Main Events in the U.S. During the 18th & 19th Centuries
The cause of the U.S. Civil War
What is slavery?
An invention by Thomas Edison
What is the light bulb, phonograph, or motion picture camera?
The separation and different treatment of people based on the color of their skin
What is segregation?
The full name of this prominent Civil Rights figure
Martin Luther King Jr.
The number of seconds the Wright brothers' plane was in the air
What is twelve?
The country that the United States purchased Louisiana from
What is France?
Which prominent 19th century figure was taken out of school at the age of seven?
What are schools, public transportation, and housing?
The name of MLK's famous speech
What is "I have a Dream?"
The state where the Wright brothers flew the first heavier than air, power-controlled machine
What is North Carolina?
The two sides during the U.S. Civil War
What is the North and the South?
The president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Types of peaceful protests
What are speeches, marches, and boycotts?
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their _______ but by the content of their character
What is skin?
The name of the first man on the moon
The act that gave free land to encourage people to travel out west
What is the Homestead Act?
The person who said "A house divided amongst itself cannot stand"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is boycott?
The place where MLK gave his famous speech
What is the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC?
The name of the period where alcohol sales and consumption was illegal in the U.S.
What is the Prohibition?
Three causes of the American Revolution
What are independence, taxes, and no government representation?
The age that Thomas Edison began to lose his hearing
What is twelve years old?
The time period of the Civil Rights Movement
What are the 1950's and 1960's?
The year that MLK's famous speech was given
What is 1963?
Percent of unemployment in the U.S. during the Great Depression
What is twenty percent?