The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending which war, added over 500,000 square miles to the U.S.?

In 1846, heavy snowfall trapped which pioneer party in the Sierra Nevada, where some resorted to cannibalism? Which blight struck Ireland's main crop in the 1840s, causing the Great Famine? Which inventor lived from 1847 to 1922? Winfield Scott won the 1847 Battle of Churubusco during which war? In 1846, poet Elizabeth Barrett secretly married which fellow poet? Which 1849 essay by Thoreau asks: "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them"? In which 1850 Wagner opera does the hero sing "Farewell, my beloved swan"? The 1850s trilogy by Tolstoy consisted of "Childhood", "Boyhood" and which work?