Space Race
This country launched the first satellite into space.
Who is The Soviet Union?
The two things the main characters had in common.
What is African-American and women?
and, but, for, so, nor, yet
What are conjunctions?
This woman refused to give up her seat in the white section of a segregated bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The two main countries involved in the Cold War.
Who are the US and the Soviet Union?
On July 16, 1969, this historic even happened.
A man walked on the moon.
A segregation issue that meant women had to walk nearly half a mile.
What was going to the bathroom?
The part of speech that 'ran' is in this sentence.
We ran to the store to get candy.
What is a verb?
He gave the famous "I have a dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The country in the Cold War that believed in a communist economy.
Who was The Soviet Union?
The mission that allowed a man to walk on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
The first person to walk on the moon, he wanted a woman to double check the math done by the machines before he went to space.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
It replaces a person, place, or thing in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
Laws that were specifically written to control minority groups.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This weapon was what people feared most during the Cold War.
What is a nuclear bomb?
On May 25, 1961, this man gave a speech promising to land a man on the moon.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The first of the four women to get a job at NASA.
Who was Katherine Johnson?
Where the comma belongs in the following sentence:
I pleaded and begged for an extra candy bar and I got one!
What is between 'bar' and 'and'?
I pleaded and begged for an extra candy bar, and I got one!
African Americans were given the right to vote in this year.
What is 1965?
This city was divided by a wall during the Cold War.
What is Berlin?
He was the first human in space.
Juri Gagarin
A notable person from the past who made a significant, lasting impact on humanity through their actions, ideas, or leadership.
What is a historical figure?
The adverb in the sentence:
We ran fast in order to catch the yellow bus.
What is fast?
This happened because of the lawsuit Brown vs. The Board of Education.
What is the desegregation of schools?
The year the Berlin Wall came down.
What is 1989?