Presidents
Emancipated the slaves.
Abraham Lincoln
The American pastime.
Baseball
This case established judicial review as a primary duty of the Supreme Court.
Marbury v. Madison
This paraplegic president was nearly assassinated in Florida shortly after his first election in 1932.
Franklin Roosevelt
This general and future president led the American colonists to victory over the British.
George Washington
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt
This traditionally black style of music emerged as early as the late 19th century, but reached its height of popularity in the 1920's. Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were its greatest practitioners.
Jazz
This case desegregated schools after it was decided in 1954.
Brown v. Board of Education
This communist sympathizer was arrested for the assassination of John Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Fought in July of 1863, this battle was the turning point of the civil War.
Gettysburg
This Virginian was the principal author of the Constitution and was one of six presidents named James.
James Madison
The colloquial name for liberated 1920's women.
Flappers
This Chief Justice served as the governor of California, and is remembered for leading the Court to its most progressive decisions.
Earl Warren
This president was killed by an anarchist in 1901, prompting the ascension of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. He also has a mountain named after him in Alaska.
William McKinley
This war began after the U.S.S. Maine was sunk in a Cuban harbor.
Spanish-American War
Which two presidents were impeached?
Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton
The term given to literary romantics like Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Transcendentalists
Barack Obama's second appointee to the high court.
Elena Kagan
The man who tried to kill Ronald Reagan.
John Hinkley Jr.
This Union general captured Atlanta, and ravaged the South in his 'march to the sea'.
William Tecumseh Sherman
President of Princeton before his election as governor of New Jersey. Only president with a p.h.D.
Woodrow Wilson
This American painter created images of the American heartland and shared his name with the famous American senator from Missouri.
Thomas Hart Benton
Abraham Lincoln considered imprisoning this Chief Justice who decided the infamous Dred Scott v. Stanford case.
Roger B. Taney
This Louisiana governor and populist challenger to Franklin Roosevelt was assassinated before he could run for president.
Huey Long
This war was sparked by the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand.
World War I