Presidents
Which president's election prompted the first successful exchange of power from opposite parties in the US?
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred under whose presidency?
Kennedy's
Montgomery Alabama
July 4th 1776 (Signing of the Declaration)
Name at least one pet that Teddy Roosevelt had in the White House.
Dogs, cats, horses, a hyena, a badger, birds, a pig...
What political party did Madison belong to?
Democratic-Republican
Sputnik, the first satellite in space, was launched by what country?
Russia/The Soviet Union
The non-violent Civil Rights protests inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. culminated in the passing of what law?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Louisiana Purchase was bought from Napoleon for what amount of money?
What amendment banned the sale of alcoholic beverages?
The 18th
Name the first Catholic president.
Kennedy
Who said the following?
The remedy lies in breaking the vicious circle and restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole. The manufacturer and the farmer throughout wide areas must be able and willing to exchange their products for currencies, the continuing value of which is not open to question.
Marshall (Truman's Secretary of State)
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 addressed what kind of Jim Crow laws?
Laws that enabled Voting Rights Discrimination
Jefferson Davis
What was the last state to be admitted into the Union?
List every president who was assassinated.
Mckinley
Garfield
Lincoln
Kennedy
The Cold War began in the year ________ and ended in the year __________ (when the Berlin wall fell)
1945 and 1991
Martin Luther King Jr. was inspired by what two philosophers?
1788
A leader who promoted black power and was, in his past, a leader of the group called "Nation of Islam"
Malcolm X
List at least three presidents for whom there was an attempted but unsuccessful assassination.
Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
William Howard Taft
Herbert Hoover
FDR
Truman
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Name two post-Stalin Soviet leaders that we discussed in class!
Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev
Say the last three words of MLK Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
"free at last!"
How would Lincoln begin his Gettysburg Address if he delivered it today?
"Twelve score and nine years ago..."
How many signatures are on the Declaration of Independence? (a) 50 (b) 26 (c) 56 (d) 13
(c) 56!