He was the only professional actor to be elected president.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
100
He was the smallest president at 5’4”, and weighed less than 100 pounds.
Who is James Madison?
100
This man was president during the war between the states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This man is one of the most famous civil rights leaders and is famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
This compromise banned slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri in 1820.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
200
This president played the saxophone, and even played it on TV.
Who is William Clinton?
200
This president, the son of a previous one, was given an alligator which lived in the White House for several months.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
200
This man was the first black president.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
This man was the first African American baseball player.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was one of the most influential works to stir anti-slavery sentiments.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This president collects Spider-Man comics.
Who is Barak Obama?
300
This president had 15 children.
Who is John Tyler?
300
He was the first president to take office never having owned slaves.
Who is John Adams?
300
This woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
Jesse Owens was participating as one of these when he became the first person to win four gold medals at an Olympic competition.
What is a sprinter?
400
This president has a collection of over 250 signed baseballs.
Who is George W. Bush?
400
This president could write with both hands at the same time – in different languages.
Who is James Garfield?
400
This double-digit number is how many presidents of the United States had owned slaves at some point in their lives.
What is twelve?
400
After this woman escaped from slavery, she became one of the most successful “conductors” on the Underground Railroad, and led more than 300 slaves to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
This amendment gave blacks the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
500
This president held his daughter’s prom in the White House.
Who is Gerald Ford?
500
He was the first president to be born in a hospital.
Who is Jimmy (James Earl) Carter?
500
This man issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves were free.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
This man was born a slave yet went on to get a college degree, and is famous for finding hundreds of uses for the peanut, sweet potato, and the soybean.
Who is George Washington Carver?
500
Black History Month has been celebrated since this year.