Early History
Who is credited with discovering American and now has a national holiday named after him?
Christopher Columbus
North and South USA
What started WW1
How many people were killed in the Holocaust
11 million
Who was the man at the forefront of this movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the first President?
George Washington
What were the North and South fighting over
Whether slavery should be legal or not.
What country attacked the US naval submarine named the Lusitania?
Germany
Who was the German leader who fueled the fire to start the execution of the Jews?
Adolf Hitler
Famous Lady who did not give up her bus seat to a white man
Rosa Parks
What was the date that we got our Independence from Britain?
4th of July (1776)
What president is responsible for freeing slaves
Abe Lincoln
What was the number one killer of soldiers during WW1 (not guns, bombs, missiles, etc.)
Chemical Warfare!
What symbol did Jews wear on their clothes?
Star of David
What court case established "separate but equal" in 1896.
Plessy V. Ferguson
Name any three of the 13 colonies
There are 13... I'm not listing them all
What is the name of the document that freed the slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
At the end of the war who was responsible to pay back reparations?
Germany and this led to WW2 in a way
Explain how the Germans got the Jews to come to the concentration camps?
What court case ended segregation in public schools
Brown V. Board of Education
What was the term that US citizens used that meant that it was our god given right to own all land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
Explain why you could argue that slaves weren't actually free after the war
A lot of correct answers. I need one good one for credit.
Explain why the US got involved in World War 1?
Zimmerman Telegram
Why did Hitler hate Jews so much?
Werent the Arian Race, they were responsible for the loss of the war.
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall