Presidents
Teddy Roosevelt.
The ______ War was fought by the US for over a decade in an attempt to halt communist expansion.
The Vietnam War
Staunch supporter of the Black Panther Party.
Malcom X
How did Maine become a state?
The Missouri Compromise
While not the largest participant in this process the 13 colonies were contributes to this growing process in which Africans were sold en masse into chattel slavery in the New World.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
So called _________villes were named after my failures in sparking the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover
This tense 13 day standoff only ended when the USSR backed down. The closest the world has ever come to nuclear war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
This famous segregated unit of African American airmen served with tremendous valor in WWII & were decorated many times. Their heroism & dedication helped showcase to the nation that segregation was foolish, archaic, & unfair.
The Tuskegee Airmen (Red Wings)
Harper's Ferry
What year was the Treaty of Paris signed, ending the American Revolutionary War with total victory for the new United States of America!
1783
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Abraham Lincoln
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
This landmark Supreme Court Case ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education.
Native Americans were torn from their homelands & forced west onto reservations. In the American south this process of forced migrations was called ...
The Trail of Tears
Which incident showcased the weakness of the Articles of Confederation to the fledgling US government?
Shay's Rebellion
I encouraged Col. Thornton to provoke Mexico & was a large supporter of the Mexican American War. I firmly believed in Manifest Destiny.
James K. Polk
Which US President urged Micheal Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!"
Ronald Reagan.
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act?
LBJ
This Supreme Court Case stated that all people of African descent could never be citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (Dred Scot Case)
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
I gained fame in the War of 1812 but left a tainted legacy due to my horrific treatment of Native Americans.
Andrew Jackson
American chess master who famously beat several Soviet Grand Masters in highly televised events.
Bobby Fischer
MLK Jr. led this famous march from Selma to Montgomery in support of racial equality. The marchers were ambushed by a force of police officers, KKK members, & locals at a bridge. This incident would be known as ...
Bloody Sunday
This magazine became famous nationwide for it's fiery abolitionist rhetoric.
The Liberator
What is the opening line to the Declaration of Independence?
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.