Civil Right's Movement
Who were NAACP Leaders?
W.E.B DuBois or Ida B. Wells
Who created the three R's and in what time period?
Teddy Roosevelt; the Great Depression era
Who was the German dictator in World War 2?
Adolf Hitler
Who is known for writing the Bill of Rights?
James Madison proposed his amendments, later became known as the Bill of Rights.
Name 3 women that were crucial to the Woman rights and suffrage movements.
Susan B. Anthony
Elizatbeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Name 2 Civil Rights leaders?
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Booker T. Washington
Who was the first first president and what was his military strategies?
George Washington; AVOID direct confrontation
What is McCarthyism and where did the name come from?
McCarthyism is a campaign against alleged communists by making accusations of treason without proper evidence in the US government carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Who helped lead Lewis and Clark into exploring the west?
Sacajawea
Who were the Captains of Industry and what were they known for?
John Rockefeller - Oil
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Railroads
Who were prominent judges and attorneys in helping African Americans in the court system?
Oliver Hill and Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first female supreme court judge?
Sandra Day O'Connor
Name one female and one male figure that were important space exploration figures? What were they known for?
Neil Armstrong - First person to walk on the Moon
John Glenn - First American to orbit the Earth
Sally Ride - First American woman in space in 1983
Who was Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser?
They were both African Americans that were slaves, they led rebellions against slavery.
Who helped Jamestown become a successful settlement in America?
John Smith
What were Frederick Douglass' contributions?
He was an abolitionist that influenced Abraham Lincoln pass the emancipation proclamation.
What did George Mason write?
Mason wrote the Virginia's Declaration of Rights and influenced Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the constitution.
Who was Fidel Castro?
Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba
Who was the President of the Confederacy? Who was the General of the Confederate Army?
Jefferson Davis - President
Robert E. Lee - General
Who are supreme court judges currently?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Female, Appointed by President Bill Clinton)
Clarence Thomas (Male, Appointed by George H. W. Bush)
Which authors influenced the abolitionist movement and what were their influential works?
Harriet Stowe - Uncle Toms Cabin
William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator
Who helped Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence? What did they write?
John Locke: Social Contract
Thomas Paine: Common Sense
What were Alger Hiss and Julius/Ethel Rosenberg known for?
Alger Hiss was an american government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury.
The Rosenbergs were convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. Executed.
What were government officials John Hay and Andrew Jackson known for?
Andrew Jackson - The "Common Man"
John Hay - Open Door Policy (1899)
Who was Jonas Salk?
He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.