Taino Language
What is 'tobacco'?
This was the year the Declaration of Independence was written.
This president, the youngest to be elected, famously said, "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This 1765 Parliamentary act imposed a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
She was the first Second Lady and the second First Lady.
Who is Abigail Adams?
Huracan – a great seasonal storm that decimated the Caribbean yearly.
What is 'hurricane'?
These timely men were members of the organized New England militia of the Revolutionary War.
Who are the Minutemen?
This president, in his own words, is not a crook!
Who is Richard Nixon?
This 1896 ruling established the doctrine of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This soon-to-be First Lady attended the 22nd Crowley Rice festival in 1959; she even addressed the crowd of cajuns in French.
Who is Jacqueline Kennedy?
Barbacoa – a method of cooking where meat is grilled on a raised platform, usually made of wood for the Taino.
What is barbecue?
Don't tread on this segmented creature, the centerpiece of the Revolutionary War flag!
What is a snake?
This one-term president, who served from 1977 to 1981, is currently the longest-lived president, at 99 years old.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This piece of foreign policy, first articulated on December 2, 1823 by the President from which its name derives, opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Claudia Alta Johnson, the wife of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, is more commonly referred to by this avian nickname.
Who is Lady Bird Johnson?
Hamaca – literally: "stretch of cloth"
What is 'hammock'?
This British General surrendered in 1781 to a combined American and French force at the siege of Yorktown.
Who is General Charles Cornwallis?
This president was the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.
This set of four laws enacted in 1798 restricted immigration and free speech in the United States.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
The first Second Gentleman.
Who is Doug Emhoff?
Tiburón – the Taino word for this most fearsome creature of the ocean was carried over into the Spanish language completely intact and is still used today.
What is a shark?
This sailor of mixed African and Indigenous ancestry was the first casualty of the American Revolutionary war at the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This president was the only of the 20th century to not earn a college degree.
Who is Harry Truman?
This 20th century chief justice's court oversaw a slew of new civil rights for American citizens - including the Miranda warning, the end of de jure segregation, and the end of forced prayer in public schools.
Who is Earl Warren?
This wife of President John Tyler died of a paralytic stroke having only attended one White House function: the wedding of their daughter; she was the first first lady to die in the White House.
Who is Letitia Tyler?