Beginning of America
This person signed the Declaration of Independence and is a synonym for signing your signature.
John Hancock
This amendment abolished slavery.
13th
World War 1 started in this year.
1914
Mr. Clarkson has how many cats?
2
These two rival politicians famously dueled in New Jersey in 1804.
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
The pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in this boat.
The Mayflower.
The term God, Gold, and Glory refers to this movements in the mid 1800s.
Manifest Destiny.
Name a boat that sank in the 1910s.
Mr. Clarkson's least favorite president
Andrew Jackson
This Mafia member was part of the 1929 St. Valentines Day Massacre in Chicago.
Al Capone
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet to advocate for independence from Britain in 1776.
Common Sense.
This general lead the confederacy during the civil war.
Robert E. Lee
Forest Gump returned a notebook to a girl during this historical event. She was going to school in Arkansas in 1957.
Little Rock Nine
This is how many full years Mr. Clarkson has taught at Lee/Wisdom.
This Native American woman helped to save English settlers in the early 1600’s.
Pocahontas
What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
1776
This war of 1898 established the independence of Cuba ceded Guam to the United States.
Spanish-American War
This failed attack by the U.S. led to the growth of a communistic Caribbean country.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Mr. Clarkson went to this college.
University of Texas at Austin
This person created Hull House and began the US settlement house movement
Jane Addams
Christopher Columbus landed here specifically. (Name the modern-day region or any nation.
Bahamas, Hispanola, Caribbean
The compromise of 1850 made this to be decided by popular sovereignty in the admission of new states.
Slavery
These underground tunnels were used by the armies of this nation to fight and protect themselves against U.S. forces in the 1960s-1970s.
Vietnam
Mr. Clarkson tried to give everyone a free major grade 100 if students did not use and lose all of these.
Pencils
This is the person everyone forgets all the time: populist candidate for president, lawyer in the Scopes trial, Secretary of State during WWI, anti-imperialist, "Cross of Gold" speech
William Jennings Bryan