American History in Context
He issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Diana Ross's Motown group before her solo career.
Who were the Supremes?
Jo's family name in Little Women.
Who are the Marches?
The one ratified first. The U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
What is the Constitution?
The first James Bond film reaches theaters; the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolds.
What are the 1960s?
The form of energy a metal spoon conducts more readily than a wooden one,making the metal feel colder.
What is heat?
The numbered amendment that began Prohibition in 1919.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
The city where the Beatles performed their final rooftop concert.
What is London?
The novel featuring Scout Finch and her father Atticus.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
The first modern Olympics and the Wright brothers' flight.
What are the first modern Olympics?
The first commercial compact discs appear; Sally Ride goes to space.
What are the 1980s?
The gas responsible for the bubbles in sparkling water.
What is carbon dioxide?
Named for a U.S. secretary of state, the postwar program that funded Europeanreconstruction.
What was the Marshall Plan?
The singer-songwriter behind the 1971 album Clouds and 'Both Sides, Now'.
Who is Joni Mitchell?
The island home Odysseus struggles to reach in The Odyssey.
What is Ithaca?
Sinking of the Titanic. The Panama Canal's opening.
What is the sinking of Titanic?
The first Harry Potter book appears; the Channel Tunnel opens.
What are the 1990s?
The separation of white light into colors when a prism bends different wavelengths by different amounts.
What is dispersion?
Lewis's partner on the 1804 expedition across the Louisiana Purchase and beyond.
Who was William Clark?
The French composer of the Spanish-set opera Carmen.
Who was Georges Bizet?
The Russian novelist who created Anna Karenina.
Who was Leo Tolstoy?
The Berlin Wall's construction. The Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the construction of the Berlin Wall?
The Korean War begins; DNA's double helix is described.
What are the 1950s?
Plants lose water vapor through tiny leaf openings called these.
What are stomata?
The 1965 federal law that outlawed literacy tests used to deny Black citizens the
ballot.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Her recording of 'Respect' became an anthem in 1967.
Who was Aretha Franklin?
The material supposedly igniting at the temperature named by Fahrenheit 451.
What is paper?
The publication of 1984. The first human spaceflight.
What is the publication of 1984?
The first talking feature film, The Jazz Singer, premieres; women gain the U.S. vote.
What are the 1920s?
The circulating substance that carries heat out of a refrigerator.
What is refrigerant?
The public institutions desegregated by the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown decision.
What are public schools?
The jazz trumpeter who recorded Kind of Blue in 1959.
Who was Miles Davis?
The estate where Jane Eyre works as a governess.
What is Thornfield Hall?
The first Academy Awards. The first televised Olympics.
What are the first Academy Awards?
The first iPhone goes on sale; the Beijing Olympics take place.
What are the 2000s?
The atmospheric property whose decline at altitude can make a sealed bag of chips swell.
What is air pressure?