Quote Quest
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan"
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Operation Overlord, launched in 1944, is also known as this.
What is D-Day?
Birthdate of America.
What is 1776?
He sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Book intended to promote socialism but actually grossed out readers with meatpacking details.
What is the Jungle?
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The sinking of this ship did not immediately bring the U.S. into WWI, but it was a catalyst.
What is the Lusitania?
Settlers land in Jamestown.
What is 1607?
Carnegie patented this style of integration, giving him dominance over the steel industry.
What is vertical?
Under Madison's proposal for this term, Congress would be able to veto any state law.
What is the federal negative?
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in..."
Who is Abraham Lincoln (Second Inaugural Address)?
Custer and his men are killed at this battle in the Montana Territory. Key players: Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Brown v. Board (I) decision is issued by the Warren Court.
What is 1954?
Alice Paul's more militant women's suffrage organization, having split off from Carrie Chapman Catt's NAWSA.
What is the NWP?
"These" governments popped up in the South and established Democratic rule in response to Reconstruction.
What are "redeemer" governments?
"But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Election year between Rutherford B. Hayes (R) and Samuel Tilden (D), marking the end of Reconstruction.
What is 1876?
"Hey, John Quincy Adams stole the election from me!" -- Andrew Jackson, probably. Term for the shadowy deal made between Clay and JQA.
What is the corrupt bargain?
Student-led civil rights organization formed after the sit-in movement began.
What is the SNCC?
"To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say: “Cast down your bucket where you are”— cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded."
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Federalists (primarily in NE) get all upset about the War of 1812 and list their grievances, albeit at an unfortunate time.
What is the Hartford Convention?
Shay's Rebellion breaks out in Massachusetts.
What is 1786?
A vital Mississippi River stronghold linking the two parts of the Confederacy, eventually besieged by Grant and surrendedred to Union troops in 1863.
What is Vicksburg?
A term best exemplified by the relationship between the railroad industry and the ICC in the late 19th century.
What is regulatory capture?