Category: AMER HIST

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LL39 MD19The Southeast Asia Resolution, a joint resolution passed by the U.S. Congress in August of 1964 which gave President Johnson the authority to militarily assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be under threat of communist aggression, was better known by a name which referenced what body of water?GULF OF TONKIN708972471.0
LL39 MD2Other than the Civil War itself, the largest civil insurrection in United States history occurred in July of 1863 in this city, where violent disturbances arose in response to new draft laws that were enacted to populate Union army during the Civil War.NEW YORK557353371.3
LL38 MD10How many U.S. Presidents died during the decade of the 1980s?ZERO647576431.1
LL37 MD4The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated a total of 851 sites as World Heritage Sites, considered to hold outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity. Eighteen of them are in the United States, and two are in the state of Virginia -- both of which were designed by whom?THOMAS JEFFERSON749580561.3
LL35 MD15In an unbelievable bit of coincidence, these two American founding fathers and bitter rivals both died on July 4, 1826, the very day of the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.JOHN ADAMS, THOMAS JEFFERSON679065471.0
LL35 MD9Give one of the ten years during which the Republic of Texas was in existence.1836-1845447740311.6
LL35 MD4During the 1932 presidential election, which he won, Franklin D. Roosevelt was at the time serving in what elected office?GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK659265471.2