Civil Rights Movements
In 1955, this African-American woman refused to give up her seat to white passengers on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, leading to her arrest.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This election year saw the last time a majority of Connecticut voters elected a Republican for President of the United States.
When is 1988?
In March of 2003, President George W. Bush sent American troops to begin invading which Middle Eastern country?
What is Iraq?
The Great Depression, a time of economic strife, was kicked off by a major stock market crash in this year?
What is 1929?
What is The Great Gatsby?
The Lorraine Hotel in this Tennessee city tragically became the site of an assassination on prominent civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
Where is Memphis?
This river hosted the first steamboat voyage in the state in 1815?
What is the Connecticut River?
He was the general of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The largest coin mint in the United States can be found in this Pennsylvania city.
What is Philadelphia?
These women are a female subculture, known to contradict societal norms, by wearing knee-high skirts, bob hairstyles, and bold makeup.
Who are Flappers?
Who is Billie Holiday?
In 1979, Mother Nature unleashed this natural disaster on the Windsor Locks area, causing 3 fatalities and $420 million dollars in damages.
What is a tornado?
This war that lasted from the end of 1990 to early 1991 was only 210 days long.
What is the Gulf War?
Elizabeth Taylor wore a
$200, 000 gown to play this royal figure in a 1963 film.
Who is Cleopatra?
What is jazz?
Which US President had to send federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas when protestors fought against 9 African American students starting in a public school that was no longer segregated?
Who was President Eisenhower?
Ella T. Grasso was the first female elected to this role in the state of Connecticut in 1974.
What is Governor?
What is the Constitution?
This form of payment was not open to a woman alone, without a male's signature, until 1974.
What is a credit card?
The 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution, certified in 1920, allowed woman to partake in this civil duty.
What is voting?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Nautilus, the world's first atomic-powered submarine launched in this Connecticut city's submarine base?
Where is Groton?
What is Pearl Harbor?
What is a penny?
This 1920s actress was the first African American female to star in a movie, with her leading role in Siren of the Tropics.
Who is Josephine Baker?