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The inventor of the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

100

Thomas Edison is famous for this invention

What is the Light bulb 💡

100

This is the name of the first automobile that the average American family could own

What is The Model T

100

These 2 sides fought each other in WW2

Who were the Axis and Allied powers?

100

The US landed on the moon in this year.

Double points if you know the month and day.

What was 1969

July 20

200
Where the Declaration of Independence was signed

What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania inside Independence Hall (the former state house)

200

These two are credited with the first successful flight

Who are The Wright Brothers

200

This was the term for the catastrophic event of 1929, where America's money system crashed

What was The Great Depression

200

when was the white house built?

what is 1800

200

what is Herny Browns nickname?

what is Henry "box' Brown

300

The island where immigrants into America (New York) had to stop at for processing

What is Ellis Island?

300

This is the location of the first flight

Where is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

300

This was Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to create programs to "jump start" the economy after the economic crash of 1929

What was The New Deal?

300

This is the name of the "secret" organization formed in 1866 by former Confederate soldiers to harass and suppress black Americans.

What is Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

300

What Indian showed the Pilgrims how to plant corn and squash?

Squanto

400
This famous statue greets those who arrive in New York's Harbor. 

What is The Statue of Liberty

400

This act of 1862 opened western lands for free settlement and gave each homesteader 160 acres

What is The Homestead Act

400

Farmers leached all the nutrients out of the soil in the prairie lands and caused the area to be called this? 

The Dust Bowl

400

She was the first black child to integrate into a white school in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Who was Ruby Bridges? 

400

This President is the only one to resign their Presidency.

Richard Nixon 

500

This famous black man was born a slave and ended up as the first principle of the black school the Tuskegee Institute. 

Who is Booker T Washington.

500

This event lead the United States to join WWI

What was The Germans sinking the Lusitania, a passenger ship with American people on board. 

500

This event caused America to join World War 2

What was the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

500

Name 2 famous people from the Civil Rights Movement?

Rosa Parks

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

500

The 1st Amendment ensures what 5 freedoms?

Religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.