This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized the production of cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from the cotton fiber. It offered southern planters a justification to maintain and expand slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
100
In 1969, Gay Rights' activists rioted after a police raid at a historically gay bar in NYC. The Gay Liberation movement begins there.
What is the Stonewall Riot?
100
This man was the last chairman of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
100
This transcendentalist poet is famous for writing the phrase "the shot heard round the world" fired by the patriots fighting in the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Mentor to another transcendentalist poet. Emerson believed that societies and institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupt the purity of the individual.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
100
This man was editor and founder of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
200
This man is one of the co-founders and CEOs of Apple.
Who is Steve Jobs?
200
This man led an uprising against slavery in the 1831. This revolt led to the killings of 60 whites.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
This crisis resulted when a US spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union. Also, an Irish rock band.
What is the U2 Crisis?
200
This poet was published a book called Leaves of Grass (the name of Lexi's first school!) in 1855. His poetry presented an egalitarian view of race. Additionally, he wrote the poem “O captain! My Captain!” on the death of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Walt Whitman?
200
In this year, slavery was introduced to the British colonies with the sale of 20 Africans by the Dutch Bay Colony.
What is 1619?
300
This controversial pesticide killed mosquitos and reduced instances of malaria and diarrhea, but later proved harmful to humans.
What is DDT?
300
This woman, in 1955, refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
This entity divided East Berlin/Germany from West Berlin/Germany. When it was removed it was the symbolic end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
This English poet, writer, and soldier was decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He described the horrors of the trenches and the battlefield in his poetry. One of his famous war poems is "Aftermath."
Who is Siegfried Sassoon?
300
This abolitionist and his sons killed 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas. He also led a raid on Harper's Ferry, WV prior to the Civil War.
Who is John Brown?
400
This connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River. It was the first transportation system that connected the east and west and led to New York City becoming the largest city and port.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
In 1848, this convention was the first women's rights convention and advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman”.
What is Seneca Falls?
400
This was a failed invasion of Cuba in 1961, whose plan was developed under Eisenhower and inherited by JFK.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
400
This transcendentalist poet went to jail for refusing to pay taxes because they would support the Mexican-American War. He is also famous for saying "the government is best which governs least."
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
400
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
500
This was the first artificial space satellite, launched by the Soviets in the 1950s.
What is Sputnik?
500
These African-American military aviators were the first in the United States Armed Forces.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
500
This was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This English poet and soldier wrote the poem, "Dulce et Decorum est" about the First World War. His poetry was shockingly realistic and de-glamorized the horrors of the trenches and gas warfare.
Who is Wilfred Owen?
500
This president signed the Missouri Compromise into legislation.