What Native American language is renowned for being used by code talkers from a namesake tribe during World War II?
Navajo
What is 9/11?
When Al-Qaeda hijacked planes and crashed them into the world trade center and other government buildings.
What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's assasin
John Wilkes Booth
What year did World War 2 start for the US?
December 7th, 1941
What was the Cold War?
The Cold war was a rivalry between the US and the USSR, with each showing their power, technological innovation, and was fought through proxy wars.
what U.S. president declared March 31 a federal commemorative holiday honoring César Chávez?
Barack Obama
How many original colonies were there?
13
Which treaty officially ended the American Revolution?
Treaty of Paris
Who was the first president to be impeached?
Andrew Jackson
Founded in Ohio in 1880, which non-profit in the United States is led by Deaf advocates and is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the U.S.?
National Association of Deaf
Which President originally issued the policy almost 15 years earlier under Department of Defense Directive 1304.26?
Bill Clinton
What activist for gay liberation and drag queen was one of the central figures of the Stonewall uprising in 1969?
Marsha P. Johnson
On February 1, 1960, a group known as the "Greensboro Four" famously staged a sit-in at the lunch counter of the local location of what five-and-dime chain, which would not serve them because they were Black?
Woolworth's
The Pittsburgh native Edith Spurlock Sampson was a lawyer and judge who served as the first Black U.S. delegate to what body in August 1950?
United Nations
What was the Berlin Wall?
A wall that surrounded West Berlin, constructed by the Soviets, to keep the East Germans from fleeing into West Berlin.
Which hurricane devastated New Orleans in 2005?
Huricane Katrina
Commonly nicknamed “Black Wall Street” due to the thriving African American business within the area, what district in Tulsa, Oklahoma was burned to the ground during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre?
Greenwood
In 1893, Ida B. Wells joined Frederick Douglass and other Black leaders for a boycott of the World's Columbian Exposition in what Midwest city?
Chicago
What Campaign was a major failure for the Allies and was an amphibious invasion in the middle east?
The Gallipoli Campaign
A series of anti-immigrant riots that took place in Los Angeles in 1943 are named for what kind of wide-legged suits, then associated with Mexican and Filipino Angelenos?
Zootsuits
What “M” woman, the 18th-century daughter of an American trader and a Muscogee Creek mother was a key figure in negotiations between Native Americans and settlers in Georgia?
Mary Musgrove
What mixed-race Black and Native American man who escaped slavery is generally regarded to be the first American colonist killed in the Boston Massacre, and thereby the first American to die in the Revolution?
Crispus Attucks
What was the Deadliest battle in the Civil war?
The Battle of Antietam
What was the reasons the United States became a superpower and a major influence across the world?
its industrial capabilities and it was the first nation to have atomic weapons.
Benjamin O. Davis Sr, the first African-American man to become a general in the US Army, was a key figure in protecting the interests, morale, and rights of Black soldiers in the US Army during what 20th century conflict?
WW2