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200

The inventor of the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

200

What President was known as the Conservationist President? 

Theodore Roosevelt

200

What was the name of the first automobile that the average American family could own? 

The Model T

200

What were the 2 sides fighting each other in WW2 called?

Axis and Allies

200

The first American to orbit the Earth?

John Glenn

400

Famous blind and mute woman, whose teacher taught her to read and speak. 

Helen Keller

400

Who were the inventors of flight? 

The Wright Brothers

400

What was the catastrophic event of 1929, where America's money system crashed, called? 

The Great Depression

400

What group of Americans were discriminated against and sent to internment camps during WW2? 

Japanese-Americans. 

400

In what wars was America trying to stop the spread of Communism?

Vietnam 

600

The island where immigrants into America had to stop at for processing? 

Ellis Island 

600

Where did the Wright Brothers have their first flight?

Kitty Hawk NC

600

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

600

What President's election slogan was "I like Ike"?

Dwight D Eisenhower. 

600

What War did the US and Russia "fight" from the end of WW2 till the 1990s?

The Cold War

800

What famous structure, which was a gift from France, stands in New York Harbor? 

The Statue of Liberty

800

What U.S. President was a member of a peanut-farming family from Georgia?

Jimmy Carter

800

Farmers leached all the nutrients out of the soil in the prairie lands and caused the area to be called this? 

The Dust Bowl

800

Who was the first black child to integrate into a white school in New Orleans, Louisiana? 

Ruby Bridges. 

800

This President is the only one to resign their Presidency.

Richard Nixon 

1000

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. 

1000

What caused America to join the Great War (WW1)?

The Germans sunk the Lusitania, a passenger ship with American people on board. 

1000

What event caused America to join World War 2?

Attack on Pearl Harbor. 

1000

Name 2 famous people from the Civil Rights Movement?

Rosa Parks

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

1000

The first female Supreme Court Justice. 

Sandra Day O'Connor

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