American History 1
He invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This U.S. President was known as the Conservationist President?
Theodore Roosevelt
This was the name of the first automobile that the average American family could own.
The Model T
These were the names of the 2 sides fighting each other in WW2.
Axis and Allies
The first American to orbit the Earth.
John Glenn
Famous blind and mute woman, whose teacher taught her to read and speak.
Helen Keller
These men were the inventors of flight?
The Wright Brothers
This is the name for the catastrophic event of 1929, that caused America's money system to crash.
The Great Depression
This group of Americans were discriminated against and sent to internment camps during WW2.
Japanese-Americans.
In what physically fought war was America trying to stop the spread of Communism?
Vietnam
This island is where immigrants into America had to stop for processing?
Ellis Island
This town is where the Wright Brothers had their first flight?
Kitty Hawk NC
Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to create new programs to "jump start" the economy during the Great Depression was sometimes called Alphabet Soup.
The New Deal
This President's election slogan was "I like Ike"
Dwight D Eisenhower.
What War did the US and Russia "fight" from the end of WW2 till the 1990s?
The Cold War
This famous structure was a gift from France. It now stands in New York Harbor.
The Statue of Liberty
This U.S. President was a member of a peanut-farming family from Georgia.
Jimmy Carter
Farmers leached all the nutrients out of the soil in the prairie lands and caused the area to be called this.
The Dust Bowl
The name of the first black child to integrate into a white school in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Ruby Bridges.
This President is the only one to resign his Presidency.
Richard Nixon
A famous black man, who was born a slave, and ended up as the first principle of the black school 'The Tuskegee Institute.'
Booker T Washington.
This event caused America to join the Great War (WW1)
The German sinking of the Lusitania.
This event caused America to join World War 2.
Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Two names from the civil rights movement. The first refused to lose her seat. The Second is known for 'Having a Dream.'
Rosa Parks, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The first female Supreme Court Justice.
Sandra Day O'Connor