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This heroine of the Civil War was nicknamed "Moses"
This part of the Statue of Liberty was funded by the American people
What is the pedestal?
How British soldiers passed the time during the Revolutionary War
What is acting in plays?
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
In the late 1800s, some individuals believed that consuming powdered mummies could cure various ailments.
What is "corpse medicine"?
This Founding Father was the first Postmaster General of the US
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
These two presidents had pet alligators in the White House
Who are Herbert Hoover and John Quincy Adams?
This confirmed that Canada did not want to be part of the United States
What is the War of 1812?
Influential movement in African American literary history
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The first state in the United States to pass a law allowing women to vote
What is Utah?
The second woman to receive the Peace Prize, she founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919
Who is Jane Addams?
This foreign attack on US soil only lasted an hour and fifteen minutes
What is Pearl Harbor?
Before he became a great Union general, he was demoted for apparent insanity
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
He tore up his American flag, shredded his Bible, and refused to sign the treaty that had redrawn the reservation's boundaries
Who was Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce?
A man's pig wandered into a neighbor's garden and ate his vegetables, leading to a heated dispute that escalated into a full-blown riot involving more than 100 armed settlers
What was the Great Pig War of 1859?
This Civil War general put down a slave revolt in less than an hour
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This term refers to the increase in the black population in Chicago and Detroit in the early 1900s
What is the Great Migration?
World War 1 started with this assassination
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This workplace tragedy killed 146 employees, many of whom were immigrants
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
In 1919, a large vat containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst in Boston, Massachusetts, causing a massive wave of molasses to flood the streets
What is the Great Molasses Flood?
Nicknamed "the Commodore", he was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Referring to shantytowns occupied by homeless Americans in the 1930s
What are "Hoovervilles"?
The first National Park
What is Yellowstone?
WW2 Bomber crews often requested to be escorted by these “Red Tails”
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
A wave of hysteria during which several people were accused of witchcraft and ultimately executed
What were the Salem Witch Trials?