Early US History
This document begins with the words “We the People.”
US Constitution
This sport, played on horseback with mallets, originated in Persia.
Polo
This president got stuck in a bathtub according to a famous myth.
President Taft
This country is famous for inventing sushi.
Japan
This city was divided by a wall during the Cold War.
Berlin
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
This sport uses the terms “love,” “deuce,” and “ace.”
Tennis
This president was once a Hollywood actor.
This country has more sheep than people.
New Zealand
This president once worked as a park ranger and peanut farmer.
He issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
In this sport, players sweep the ice with brooms.
Curling
This president served as Supreme Allied Commander during World War II.
Dwight Eisenhower
During Prohibition, people secretly drank alcohol at illegal bars called these.
Speakeasies
This agreement ended World War I and blamed Germany for the war.
Treaty of Versailles
This invention by Eli Whitney increased cotton production in the South.
Cotton Gin
This athlete became the first Black player in Major League Baseball’s modern era.
Jackie Robinson
This president was the first former vice president to become president after a resignation.
President Ford
This ancient civilization is credited with inventing noodles before they spread to Italy.
Chinese
This Progressive Era amendment allowed citizens to directly elect senators.
17th Amendment
In the 1700s, this vegetable was once feared in Europe because people thought it was poisonous.
Tomato
This baseball player pointed to the outfield before hitting a famous home run in the 1932 World Series.
Babe Ruth
This president was the only one never elected president or vice president.
President Ford
This country invented table tennis, also known as ping-pong.
England
This female pilot became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Earhart