McLean County history
The famous battle held in Sacramento that is reenacted every year.
What is the battle of Sacramento?
The popular phrase for the belief that the United States was meant to expand across the North American continent.
What is the Manifest Destiny?
The year that the great depression ended.
When is 1941?
The names of both sides fighting in the civil war.
What are the union and confederate?
The president that is featured on the $50 bill.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This popular Island restaurant opened in 1956.
What is Island Dairy Freeze?
The nickname given to people who traveled to California in search of gold.
what are Forty-niners?
The cause of the great depression, occuring in 1929.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
The bloodiest battle in the entire war.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
The president that filled in after Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The year that McLean County was founded.
When is 1854?
The current day state that was used as an indian territory during the westward expansion
What is Oklahoma?
This event caused the great depression to end.
What is World War II?
The famous general that led the confederates in battle.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The president that is featured on the $2 bill.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The year that Livermore's Green River Chair Company opened.
When is 1912?
The nation that the United States purchased Alaska from.
What is Russia?
A group of cardboard boxes set up in a public park or street alley.
What is a Hooverville?
The battle that marks the single bloodiest day in American history.
What is Antietam?
These 3 presidents have been impeached from office.
Who are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump?
The name of Calhoun on the original map of the McLean County area.
What is Fort Vienna?
The 5 tribes most affected by the westward expansion.
What are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole?
The term that was used in the region of the American mid-west that suffered a devastating drought full of huge dirt storms during the 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The four states that remained neutral during the Civil War.
What are Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri?
Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F. Kennedy?