Women in History
This woman started the American Red Cross Association during the Civil War?
Who is Clara Barton
Which came first, Sumer or Ancient Egypt
What is Sumer?
These are the Three Branches of the United States Federal Government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.
This civil rights leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Spalding was founded in what year.
What is 1963
This movement that Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a key role in inspiring at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention?
What is the Women’s Suffrage movement
Which came first, the Minoan civilization or the Mycenaean civilization?
What are the Minoans
This government system, people elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.
What is a Democratic Republic
This American general led Allied forces during World War II and later became president.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
This was the original name of the high school when it was moved to its current campus
What is Martin Spalding High School
This ruling monarch of Britain delivered the iconic speech to her troops at Tilbury during the 1588 Spanish Armada Crisis?
Who is Queen Elizabeth I
Which came first, the reign of Julius Caesar or the reign of Augustus Caesar
Who is Julius Caesar
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment.
This ancient Greek philosopher wrote The Republic and was a student of Socrates.
Who is Plato
This group was the original founders (and leaders) of Spalding when it started out as an all-girls school
Who are The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
This highly influential American novel Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in 1852
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which came first, the appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court or the election of Barack Obama as President?
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
This system prevents any one branch of the U.S. Government from becoming too powerful by allowing each branch to limit the others.
What is checks and balances?
This philosopher believed that government exists to protect natural rights and inspired democratic revolutions.
Who is John Locke
This year Spalding become a co-educational high school
what is 1973
This pioneering researcher on radioactivity was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie
Which came first, the isolation of radium or the discovery of penicillin?
What is the isolation of radium?
This amendment granted the right to vote to U.S. citizens 18 years and older.
What is the 26th Amendment
This woman helped nurse wounded soldiers during the Crimean War and reformed hospitals.
Who is Florence Nightingale
This motto is what represents Spalding, it encourages to take ownership, act neighborly, and show enthusiasm.
What is "One in Christ"