Presidential Actions
This president issued the emancipation proclimation.
This president presided during the Great Depression, and was mostly blamed for it.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
WWI was entered by the USA partially after this telegram sent from Germany to another North American power.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This life-saving vaccine was developed in Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
What is the Polio Vaccine?
This traitor defected from the American side to the British side in the revolutionary war.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
This president made the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon Bonaparte.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This president resigned due to the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This war involved nuclear arming and many proxy wars, such as East/West Berlin and the Korean War.
What is the cold war?
This invention was created by Alexander Garham Bell in Boston, Massachussetts.
What is the telephone?
The United States flag was first sewn by this female patriot.
Who is Betsy Ross?
This president created the New Deal, revitilizing the american economy after the great depression.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
He forced the removal of native Americans from their land, leading to the trail of tears.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This war is commonly called the "Forgotten War"
What is the Korean War?
This invention, created by Eli Whitney, was intended to remove the need for slaves in the southern states. Instead, it accelerated the slave trade.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The pilgrims landed at this site in 1620.
What is Plymouth Rock?
This president signed civil rights into the law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This president's handling of hurricane Katrina was widely criticized.
Who is George W. Bush?
This was the original cause for the American civil war.
What are state's rights?
Steve Jobs helped popularize this portable communication device.
What is the smartphone.
America's first settlement was built here.
What is Jamestown?
This president normalized US relations with China.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This president's bay of pigs failure tainted his early reputation.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This war almost broke out between the United States and France during the time John Adams held office.
What is the Quasi-War?
This revolutionary computer connection service was founded by American scientists in the 1960's.
What is the internet?
This was the first governing system of the United States of America, before the constitution.
What were the Articles of Confederation?