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Week 9 Social Studies

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What man, who fought an 1818 duel with John Heath, wrote that "we have met the enemy and they are ours" after winning the Battle of Lake Erie?

(a)  

2.

What ruler, whose empire was split among the Diadochi after his death, won the Battles of Issus and the Granicus against Darius III's Persian armies?

(a)  

3.

What right, which was demanded by the Silent Sentinels led by Alice Paul, was established by the 19th Amendment and championed by Susan B. Anthony?

(a)  

4.

This frontiersman blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky shortly before the start of the American Revolution.

(a)  

5.

During the early 1800s, the American Southwest and Great Plains were charted by this explorer, who is now the namesake of a "peak" in Colorado.

(a)  

6.

A city in the middle of Lake Texcoco served as the capital of this empire. Hernan Cortes besieged Tenochtitlan, the capital of what Mesoamerican empire?

(a)  

7.

This party won the presidency for the first time in 1860. Later presidents from this party included Rutherford B. Hayes.

(a)  

8.

This Democratic presidential candidate only won a single state in 1860; two years earlier, he had participated in a series of debates with Abraham Lincoln.

(a)  

9.

Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will depicted rallies in this city, where Robert Jackson prosecuted war criminals. Name this German city where Nazis were tried after World War II.

(a)  

10.

What country, the home of the Maronite church, is home to Sidon and Tyre, features a cedar tree on its flag, and has its capital at Beirut?

(a)  

11.

Almost a million Zainichi Koreans live in what country whose population has had negative growth since the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima?

(a)  

12.

Give the term for Islamic law.

(a)  

13.

This is the term in sharia law for a legal opinion issued by a mufti. In 1989 one of these was issued requiring the death of Salman Rushdie after he published The Satanic Verses.

(a)  

14.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is located in a village on this cape, whose northeast tip contains Provincetown. Martha's Vineyard is just south of what cape at the southeast end of Massachusetts?

(a)  

15.

The Dominican Republic is one of the two countries found on this Caribbean island.

(a)  

16.

This island is divided between Indonesia and a country whose capital is Dili.

(a)  

17.

The "night of broken glass" was an alternate name for this November 1938 pogrom. Name this attack on Jews carried out by SA forces in Nazi Germany.

(a)  

18.

Lack of support for this war was blamed on negative commentary by anchorman Walter Cronkite. The chemical agent napalm was used during what war in southeast Asia?

(a)  

19.

Scipio Africanus was victorious at the Battle of Zama during the second of these wars. Hannibal Barca was a general during what set of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage?

(a)  

20.

The Ford Motor Company is based in this suburb of Detroit, which has a large Arab-American population. Henry Ford published a newspaper known as this city's Independent.

(a)