US History
This act 1862 provided free land in the west as long as the person would settle there and make improvements in five years.
Homestead Act
The first inhabitance of Pomona
The Tongva
This president was the only president to be elected into the presidency four times.
FDR
Father of History; mixed myth with history.
Herodotus
Socialist leader who established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba.
Fidel Castro
The belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
Pomona was named after the godess of this.
Fruit
This president was the only to hold a position in both executive and judicial brances of government.
William Taft
The changes that occurred in human life resulting the start of farming. The shift from food-gathering to food-producing culture was one of the greatest breakthroughs in human history.
Neolithic Revolution
This movie inspired the motive of John Hinckley Jr's attempted assasination on president Ronald Reagan
Taxi Driver
Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th centry.
Muckrakers
In the 1920s, pomona was known by this nickname.
"Queen of the citrus belt"
This president was known to sleep up to 11 hours a day.
Calvin Coolidge
The presumed right to rule given to a dynasty by heaven, the highest force of nature
Mandate of Heaven
A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Riots in LA which caused by police brutality lasting 6 days.
Watts Riots
This building in Pomona was recognized by the Los Angeles Conservancy as an outstanding example of Mid-century modern and modern architecture and design.
Pomona Mall
This president was head cheerleader in college.
George W. Bush
Ruler of the Babylonian Empire who united all of Mesopotamia.
Hammurabi
A Chinese cosmology that dates to the Zhou Dynasty, with its emphasis on dualism in nature best exemplified in the concept of ying and yang
Daoism
This person co-founded the Black Panthers with Huey P. Newton.
Bobby Seale
This republican president campaigned in Pomona during his campaign for congress.
Richard Nixon
This republican president was so good at poker that he used his winnings to start his political career.
Richard Nixon
first Greek state; was a fortified site in Greece that was first discovered by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann.
Mycenae
movement which began in the 1920's that emphasized the unity and strength of Africans and people of African descent around the world.
Pan African Movement