In this 1776 document the British colonies in North America declared their independence from British control and began a new nation called the United States of America.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
This Congressional Act ended segregation and prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
100
This document begins "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
This word is a synonym for the words twenty years.
What is score?
100
This/These device(s) are what President Lincoln used when he said "our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
What is allusion (to the Declaration of Independence)?
200
This document stated that "all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
This address delivered by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 honored the soldiers of the Confederate and Union soldiers who died on the Gettysburg battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
This document begins "Four score and seven years ago..."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
These hyphenated words are a synonym for the words obvious, or easy-to-see.
What is self-evident?
200
This/These device(s) were used by Dr. King when he said, "Let freedom ring."
What are allusion and repetition?
300
This document established the rights of U.S. citizens and the powers of the three branches of the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution of the United States?
300
This address, delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 during the March on Washington, strongly motivated members of Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
300
This document states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude .... shall exist within the United States...
What is the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
300
This is a synonym for four score and seven.
What is 87?
300
This/These device(s) were used by Dr. King when he said, "Five score years ago a great American whose symbolic shadow we stand in today...."
What is allusion?
400
This document signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1843 ended slavery in the Confederate (southern) states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
This address, delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged nonviolent, or peaceful, demonstration to make changes to civil rights laws in the United States.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
400
The lyrics to this song include the words "Let freedom ring."
What is "My Country 'Tis of Thee"?
400
This word is a synonym for an address.
What is a speech?
400
This/These device(s) were used by Dr. King when he said, "I have a dream...."
What is repetition?
500
This 1864 amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolished, or ended, slavery in all states.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?
500
This 1964 Congressional Act, which ended segregation and prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin in the United States of America.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
In this speech the speaker said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
What is MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech?
500
This word is a synonym for liberty.
What is freedom?
500
This/These device(s) were used by Dr. King in his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech.