Presidential Elections
This relatively unknown Governor of Georgia and former peanut farmer won the presidency in 1976.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The United States entered this war on April 6, 1917 by declaring war on Germany.
What is World War I?
This future president was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
The Great Depression began in this year.
What is 1929?
This Texas businessman won 18.9% of the popular vote in the 1992 election despite running as a third party candidate.
Who is Ross Perot?
This war ended when documents of surrender were signed at the Battle of Appomattox Court House.
What is the Civil War?
This political activist's Common Sense is estimated to have sold 100,000 copies by 1776.
Who is Thomas Paine?
He was the second man to walk on the moon in 1969.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
The Soviet Union launched their first satellite into outer space in this decade.
What is the 1950s?
After being defeated in his bid for re-election in the 1828 presidential election, this man won election to the House of Representatives in 1831.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
During this war, the British set the White House ablaze.
What is the War of 1812?
This man's name, the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence, has become a synonym in the United States for one's signature.
Who is John Hancock?
This Woodstock-headlining guitarist enlisted in the US Army in 1961 and was trained as a paratrooper.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
This baseball team won 26 World Series titles in the 20th century, the most of any team.
Who are the New York Yankees?
She was the first female vice-presidential candidate representing a major political party in 1984.
Who is Geraldine Ferraro?
The U.S. entered this war after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
What is the Gulf War (or Operation Desert Shield/Storm)?
This lawyer and future second President of the United States rose to prominence after defending the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre at their trial in 1770.
Who is John Adams?
This Arizona-born labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers union in 1962 and posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This series of economic programs instituted by Franklin Roosevelt were intended to aid in recovery from the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Abraham Lincoln defeated this former Confederate general in the 1864 presidential election by a 212-21 margin in the Electoral College.
Who is George McClellan?
Before commanding Union forces in the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant first served as an Army quartermaster in this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Act of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1765 spawned the slogan "No Taxation Without Representation".
What is the Stamp Act?
In 1999, the American Film Institute selected him as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.
Who is Humphrey Bogart?
The series finale of this show attracted over 105 million viewers in 1983, and is still the most watched non-Super Bowl broadcast in American history.
What is M*A*S*H?