The Old World Makes History in the New.
What Indians did the Spanish Conquistadors encounter in the New World?
— Aztecs in Mexico, Incas in Peru, and Mayas in Guatemala and Yucatan.
This Elizabethan sea dog (an English sailor under Queen Elizabeth I...) used his ship, the Golden Hind, to loot Spanish ships in the 1580s.
— Sir Francis Drake. (Drake circumnavigated the earth in the 1570s.)
Revolutionary History.
This rebellious group intimidated British tax agents after the Stamp Act of 1765.
— The Sons of Liberty.
The first shot of the American Revolution was fired when British General Gage sent 700 troops to Concord, Massachusetts to destroy munitions and to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. What ensued?
— The Battle of Lexington, 1775.
Flames of War, A History of Slavery.
This man wrote Popular Sovereignty. He argued that each state should be allowed to decide the slavery issue individually.
— Stephen Douglas.
This party was created almost solely to keep slavery out of the territories, in 1854.
— The Republican Party.
A History of Culture: the Turn of the Century.
Adolph Ochs took this newspaper to greatness, although he was accused of the sensationalism known as "yellow journalism."
— The New York Times.
In 1920, the first commercial radio station broadcasted the results of the Harding-Cox election. It was...?
— KDKA of Pittsburgh.
A History of War: Hitler, Kamikazes, and Plutonium.
At Munich in 1938, the British prime minister claimed to have secured "peace with honor, peace in our time". This came after Hitler, who had already gained the Sudetenland, promised to leave the rest of Czechoslovakia alone. This prime minister was...?
— Neville Chamberlain.
In November of 1942, British and American forces under this man landed in Morocco and Algeria, in the Torch Offensive.
— General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Also in 1942, the first detachment of this military branch began training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
— The Women's Army Corps.
1960s: The Home Fires Rage. A History of Upheaval.
What campaign innovation occurred in the Kennedy-Nixon race?
— The first televised presidential debates.
In 1964, this amendment abolished the poll tax in federal elections.
— The 24th.
This black leader was assassinated in the Audubon Ball Room in Manhattan in 1965.
— Malcolm X.
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