American West
Cold War
Presidents
American Women
Civil Rights
100
Who invented Barbed Wire?
Joseph Glidden
100
What was the Nuclear Arms Race?
A competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States and the Soviet Union
100
What president abolished slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
100
Who is the most famous lady who helped slaves escape in the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
100
What year did the three Selma to Montgomery Marches take place?
1965
200
What year was the term, "Manifest Destiny" first used?
1845
200
What started the Space Race?
The Soviet Union launching the first man-made satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957
200
What president was involved in the Watergate Scandal?
Richard Nixon
200
True or false, Pocahontas married John Smith?
False, she married John Rolfe
200
What Supreme Court case Prohibited racial segregation in public schools?
Brown v. Board of Education
300
What was the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory?
Ohio
300
What one word summed up the Truman Doctrine?
Containment
300
How many presidents have been impeached? What are their names?
Two, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton
300
What women in American history became famous as a guide and translator on the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Sacagawea
300
What Amendment guarantees due process and equal protection rights to all citizens?
The 14th Amendment
400
What year did the Transcontinental Railroad begin to be built?
1863
400
What year was the Berlin Wall put up?
1961
400
What president was a leader of the reform faction of Republicans in New York's state legislature?
Theodore Roosevelt
400
Who wrote the book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
400
In 1893, which U.S. state became the first to grant women the right to vote?
Colorado
500
What act was passed that permitted settlers to purchase up to 640 acres of public land at 25 cents an acre?
Desert Land Act
500
Who came to power in 1985 in the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
500
What was Herbert Hoover’s position in USA cabinet in 1921-1928?
Commerce Secretary
500
Who founded the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
500
Where did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
The Lincoln Memorial
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