Political People
The first Black president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This Amendment gave all Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
The year Sputnik 1 launched.
What is 1957?
This was the first women's rights convention.
What is The Seneca Falls convention?
This was the war caused by tension between French and British powers over land in North America.
What is the 7 years' war? (or the French/Indian war)
The first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
After escaping slavery, this person became a huge leader of the Abolitionist movement and even went on to write his own autobiography.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
Railroads that spanned across the US in the 1800s.
What are transcontinental railroads?
This Women's rights activist was famous for her "Aint I a Woman?" speech given in 1851.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of
Bull Run?
This president was best known for their involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This was the year the March on Washington took place
What is 1963?
This invention led to an increase in slavery and plantation agriculture.
What is the Cotton Gin?
They founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
The assassination of this duke caused World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This president is most known for his scandal in the 1970s known as the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This activist was an author abolitionist and was best known for her book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet beecher stowe?
This invention made farming more efficient and allowed for commercial farming.
What is the Mechanical Reaper?
This law was established under President Kennedy and eliminated discrimination regarding women's income in the workforce.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
This caused US involvement in WWI.
What is the German sinking of the British ship Lusitania?
This president was best known for his escalation of the Vietnam War and even authorized a major bombing campaign of North Vietnam.
Who is Lyndon B. Jhonson?
Rebellion led by enslaved Virginians in 1831.
What is the Nat Turner Rebellion?
The government starts funding research on the Internet.
What is 1969?
This was the idea that women were supposed to stay home and teach their children how to become American citizens and embrace Enlightenment ideals.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This war led to the US securing its spot as the main Pacific power.
What is the Spanish-American War?