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American Fact-Finder
notes from the The Great American History Fact-Finder
| Notes | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliance of South American nations Argentina, Brazil, and Chile; participated at conference at Niagra Falls following Tampico Incident in 1914 | ABC Powers |
| helped found SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) ; became president in 1968 after King's assasination; led the "Poor People's March" | Ralph Abernathy |
| 1919 Supreme Court Case that upheld the constitutionality of the Sedition Act of 1918; made it a crime to speak out against the US Gov't or opposition to WWI; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. dissented the decision | Abrams v. United States |
| wrote Present at the Creation; My Years in the State Deparment; helped engineer NATO and Truman Doctrine; received 1964 Presidential Medal for Freedom and 1970 Pulitzer Prize | Dean Acheson |
| 1649 law enacted in Maryland guaranteeing religious freedom for Christians; included Protestants and Catholics but excluded Jews | Act of Toleration |
| established the first college photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute; member of the Sierra Club | Ansel Adams |
| represented the US in the Alabama Claims settlement | Charles Francis Adams |
| wrote The Law of Civilization and Decay; New Empire; America's Economic Supremacy; famous historian | Brooks Adams |
| won 1919 Pulitzer for The Education of Henry Adams; edited the North American Review | Henry Adams |
| created in 1955 following merging; first president was George Meany (AFL) ; VP was Walter Reuther (CIO) | AFL-CIO |
| 1933 Law passed by congress in order to raice prices of crops and to restore purchasing power of American farmers ; was declared unconstitutional by 1936 case United States v. Butler | Agricultural Adjustment Act |
| wrote Revelations; studied dance with Martha Graham, Weidman, and Doris Humphrey; founded the American Dance Theater in 1958 | Alvin Ailey |
| 1st plan for uniting the colonies; proposed by Benjamin Franklin;proposed federation of colonies with a representative grand council with power to tax, raise troops, and regulate Indian trade; Franklin made his point with "Join or Die" in Pennsyl. Gazette | Albany Plan of Union |
| 1st female secretary of State; appointed by Clinton in 1997; born in Prague, Czechoslovakia ; immigrated to US in 1948; went to Georgetown; wrote Madam Secretary; worked with Edmund Muskie | Madeleine Albright |
| piloted Gemini 12 ; wrote Return to Earth; | Buzz Aldrin |
| founded by both Madison and John Marshall; it was formed in order to return many blacks to Africa; land was purchased in present-day Liberia | American Colonization Society |
| called Doughboys; led by General John Pershing ; sent in June 17 during WWI | American Expeditionary Force (AEF) |
| civil rights organization formed in 1968 in Minneapolis to assist Indians for equal rights ; took over town of Wounded Knee, SD in 1973; also occupied Alcatraz | American Indian Movement (AIM) |
| formed in 1919; was an association of American war veterans; is the worlds largest veteran's organization | American Legion |
| advocated by Henry Clay in order to strengthen nationalism; called for a national bank, tarriff, and construction of roads and canals; occured during Monroe's administration | American System |
| 1841 Supreme court case; a Spanish slave ship was captured by U.S. brig Washington following a African slave mutiny; Quincy Adams supported the African's cause | Amistad Case |
| British colonial governor of Dominion of New England; demanded Connecticut's charter which led to hiding of it in Charter Oak; appointed by James II | Sir Edmund Andros |
| largest island in San Francisco Bay; also called Ellis Island of the West; became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1955 | Angel Island |
| advocated the idea of US military air power in the mid 20th century along with General Billy Mitchell; 1st general in the Air Force | Hap Arnold |
| was a customs collector in New York and was an ally of Roscoe Conkling; he vetoed the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and supported the Pendleton Act which created a civil commission to regulate hiring of government personnel; had White House renovated | Chester Alan Arthur |
| led by Robert Henri; included John Sloan, William Glackens, George Luks, George Bellows, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Predergast; influenced by Thomas Eakins ; helped organize the Armory Show | the Ashcan School |
| formed the American Fur Company; built trading post on Columbia River called Astoria- which was used by US to claim the Oregon Territory; supposedly became wealthiest man in the country | John Jacob Astor |
| started in 1885 following the Cotton State Exposition; advocated by Booker T. Washington it embraced the "separate but equal" principle and urged segregration; dissented by W.E.B. Dubois | Atlanta Compromise |
| set forth principles such as the right of self-determination of all peoples, right of freedom of seas, an intl system of security based on disarmament, abjuring of terretorial aggression by US and England; issued in 1941 by FDR and Churchill | Atlantic Charter |
| federal agency established in 1946 to regulate use of atomic power in US; was terminated in 1974 with passage of Energy Reorganization Act creating two more commisions | Atomic Energy Commision (AEC) |
| his masterpiece contained color engravings by Robert Havell; and he colloborated with Scottish naturalist William MacGillivray in the Ornithological Biography | John James Audubon |
| wrote The Dog Beneath the Skin; On the Frontier; The Double Man; The Age of Anxiety | W.H. Auden |
| 1790 proposal by Alexander Hamilton that the federal government assume war debts incurred by the separate states and pay back; opposed by James Madison; Thomas Jefferson helped the bill pass as Congress appropriated 21.5 million dollars | Assumption Plan |
| New York lawyer who helped form the ACLU; was director from 1920 - 1950; gained the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981; removed Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from the ACLU board because she was supposedly a Communist | Roger N. Baldwin |
| political conflict in 1909; in which the chief of the Interior Department's Division of Forestry accused the Secretary of Interior of abandoning conservational policies; led to Taft removing the accuser from office | Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy |
| 1891 dispute that arose when US detained ship with weapons intended for rebels in CHile; rebels in Chile attacked the namesake ship | Baltimore Incident |
| served as Secretary of Navy under Polk and helped establish US Navy Academy at Annapolis; first notable US Historian who wrote History of the United States of America (1834) | George Bancroft |
| this established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corportation | Banking Act of 1933 |
| the 1st VP to sit on the NSC; supported the New Deal; the oldest VP elected | Alben W. Barkley |
| he made a fortune after he secured a seat on the NYSE; advised presidents from Wilson to Kennedy; was a member of the US Energy Commission and proposed in 1946 his namesake Plan; served as chairman of the War Industries Board during WWI | Bernard Baruch |
| 1942 battle in which the Japanese invaded the Phillippines and Luzon; this caused General Jonathan Wainwright to retreat to the namesake peninsula; after surrender the Japanese made prisoners march length of peninsula; liberated by MacArthur in 1945 | Battle of Bataan |
| his books argue that economic interstes were the real reasons for the framing of the U.S. Constitution, the development of judicial review, and the rise of political parties; supported isolationism wife Mary; founded New School for Social Research in NY | Charles A. Beard |
| this occurred following the seizure of Sonoma; was led by William Ide and later John C. Fremont in California | Bear Flag Revolt |
| made sermons at Plymouth Congregrational Church; supported antislavery forces in Kansas; involved in the Tilton Divorce trial; sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe | Henry Ward Beecher |
| scandal in which the secretary of War under Grant received bribes for employments in the Indian government servise | Belknap Scandal |
| represented Tennessee in the House from 1827 - 1841; was speaker from 1834 - 1835; nominated by the Constitutional Union party in 1860 | John Bell |
| founded the New Nation; influenced the Populist Party | Edward Bellamy |
| painted Stag at Sharkey's ; Both Members of This Club ; Dempsey through the Ropes | George Bellows |
| was an editor of the Missouri Enquirer; known as "Old Bullion"; elected as Democrat Senator from Missouri in 1821 | Thomas Hart Benton |
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