Who was the slave that escaped and became an American abolitionist that helped with the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
100
What is the code name for the U.S. effort during the second World War to produce the atomic bomb?
Manhattan Project
100
Who made the New Deal?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
What was the last armed conflict of the Plains Wars?
Wounded Knee
100
Who were the two most famous African American civil rights activists?
Marin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X
200
Who was a nurse during the Civil War that founded the Red Cross?
Clara Barton
200
What was the turning point of WWII on June 6th, 1944?
D-Day
200
Who is the tallest U.S. president?
Hint: He was the 16th president
Abraham Lincoln
200
What act was made to help assimilate Native Americans into white culture?
The Dawes Act
200
Approximately how many people were involved with the March on Washington?
200,000
300
Know as the "It Girl" of the 1920's
Clara Bow
300
Name all of the Axis and Ally powers and specify which group they're in.
Axis - Germany, Italy, and Japan
Allies - Great Britain, France, United States, and the Soviet Union
300
Name the only two U.S. presidents to be impeached and the one president that left office before being impeached.
Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Richard Nixon
300
What was the belief that Americans would spread throughout the country?
Manifest Destiny
300
What Supreme Court case declared that segregation in schools is unconstitutional?
Brown vs. Board of Education
400
Who was the Puritan that was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638?
Anne Hutchinson
400
Who was the prime minister of Japan that was later executed for war crimes?
Hedeki Tojo
400
Who was president when Osama Bin Laden was killed and what year did it happen?
Barack Obama, 2011
400
What was the Native American name for the biggest Native American victory of the Plains Wars?
The Battle of Greasy Grass
400
Who was the first African American on the Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
500
First and youngest U.S. woman in space
Sally Ride
500
What were the first African American fighter pilots called?
Tuskegee Airmen
500
Who ordered the 101st Airborne to escort Little Rock 9 in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
500
Name four problematic characteristics of the plains for settlers.
Enormous size, lack of trees, little water available, unpredictable weather, ferocious winds, areas flat and featureless, and inhabited by locusts and grasshoppers
500
Who was the African American Democratic Presidential nominee in the 1984 & 1988 election?