Amendments
Abolished Slavery
13th
Who gave the famous speech, "I have a dream"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
The Declaration of Independence was written in
1776
Most of the ships that brought European immigrants to the US landed at which New York location
Ellis Island
Gave women the right to vote
19th
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act
President Johnson
Who invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Christopher Columbus landed in the New World
1492
Peninsula
Prohibited cruel and unusual punishment
8th
A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutiona
Brown vs Board of Education
Who invented bifocal eyeglasses
Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed
1865
Temperate and subtropical are two types of what
Climate
Set the national voting age to 18
26th
There were two men to become the first men to land on the moon. Name one of the two
Neil Armstrong
or
Edwin Aldrin Jr
Which brothers are credited for inventing the airplane
Wright Brothers
The Stock Market crashed leading to the Great Depression
1929
This is located in South Dakota. It is a gigantic sculpture of 4 presidents
Mount Rushmore
Abolished slavery
13th
This women was the first to be sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O Connor
He was an agricultural scientist and inventor who developed over 300 products from peanut
George Washington Carver
United Nations is formed/established
1945
A man made waterway that connects two bodies of water
Canal