US Presidents
This man led America during the American Revolution and went on to become our first president.
Who is George Washington?
Gave the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This city is our nation's capital.
What is Washington D.C.?
This economic crisis began in 1929, leading to widespread unemployment and hardship throughout the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
The ban on alcohol in the 1920s was known as this.
What is Prohibition?
This man was president during the Civil War and is famous for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the Southern states that seceded from the US.
Who is Abe Lincoln?
This woman refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This city is the largest, most populated city in America.
What is New York City?
This event on December 7, 1941, led the United States to enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on this country to end the war.
What is Japan?
This man was the first African-American president.
Who is Barack Obama?
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis; called for the space race, and was assonated in Dallas, Texas.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This midwestern city has the nickname, "The Windy City."
What is Chicago?
This 1773 event involved American colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Immigrants entering through New York Harbor were processed at this station.
What is Ellis Island?
This president created the New Deal to help fight the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
WWII general & 1950s president (interstate highway system, Little Rock integration).
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
This city in Pennsylvania was the site of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
What is Philadelphia?
This movement in the 1950s and 1960s aimed to end racial segregation and secure equal rights for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The Manhattan Project developed this weapon.
What is the atomic bomb?
This person is the only president to resign from office.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This man became one of the wealthiest men of the Gilded Age after finding a cheap way to produce steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This is the US city is where Henry Ford put factories to make his Model T automobile and was a destination for many blacks during the Great Migration.
What is Detroit?
This 1920 amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 19th amendment?
Jazz music flourished in this cultural movement centered in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?