The American Revolution
To save ammunition during this 1775 battle, Patriots were ordered, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"
Bunker Hill.
Segregation was ruled unconstitutional in the case Brown v. the Board of Education of this City in Kansas.
Topeka.
A 1954 act of Congress added these 2 words to the Pledge of Allegiance.
under God.
Was the youngest man to be elected president.
John F. Kennedy.
In 1609 this settlement had about 500 people, but disease and starvation cut the number to 60 by spring 1610.
Jamestown.
More Frenchmen than Americans participated in the 1781 siege of this town, the last major battle of the American Revolution.
This institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
Booker T. Washington.
Civil War opponents Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee fought on the same side in this war.
Mexican-American War.
Celebrated his 80th birthday October 1, 2004.
Jimmy Carter.
In 1614 this husband of Pocahontas sent the first export cargo of tobacco to England.
John Rolfe.
In February 1778 Baron Friedrich von Steuben arrived at this Pennsylvania site to train the Continental Army.
Valley Forge.
Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947 when he was signed by this team.
The Dodgers.
This man's 1825 inaugural address had to compete with a traveling circus performing in D.C.
John Quincy Adams.
Was the first Republican president.
Abraham Lincoln
In 1635 the Public Latin School, the first public school in British America, was established in this city.
Boston.
The Treaty of Paris of 1783 extended the border of the U.S. west to this river.
The Mississippi.
Around 1790, Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land that became this city.
Washington D.C.
Saying "I will make them twins", in 1889 President Harrison blindly signed these 2 states into the Union so no one knows which was first.
North and South Dakota.
Has a foreign capital named for him.
James Monroe.
On January 5, 1665 the New Haven colony was formally annexed by this colony.
Connecticut.
This Connecticut native was a general in both the American and the British armies during the war.
Benedict Arnold
In 1773, she put out the first book of poetry by an African American.
Phillis Wheatley.
The 1912 platform of this short-lived political party had all the antlers, like direct election of U.S. senators.
Bull Moose party.
As the sheriff of the Erie County Jail in Buffalo, sprang the trap to hang 2 criminals.
Grover Cleveland.
On April 9, 1682 this Frenchman reached the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the region for Louis XIV
La Salle.