliminated import duties entering England, lowering the selling price to consumers, also allowing selling directly to consumers, hurting middlemen. It angered the colonies since it gave a monopoly to the British East India Tea Company, thus forcing local tea sellers out of business.

Sedition Act

Act of 1918 made illegal any criticism of the government. It showed American fears/paranoia about Germans and other perceived threats.

Embargo Act

Act that forbade the export of goods from the U.S. in order to hurt the economies of the warring nations of France and Britain. The act slowed the economy of New England and the south. The act was seen as one of many precursors to war.

Jones Act

Act that replaced the Foraker Act. It gave Puerto Ricans full citizenship, as well as a government that was similar to a state government.

Declaratory Acts

Act which was issued in 1766 in order to confirm the British government's right to pass acts which were legally binding to the colonists. It was used to save face after the colonists forced the repeal of the Stamp Act.

Virgil

Aeneid

W.E.B. DuBois

African American civil rights activist Created the NAACP.

Booker T. Washington

African American political leader, educator and author. Helped promote the need for blacks to economically better themselves.

Patriot Act

After September 11, congress passed a security legislation in order to make the country safer. The Act gives the authorities enhanced powers, such as looking up library records, to protect the country.

Albert Gore

Al Gore was Clinton's vice-president and a candidate for the 2000 presidential election. His running caused on of the closest elections in history and a fiasco with the voting system.

Robert Penn Warron

All the King's Men

Fenrir

Along with Jormungandr and Hel, this wolf was born of Loki and Angrboda, and will be killed by Vidarr at Ragnarok.

Sugar Act

Amended the Molasses Act that had taxed all foreign molasses entering the U.S. at sixpence a gallon in 1764. The new act ended the previous British policy of keeping Americans out of all revenue-raising measures.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

American Naval officer and historian. He is most famous for his book "The Influence of Sea Power on History" which defined Naval strategy. His philosophies had a major influence on the Navies of many nations resulting in a igniting of naval races between countries.

Robert McNamara

American Secretary of Defense from 1961-1968. He oversaw the general strategy of the military.

John Deere

American blacksmith that was responsible for inventing the steel plow. This new plow was much stronger than the old iron version; therefore, it made plowing farmland in the west easier, making expansion faster.

Frances C. Lowell

American business man who started Boston Manufacturing Company. A fore-runner to future American industrialists and pioneered the employment of women, which started the Lowell system of hiring young unmarried women

Cyrus Field

American businessman who laid the first telegraph wire across the Atlantic. This cut down the time it took for a message to be sent from Europe to American and vice-versa.

John Fremont

American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the United States Republican Party for the office of President of the United States First Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform of opposition to slavery.

Walt Whitman

American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writing poetry.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet that was influenced somewhat by the transcendentalism occurring at the time. He was important in building the status of American literature.

Stephen A. Douglas

American politician from Illinois who developed the method of popular sovereignty as a way to settle slave state or free state. He helped passed the compromise of 1850 as well as giving the states the choice with popular sovereignty.

Theodore Roosevelt

American president notorious for his impulsiveness and radical behavior. As an ardent imperialist, he developed the "Big Stick" policy with regards to diplomacy.

Jefferson Davis

American soldier and politician who became the first president of the Confederacy. Led the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Henry David Thoreau

American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement.

National American Woman's Suffrage Association, 1890

American women's rights organization was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1890. This and other groups led to the nineteenth amendment: women's suffrage.

Noah Webster

American writer who wrote textbooks to help the advancement of education. He also wrote a dictionary which helped standardize the American language.

U.S.S Maine

An American battleship sent to Cuba in order to evacuate any American in case of another flare-up. The ship spontaneously exploded in Havana harbor, and the cause was put on Spain's shoulders, thus starting the Spanish-American War.

Andy Warhol

An American commercial illustrator and artist famous for his Campbell's soup painting. He was the founder of the pop-art movement, which like all other art movements in history reflected something back on the present society.

Matthew Perry

An American commodore in the navy, who made a couple trips to Japan. He forced the opening of Japan to western trade, and prompted a revolution against the shogunate. It also foreshadowed later American imperialistic foreign policy.

Benjamin Franklin

An American diplomat, writer, and inventor. He helped the writing of the Declaration as well as securing French aid.

Horace Greeley

An American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician He helped support reform movements and anti-slavery efforts through his New York Tribune newspaper

William Jennings Bryan

An American lawyer, statesman, and politician. He was a three-time Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. Greatly supported and led the progressive movement and helped to enact the 18th amendment (prohibition).

William Randolph Hearst

An American newspaper magnate. He helped established "yellow journalism" as well as being part of the de Lome letter incident.

Joseph Pulitzer

An American publisher. He helped established "yellow journalism."

Barry Goldwater

An American senator for Arizona who ran against Johnson for president. His extreme conservatism scared many into voting for Johnson.

Samuel Houston

An American who went to Texas. During the Texan Rebellion, he was made commander in chief of their armed forces and ultimately defeated the Mexicans. He later served as president of Texas for two terms. He was influential in getting Texas its statehood.

Treason

An act against one's country One can be tried for treason if two witnesses witness the act of treason.

Kansas Nebraska Act

An act made to decide if the Kansas-Nebraska territory would be slave or free by popular sovereignty. The dispute strengthened the rift between the north and south states.

Indian Removal Act

An act that granted the ability to negotiate land-exchange treaties to the federal government. Part of the Indian Removal policy of the government. This allowed the movement of the Indians which granted new land in the south.

Boxer Rebellion

An anti-foreigner rebellion started by patriotic Chinese. The rebellion was put down by a foreign coalition which included the U.S., Germany, France, Britain, Russia, and Japan. It put the U.S. on the international scene with the big players.

The Liberator

An anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed.

John Brown's Raid

An attempt by abolitionist John Brown to cause a slave rebellion by seizing a weapons arsenal; however, it failed since no slaver knew about it. Caused south to believe northern abolitionists were all radical and militant.

John Brown's Raid

An attempt by the namesake abolitionist to cause a slave rebellion by seizing a weapons arsenal; however, it failed since no slaver knew about it. Caused south to believe northern abolitionists were all radical and militant.

Fair Deal

An economic extension of the New Deal proposed by Harry Truman that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment. It led only to the Housing Act of 1949 and the Social Security Act of 1950 due to opposition in congress.

Economic Opportunity Act

An economic legislation that was part of the Great Society. It created many social programs to help the poor.

Laissez-Faire

An economic philosophy developed by Adam Smith that promoted a hands off government. It prevented the government from taking serious action against the depression.

Funding

An economic policy of Hamilton where the government would pay the national debt at face value. It would help relieve the government out of its huge debt.

John T. Scopes

An educator in Tennessee who was arrested for teaching evolution. This trial represented the Fundamentalist vs the Modernist. The trial placed a negative image on fundamentalists, and it showed a changing America.

Corrupt Bargain

An event during the 1824 presidential election where Henry Clay did behind the scenes work in order to secure the victory of John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson. This enraged Jackson supporters, and would help him win in 1828.

Boston Massacre

An event that took place in Boston where colonial agitators provoked British troops with snowballs with rocks inside them. The result was an accidental firing of muskets into the crowd and the death of some colonials; it became a prime piece of anti-British propaganda.

Chesapeake-Leopard

An incident where a British warship named after a large member of the cat family, demanded the surrender for 4 deserters on another ship. It refused. This escalated the tensions between the two nations, and directly caused the Embargo Act of 1807 and was an ingredient to the War of 1812.

Caroline Incident

An incident where an American steamer was attacked by the British. It caused a rise in tensions between the two countries.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

An independent federal agency created by Glass-Steagall Reform Act. It insures up to $100,000 for bank deposits, thus helping put faith back into the banks.

Paxton Boys

An uprising of frontiersmen in Pennsylvania who massacred (nonviolent) Conestoga Indians. Governor attempted to try those involved, but they were never tried This showed the bias against frontiersmen in the eastern government, and prompted 600 frontiersmen to march on Philadelphia.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

Sophocles

Antigone

The Merchant of Venice

Antonio borrows money from Shylock; the security is "a pound of flesh." Portia, wooed by many, asks each suitor to choose among caskets of gold, silver, and lead for permission to marry her; Bassanio correctly chooses the leaden one. When Antoni's load is due and Shylock tries to collect, Balthazar, a lawyer (Portia in disguise) argues that Shylock is entitled only to the flesh but no blood. Shylock relents and says he will take the money Bassanio offered for his friend. But by threatening a Venetian's life, Shylock must forfeit half his goods to Venice and half to Antonio, and must convert. Jessica marries Lorenzo.

William Lloyd Garrison

Ardent abolitionist that fought against slavery for moral reasons. His influence brought many people to his standard, as well as to oppose him. He created and led the Anti-Slavery Society.

William Lloyd Garrison

Ardent abolitionist that fought against slavery for moral reasons. His influence brought many people to his standard, as well as to oppose him. He created the Anti-Slavery Society. argued for immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves and founded The Liberator

Shakespeare

As You Like It

Panic of 1837

As a result of Jackson's economic policies, the United States went through another depression It resulted in the closure of many banks and record unemployment levels.

National Defense Education Act

As a result of Sputnik, the U.S passed this act to financially help students for college and schools in math and science. It showed the uncertainty that Americans felt with comparison to the Soviets in respect to education.

enthalpy

At constant pressure, the cange in this quantity equals a system's heat. Name this quantity defined as energy plus pressure times volume, symbolised H.

Battle of Chalons-sur-Marne

Attila was defeated by a Roman and Visigoth coalition in this battle in France on the Catalunian Plains.

Pope Leo I

Attila went on to invade Italy, but was stopped from sacking Rome by Valentinian III's envoys, which included Avienus, Trigetius, and this pope.

16th Amendment

Authorized the collection of income tax. This made the rich pay their fair share to the government as well as allowing the Underwood-Simmons Tariff of 1913 to lower many tariffs

Deism

Belief that held that God did exist, but man was responsible for building upon what was created. It would help promote scientific advancement as well as inspire Unitarianism.

The Taming of the Shrew

Bianca, the younger sister, cannot marry until Katherina does, but she disdains all suitors. Petruchio gains their father's consent to marry Katherina. He wins her heart by feigning indifference, until she is the most affectionate and loving wife.Inspiration for the musical "Kiss Me Kate"

Herman Melville

Billy Budd

Animal Farm

Boxer is carried away after he cannot work, and Napoleon forces Snowball off Manor Farm. Name this novel in which the Commandments decree that "Some animals are more equal than others."

George Grenville

British Prime Minister Architect of the Sugar Act; his method of taxation and crackdown on colonial smuggling were widely disliked by Americans. He passed the Stamp Act arguing that colonists received virtual representation in Parliament

Lord North

British Prime Minister during revolution. He had passed the Coercive Acts and supported the king greatly to the extent that Britain was ruled only by the king.

Charles Townshend

British Prime Minister. Influenced Parliament to pass his namesake Acts.

Samuel Slater

British mechanic who "stole" the plans of British machinery and used them to reconstruct a machine to spin cotton in NE. This started the Industrial Revolution for America and placed the North at the center.

Julius Caesar

Cassius and others plot to kill TITLE, fearing his dictatorial tendencies. Cassius induces Brutus ("the noblest Roman"), TITLE's friend, to join the plot. They kill TITLE on the Ides of March, but Antony turns the Romans against the assassins with his funeral oration. Antony allies with TITLE's young nephew, Octavius. They defeat the assassins at Phillippi; Cassius and Brutus commit suicide.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Charles A. Lindbergh

Celebrity hero who was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic in a small single engine plane. He success gripped the public's imagination.

Habeas Corpus

Common law where a judge could release a state prisoner if he was held unlawfully It protected the rights of all and prevented abuse of power.

Commerce Compromise

Compromise that made it so that only congress could regulate interstate commerce. It ended the commercial dispute where states would have different tariffs for other states.

Birth of a Nation

Controversial but highly influential and innovative silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It demonstrated the power of film propaganda and revived the KKK.

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Court refused to hear case of the this Native American tribe, which they brought forward, because a southern state had abolished their tribal legislature and courts.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

Pure Food and Drug Act

Designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and drugs. It gave consumers protection from dangerous and impure foods

Big Stick diplomacy

Diplomatic policy developed by T.R showing symbolic power and readiness to use military force if necessary. It is a way of intimidating countries without actually harming them and was the basis of U.S. imperialistic foreign policy.

Texas Question

Dispute between those who wanted Texas to be immediately accepted as a state; and those who wanted to wait until there was a new free state ready to join so that the balance in the Senate would not be undone. It increased the tensions between the North and South.

Freeport Doctrine

Doctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. It was unpopular with Southerners, and thus cost him the election.

Monroe Doctrine

Doctrine developed by president James Monroe in the early 1800s that declared that the Americas should be free from European influence. This policy justified U.S. involvement to "save" the Latin American countries from European greed.

Popular Sovereignty

Doctrine that government is created by and subject to the will of the people, who are the source of all political power. Helped decided the dispute in Kansas and Nebraska.

Declaration of Independence

Document that contained a list of grievances placing the blame on George III. Additionally, it asserted certain natural rights It was the colonies official declaration of rebellion.

Cervantes

Don Quixote

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott, a slave, had been taken to Illinois by his owner for several years, so he sued for his freedom; however, the court ruled that he could not sue since he was a slave. A key cause of the American Civil War.

Perfectionism

Due to the new liberal movements and religious fervor, many Americans believed that perfection was attainable. Therefore, a series of movements took place to perfect society, such as prison reform, temperance, etc.

Utopian Experiments

Due to the perfectionism occurring in the country, some radical groups attempted to create utopian societies based on communism and equality. These were just examples of the feelings felt by certain Americans that somewhat reflected the general perfectionism.

Immigration Patters

Due to the varied problems in Europe, distinct groups immigrated to America. First were the Irish, who were hated for their Catholicism and their taking of American jobs. The next group was the Germans, who faired better than the Irish due to the fact that they brought over culture and already knew how to farm. Their massive movement caused a growth of nativist feelings in American, as well as the creation of the Know Nothings.

Sumner Brooks Affair

During an antislavery speech, a Senator named Sumner insulted another congressman named Butler who was related to another Congressman named Brooks. Brooks beat Sumner with his cane as Sumner sat writing at his desk in the Senate Chamber. It showed how far southerners were willing to go to protect slavery as well as tarnishing the image of the South.

Horus

Egyptian deity who bit off his rival's genitals explaining why the desert is infertile. His eyes represent sun and moon. His left eye was torn out by his evil uncle Set. Name this falcon-headed Egyptian sky god, son of Isis and Osiris.

George III

English monarch at the time of the revolution. He was the main opposition for the colonies due to his stubborn attitude and unwillingness to hear out colonial requests/grievances.

19th Amendment

Established that no citizen can be denied the right to vote on account of sex. Granted women the ability to vote.

17th Amendment

Established that senators were to be elected directly. This law was intended to create a more democratic, fair society.

Buenos Aires

Evita Peron lived in which capital city?

Daniel Webster

Famous American politician and orator. he advocated renewal and opposed the financial policy of Jackson. Many of the principles of finance he spoke about were later incorporated in the Federal Reserve System. Would later push for a strong union.

Frederick Douglas

Famous black abolitionist that escaped from slavery who would later right a narrative of his own life that described his life. He promoted the abolitionist cause and drew the line where evil must be denounced.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

Catherine Beecher

Female reformer that pushed for female employment as teachers; however, she still embraced the role of a good homemaker for women. She was an example of the fact that not all women were pushing for radical reforms.

Love's Labour Lost

Ferdinand and his courtiers pledge to turn the court into an academy and to forgo women for three years while they study, but they fall in love with the Princess and respective members of the court, and try to keep this secret from one another. The King of France dies and the Princess must go home; the other couples also must each separate for a year.

Roger B. Taney

Fifth Chief Justice, he was the first Roman Catholic to hold the job and was pro-slavery. He wrote the decision on the Dred Scot case.

Topeka Constitution

First attempt to establish a constitution for Kansas Territory. Angered pro-slavery people who claimed it was illegal. Started another dispute and led to "Bleeding Kansas."

Preamble

First sentence of the constitution. Outlined the purpose of writing the constitution.

Transcendentalists

Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance, self- culture, self-discipline, and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Lafayette and von Stuben

Foreign advisors who helped train American soldiers. one helped urge France into allying, and the other proved to be a valuable drillman.

Yazoo Land Claims

Fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795 to 1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at low prices. The lands were to be the states of Alabama and Mississippi later on and it was the first state law repealed by the Supreme Court.

Brazil

From which country did samba music originate?

Hessians

German mercenaries that were hired by the British for putting down the rebellion of the colonies. The hiring of these men showed to the colonists that the British had only military action in mind as a solution to the current problems.

Securities and Exchange Commission

Government agency having primary responsibility for enforcing the Federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry. It protected investors, listened to complaints, issued licenses and penalized fraud.

National Recovery Administration

Government agency that was part of the New Deal and dealt with the industrial sector of the economy. It allowed industries to create fair competition which were intended to reduce destructive competition and to help workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Government legislation passed after the attack on the U.S. destroyer in this gulf. The resolution granted the president the use of whatever forced needed to help any member of SEATO without an official declaration of war.

Indian Reorganization Act

Government legislation that allowed the Indians a form of self-government and thus willingly shrank the authority of the U.S. government. It provided the Indians direct ownership of their land, credit, a constitution, and a charter in which Indians could manage their own affairs.

DeWitt Clinton

Governor of New York who started the Erie Canal project. His leadership helped complete the canal, which boosted the economy greatly by cutting time traveled from west New York to the Hudson.

Robert LaFollette

Governor of Wisconsin who was a militant progressive. He wrestled control out of the hands of corrupt corporations and perfected a way for regulating public utilities. helped found the National Progressive Republican League, which intended to unseat Taft

Robert Oppenheimer

He a physicist who was the director of the Manhattan. Project. He helped to ensure the development of the atomic bomb before the axis.

J.S. Bach

He composed a Mass in B minor and The Magnificat. Name this composer of Toccata and Fugue in D minor and six Brandenburg concertos.

Samuel Morse

He developed an electric telegraph which allowed information to be transferred from one place to another by means of a strung wire using a dot-slash code. This was an early form of quick communication that helped tie people together regardless of distance.

Edwin Powell Hubble

He names that redshift increases with distance. Name this American astronomer whose namesake Space telescope was launched in 1990.

Fidel Castro

He was (is) the communist leader of Cuba after the overthrow of Batista. He befriended Khrushchev which made the Cuban situation much more complex since Khrushchev promised to help if attacked.

Lee Harvey Oswald

He was JFK's assassin. The death of JFK led to Johnson's presidency.

Hubert Humphrey

He was Johnson's vice president. He was Nixon's opponent in 1968.

John Dean

He was Nixon's legal counsel during and prior to the Watergate scandal. He is best known for coming out on Nixon, bringing light to the investigation.

Spiro T. Agnew

He was Nixon's vice-president but ultimately resigned due to financial charges. He helped Nixon gain votes from his moderate, immigrant, and Democratic state background.

Henry Kissinger

He was Richard Nixon's National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State. He helped to develop ties with China and eased tensions with the Soviets, which both would later help get the U.S. out of Vietnam.

Charles Darwin

He was a British scientist who was most famous for developing his Theory of Evolution. Besides making a great milestone in the world of science, his theory had an effect on society, which created Social Darwinism.

Robert Kennedy

He was a Democrat who ran for president in 1968 promoting civil rights and other equality based ideals. He was ultimately assassinated in 1968, leaving Nixon to take the presidency but instilling hope in many Americans.

Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi

He was a Libyan leader who seized power from the Libyan monarchy and imposed Islamic rule on Libya. His government had supported many terrorist organizations that had been responsible for the incidents of the '70s and '80s.

Le Duc Tho

He was a North Vietnamese political leader. He, along with Kissinger, negotiated a ceasefire during the Vietnam war, letting the U.S. to be able to leave.

Thomas W. Dorr

He was a U.S. lawyer and political figure who drafted a liberal constitution for Rhode Island which was passed by popular referendum.

James Meredith

He was a civil rights advocate who spurred a riot at the University of Mississippi. The riot was caused by angry whites who did not want him to register at the university. The result was forced government action, showing that segregation was no longer government policy.

Babe Ruth

He was a famous baseball player who played for the Yankees. He helped developed a rising popularity for professional sports.

John C. Calhoun

He was a senator for South Carolina that was at first a supporter of the Tariff of 1816 but switched sides later on He claimed that it was a pro-Northerner act that would not build up the self-sufficiency of the economy. He was an example of the sectionalism between North and South.

George McGovern

He was a senator from South Dakota during the Cold War; he also ran for president against Nixon in 1972. His defeat signaled that America was in the mood for change from the Democrats.

Nicholas Biddle

He was an American financier who was also president of the Bank of the United States. He was also known for his bribes. He was in charge during the bank war, where Jackson refused to deposit federal funds, which bled the bank dry. He also showed the corruption of the bank.

Alexander Graham Bell

He was an American inventor who was responsible for developing the telephone. This greatly improved communications in the country.

Colin Powell

He was an American military general and leader during the Persian Gulf War. He played a crucial role in planning and attaining America's victory in the Persian Gulf and Panama.. He was also the first black four star general and chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff.

Albert Gallatin

He was an American politician, diplomat, and Secretary of the Treasury. He was responsible for balancing the budget, which let America purchase the Louisiana territory from France.

Patrick Henry

He was an orator and statesman and a member of the House of Burgesses where he introduced seven resolutions against the Stamp Act. Famous for his comment "Give me liberty or give me death", he also promoted revolutionary ideals.

Roger Williams

He was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for challenging Puritan ideas. He later established Rhode Island and helped it to foster religious toleration.

Gamel Abdel Nasser

He was president of Egypt from 1956-1970. During the Suez Crisis, he nationalized the canal, causing a dispute between him and Israel, France and Britain.

Joseph Smith

He was responsible for forming the Mormon sect of Christianity. This new sect was an American one and not European in origin as with all the other sects.

Joseph Smith

He was responsible for forming the Mormon sect of Christianity. This new sect was an American one and not European in origin as with all the other sects; first Christian sect created in America

Herbert Hoover

He was the Republican president when the depression hit. He advocated a "self-responsibility" role to end the depression since it was a routine event in a solid economy.

Nikita Khrushchev

He was the Soviet premier after the death of Stalin in 1953 until the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. His position as the head of the U.S.S.R. played a major part in defining Anglo-Soviet relations.

Robert Livingston

He was the U.S. Minister to France from 1801 to 1804. He negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory.

Bull Connor

He was the chief of police of Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. His use of excessive force against the peaceful marchers on television brought attention to the issue, and helped gain support for civil right legislation.

Samuel Gompers

He was the creator of the American Federation of Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers.

Martin Van Buren

He was the eighth president of the United States who was experienced in legislative and administrative life. He passed the Divorce Bill which placed the federal surplus in vaults located in large cities and denied the backing system.

James Monroe

He was the fifth President of the United States. He is the author of a namesake Doctrine. Proclaimed that the Americas should be closed to future European colonization and free from European interference in sovereign countries' affairs. It further stated the United States' intention to stay neutral in European wars

George Wallace

He was the governor of Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement and a staunch segregationist. He was a popular figure among segregationists becoming a rallying point.

Herbert Hoover

He was the head of the Food Administration who also led a charity drive to feed Belgians. He ensured the success of the Food Administration and created a surplus of food through volunteer actions.

Saddam Hussein

He was the leader of Iraq during the middle of the Cold War. Although initially supported by the U.S. to fight Iran, his invasion of Kuwait made him a prime enemy of America.

Mikhail Gorbachev

He was the leader of the U.S.S.R. during the '80s. He introduced some reforms in the Soviet Union as well as freed some satellite states. These reforms caused the fall of the Soviet Union.

James K. Polk

He was the next American president after Tyler. His presidency is known for settling the Oregon dispute, granting Texas statehood, and winning the Mexican-American War.

Leon Jaworski

He was the next Special Prosecutor of the Watergate case after Cox was fired. J aworski was responsible for bringing to light many damaging facts of the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up.

John D. Rockefeller

He was the richest man who developed the trust and created Standard Oil Company. He was ruthless in the world of business and controlled the petroleum industry. He influenced other businessmen to use trusts in order to obtain wealth, and he was an example of how the new rich was taking over the place that old patricians once held.

John Adams

He was the second president of the United States and a Federalist. He was responsible for passing the Alien and Sedition Acts. Prevented all out war with France after the XYZ Affair. His passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts severely hurt the popularity of the Federalist party and himself

All's Well That Ends Well

Helena love Bertram, who leaves to attend to the King. Helena goes to Paris to try to cure the King's fistula, which has resisted all cures. If she fails, she will be executed; if she succeeds, she may marry any courtier. She succeeds, but But Bertram spurns her unless she can obtain his ring, which she does through a ruse.

Peter I or Peter the Great

His second wife the Catherine I, took over upon his death, and won the Battle of Poltava against Charles XII's Sweden in the Great Northern War. Name this westernizing Russian Tsar who built a new capital city in honor of a saint who shares his name.

galaxy

Hubble also names a tuning-fork-shaped classification scheme for these astronomical objects, which have elliptical, spiral, and lenticular types.

Mali

If you were going from here to Timbukto, in what country would you end up?

Petition of Rights

In 1628, this legal petition sent to King Charles I from Parliament complaining about the breeches in the law; Foreshadowed later colonial petitions for rights.

Berlin Wall (1989)

In 1989, this barrier came down. The fall marked an end to Soviet influence in the country and allowed for Germany to become reunited.

Cinco de Mayo

In Mexico, the Battle of Puebla is celebrated on what day?

Salto Angel

In South America you will find the highest waterfall in the world and it is called what?

Appalachian State

In one of the greates upsets in sports, the Michigan Wolverines lost their season opener to this small NC school's team, coached by Jerry Moore.

Burmese Days

In this Orwell novel set in Myanmar, Elizabeth Lackersteen marries Deputy Commissioner Macgregor. U Po Kyin also attempts to slander Flory and Dr. Veraswami.

Things Fall Apart

In this novel a character explains how the tortoise lost its smooth shell after a feast with birds.. In its sequel a young man takes bribes to pay the UPU. The protagonist kills Ikemefuna and is banished from Umofia. Name this novel about Okonkwo, written by Chinua Achebe.

Love in the Time of Cholera

In thsi novel, the elderly couple Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza consummate their marriage in their 70s. Earlier Fermina had married Juvenal Urbino at the age of 21, a limit she set for herself.

Kabuki Theater

In what Japanese place would you find actors wearing spectacular costumes and dramatic makeup for popular entertainment purposes?

Pamploma

In what city in Spain do men crowd into streets and are then chased by bulls?

Paraguay

In which South American country is soccer the official national pastime?

Peru

In which South American country were the Incas conquered by the Spanish?

Brussels

In which city is the NATO headquarters located?

Japan

In which country did the first international Starbucks open?

Argentina

In which country did the gauchos once ride the pampas herding cattle?

Mexico

In which country is the Chihuahuan Desert located?

China

In which country was toilet paper invented in the 1300s?

Japan

In which country would you find Mount Fuji?

El Salvador

In which country would you find a pupuseria?

Argentina

In which country would you have a cup of mate?

Robert Fulton

Inventor of the steamboat, which as a boat that had a powerful steam engine. These enabled boats to travel upstream on rivers, thus increasing trade while at the same time improving inter and state transportation.

Federal Trade Commission

Investigated the activities of trusts and stop unfair trade practices. Enabled the government to more easily kill monopolies.

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Cyrus McCormick

Irish-American inventor that developed the mechanical reaper. The reaper replaced scythes as the preferred method of cutting crops for harvest, and it was much more efficient and much quicker. The invention helped the agricultural growth of America.

Six-Day War or June War

Israel's 1967 victory in this conflict resulted in the transfer of the Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, and the Golan Heights.

Quartering Act

It allowed for British officers to be permitted to stay in the homes of colonials to cut down maintenance cost of the colonial garrison. IT angered many colonists, and influenced the third amendment.

First Intifada

It began when an Israeli tank killed some refugees from the Jabayla refugee camp. Name this Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, lasting from 1987-1993.

Northwest Ordinance; 1787

It declared that once a territory had a population of 60000, it would gain full statehood. However, before this, it would remain as a subordinate of the federal government. The action was a huge success for the new government; it prevented a second revolution and was used for the later frontier states.

Clean Air Act

It describes one of a number of pieces of legislation relating to the reduction of smog and air pollution in general. The legislation forced the country to enforce clean air standards to improve health and showed that American was moving towards certain environmentalist measures.

Foraker Act

It gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government, and in 1917, Congress granted Puerto Ricans full American citizenship. It was an example of the growing imperialistic powers of the U.S.

Erie Canal

It is a canal in New York State, United States, that runs from the Hudson River to its namesake lake, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean It cut transport costs into what was then wilderness by about 90%. The Canal resulted in a massive population surge in western New York, and opened regions further west to increased settlement

Land Ordinance of 1785

It set up how the new land gained after the revolution would be distributed and organized. The ordinance set up townships that were 36 sq miles where each plot of land was 1 sq mile and the 16th plot was sold for public schooling. The action was a huge success for the new government; it prevented a second revolution and was used for the later frontier states.

Federalism

It was a belief in a strong and powerful central government. It had a strong influence for a couple of decades in the early country.

3/5 Compromise

It was a compromise between the northern states with the southern ones that decided that although slaves were not citizens, each one would count as a fraction of a man for representation. It got Southern states to ratify the constitution.

The Grange

It was a farmers' movement involving the affiliation of local farmers into area groups to work for their political and economic advantages. The official name is the Patrons of Husbandry the movement was successful in regulating the railroads and grain warehouses

Hartford Convention

It was a gathering of Federalists in New England whose purpose was to discuss their grievances and to seek redress for their wrongs. They desired amendments to the Constitution that would restore the Federalists, but ultimately, the desires of the convention would be the end of the Federalist Party.

Food Administration

It was a government organization created to stir up a patriotic spirit which encouraged people to voluntarily sacrifice some of their own goods for the war. It helped the war effort by helping create a food surplus to feed America and its allies.

Agricultural Adjustment Act

It was a governmental legislation that restricted production during the New Deal by paying farmers to reduce crop area. The Act createda group to oversee the distribution of the subsidies to alleviate the problems with farms out west.

Judicial Review

It was a power given to the judiciary branch in order to sustain checks and balances. This power let judges examine a law or act passed by the government to see if it was constitutional or not.

Great Awakening

It was a revival of religious importance in the 17th century. It undermined older clergy, created schisms, increased compositeness of churches, and encouraged missionary work, led to the founding new schools. It was first spontaneous movement of the American people (broke sectional boundaries and denominational lines).

Treaty of Ghent

It was the treaty that ended the War of 1812 by declaring an armistice between US and Briatain. The treaty in essence, declared the war as a draw; however, the treaty proved to be popular since nothing was lost.

Ragnarok

It's preceeded by 3 years of winter and takes place on the plane of Vigridr. The jotnar arrive in Naglfar, a ship made of fingernails, during this series of events at the end of the world that includes the deaths of Odin, Thor, Tyr, Garm and Jormungandr.

Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe

The Catcher in the Rye

James Castle commits suicide by jumping out of a window. This novel's protagonist uses the name of the janitor Rudolf Schmidt, when speaking with Ernest Morrow's mother on the train to NY. Name this 1951 novel about Holden Caulfield, by J.D. Salinger.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

The Tribute Money

Jesus' head lies at the vanishing point of this Masaccio fresco in the Branacci chapel, which shows Peter paying the tax collector with money taken from a fish's mouth.

Louis D. Brandeis

Jewish Supreme Court judge nominated by Wilson. Showed that Wilson was a progressive man.

Rudyard Kipling

Kim

Shakespeare

King Lear

sit-in

King and others used these protests involving occupying a space nonviolently, one of which occurred at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.

Harriet Tubman

Known as Black Moses or Grandma Moses, she was a black freedom fighter. She freed over 300 slaves including her parents on various trips into the south.

DuPont

Large company that produced explosive materials such as gunpowder and dynamite.

Eastman Kodak

Large company that produced photographic materials and equipment.

Venezuelan Crises

Latin American nations were having a hard time paying their debts to their European debtors, so Britain and Germany decided to use force to collect payment. This caused a great fear of the possibilities of a European presence in the region, and it made Roosevelt developed a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine for the situation.

Quebec Act

Law which established Roman-Catholicism as the official religion in Quebec and gave it more freedom in order to keep from interferring in war(please them). Angered protestants and colonials who felt that they deserved better.

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia

Le Maghreb is made of which 3 African countries?

Federal Reserve Act

Legislation designed to stabilize the currency in the US. It split the US into 12 regions with one Federal bank in each region that could issue money under the authority of the Federal Reserve Board. It gave the government the ability to quickly increase the amount of money in circulation when needed.

The Winter's Tale

Leontes suspects Hermione and Polixenes of adultery; she and her infant apparently die in childbirth. Antigonus secretly raises Perdita in Bohemia; she meets Florizel and they fall in love. Polixenes, not knowing who she is, objects to the wedding. In the end, all are reconciled, and it is revealed that Hermione is still alive when she is presented to Leontes as a lifelike statue.

Senegal

Leopold Senghor, creator of Negritude, was the former president of which country?

Gleipnir

Leyding and Dromi both broke when the Aesir tried to restrain Fenrir, requiring the creation of this object made of things like the beard of a woman and the roots of a mountain.

Fuel Administration

Like the Food Administration, this Administration encouraged Americans to save fuel with "heatless Mondays" and "gasless Sundays." The actions helped create a sum of $21 billion to pay for the war.

Eugene O'Neill

Long Day's Journey Into Night

temperature

Lord Kelvin developed an absolute scale for this quantity related to a system's average kinetic energy, whose minimus value equals zero kelvin.

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lyrical Ballads

Meat Inspection Act; 1906

Made it so that meat would be inspected by the government from corral to can. It began a quality rating system as well as increased the sanitation requirements for meat producers.

Spain

Madrid is the capital of which country?

Guatemala

Mayan culture was the center of which Central American country?

Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

Euripides

Medea

Santa Anna

Mexican dictator who was in charge when war broke out between the Mexicans and Americans. He lost Texas to rebels, and was the leader of the armed forces during the war.

The Comedy of Errors

Mistaken identities among the two sets of twins, as Aegeon tries to reunite his family long seperated by a storm at sea; one set of master and servant from Ephesus, the other from Syracuse. Based on the Latin comedy "The Twins," by Plautus.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

More of Falstaff's cavorting; largely a play written to revive this popular character.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

Stephen Crane

Name this American author of "The Red Badge of Courage", "The Monster" and "An Episode of War."

Karl Heinrich Marx

Name this German philosopher who, along with Freidrich Engels, wrote the Communist Manifesto.

Sparta

Name this Greek city-state that gave everyone mandatory military training and defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.

distillation

Name this method of separation which separates components of a mixture based on differences in volatility or boiling points.

diffusion

Name this movement of particles down a concentration gradient, from areas of high to low concentrations.

The Stranger

Name this novel about Mersault written by Albert Camus.

The Oath of Horatii

Name this painting depicting two brothers swearing to defend Rome, by Jacques-Louis David.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Name this philosophical "Book for All and None" chronicling the travels of the title Persian prophet.

Willaim Thomson or Lord/Baron Kelvin

Name this prolific 19thC British scientist, known for his work on thermodynamics.

Works Progress Administration

New Deal agency that helped create jobs for those that needed them. It created around 9 million jobs working on bridges, roads, and buildings.

New England Confederation

New England colonists formed this group in 1643 as a defense against local Native American tribes and encroaching Dutch. The colonists formed the alliance without the English crown's authorization.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a slave who's ordered to be beaten to death by two other slaves. Showed northerners the horrors of slavery while southerners attack it as an exaggeration, it was also a cause of the Civil War.

John Keats

Ode on a Grecian Urn

South America

On what continent could you stand on the summit of Aconcagua?

Martinique

On what island did Mount Pelee erupt and destroy the entire population?

University of Oregon

One week after being stunned by App State, the Michigan Wolverines lost to the Ducks, from this school in Eugene.

Thornton Wilder

Our Town

John Milton

Paradise Lost

The Seine

Paris is separated in to the left and right banks by what river?

Iron Act

Part of the British Trade and Navigation acts; it was intended to stem the development of colonial manufacturing in competition with home industry by restricting the growth of the American iron industry to the supply of raw metals. This set a feeling of discontent and a feeling of being a tool among colonials.

Henrik Ibsen

Peer Gynt

negative externalities

Pigouvian taxes compensate for the social cost of these, defined as an unintended impact on a third party. Examples include climate change and pollution.

William Bradford

Pilgrim that lived in a north colony called Plymouth Rock in 1620. He was chosen governor 30 times. e also conducted experiments of living in the wilderness and wrote about them; well known for "Of Plymouth Plantation."

John Bunyan

Pilgrim's Progress

Valley Forge

Place in Pennsylvania where George Washington and his Continental Army spent the winter. It allowed for Washington to regroup and retrain his rag-tag army.

Dawes Plan

Plan which rescheduled Germany's payment so that they could take more loans. It created a "merry-go-round" of payments since Germany borrowed to pay the allies who would use that money to pay the U.S. An anti-American sentiment was created after this.

Referendum

Political power that would give the people (majority) to pass any law they pleased. This would bypass the boss bought state legislature completely.

Initiative

Political power that would give the people (majority) to propose legislations. means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote on a proposed statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment or ordinance. This would give more power to the people, rather than letting them be at the mercy at the "boss bought legislatures"

Recall

Political power that would give the people (majority) to remove any elected official. This would enable the people to remove corrupted/bribed officials.

John Bell

Presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union Party. He drew votes away from the Democrats, helping Lincoln win.

Square Deal

Progressive concept by Roosevelt that would help capital, labor, and the public. It called for control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources. It denounced special treatment for the large capitalists and is the essential element to his trust-busting attitude. This deal embodied the belief that all corporations must serve the general public good.

18th Amendment

Prohibited the non-medical sale of alcohol This amendment is the midpoint of a growing drive towards women's rights as well as showing the moral attitude of the era.

Jane Addams

Prominent social reformer who was responsible for creating the Hull House. She helped other women join the fight for reform, as well as influencing the creation of other settlement houses.

Wilmot Proviso

Proposed that slavery be banned in land acquired from the Mexican War. The proviso pushed the country closer to civil war; it raised questions about slaves that had not been asked previously

The Tempest

Prospero and Mirand live on an island, where he practices magic. He creates a TITLE that brings the enemies who deposed him to the island; they are shipwrecked and separated. Miranda meets Ferdindand; they fall in love. Prospero uses his magical powers, and Ariel, to confound his guests and to defeat the Caliban's plots against him. All the rivalries are ended; Prospero frees Ariel as he had long promised.This was Shakespeare's last play.

George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion

Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca

Bacon's Rebellion

Rebellion of discontent former landless servants led by the namesake man. Though the rebellion was crushed, it caused a move from indentured servants to African slaves for labor purposes.

Muckrakers

Reporters who wrote articles for magazines such as cosmopolitan. They helped reveal the dirt about trusts, corruption, and other evils.

Aaron Burr

Republican who received the same number of electoral votes as Jefferson since they ran together, thus throwing the election to the House. Caused an amendment to state that President and Vice-President were to be voted separately.

Republicans

Rivals of the Federalists who believed in a smaller government based on state rights. Their rivalry sparked tensions with Federalists, creating a political party system.

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Strategic Defense Initiative

SDI was a ballistic missile defense system designed to protect the U.S. from any Soviet missile launch. It was a demonstration of America's determination to win by technology, and to some, SDI hurried the fall of the Soviet Union.

Zimmerman Note

Secret note that proposed a German- Mexican alliance. He tempted Mexico with the ideas of recovering Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The discovery of the note ultimately gave Wilson and Congress into declaring war against Germany and the Central powers.

William Seward

Secretary of State who was responsible for purchasing Alaskan Territory from Russia. By purchasing Alaska, he expanded the territory of the country at a reasonable price.

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Navigation Acts

Series of laws designed to restrict England's carrying trade to English ships. The law angered colonials who felt that they could profit more if they were not restricted and that they were just tools of British mercantilism.

Compromise of 1850

Series of legislation addressing slavery and the boundaries of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. California was admitted as a free state, Texas received financial compensation for relinquishing claim to lands West of the Rio Grande river, the territory of New Mexico was organized with popular sovereignty, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C., and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed It temporarily defused sectional tensions in the United States, postponing the secession crisis and the American Civil War. Also repealed the compromise of 1820.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Set in Macondo, this novel written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells of Ursula, the Buendia family matriarch who dies the size of a fetus at the age of 120.

Hull House

Settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty.

Intolerable or Coercive Acts

Several laws that were composed in 1774 in response to colonial rebellion. (Boston Tea Party) It angered the colonies greatly, pushing them further into unity.

Margaret Sanger

She led an organized birth control movement that openly championed the use of contraceptives. She helped started the birth control movement, thus showing how women were changing.

Sandra Day O'Connor

She was a laywer and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. She was the first woman to be a justice on the Supreme Court.

Rachel Carson

She was a marine biologist that wrote and published Silent Spring. Her book addressed her concerns on the environmental hazards of pesticides, bringing attention to the environment.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

She was an American writer famous for Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was about the blackness of American slavery. Acclaimed in Europe and the North, the book furthered the abolitionist movement, and it was a cause of the Civil War.

John Sirica

Sirica was the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was the judge of the Watergate break-in case and later demanded Nixon's tapes during the whole fiasco.

John Quincy Adams

Sixth president of the United States He was in favor of funding national research and he appointed Henry Clay as his Secretary of State. During his presidency the National Republicans were formed in support of him.

Nat Turner

Slave in Virginia who started a slave rebellion in 1831 believing he was receiving signs from God His rebellion was the largest sign of black resistance to slavery in America and led the state legislature of Virginia to a policy that said no one could question slavery.

University of Florida Gators

Somehow, the Wolverines managed to get to the Capital One Bowl in the 2007 season, where they faced this team, led by Tim Tebow.

Dixiecrats

Southern Democrats who opposed Truman's position on civil rights. They caused a split in the Democratic party.

taxes

Supply-side economists advocate lowering them to stimulate growth. Name these fees collected by governments, which can be levied on property and income.

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

Supreme Court case in which Edward Prigg appealed to the US Supreme Court on the grounds that the Pennsylvania law arrogated the State powers over and above those allowed by the US Constitution The court held that Federal law is superior to State law, and overturned the conviction of Prigg as a result.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

THeseus woos his captive, Hipployta, as their wedding nears. Oberon argues with Titania. Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, risking execution; she loves Lysander; Helena loves Demetrius. In the woods, their relationshops are confused as Puck administers a love potion to the wrong lovers. He also gives some to Titania, who falls in love with Bottom, whom Oberon had given the head of an ass. In the end, the couples are happily sorted out; the tradesmen perform "Pyramus and Thisbe" at the royal wedding.

Macbeth

TITLE and Banquo meet three witches who foretell of TITLE's eventual ascendancy to the throne. This stirs TITLE's and his wife's ambition. TITLE murders DUncan when the King stays at TITLE's castle, Dunsinane. TITLE seizes the throne; now he becomes suspicious of everyone. First he has Banquo murderedl then Macduff's family. Lady TITLE consumed by guilt, sleepwalks at night trying to clean imaginary blood from her hand; she dies. Macduff leads an army against TITLE and kills him; Malcolm is proclaimed king. In theater legend, TITLE is considered an unlucky play to perform and is never referred to by name, but as "the Scottish play."

Richard II

TITLE exiles Bolingbroke, a rival. For upbraiding him about his misrule, TITLE confiscates all of Gaunt's property after his death. While TITLE is in Ireland, Bolingbroke becomes Henry IV. Richard is killed at Pontefract Castle.

Henry V

TITLE has a potential claim to the French throne; the Dauphin insults him for this pretension, provoking a war. TITLE invades France, barely winning the siege of Harfleur. A large French army traps Henry and his outnumbered troops at Agincourt, where he wins a crushing victory. TITLE successfully woos Princess Katherine. As an aside, Falstaff dies as his friends prepare to leave the army for France.

Othello

TITLE is a commander in the Venetian military and is sent to defend Cyprus against the Turks. Iago, passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio, plots to ruin his rival and TITLE. He tricks Cassio into drunkenness and arouses TITLE's jealousy, hinting that Cassio and Desdemona were lovers. As his jealousy consumes him, TITLE smothers the innocent Desdemona. TITLE then learns the truth and kills himself; Cassio brings Iago to justice.

Hamlet

TITLE is upset that, upon his father's apparently accidental death, his uncle Claudius usurped the throne and married his mother. HIs father's ghost appears, revealing that Claudius murdered him and seduced Gertrude; the ghost tells TITLE to seek revenge. Hamlet feigns madness to mask his purposes. He stages a play, "The Murder of Gonzaga," re-creating his father's murder and proving Claudius' guild by his recreation. When TITLE confronts the Queen, he kills Polonius, who had hidden in her room. TITLE survivesassassination when sent with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England. Laertes joins Claudius in a plot to kill TITLE during a fencing match, either via a poisioned blade or drink. Ophelia, rejected by TITLE, goes mad upon the death of her father, and drowns in a stream. At the fencing match Gertrude unknowingly drinks from the poisoned cup and Laertes wounds TITLE. The blades get switched TITLE stabs Laertes fatally with the poisoned one. Gertrude now falls from her poison and dies. Laertes reveals the plot and TITLE kills Claudius. TITLE wills his kingdom to Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, and dies in Horatio's arms. TITLE is Shakespeare's longest play; the title role is Shakespeare's longest part.

King Lear

TITLE plans to divide his kingdom among his daughters asking each to proclaim their love for him. Goneril and Regan flatter him; Cordelia refuses to do more than offer him the proper love and devotion. Outraged, TITLE denies Cordelia her portion and exiles her and her defender, the Earl of Kent. Edmund tricks Gloucester into exiling Edgar. Goneril and Regan strip away TITLE's remaining rights; he goes mad and is alone except for his Fool. Cordelia invades with a French army and finds the mad TITLE, but she is defeated by her sisters an Edmund. The victors fall out among themselves; Goneril kills Regan and commits suicide; Edmund's treachery is unmasked. TITLE enters, carrying Cordelia, whom Edmund had hanged. Then he dies as well.

Richard III

TITLE, Duke of GLoucester, plots to remove all those who stand between him and the throne. He has Clarence sent to the Tower, where he is later murdered. Named protector and guardian of young Edward V upon the King's death, Richard sends him and his younger brohter to the Tower "for their safety." After he usurps the throne, with Buckingham's help, he has the two princes killed. Henry Tudor, a descendant of Edward III, lands a rebel army in Britain and defeats and kills Richard at Bosworth Field. Henry is proclaimed Henry VII, ending the War of the Roses.

Secession

Term that is used when part of a country leaves the rest of the country to form their own country. The South's leaving led to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Secession

Term that is used when part of a country leaves the rest of the country to form their own country. The South's secession led to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Dollar diplomacy

Term used to describe the efforts of the U.S. to further its foreign policy aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power. It protected American investments in Latin America and Asia and encouraged more stable governments.

Panama

The "survivors" on the TV show Survivor 7 were stranded on which Central American country in the Pearl islands?

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

The Act is an extensive statute which funds primary and secondary education. This allowed the government to help those who cannot achieve a good education.

Sikhism

The Adi Granth was named the perpetual Guru of this religion by Guru Gobind Singh.

Civilian Conservation Corps

The CCC was a New Deal program created by the Unemployment Relief Act. It provided employment in government camps for 3 million men. The work they were involved in included reforestation, fire fighting, flood control, and swamp drainage.

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Arthur Miller

The Crucible

1889

The Eiffel Tower was built for the World's Fair in what year?

Avesta

The Gathas and the Vendidad are parts of this collection of Zoroastrian holy texts, sometimes accompanied by commentaries called the Zend.

Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Romeo and Juliet

The Montagues and Capulets have a longstanding, bloody feud. TITLE characters fall in love and secretly marry, even as the feud claims Tybalt and Mercutio. TITLE MALE is banished for Tybalt's death. TITLE FEMALE feigns her death via a drug as a ruse to escape to join TITLE MALE. Unaware of her plan, TITLE MALE returns, fins her "dead," and takes poison. She awakens, sees his dead body, and kills herself with his dagger. Their deaths force the two families to end their feud.This play is the inspiration for Leonard Bernsetin's "West Side Story."

Iroquois Confederacy

The Peace of Montreal ended one conflict with this polity, the Beaver War, which also saw its defeat of the Huron. In the Treat of Fort Stanwix, this polity changed the limit of white settlement and sold the British land between the Ohio and TN Rivers. The Tuscarora nation would later join a polity of this name to become the "sixth nation". Name this confederacy called "people of the longhouse" in modern upstate NY.

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Anton Chekhov

The Seagull

John C. Breckinridge

The South's pro-slavery Democratic candidate in the election of 1860. Completed the split of the Democratic Party by being nominated.

J. StromThurmond

The Southern Democrat who ran on the States'; Rights ticket who supported the segregation policies He showed that the Democrats were sourly divided due to the issue of blacks and civil rights.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

Judaism

The Torah and Talmud, consisting of the Mishnah and Germara, are central to this Abrahamic religion.

Rush-Bagot Treaty

The Treaty demilitarized the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, where many British naval armaments and forts still remained, and laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the US and British North America This agreement was indicative of improving relations between the United States and Britain during this time period following the end of the War of 1812.

Henry James

The Turn of the Screw

Warren Commission

The U.S. commission in charge with investigating the assassination of JFK. It came to the conclusion that Oswald was alone in his actions and advised to reform presidential security measures.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

The Vicario brothers kill Santiago Nasar in this novel, to avenge the loss of Angela's virginity.

T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land

Impeachment

The act of by which a legislative body formally levels charges against a high official of government.This is part of the system of checks and balances so that the judicial and the executive do not abuse their powers.

Articles of Confederation

The articles were the first governing document that unified the colonies against the British It showed the French that the colonials were serious about independence and that they had a post-war plan.

Tariff of Abominations

The bill favored western agricultural interests by raising tariffs or import taxes on imported hemp, wool, fur, flax, and liquor, thus favoring Northern manufacturers. In the South, these tariffs raised the cost of manufactured goods, thus angering them and causing more sectionalist feelings.

Berlin Blockade

The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift.

fresco

The buon and a secco types differ in whether the plaster is wet or dry. Name this painting medium exemplified by the Sistine Chapel ceiling, where paint is applied directly to plaster.

Doubloons

The coins thrown during Mardi Gras are called what?

Second Continental Congress

The congress had resolved that the only option was war due to the rejection of the Olive Branch Petition. It named George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental army and later on adopted the Declaration of Independence.

First Continental Congress

The congress was the colonists' response to the Coercive/Intolerable Acts. This called for a complete boycott of all British goods in 12 of the 13 colonies, showing a growth in unity.

South Carolina Exposition & Protest

The document, written by John C. Calhoun, was a protest against the Tariff of 1828. It promoted the nullification theory. This was another example of the rising tension between the North and South and foreshadowed secession.

Election of 1860

The election in which Abraham Lincoln was first elected President due to the schism of the Democrats. Caused a chain reaction of southern states to secede from the Union since they were afraid of Lincoln's policies.

Roger B. Taney

The fifth Chief Justice. he... and other justices appointed by Jackson favored the power of the states . In the Dred Scott decision (1857) he ruled that slaves and their descendants had no rights as citizens.

House of Burgesses

The first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts; it set a precedent for future parliaments to be established

Fireside Chats

The informal radio conversations Roosevelt had with the people to keep spirits up. It was a means of communicating with the people on how he would take on the depression.

Proclamation Line

The line that was setup by the British that forbids any movement/settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. This angered many colonials, who felt that the current space was too crowded, and that they had every right to move if they desired to since it was they that battled against the French during the Seven Years

Maginot Line

The line was a series of fortifications on the Franco-German border designed to defense France in case of another German attack. This showed that France was reluctant to go to war and was relying on defense and not offense.

Portsmouth Peace

The meeting between Japan, Russia, and the U.S. that ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 The negotiations gained the Peace Prize for Roosevelt, but it also damaged Russian and Japanese relations with the U.S.

Great Society

The name given to Johnson's plan for American society that aimed for the lessening poverty, cleaning the environment, funding public education, and other leftist ideals. It expanded the American welfare and social insurance system gave the government new responsibilities as well as securing Johnson votes from the left.

Democratic Republic of Congo

The name of this country was once the Belgian Congo, then Zaire. What is it today?

halogens

The only group to have solid, liquid, and gaseous elements at STP, they have seven valence electrons and cromprise of Group 17 on the periodic table. Name this group of elements which includes astatine, bromine, iodine, chlorine, and flourine.

Liver

The only human internal organ capable of regeneration, its scars cause cirrhosis. High levels of bilirubin cause jaundice, a sympton of injuries to this organ, such as hepatitis. Name this organ that detoxifies blood and secretes bile.

Sugar Islands

The only land that France had in the New World after the Seven Years war. These were the places where many New England merchants smuggled sugar from.

Guyana

The proverb "You can't plant plantains and reap cassava" comes from which South American country?

Haymarket Riot; 1886

The riot took place in Chicago between rioters and the police. It ended when someone threw a bomb that killed dozens. The riot was suppressed, and in addition with the damaged reputation of unions, it also killed the Knights of Labor, who were seen as anarchists.

Cumberland Road

The road was the first interstate highway, and the only one entirely paid for by federal funds. It ran from Maryland to Illinois and helped with the westward movement.

Panmunjom

The site where the armistice was signed during the Korean War. It ended hostilities of the Korean conflict.

Much Ado About Nothing

The stormy and comic romance of Beatrice, who has long spurned men, and Benedick, her acerbic equal, aided by their various friends and relations.

Antony and Cleopatra

The story of a love affair and of the final Roman civil war, ending with Octavius' victory at Actium. The title character commits suicide when he falsely hears his lover is dead. His lover then kills herself with the bite of an asp rather than be made captive by Octavius.

Brigham Young

The successor to the Mormons after the death of Joseph Smith. He was responsible for the survival of the sect and its establishment in Utah, thereby populating the would-be state.

Electoral College

The system that the United States used and still uses to elect the president. Each state has a number of electoral votes based on the number of representatives it has in congress. The system showed the lack of trust the founding fathers had in the common man.

Louisiana Purchase

The treaty describes the United States acquisition of more than 529,911,680 acres of territory from France in 1803. This greatly increased the size, power, and wealth of the U.S.

Hay-Bunau-Varillia Treaty

The treaty signed in 1903 with Panama. The United States leased the 10-mile wide canal zone with a down payment of $10 million and an annual payment of $250,000 for ninety-nine years. This enabled the U.S. to build the Panama canal.

Cheese

There are more than 360 different types of what produced in France every year?

Hollywood Ten

These 10 people from the entertainment industry called before the House Un-American Activities Committee as "unfriendly" witnesses in It was another example of the communist fear growing in the U.S.

Alien and Sedition Acts

These acts allowed the exportation of any alien believed to be a threat to national security and during times of war; and made it a criminal offense to plot against the government -oppressed people's first amendment rights

Neutrality Acts

These acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 stipulated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war certain restrictions would automatically go into effect. No American could legally sail on a belligerent ship, or sell or transport munitions to a belligerent nation, or make loans to a belligerent. This displayed that America was not willing to go to war and desired to remain neutral and isolationist.

Freedom Riders

These civil rights activists rode on buses to the South to test the Supreme Court case Boynton v. VA, which ruled that segregation on public transportation was illegal.

Wright Brothers

These men made the first controllable, powered heavier-than-air flight along with many other aviation milestones, also showing the beginning of the individual progressive spirit.

chromatography

These methods separate mixtures based on retardation factor by passing them through a stationary phase. Types include paper, size-exclusion, and thin-layer.

Pentagon Papers

These papers were a government study of U.S. involvement in South East Asia, or more specifically Vietnam commissioned during Johnson's presidency. Their exposure caused a panic in the government and for Nixon to become more paranoid with the upcoming reelection.

Relief, Recovery, Reform

These three "R's" were the categories into which the New Deal was split.

Magellanic Clouds

These two "large" and "small" irregular galaxies are named for a 16thC navigator. Visible in the southern hemisphere, they form part of the Milky Way subgroup.

Sacco-Vanzetti case

These two Italian men killed a clerk and stole money from a shoe factory in Massachusetts. Both were charged with the robbery and murder. The ruling reflected the anti-redism and anti-foreignism in the country since the two were Italian, atheists, anarchists, and draft dodgers.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

These two men were reporters for the Washington Times during the 70s. The two are credited with uncovering the Watergate scandal.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

These two were Soviet spies sent to steal information and technology. They helped the Soviets developed the atomic bomb, and their executions drew sympathy from those tired of the "red-hunts"

Barbary Pirates

These were Muslim pirates operating from the coast of North Africa that hampered merchant shipping in the area by breaking treaties, attacking ships, and taking hostages/prisoners. The attacks prompted the build up of the U.S. Navy to stop the attacks

Vietcong

These were South Vietnamese communist revolutionaries. They took part in insurgent attacks against the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces, helping unify the nation.

Reform Crusades

These were a series of movements designed to better American society. They included movements such as prison reform, temperance, and women's rights. While not bringing an immediate change, the reforms did act as a starting point for a series of changes later on.

Insular Cases

These were court cases dealing with islands/countries that had been recently annexed and demanded the rights of a citizen. These Supreme Court cases decided that the Constitution did not always follow the flag, thus denying the rights of a citizen to Puerto Ricans and Filipinos.

War Hawks

These were mostly young Republicans who had been imbued with the ideals of the American Revolution as youths, who wanted to take Canada and Florida and deal with the Indian problem. They held a majority in Congress, and were responsible for declaring war in 1812

Lexington and Concord

These were the first "battles" of the Revolutionary War. Lex, delayed troops on way to concord. IT showed that the British had only military resolve in mind.

Camp David Accords

These were the peace accords signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to finally end the Israeli-Egyptian disputes. The achievement by Carter is considered his greatest achievement in office.

Everglades

These wetlands in Southern Fla. contain Lake Okeechobee as well as a lot of crocodiles. It borders Big Cypress Swamp.

Rough Riders

They were a group of American volunteers that formed to fight the Spanish. They helped defeat the Spanish at San Juan Hill.

Molly Maguries

They were a secret group of Irish-American coal minters that fought and protested the living and working conditions. Their violent acts led them to be removed, while damaging the reputation of unions.

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

This Crane short story tells of an altercation between the town drunk, Scratchy Wilson, and the sheriff, Jack Potter in the title town.

Martin Frobisher

This Englishman failed 3 times in his search for the NW passage, discovering his namesake bay off of Baffin Island. He served as Vice Admiral to Sir Francis Drake's 1585 espedition to the West Indies.

Samuel de Champlain

This French explorer discovered his namesake lake, oversaw expansion in the St. Lawrence River region and founded Quebec City.

Gustave Flaubert

This Frenchman wrote Madame Bovary, Memoirs of a Madman, and Salammbo, about a Carthaginian princess.

The Birth of Tragedy

This Nietzsche work claims that music represents the "world will", and that art arises from a combo of the Apollonian and Dionysian world views.

Ponce de Leon

This Spanish explorer discovered Fla in search of the Fountain of Youth.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

This act banned any formations that would restrict trade, not distinguishing between bad and good trusts. The act was a hamper on worker unions, but it showed that the government was slowly moving away from laissez faire ideals.

Chinese Exclusion Act; 1882

This act permanently banned anyone from China to immigrant to the U.S. This was a display of how old immigrants used their status against new immigrants and the nativist feeling in America.

Dawes Act

This act removed the status of legal entity from the tribes, removed tribal ownership of land and gave family heads 160 acres. It also granted citizenship if they acted like good Americans for x number of years. The act attempted to make the Indians act more as individuals and reflected the government's stance towards them until 1934. The act also accelerated the decay of Indian culture but increased the population.

Geore Orwell

This author of Animal Farm wrote about living in slums in Down and Out in Paris and London, and described Winston Smith and Big Brother in 1984.

Carl Jung

This author of Psychological Types introduced the sage, trickster, shadow, animus and anima, which are collectively termed archetypes. Name this psychologist who introduced the terms introvert and extrovert, and proposed that all humanity shares a collective unconscious.

Berlin Wall

This barrier was a fortified wall made up of concrete and barbed wire made to prevent East Germans escaping to West Berlin. It was one of the most visible signs of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain.

On Origin of Species

This book by Charles Darwin explains his theory of evolution and natural selection. This made his theory open and accessible to the public, marked a milestone in scientific achievement, and influenced the development of Social Darwinism.

The Well-Tempered Clavier

This book of 24 preludes and fugues starts with a C major prelude and rises to cover each key. Published in two books, it demonstrated the tuning capabilities of the title instrument.

Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States

This case took place in May 1935 when a New York company was charged with a violation of an NRA poultry code which dealt with wage-fixing and pricess. It resulted in the Supreme Court declaring the NRA unconstitutional by stating that the NRA was regulating interstate commerce a violation of federal regulation.

Little Rock

This city was the site of the forced integration of a public school in 1956. The use of the 101st showed that the federal government was upholding and will continue to uphold the decision of Brown v. Board.

Achille-Claude Debussy

This composer's sole string quartet, in G minor, was labeld opus 10. Name this French impressionist composer of Clair de Lune, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and La Mer.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

This court case involved the namesake slave, had been taken to Illinois by his owner for several years, so he sued for his freedom; however, the court ruled that he could not sue since he was a slave. A key cause of the American Civil War.

Maggie

This crane novella describes the title "girl of the streets", who is abandoned by Pete and hangs out with Nellie.

Laffer Curve

This curve of questionable validity purports to show that increasing income taxes beyond a certain point actually lowers tax revenue.

calorimeter

This device, which can be as simple as two stacked styrofoam cups, measures the enthalpy changes of the reaction occurring inside it.

fragile X syndrome/Martin-Bell syndrome/Escalante's syndrome

This disorder, caused by too many CGG repeats in the FMR1 gene on the namesake chromosome, results in mental retardation.

Peace of Paris

This ended the Seven Years War/French and Indian war between Britain and her allies and France and her allies. The result was the acquisition of all land east of the Mississippi plus Canada for Britain, and the removal of the French from mainland North America.

Bay of Pigs

This event was an American attempt to overthrow the newly established communist government in Cuba by training and sending Cuban rebels. The coup ended up in a disaster due to the lack of support by the Americans. The incident was an embarrassment for the U.S. and ultimately led to Castro pleading for Soviet aid (Cuban Missile Crisis)

Martin Luther King Jr.

This founder of the SCLU made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during his March on Washington, and was later assassinated in Memphis.

Florida Keys

This group of 1700 or so islands extends down from Miami, and down to the Dry Tortugas.

Ku Klux Klan

This group was anti-foreign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, anti-revolutionist, anti-bootlegger, anti-gambling, anti-adultery, and anti-birth control. They reflected the extreme end of right-wing politics.

Tiananmen Incident

This incident was a suppression of Chinese democrats by the PLA. It caused much condemning from western nations including the U.S.

Federalist Papers

This is a collection of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison explaining how the new government/constitution would work. Their purpose was to convince the New York state legislature to ratify the constitution, which it did.

Watergate

This is a name given to the scandal the Nixon administration committed during the '72 presidential election where hired "goons" broke into Democrat HQ the namesake hotel for any dirt. This scandal revealed several other dirty plays Nixon's administration did the years leading up to the election and forced him to resign and killed the faith the public had in the government.

Reaganomics

This is a term that refers to the economic policies adopted by Reagan. They were based on tax-cuts, budget-cuts, and the belief of trickle down economics. This economic policy caused a great deal of discontent, but after he left office, the country was no longer troubled by high inflation and unemployment.

Filibustering

This is an attempt to obstruct a particular decision from being taken by using up the time available, typically through an extremely long speech. This would prevent the "opposing" party to pass an unfavorable law and ultimately force a compromise.

OPEC

This is an organization that owns much of the world's oil. Their boycott of the U.S. due to its support of Israel caused an energy crisis in the country, showing how dependent the country was on oil.

Klinefelter's Syndrome

This is the most common sex chromosome disorder marked by infertility and gynecomastia its found in males with an extra X chromosome.

Y chromosome

This is the smallest human chromosome, with a sex-determining region which triggers testis development.

Lake Okeechobee

This lake in Fla. is the second largest freshwater lake in the US, and has an average depth less than 10ft.

Hess's Law

This law states that energy change is independent pathway, allowing enthalpy changes to be added up to find the net enthalpy change.

Civil Rights Act

This legislation was passed by Johnson in 1964. The act outlawed segregation in public areas and granted the federal government power to fight black disfranchisement. The act also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Attila the Hun

This man led the Huns over from Central Asia, and was known as the scourge of God.

James Clerk Maxwell

This man names a kinetic energy distribution along with Boltzmann, a set of four equations in electromagnetism, and a hypothetical second-law-violating demon.

Cesar Chavez

This man was a union organizer and social activist of the 1960s. He led a five-year nonviolent boycott against California grape growers, protesting poor working conditions and the use of pesticides harmful to farm workers. The boycott became a cause celebre and was finally successful in winning new rights for workers.

Malcolm X

This man was an advocate of black power and was the figurehead of the Nation of Islam for some time. He was greatly influential in getting people to believe in black power and self-defense, as opposed to King's peace.

March on Washington

This march was a huge civil rights protest. It was here when King made his "I have a dream" speech. The march also pressured the government to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Monsieur Lheureux

This merchant from Madame Bovary lends Emma Bovary money and deals her goods on credit, preying on her desire for extravagance, which leads to her acquiring outstanding debts and eventually killing herself.

filtration

This method of mechanical separation differs slightly from sieving and uses a namesake device through which only fine particles can pass.

Lebanon

This nation's 2006 conflict with Israel began when Hezbollah fired rockets at Zar'it, and saw the IDF fire on civilian targets like Beirut's Rafic Hariri Airport.

Republic of Mexico

This nation's first ruler was Agustin de Iturbide, who came to power after an independence movement led by Miguel Hidalgo. Its Revolution feautred populist armies led by Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. Name this nation led by Antonio de Santa Anna to war against the US.

The Trial

This novel's main character meets Huld, whose nurse becomes his lover. The main character, a bank employee, ends up being stabbed by two men "like a dog". Name this posthumous novel about the title mysterious event in the life of Josef K., by Franz Kafka.

Madame Bovary

This novel's title character avoids her boring marriage with a doctor, Charles, by having extramarital affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger, Leon Dupois, and others.

Ansel Adams

This photographer took photos of El Capitan Theater and the Half Dome. Name this American photographer of Yosemite National Park.

Era of Good Feelings

This phrase was coined by a Boston newspaper that was commonly associated with the administration of James Monroe. It represented a time of a sense of nationalism in the country, as well as a sober executive.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

This poem mentions a "yellow smoke that slides along the street." This poem's speaker wonders "Do I dare/ Disturb the universe?" and "Do I dare to eat a peach?" in "the room where women come and go/Talking of Michaelangelo." Name this poem written by T.S. Eliot.

Goldberg

This set of an aria and 30 variations for harpischord features a sarabande, and was composed to alleviate its patron's insomnia.

Taylor Swift

This singer of "Should've Said No" compares herself to Juliet in another song. Name this pop-country singer of "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Love Story" and "You Belong With Me".

Log-Cabin Campaign, 1840

This was William Henry Harrison's bid for the presidency as a Whig. The campaign attempted to gain the support of the population by portraying Harrison as a simple man who lived in a log cabin. Harrison ultimately won, and was the beginning of active campaigning and slogans.

Dartmouth v. Woodward

This was a Supreme Court case dealing with the impairment of contracts. It strengthened the Contract Clause and limiting the power of the States to interfere with private institutions' charters. The decision protected contracts against specifically state encroachments.

Social Darwinism

This was a belief held by many that stated that the rich were rich and the poor were poor due to natural selection in society. This was the basis of many people who promoted a laissez fairee style of economy.

Gospel of Wealth

This was a book written by Carnegie that described the responsibility of the rich to be philanthropists. This softened the harshness of Social Darwinism as well as promoted the idea of philanthropy.

Congress of Racial Equality

This was a civil rights organization. They were famous for freedom rides which drew attention to Southern barbarity, leading to the passing of civil rights legislation.

Miranda v. Arizona

This was a court case about criminal procedure where This man was convicted based on only his confession. The decision declared a set of specific rights for criminal defendants.

Roe v. Wade

This was a court case where Norma McGorvey sued the state for the right for an abortion. The decision declared that a pregnant woman is entitled to have an abortion up until the end of the first tri-semester.

Norris-LaGuardia Act

This was a government legislation that dealt with workers and unions. It forbade "yellow dog contracts" as well as ensuring the freedom to from unions by withdrawing federal power to issue injunctions and prevent employer interference.

McCulloch v. Maryland

This was a judicial case that involved an attempt by Maryland to destroy a branch of the Bank of the United States by imposing tax on the notes This ended with John Marshall promoting Hamiltonian policy of implied powers and claimed that Maryland had no right to tax the bank. This was a blow to state rights and an increase in power of loose interpretation.

Slidell Mission

This was a last ditch attempt to gain California for America. Polk sent Slidell to offer a maximum of $25 million for it, but it was rejected by the Mexicans. This prompted Polk to provoke war with the Mexicans.

Acres of Diamonds

This was a lecture written by Russell Conwell that advocated Social Darwinism It justified the rich being rich and the poor being poor and, it called people not to help the poor since it was their fault, thus promoting a laissez faire ideal.

Seneca Falls Convention

This was a meeting of feminists at Seneca Falls where the women mimicked the Declaration to include women and their grievances as well as demanded the vote. The convention started the feminist movement.

Tet Offensive

This was a military offensive launched by the Vietcong and the NVA. Although defeated, it showed that the NVA and Vietcong would continue to fight. Their attack caused many to doubt final victory in Vietnam.

Common Sense

This was a pamphlet that was written by a Thomas Paine, a common man in the colonies. The pamphlet supported and gave reason to support secession from Britain as well as promote a representative type of government.

Moral Majority

This was a political group made up of fundamentalist Christians. Although not it did not accomplish much, it did show that Americans were starting to worry about the moral fabric of society.

Manhattan Project

This was a secret research and development project of the U.S to develop the atomic bomb. Its success granted the U.S the bombs that ended the war with Japan as well as ushering the country into the atomic era.

SALT I

This was a series of negotiations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on the issue of nuclear arms reduction. The talks helped lower the total number of missiles each side would have and eased the tension between the two.

Détente

This was a type of foreign policy adopted both by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. which focused on easing relations between the two and dropping the confrontational rivalry for the time being. This new policy allowed for tensions between the two powers to ease and paved the way for such talks such as SALT I & II.

Yom Kippur War

This was a war fought by Israel and neighboring Arab nations where the Arabs launched a surprise attack during Yom Kippur. U.S. support for Israel during the war led to OPEC boycotting the U.S., creating an energy crisis.

Missouri Compromise

This was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. The South won Missouri as a slave state, and the North won Maine and the right to forbid slavery in the remaining territories. It showed that compromise again prevented break up.

Tallmadge Amendment

This was an attempt to have no more slaves to be brought to Missouri and provided the gradual emancipation of the children of slaves. In the mind of the South, this was a threat to the sectional balance between North and South.

Cuban Missile Crisis

This was an incident where Soviet missiles were placed in Cuba as a response for help. The event greatly increased tensions between the Soviets and the Americans. As a result, a hotline was established between the two nations to avoid any accidents.

Panic of 1819

This was the first widespread economic crisis in the United States which brought deflation, depression, backrushes, bank failures, unemployment and soup kitchens. This set back nationalism to more sectionalism and hurt the poorer class, which gave way to Jacksonian Democracy.

Desert Storm

This was the name given to the operation to liberate Kuwait. The operation was a success, Kuwait was liberated and Iraq defeated.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra was written by this nihilist author of Beyond Good and Evile and Ecce Homo, who claimed "God is Dead" in The Gay Science.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

Treaty of Paris

Treaty that concluded the Spanish American War From the treaty America got Guam, Puerto Rico and they paid 20 million dollars for the Philippines. Cuba was freed from Spain.

Treaty of Paris

Treaty that officially ended the war. The negotiations were between the French, the Americans, and the British. The British gave the North West territory to the Americans.- were recognized as legit indep.

Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two different styles of love; Proteus' inconstancy and Valentine's head-over heels approach. After much travail, including Valentine's exile among outlaws, both couples are happily united.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

General Winfield Scott

United States Army lieutenant general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. He was responsible for defeating Santa Anna. He also conceived the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan.

English Channel

Ushant and the Isles of Scilly mark the western entrance of this body of water. Folkestone and Coquelles are linked by an underground tunnel under it. Connecting the Atlantic Sea and the North Sea, Calais lies near its narrowest point, the Strait of Dover. Name this body of water separating France and Britain.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

John Tyler

Vice-president under Harrison brought in to gain support of the South. His presidency was responsible for the veto against another Bank of the U.S and settled the Texas and Maine disputes in the country

Measure for Measure

Vincentio suddenly gives Angelo control of Vienna. ANgelo orders strict enforcement of the old law ordering death for lovers living together before marriage. Claudio is the first to be sentenced. When Isabella pleads with Angelo for her brother's life, Angelo finds himself lusting for her. He hypocritically offers to spare Claudio if Isabella will become his mistress. Vincentio disguised as a friar, reappears and sets everything right, and weds Isabella.

Twelfth Night

Viola and Sebastion are shipwrecked and separated in Illyria; Viola dresses as a man (Cesario) and meetsOlivia who falls in love with "him." Viola however, falls in love with the Duke who is enamored of Olivia. In the end Olivia is matched with Sebastion (who resembles his "twin" Cesario), and the Duke with Viola. TITLE refers to the Epiphany; at country house revels the social order was reversed: lords waited on their stewards, etc... This was Shakespeare's last true comedy.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Chicago Fire

Was a conflagration that burned from Oct. 8-10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying several square miles in this city. Though the fire was one of the largest U.S. disasters of the 19th Century, the rebuilding that began almost immediately spurred development into one of the most populous and economically important American cities. Led to the palmer house, this was the "first fireproof building." Also, the event showed the people's quick response in rebuilding

Farmer's Alliance

Was an organized agrarian economic movement among U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s Despite its failure, it is regarded as the precursor to the United States Populist Party, which grew out of the ashes of the Alliance in 1889.

El Greco

What 16th century Spanish artist frequently signed his name as "Domenikos Theotokopoulos"?

Creole

What Carribean dialect is a blend of English, French, and Spanish?

Bastille Day

What French Holiday is celebrated on July 14th?

Banzai

What Japanese battle cry meant "May you live forever"?

Romanian, French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian

What are the 5 Latinate, or Romance, languages?

Green, purple, gold

What are the colors of Mardi Gras?

Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

What are the three francophone countries in Asia?

Rome

What city was founded on the banks of the Tiber River?

Africa

What continent would you be in if you were to stand at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro?

Vietnam

What country did 300,000 Chinese troops invade in February of 1979?

Pablo Picasso

What cubist painter was a native Malaga, Spain?

The Gobi desert

What desert is between northern China and Mongolia?

Outdoors

What does the term "en plein air" signify?

Frida Kahlo

What famous Mexican painter was portrayed by Salma Hayek in a 2002 biographical movie?

Tokyo

What is the capital of Japan?

Lima

What is the capital of Peru?

The Mackenzie

What is the longest river in Canada?

Dios de los muertos

What is the name of the celebration where dead ancestors come back to visit the living?

The Amazon

What is the second longest river in the world?

Beans

What is traditionally thrown at the Japanese holiday of Setsubun?

Woodblock printing

What kind of art is produced with the Japanese moku hanga technique?

Busts

What marble items were often produced using deathmasks in Classical Greece and Rome?

Appenines

What mountain range is said to form the spine of Italy?

The Andes

What mountain range passes through seven countries in South America?

Rhine

What river divided the Germanic tribal regions from those of Rome?

Jade

What semi-precious stone was frequently used in early Chinese art?

Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian

What three types of columns are found in Greco-Roman architecture?

Vesuvius

What volcano erupted in 79 AD destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum?

Tiananman Square

Where in Beijing did students build a "Goddess of Democracy" in 1989?

Burkina Faso

Which African country has the lowest literacy rate in the world?

Cote d'lvoire

Which African country is the largest producer of cocoa in the world?

Dominica

Which Caribbean island was discovered by Christopher Columbus on Sunday, for which its name comes?

Rubicon

Which Italian river did Julius Caesar cross, signifying the "point of no return" into civil war?

Sacre Coeur

Which Parisian monument's name means "sacred heart".

Lupercalia

Which Roman festival of purification involved whipping people with goat hide and was celebrated on February 15th?

Saturnalia

Which Roman festival was noted for role reversals between masters and slaves?

Mt. Etna

Which Sicilian active volcano erupts almost every ten years?

The Amazon

Which South American river dumps over 7 million cubic feet of water per second into the ocean?

Tunis

Which Tunisian city was built near the ancient city of Carthage?

Sannai-Maruyama

Which archaeological and historic site in Japan dates back to the Jomon Period about 5500 years ago?

Toulouse-Lautrec

Which artist is associated with the Moulin Rouge?

Gauguin

Which artist is known for his paintings of Tahitian women?

Taipei

Which capital city considers itself the legitimate government of all mainland China?

Notre Dame

Which cathedral was set to be demolished until Victor Hugo used it as a setting for one of his fictional stories?

Hanoi

Which city became the capital of Vietnam after the country was reunited under communist rule?

Monaco

Which country has more people per square mile than any other country in the world?

France

Which country holds the largest bike race in the world?

Belize

Which country in Central America is the only one to officially speak English?

Switzerland

Which country is one of only two in the world to have a square flag?

Costa Rica

Which country was the first in the world to constitutionally abolish its army?

The Atacama Desert

Which desert in Chile has not had rain in 400 years?

Lantern Festival

Which festival concludes the celebration of the Chinese New Year?

Mandarin Oranges

Which fruit, representing luck and prosperity, is traditionally handed out on Chinese New Year?

Degas

Which impressionist artist is known for painting ballet dancers?

Madagascar

Which island in the Indian Ocean owes much of its economy to Coca-cola?

June

Which month is noteworthy in Japan for having no national holidays?

Trajan's Column

Which monument in the city of Rome depicts the defeat of the Dacians?

Alps

Which mountain range forms a boundary between France, Italy, and Switzerland?

Buddhism

Which religion has influenced much of Chinese art and architecture?

Congo

Which river carries the largest volume of water in Africa?

The Rio Grande

Which river forms the boundary between Mexico and the United States?

Edward Albee

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Fourteen Points

Wilson's peace plan designed to end the war without much discontent from all countries. It helped create the League of Nations, as well as inspired the allies, demoralized the enemy, and gave promises out to dissatisfied minorities.

Upton Sinclair

Writer who wrote The Jungle. While intending to reveal the plight of the worker, he revealed the unsanitary conditions where meat was created, which prompting Roosevelt to pass the Meat Inspection Act.

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

Lusitania

a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.

David Livingstone

a Scottish doctor and missionary considered to be one of the most important explorers of Africa, presumed dead until found by Henry Stanley

Hinton Helper

a Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s who wrote a book entitled The Impending Crisis of The South The book put forth the notion that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders, and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South.

Trenton

a battle that ended with an American victory against the Hessian mercenaries hired by the British. This battle proved to be a morale booster, and was one of Washington's few victories.

Bunker Hill

a battle that took place on the strategic point of Breed's Hill. British victory on account of the depletion of American supplies. yet gave them confidence- It pushed Americans towards a final decision for war.

Deflation

a decrease in the general price level, over a period of time. Helped America after the Civil War and helped America back on its feet after the Great Depression

Ostend Manifesto

a document drawn up in 1854 that instructed the buying of Cuba from Spain, then suggested the taking of Cuba by force It caused outrage among Northerners who felt it was a Southern attempt to extend slavery as states in Cuba would be southern states.

Henry Ford

a factory owner famous for his Model T. He developed the assembly line, which quickened production in factories, as well as the Model T.

Liberty Party

a former political party in the United States; formed in 1839 to oppose the practice of slavery. Later merged with antislavery Whigs to form the Free Soil Party

Louvre

a former royal palace that now serves as an art museum in France

J.P. Morgan

a highly successful banker who bought out Carnegie. With Carnegie's holdings and some others, he launched U.S Steel and made it the first billion dollar corporation.

Daniel Shays

a leader in a rebellion against the state of Massachusetts due to the amount of discontent of farmers that lost their land due to mortgage foreclosures and tax delinquencies during the war while they were off fighting. The rebellion, though put down by the state militia, signaled the need for a stronger central government.

Sand Creek

a massacre of Indians by federal troops just so that they didn't make any trouble.

Al Capone

a mob king in Chicago who controlled a large network of speakeasies with enormous profits. His illegal activities convey the failure of prohibition in the twenties and the problems with gangs.

Scab

a non-union worker who usually worked for low wages. They were used as strike breakers since they were not part of a union.

Galapagos Islands

a part of Ecuador known for being visited by Charles Darwin and for its unique species

Horatio Alger

a popular writer of the Post-Civil War time period. He was a Puritan New Englander who wrote more than a hundred volumes of juvenile fiction during his career; the famous "rags to riches" theme.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

a railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York. He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical.

Transcontinental Railroad

a railroad that connected the eastern United States to the western United States. The railroad firmly bonded the West Coast the Union, created a trade route to the far-east, and helped the western expansion

Beaufort

a scale for which the force of wind is indicated by the numbers from 0 to 12

Lincoln-Douglass Debates

a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas for an Illinois seat in the Senate. led to Abe Lincoln being elected to the senate and this experience later propelled him to the Presidency

Battle Hymn of the Republic

a song in which the words "grapes of wrath" appeared in 1862

Stairway to Heaven

a song inspired by Celtic lore and the occult; it is the most requested song in radio history by the band Nirvana

Andrew Carnegie

a steel giant that got where he was by vertical integration. He pioneered vertical integration as a way to run a corporation, and was an anti-trust advocate as well as a philanthropist.

act of God

a three-word phrase that describes occurrences beyond human control, such as floods, lightning, or other disasters

Fantasia

a type of composition in which the composer lets imagination prevail over the rules of a set musical form

American Federation of Labor

a union for skilled laborers that fought for worker rights in a non-violent way. It provided skilled laborers with a union that was unified, large, and strong.

Hadrian's Wall

a wall along the Anglo-Scottish border, named after its builder, designed to keeps the Picts and other Scottish tribes from invading

De Bow's Review

a widely circulated magazine of "agricultural, commercial, and industrial progress and resource" in the American South. It convinced many southerners to join in secession.

Albert Schweitzer

a world renowned musician, ethical philosopher, and humanitarian who went to Africa as a missionary and won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize

Salamis

according to Homer, the home of Greek hero Ajax, where the Greek Navy under Themistocles defeated the Persian Navy under Xerxes I

Pinckney Treaty

agreement between Spain and the United States, fixing the southern boundary of the United States at 31° N latitude and establishing commercial arrangements favorable to the United States. U.S. citizens were accorded free navigation of the Mississippi River through Spanish territory as well as privilege of a tax-free deposit. This treaty showed that the U.S. was slowly becoming a world player, as they made a treaty with Britain the previous year.

Battle of Trafalgar

an 1805 sea battle off the southern coast of Spain, in which Admiral Horation Nelson was killed

Georgia O'Keefe

an American artist who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and whose works were revered by Alfred Stieglitz

Charles Lindbergh

an American aviator, engineer , and Pulitzer Prize winner. He was famous for flying solo across the Atlantic, paving the way for future aviational development.

Leonard Bernstein

an American composer who directed the New York Philharmonic from 1957-1969 and composed the music for "West Side Story"

George Custer

an American general/colonel that took part in the Sioux War and ultimately died in an engagement at the Big Horn.

Jane Addams

an American social worker, sociologist, philosopher and reformer. She was also the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and a founder of the U.S. Settlement House Movement.

The Cask of Amontillado

an Edgar Allen Poe short story in which Fortunato is walled in alive

Thomas Gainsborough

an English painter who painted "The Blue Boy"

Yellow Dog Contract

an agreement some companies forced workers to take that forbade them from joining a union. This was a method used to limit the power of unions, thus hampering their development.

blood

an alkaline substance closest in composition to seawater that comes in types A, B, AB, and O

Chris van Allsburg

an art major who wrote "Jumanji" and "The Polar Express"

Sandro Botticelli

an artist, whose real name is Alissandro Philipepi, known for "Primavera" and "The Birth of Venus"

Stephen Hawking

an author/scientist stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease whose research indicates that black holes can lose mass over time

Trust

an economic method that had other companies assigns their stocks to the board of trust who would manage them. This made the head of the board, or the corporate leader wealthy, and at the same time killed off competitors . This method was used/developed by Rockefeller, and helped him become extremely wealthy. It was also used in creating monopolies.

lithium

an element used in inflating lifeboats and the making of the H-bomb, but is currently used to treat bipolar disorder and depression

Jonas Salk

an epidemiologist who developed the first vaccine against polio

decoupage

an ornamental technique using paper cutouts to create scenes on furniture, walls, or other articles

Henry Cabot Lodge

an outspoken senator from Massachusetts. He was the leader of the Irreconcilables who hampered the passing of the League of Nations.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

author of "Evangeline," who also wrote a poem containing these lines, "Into each life some rain must fall/ Some days must be dark and dreary."

Karl Marx

author of "The Communist Manifesto"

Democracy in America

classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses such as the tyranny of the majority It explained why republicanism succeeded in the U.S. and failed elsewhere.

Hull House

co-founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr who were soon joined by other volunteers called "residents," it was one of the first settlement houses in the U.S. and eventually grew into one of the largest, with facilities in 13 buildings At its beginning, its main purposes were to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood, many of whom were recent immigrants. There were classes in literature, history, art, domestic activities such as sewing, and many other subjects, concerts free to everyone, free lectures on current issues, and clubs both for children and adults. Later, the settlement branched out and offered services to ameliorate some of the effects of poverty.

Sooner

eager settlers that jumped the gun to settle Oklahoma when the government declared the availability of new land. Their haste helped Oklahoma by 1907; however, they showed that the frontier was slowly shrinking in respect to available land.

John Winthrop

emigrated from the Mass. Bay Colony in the 1630's to become the first governor and to lead a religious experiment. He once said, "we shall be a city on a hill."

Espionage Act

enacted fines and imprisonment for false statements, inciting rebellion, or obstructing recruitment or the draft. Also papers which opposed the government could be banned from the U.S. postal service. It showed American fears/paranoia about Germans and other perceived threats.

Mexican Cession

historical name for the region of the present day southwestern United States that was ceded to the U.S. by Mexico in 1848 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the Mexican-American War. this massive land grab was significant because the question of extending slavery into newly acquired territories had become the leading national political issue.

Adams-Onis Treaty

known as transcontinental treaty, purchased Florida from Spain. Established western boundary for US and prevented Seminoles from invading Georgia

intercostals

located between the ribs, these muscles facilitate breathing by aiding in the expansion of the ribcage

Knights of Labor

national labor union that was open to nearly all workers. It was a secret society. They were open to all, therefore more equal than others, but more importantly, it gave them a large population, which led them to gain an 8 hour day after many strikes.

Underground Railroad

network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape to free states, or as far north as Canada It allowed thousands of slaves to escape to freedom.

Harlem Renaissance

refers to the black cultural development during the 1920s. It showed that blacks had much to offer to American culture and saw the development of "real" American culture (ex. Jazz).

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

settled the dispute over the location of the Maine-New Brunswick border between the United States and Canada as well as the location of the border in the westward frontier up to the Rocky Mountains -called for a final end to the slave trade on the high seas, to be enforced by both signatories

Boomer

settlers that were waiting for the government to officially open Oklahoma for settlement.

Lecompton Constitution

supported the existence of slavery in the proposed state and protected rights of slaveholders. It was rejected by Kansas, making Kansas an eventual free state.

Ra

the Egyptian god of the sun

Helios

the Greek god of the sun, who drove his fiery chariot across the sky

Andrew Mellon

the Secretary of the Treasury during the Harding Administration. He felt it was best to invest in tax-exempt securities rather than in factories that provided prosperous payrolls. He believed in trickle down economics and encouraged "buying on margin."

pituitary gland

the endocrine gland that secretes many hormones including LH, hGH, and prolactin, and is known as the master gland

George Pullman

the inventor of a luxurious train car for the rich. These cars helped convince the rich to take the train.

Yorktown

the last major engagement/battle of the war. Washington's armies along with the French naval fleet under de Grasse surrounded British general Charles Cornwallis and received his surrender It ended major engagements in the colonies, thus putting an "end" to the war.

rod

the light-sensitive neuron in the eye in charge of color perception

Hamnet

the name of Shakespeare's only son

Elysian Fields

the part of the underworld in Roman mythology in which the virtuous dead find reward and peace

Gadsden Purchase

the purchasing of land from Mexico that completed the continental United States It provided the land needed to build the transcontinental railroad.

Seine

the river that divides Paris

acoustics

the science that deals with the production, control, transmission, effects, and reception of sound

Bismark

the ship which was the center of the longest naval battle in history and whose namesake was Germany's iron Chancellor

Methuselah

the son of Enoch and grandfather of Noah, this man is rumored to be the longest-lived in the Old Testament, dying at the age of 969

Tyr

the son of Odin (also known as Tiu) who gave his name to Tuesday

Atlas

the titan punished to forever bear the sky (or in some depictions, the earth) on his shoulders

Anne Hathaway

the wife of Shakespeare

Julia Ward Howe

the woman who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"

Rudyard Kipling

this man edited the "Civil and Military Gazette" from 1882 to 1889, and won the Nobel Prize in 1907, but may be most well known for authoring "The Jungle Book"

Martin Luther King Jr.

this man was a civil rights leader from Alabama. He was important in getting the government to pass civil rights legislation.

Richard III

to ensure his ascension to the throne, this man had his two nephews killed and was himself killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1484

Francisco Villa

was a Mexican "Robin Hood" who hated the United States. His followers killed a total of 35 American citizens, angering the United States who sent a force to attempt to capture him.

Sputnik

was a Russian satellite sent up to space in 1957. The breakthrough of the Soviets destroyed the self-confidence of Americans and initiated the Space Race.

Alger Hiss

was a State Department official accused of spying for the Soviets. The issues he caused reflected the opinions of the Cold War. War Hawks believed that he and communists were infiltrating the country while Peace Doves believed that his conviction was an act against a loyal servant.

Wabash case, 1886

was a United States Supreme Court case that severely limited the rights of states to control interstate commerce. It led to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Limited States' rights

Marcus Garvey

was a black nationalist leader He helped create the "Back to Africa" movement in the United States.

NATO

was a military alliance formed by the U.S, Canada, and several Western European nations. It was designed to protect Europe against a possible invasion from Russia.

Red Scare

was a nationwide crusade against the leftists in America as a wake of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. It cut back on free speech for a period and helped businessman to stop labor strikes, since the hysteria caused many people to want to eliminate any Communists.

William Levitt

was an American real estate dealer. His innovations of providing affordable housing popularized the type of planned community building later known as suburbia.

Jimmy Hoffa

was president of the International Brotherhood of Teamseters. He was charged and indicted with fraudulent use of the union pension fund by jury tampering. The case showed the worried nature of the United States.

Thomas E. Dewey

was the Republican candidate in the 1948 presidential election. He was an opponent of Truman during the election.

Nikita Khrushchev

was the Soviet Premier from 1953-1964. He dealt with the U.S during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Kaiser Wilhelm II

was the leader of Germany at the time of the First World War reigning from 1888-1918. He pushed for a more aggressive foreign policy by means of colonies and a strong navy to compete with Britain. His actions added to the growing tensions in pre-1914 Europe.

Mao Tse-tung

was the leader of the communists (CCP) in China during its civil war. He helped established communist rule in China, causing a defeat for the U.S.

Chiang Kai-shek

was the leader of the nationalists (KMT) in China during its civil war. He was the leader of the forces opposing communism in China.

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

was the peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War The treaty provided for the Mexican Cession, in which Mexico parts of modern-day Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming, as well as the whole of California, Nevada, and Utah.

CIA

was/is a agency designed to gather facts about possible threats to the U.S. It provided America with information about the Soviets and other communist nations.

A. A. Milne

author who based his stories off his son, Christopher Robin

enzymes

catalyst-proteins that start, speed up, slow down, or stop chemical reactions by attaching to substrates at an active site

Benedict Arnold

convicted of treason on September 23, 1780, this man escaped to become a brigadier general in the British army

squash

the generic name for two similar games, raquets and tennis, played on a four-walled court with a racket and a ball

Pyramus and Thisby

the lovers in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" who spoke through a crack in the wall

Yesterday

a Beatles song (originally called "Scrambled Eggs") in which a cello was first used as part of a pop number

Gustav Holst

a British Composer best known for compositions based on Hindu literature, including "The Planets"

The Producers

a Broadway smash adapted by Mel Brooks that includes the song, "Springtime for Hitler"

Guy De Maupassant

a French author known for short stories with ironc twist endings, such as "The Necklace" and "A Piece of String"

Oxygen

discovered in 177, its discoverer gave this element a name which translates to "acid-forming," and it has an atomic number of 8 with a symbol, O

spleen

oval-shaped lymphatic organ that filters damaged red blood cells and recycles the iron from hemoglobin, while acting as a blood resevoir and producing white blood cells

James Monroe

president whose term lasted from 1817 to 1825, and was the first president to have been a senator and have his first inaugural to be the first held outdoors

Sir Lancelot du Lac

the "pure and holy" knight who, according to Arthurian legend, was the father of Sir Galahad and the consort of Guinevere