Presidents
The only president to resign from office
Who is Richard Nixon?
The year that the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What is 1945?
1781: the final major battle of the Revolutionary War, resulting in the defeat of the British general Cornwallis
What is Yorktown?
1954: authorized the desegregation of schools (although it took a long time for Southern states to comply)
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
1798: both passed in the John Adams administration; authorized the government to remove immigrants and imprison people for critical speech
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
He was president during World War I
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The year of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression
What is 1929?
1861: the first major Southern victory of the Civil War (in Prince William County!)
What is Bull Run (Manassas)?
1803: established the principle of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
1965: helped remove barriers like literacy tests and racial gerrymandering from Southern states
What is the Voting Rights Act?
He used more vetoes than all of his predecessors combined; one of them prevented the re-chartering of the national bank
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The year that the Spanish-American War was fought
What is 1898?
1944-1945: Germany's last major stand, a counter-offensive against advancing Allied troops in the Ardennes forest
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
1819: confirmed the constitutionality of the national bank and the supremacy of the federal government over the states
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
1854: allowed for popular sovereignty in certain territories in the Midwest
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
One of the four presidents to have been died of natural causes (that is, not assassinated) in office
Who are William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The year that the Constitution was written
What is 1787?
1898: the site of a famous charge by Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" during the Spanish-American War
What is San Juan Hill?
1919: upheld the Espionage Act, which limited free speech regarding protests against WWI ("you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater")
What is Schenck v. US?
1930: the tariff passed by the Hoover administration in an attempt to fix the Depression (it did not work)
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
He was president when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed
Who is George H.W. Bush?
The year of the Watergate break-in
What is 1972?
1945: a bloody battle on a Pacific island against the Japanese that led to a famous photo and memorial
What is Iwo Jima?
1944: upheld the constitutionality of Japanese internment camps (oof)
What is Korematsu v. US?
1906: passed in response to Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" (two possible answers)
What are the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act?