History Fact Finder

Law

1. What was the Justinian Code? [answer]
2. What is civil law? [answer]
3. What is common law? [answer]
4. What is the only U.S. state that does not use common law? [answer]
5. What was trial by ordeal? [answer]
6. What is writ of habeas corpus? [answer]
7. What is international law? [answer]
8. What was the Code Napoleon? [answer]
9. How was the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court determined? [answer]
10. Who was the first justice of the U.S. Supreme Court? [answer]
11. What were Jim Crow laws? [answer]
12. What is the Miranda warning? [answer]

Trials

1. What was the impact of the Salem witch trials on American society? [answer]
2. What was the significance of the John Peter Zenger trial? [answer]
3. How did the Dred Scott case contribute to outbreak of the Civil War? [answer]
4. Why was Susan B. Anthony put on trial? [answer]
5. Who were Leopold and Loeb? [answer]
6. Who was Mata Hari? [answer]
7. What was the beer hall putsch trial and why was it important? [answer]
8. What was the Scopes "Monkey Trial"? [answer]
9. Why is the court-martial of Billy Mitchell famous? [answer]
10. Was Al Capone tried for mob activities? [answer]
11. What were the Nuremberg trials? [answer]
12. Why were the Rosenbergs executed? [answer]
13. What was the lasting effect of the Clarence Earl Gideon trials? [answer]
14. Why was Nelson Mandela sent to prison? [answer]
15. What was Roe vs. Wade? [answer]
16. What was ABSCAM? [answer]
17. Did a dingo kill Azaria Chamberlain? [answer]
18. What was meant by "the" trial of the twentieth century? [answer]