Presidents
Speeches
Inventors
Famous Modern Americans
American Women
100
George Washington
Who was the first President?
100
Abraham Lincon
Who gave the Gettysburg Address?
100
Thomas Edison
Who invented the most efficient lightbulb?
100
(1880 – 1968) overcame blindness and deafness, graduated from Radcliffe, gave many speeches on behalf of the physically handicapped and wrote several books
Who is Helen Keller?
200
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the president during the Civil War?
200
" I Have a Dream", by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What speech ended: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
200
Samuel Morse (ie the Morse code)
Who invented the telegraph?
200
Underground Railroad, brought over 300 slaves into freedom in the north.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
John F. Kennedy
What President was assassinated in 1963?
300
Benjamin Franklin (protects buildings and ships from lightning damage)
Who invented the lightning rod?
300
American neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. Famous for seperating many conjoined twins.
Who is Benjamin Carson?
300
American Suffragette. Fought for a women's right to vote which was granted in 1920.
Who is Susan B Anthony?
400
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What President created the New Deal?
400
"Ain't I A Woman?" by Sojourner Truth Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio Delivered 1851
Who said: "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"
400
Alexander Graham
Who invented the telephone?
400
(1821 – 1912) nurse during the Civil War, founded American Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?
500
Ronald Reagan
What president resigned due to a scandel know as Watergate?
500
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation" Delivered December 8, 1941
What speech ended with: "I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire."
500
(1821 - 1910) first woman physician (doctor) founded Women’s Medical College in 1867
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
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