American Presidents
The only president elected to four terms, he was in office when the Social Security Act was signed in 1935.
Franklin D Roosevelt
Founded in 1954, this political party was created to oppose the spread of slavery across the United States
Republican Party
This nickname reflects Delaware's status as the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
The First State
This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women in the United States the constitutional right to vote.
19th Amendment
In February 2022, this country launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
Russia
This president was the first Catholic elected to the presidency.
John F Kennedy
Andrew Jackson was the first president for this party
Democrats
This famous Delaware company developed Teflon and played a major role in the state's industrial history.
DuPont
This style of music, strongly associated with New Orleans and Chicago, became hugely popular during the 1920s.
Jazz
This British monarch died in September 2022 after more than 70 years on the throne.
Queen Elizabeth II
This president signed the Homestead Act of 1862, granting settlers parcels of federally owned land in the West.
Abraham Lincoln
This party opposed Jacksonian Democracy and was in favor of tariffs, a national bank, and manufacturing
Whigs
This man was the only US President from Delaware
Joe Biden
This 1920s movement saw millions of African Americans move from the rural South to Northern and Midwestern cities.
The Great Migration
This 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the federal constitutional protection for abortion rights established in 1973.
Dobbs vs Jackson
This president was the only one to serve as both vice president and president without being elected to either office.
Gerald Ford
The Bull Moose Party was the nickname for this party formed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
The Progressive Party
This 1777 Revolutionary War battle, fought near the Pennsylvania border, was a major defeat for Washington's army.
Brandywine
This novelist wrote The Great Gatsby, a 1925 novel depicting wealth and excess during the Jazz Age.
F Scott Fitzgerald
This company launched ChatGPT in November 2022, helping bring generative AI into mainstream public attention.
Open AI
Before becoming president, this man served as secretary of state under both James Madison and James Monroe.
John Quincy Adams
This group of immigrants, many of them Catholic, became a major target of Know-Nothing political campaigns in the 1840s and 1850s.
The Irish
This Delaware-born statesman served as a U.S. senator and was the only person to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
George Read
This U.S. president, elected in 1920, promised Americans a return to “normalcy.”
Warren G Harding
This NFL team won Super Bowl LV in February 2021, led by quarterback Tom Brady.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers