States in the Union
This state borders Canada, and is divided by the Great Lakes.
What is Michigan?
This bestselling book might account for all of the religious revivals early American culture experienced.
What is the Bible?
"Four Score and Seven years ago... and dedicated to the principal that 'all men are created equal.'
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Empire State.
What is New York?
Paine's no-nonsense reasoning that America should be independent.
What is Common Sense?
"We Have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This state was once its own country after its war for independence from Mexico.
What is Texas?
Harriet Beacher Stowe's bestseller that brought the evils of slavery to the northerners.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. . . ."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This state's Capital is Columbus.
What is Ohio?
Jacob Riis' photography showing the horrors of the Tenement Housing, leading to Governor Theodore Roosevelt to make changes in New York.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham;"
Frederick Douglass
Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis.
What is Tennessee?
Ida Tarbell wrote a scathing account of John D. Rockefeller's trust.
What is the History of the Standard Oil Company?
“...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
Who is Abigail Adams?