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100

President at the start of the Civil War

Who is Lincoln?

100

This group attended Central High School in Arkansas

Who are the Little Rock 9?

100

started after the arrest of Rosa Parks

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

100

number of people associated with the Watergate break-in

What is 5?

100

President that signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Who was LBJ?

200

1st elementary aged child to attend an all-white school in New Orleans

Who is Ruby Bridges?

200

Civil War ended here

What is Appomattox Courthouse?

200

started after the South firing on Ft. Sumpter

What is the Civil War?

200

number of original colonies

What is 13?

200

name given to the area in NYC where the towers once stood

What is "ground zero"?

300

President during the 9-11 attacks

Who is Bush?

300

Location of Normandy Beach

Where is France?

300

Dec 7, 1941

What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

300

number of atomic bombs dropped on Japan

What is 2?

300

Civil Rights leader famous for his "I have a dream" speech.

Who is MLK Jr.?

400

Escaped slavery and published the newspaper called the North Star 

Who is Frederick Douglass?

400

Site of the World Trade Center

Where is NYC?

400

April 22, 1970

What is Earth Day?

400

year JFK was killed

what is 1963?

400

City known for meatpacking plants

Where is Chicago?

500

Wrote Silent Spring which highlighted the dangers of pesticides 

Who is Rachel Carson?

500

state where Emmett Till was murdered

Where is Mississippi?

500

June 6, 1944

What is D-Day?

500

number associated with the terrorist attacks on NYC, D.C, and Pa.

9-11

500

Country that sent the most workers to the U.S to build the railroads during the Industrial age

What is China?

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