Roaring 20's
Civil Rights
American West
Quotes in History
American Women
100
Women that had bobbed haircuts, wore short skirts, and smoked/drank alcohol.
Flappers
100
She refused to give her seat up on a bus.
Rosa Parks
100
Two men who were sent by President Jefferson on an expedition to cross the western part of the United States.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
100
"What the hell is going on?"
Walter Cronkite
100
She wrote the book ¨Uncle Tom´s Cabin¨.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
What were bars and nightclubs that sold alcohol during prohibition?
Speakeasies
200
Led one of the biggest non-violent protests during the Civil Rights Movement and became a very well known figure with a famous speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
200
What land deal did President Jefferson buy from Napoleon during 1803?
The Louisiana Purchase
200
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Theodore Roosevelt
200
She founded the Red Cross.
Clara Barton
300
What was the first act that put quotas on incoming immigrants?
National Origins Act (1924)
300
A group of 9 students who were introduced to Central High School after Brown vs. Board of education.
Little Rock Nine
300
What did Joseph Glidden invent?
Barbed Wire
300
"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
300
A conductor in the Underground Railroad, she led more than 300 slaves to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
400
Most women voted for which president during the presidential election of 1920?
Warren G. Harding
400
Another popular leader who was more violent than MLK and was an African american Muslim minister
Malcom X
400
Who invented the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
400
"The business of America is business”
Calvin Coolidge
400
She was jokingly known as "the first female president".
Eleanor Roosevelt
500
Who was the lead male actor in ¨The Jazz Singer¨?
Al Jolson
500
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from what Washington, D.C. location?
The Lincoln Memorial
500
It was a very famous cowboy trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive Longhorn cattle overland, from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads.
Chisholm Trail
500
“Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind. ”
John F. Kennedy
500
She was a co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association and had a father who was a stern Quaker Abolitionist. She was arrested for trying to vote in 1871.
Susan B. Anthony