POTUS Among Us
This president fires generals like they are interns in Oversimplified's: Civil War. This President grew one of history's most iconic beards and led the nation out of the Civil war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This woman opposed the ERA with STOP ERA?
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
Which war led to the decline of the federalist party?
What is War of 1812?
He invented the light bulb and founded General Electric.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Fascist dictator of Italy in WW2
Who is Benito Mussolini?
He won a revolution, became president, and still managed to avoid political parties... until they invented them anyway. Also famous for his hobbies: chopping cherry trees (allegedly) and ghosting a third term.
Who is George Washington
This man defended slavery, pushed for Southern nulification and just never stopped talking about state rights?
Who is John C Calhoun
Which war really magnified the problem of slavery, because so much territory was gained from it. The Wilmot Proviso was one that outlawed slavery in the territory gained from this war.
What is Mexican-American War?
A former slave, this abolitionist became a powerful speaker and wrote an influential autobiography detailing the horrors of slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This term means a economic situation where inflation and unemployment are both high and growth is slow. It was a major problem under Nixon and Ford's presidency.
What is stagflation?
John Adams' last words were ““this man” survives”. This president and Adams were fierce competitors, and later became friends. Interestingly though, this president had already died by the time Adams uttered his last words, dying a few hours earlier on the same day, 4th July 1826. Although this president and Adams did not sign the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July (50 years before they died) they both did end up signing it later in August.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This man hated the bank, enforced the Trail of Tears and was considered by some to be a tyrant?
Who is Andrew Jackson
Who ordered the invasion of Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)? (name the president)
Who is George W. Bush
He was a four-time Socialist Party presidential candidate in the early 20th century, and he famously ran for president while in prison in 1920.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
During D-Day, allied forces landed at the beaches codenamed, Juno, Sword, Gold, Utah and ____. Populists based their ideology on the ____ platform.
What is Omaha?
This President HATED broccoli with some sources even claiming that he banned it in the White house. He is one of only 2 presidents to have their son also serve as president.
Who is George H. W. Bush
This man sparked the 2nd Red Scare, ruined many lives, blacklisted many people, and never had credible evidence for his accusations.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
While Masters of the Air dramatizes the heroic missions of the Eighth Air Force during World War II, it primarily centers on white bomber crews. Which segregated unit of African American fighter pilots—trained at a facility in Alabama and known for their stellar escort record—fought in the same European air war and helped dismantle racial stereotypes within the military?
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
A leading transcendentalist and author of Civil Disobedience, he refused to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
What is this city in Belgium. It's famous for its "noses" and it is the Treaty of this city that ended the war of 1812
What is Ghent?
This president was famous for handling (?) the Cuban Missile Crisis, delivering a "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, and having a cool vibe with the media — all while navigating the most tense moments of the Cold War.
Who is JFK?
This Union general kept refusing to go to war out of fear of retaliation. In a war. He didn't want to fight. Later, Lincoln fired him.
Who is George McClellan?
Appointed during the New Deal, she was the first woman to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet, holding the position of Secretary of Labor under FDR.
Who is Frances Perkins?
What was a secret plan to purchase or take Cuba from Spain by force. Northerners saw it as a plot to expand slavery.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?