'H' American History

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Can you answer the American history questions whose answers all begin with H?

Updated Jul 5, 2015

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Which leader of the Federalist Party was also appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury?
Which university, established in 1636, is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning?
Which author of 'A Farewell to Arms' was also an ambulance driver in World War I?
What was a shanty town of the Great Depression known as?
Which statesman and soldier became the first president of Texas in 1836?
Launched in 1965, what program provides early childhood education and nutrition to low-income children?
What name was given to German soldiers who fought with the British during the Revolutionary War?
Which Founding Father famously said, 'Give me liberty, or give me death!'?
Founded in 1889 by Jane Addams, what complex in Chicago provided social services to those in need?
Who was accused of being a Soviet spy and Communist by Whittaker Chambers in 1948?
In which Virginia town did John Brown attempt to lead a slave revolt in 1859?
Which Republican lost the popular vote to Samuel J. Tilden, but won the electoral vote in 1876?
What term was given to a young person of the 1960s who chose to alienate himself from mainstream society?
Which newspaper publisher was blamed for using yellow journalism to lead the U.S. into a war with Spain in 1898?
What nickname was given to an American who urged support for pursuing and winning the Vietnam War?
Which cabinet department was formed in 2002 in response to the attacks on September 11?
What name was given to the African-American cultural movement of the 1920s?
Which Puritan woman was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 because of theological dissent?
Who served as Abraham Lincoln's first vice president from 1861 to 1865?
Which congressional committee, formed in 1938, investigated suspected Communist sympathizers?

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