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The president of the U.S. during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This was a Presidential first in 2008.
What is the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama?
This court case that stated that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The Progressive Era reform that provides a way to remove elected officials from office.
What is recall?
He founded the company Microsoft.
Who is Bill Gates?
The amendment that lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
The year that the Spanish-American War was fought.
What is 1898?
This law banned discrimination and segregation in public accommodations, housing, businesses, etc.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What scandal caused President Richard Nixon to resign?
What is Watergate?
The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
The amendment that made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This was the name given to the US invasion of Normandy in 1944.
What is D Day?
The Supreme Court decision that created the idea of "Separate But Equal".
What is Plessy vs Ferguson.
This person is known as the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
The first Black justice on the United States Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were enacted to give rights to this group.
What is former slaves (African Americans)?
The strategy of providing billions of dollars in financial aid to Europe after World War II to help rebuild countries' economies and keep them from becoming Communist.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Supreme Court decision that stated that students do not lose their 1st Amendment rights in school, and that schools must prove conduct must “materially and substantially interfere” with the operation of the school before it can be banned.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
The Tennessee Court case in the 1920s which was nicknamed the "monkey trial" was about teaching this topic in school
What is evolution?
The first female member of the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O' Connor?
The amendment that has been used to apply the Bill of Rights to the states and has been used to ensure that state do not violate people's rights and provides for due process.
What is the 14th Amendment?
In 1979, over 40 Americans were taken hostage in the U.S. Embassy in this country.
What is Iran?
The name of the law that guarantees women equal access to various opportunities (especially sports) in schools and colleges.
What is Title IX?
The name of the program during World War II that developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?