Presidents
The first President to be elected that was Roman Catholic.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
The era known for the idea of US expansion from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This event happened in 2008.
What is the election of the first African American President, Barack Obama?
The state is Mount Rushmore located in.
What is South Dakota?
James Early Ray assassinated this person in Memphis in April 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The US president after Herbert Hoover?
Who is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)?
The fear of communist influence in the United States during the Cold War was spread by this Senator from Wisconsin.
Who is Joseph McCarthy or what is McCarthyism?
The name of the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957?
What is Sputnik?
Near which town were there reports of a space ship landing on the 4th of July in 1947?
What is Roswell, New Mexico
This presidential couple were implicated in the Whitewater affair?
Who are the Clintons?
The two signers of the Declaration of Independence that went on to serve as president of the United States?
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
The strategy of providing billions of dollars in financial aid to Europe after WWII to help rebuild countries' economies and keep them from becoming Communist.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This law banned discrimination and segregation in public accommodations, housing, businesses, etc.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Which city is the headquarters of Chrysler and General Motors located in?
What is Detroit
In 1963 this man murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin (according to official accounts) of US President John F Kennedy?
What is Jack Ruby?
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Name 3 territories acquired by the United States from 1867-1904.
What is 1867-Alaska, Midway Island
1898- Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Palmyra I, American Samoa, Guam, Phillippine Islands, Wake Island
This court case that stated that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
Which state is America's flattest, with a difference of only 345 feet between its highest and lowest points?
What is Florida?
This person worked on the Underground Railroad helping over 300 slaves to freedom and was/is supposed to be on the $20 bill.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This president was in office when the first man walked on the moon.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed to give rights to this group after Reconstruction.?
Who are former slaves (African Americans)?
This agreement calls for free trade between Canada, the US, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
This city hosted the USA's first World Fair?
What is Chicago (1893)?
What US Presidents' faces are on Mount Rushmore?
Who are Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt?