Obscure Laws
This Constitutional amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.
What is the 18th Amendment.
George W. Bush made quotable History after answering questions on a golf course following the Terrorist attack on 9/11 by stating,
What is "Now watch this drive"
This Government agency established in 1970 is tasked with regulating environmental protection matters.
What is the EPA?
This famous figure is noted as saying, "if not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
What is the name of the treaty that officially declared the ending of the American Revolution?
What is the Treaty of Paris
This state was the first state to give women suffrage before the 19th Amendment.
What is Wyoming.
The sinking of which ship contributed to the entry of the United States into World War I?
The Lusitania
Author and marine biologist Rachel Carson sounds the alarm on the ill effects of DDT and other pesticides in this best-selling book, which kick-starts the modern environmental movement.
What is Silent Spring?
George Washington Carver developed around 300 different products, from cheese and milk to dye and soap, all using this ingredient.
What is Peanuts
This revolutionary Battle fought between Sept 28th - Oct 19th, 1781 decidedly ended the war and had more Frenchmen battling than Americans
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
What is The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Civil War opponents Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee fought on the same side in this war.
What is Mexican-American War?
This early 20th-century midwestern natural disaster is commonly associated with poor farming techniques and soil extractive grains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This famous mid-20th-century Jazz singer is remembered as "the queen of Jazz"
Who is Ella Fitzgerald.
This intellectual movement is associated with the American Revolution.
What is the Enlightenment.
This government-owned corporation establish in 1933 sought to bring power lines to the Tennessee Valley.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority.
This Civil War general's left arm is buried at Ellwood Plantation; the rest of him is interred at the Virginia Military Institute.
Who is "Stonewall" Jackson?
This movie depicting a near meltdown and safety problems at an American nuclear power plant was released merely days before the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania?
What is The China Syndrome?
This supreme court justice appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson who served on the court from 1967 to 1991, is the first African American justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall.
This is the name of the colonial militiamen known to be ready for military duty “at a minute’s warning”
What is the Minutemen?
This Massachusetts law passed in 1647 was designed to require every town with 50 or more families to hire and maintain a teacher to instruct all children in reading and writing.
What is the Ye Old Deluder Satan Act
This first regiment of African Americans from the North to serve during the Civil War, bravely assaulted Battery Wagner in Charleston Harbor.
What is The 54th Massachusetts Regiment
This mid-20th-century French environmental Historian known for writing La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II.
Who is Fernand Braudel
This Harlem Renaissance poet was recognized for being the innovator of Jazz Poetry with one of his most famous poems titled, "The Weary Blues"
Who is Langston Hughes.
The third amendment of the United States Constitution is written largely in response to this act being passed with the remanding of three other intolerable acts.
What is The Quartering Act.