Wars
The three countries that the US fought in World War 2.
What are Germany, Japan, and Italy?
The first commercial well for this powerful liquid fuel source was dug in Pennsylvania in 1859.
What is oil?
This rough-and-tumble US President is considered the father of the National Parks and the inspiration for some stuffed animals.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This period is not a psychological problem, but a time in US history known for a major economic crash and widespread unemployment. I guess that's enough to make anyone sad...
What is the Great Depression?
This president is considered the "Father of our Country" and stopped in Carlisle on his way to end the Whiskey Rebellion.
Who is George Washington?
The US fought this country in a war that made Puerto Rico and the Phillipines into American territories and freed Cuba.
What is Spain?
This businessman was the first to manufacture cars on an assembly line, making billions of dollars from the brand that bears his name.
Who is Ford?
Widely considered the leader of the civil rights movement, this minister and activist was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
(He is NOT the man who nailed 95 theses to a church door and started the Protestant Reformation).
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The San Francisco 49ers are named after this event of 1849, which caused thousands of people to move to California in search of a shiny new fortune.
This president delivered a famous address not far from our school and is known for winning a bloody war that ended slavery in the US.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The US joined this war near its conclusion after too many of our ships were sunk by submarines.
What is World War 1?
The "Wizard of Menlo Park," this genius created thousands of inventions including the light bulb, phonograph, and movie camera.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This period of the 1920s was known for a strict ban on alcohol in the US and was, paradoxically, a wild time known for its crazy parties and widespread criminal activity.
What is Prohibition?
This military invention of the 70s and 80s massively expanded in the 1990s and 2000s, allowing people to share, shop, and search for almost anything from their homes and phones.
What is the Internet?
This famous video game teaches students about many settlers' journeys via covered wagon to settle new lands in the West, as well as the limitations of the Apple 2 computer system.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The United States began a 20-year war on this country a few weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
What is Afghanistan?
This wild-haired genius was a German refugee who helped build the atomic bomb, despite later regretting it, and developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This group was first given the right to vote in 1920, with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Who are women?
In the early twentieth century, millions of these people from the poorer countries of Europe entered the US and found low-wage jobs in factories. In the 21st century, millions more have entered for agricultural, construction, and housekeeping work, whether legally or illegally.
What are immigrants?
Francis Scott Key wrote our country's national anthem after watching the shelling of Baltimore Harbor from a British warship's prison during this war.
What is the War of 1812?
This war (or "police action") led to widespread resentment of the draft, making the US military into an all-volunteer force.
What is Vietnam?
This rival of Edison's had a reputation for mad science, developing alternating current (AC), wireless communications, and an early X-ray machine. He's also clearly one of Elon Musk's favorite inventors.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
This musical star's wild hips and African-American-inspired music helped launch the rock-and-roll craze of the 1950s.
Who is Elvis Presley?
The major recession of 2008 was triggered by a crash in the cost of what type of building?
What are houses?
It wasn't as fast as a subway, but this system of spies, safehouses, guides, and hiding places helped thousands of escaped slaves travel north to freedom before the Civil War.
What is the Underground Railroad?