WWII
The 7th day of this month in 1941 was referred to by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as "a date which will live in infamy" after the attack on Pearl Harbor
What is December?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This number became famous during the Civil Rights Movement because it represented the number of African American students that were selected to take part in the gradual desegregation of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas
What is nine?
This "lost colony," an attempt to found the first permanent English settlement in North America, was found abandoned only five years after it was first settled in 1585
What is Roanoke?
On May 2, 2011, President Obama authorized the assassination of this American enemy who was at the top of the FBI's most wanted list following an attack orchestrated by his organization in the early 2000s
Who is Osama bin Laden?
This U.S. government military project famously enabled the research and development of atomic weapons
What is the Manhattan Project?
This iconic Supreme Court Case from 1857 found that the Constitution did not provide African Americans with the rights and privileges of citizenship
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This man famously said of JFK: "No memorial, oration, or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the... passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long"
Who is LBJ?
Prior to the Revolution, the colonies operated under this English policy that allowed them the privilege of (largely) self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically
What is salutary neglect?
Through October 2019, this prominent U.S. government official at the time reportedly mentioned Obama a staggering 537 times, averaging 1.8 mentions per day
Who is Donald Trump?
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This Japanese-American man defied Executive Order 9066 and refused to relocate to an internment camp, prompting a landmark Supreme Court case in 1944
Who is Fred Korematsu?
This 1887 piece of federal legislation divided the land from Native American reservations into family plots as part of an ongoing effort to "Americanize" indigenous people
What is the Dawes Act? (Or the Dawes Severalty Act, or the Dawes General Allotment Act)
This vital manual, which was first published in New York City in the 1930s, was created to protect African-American travelers as they moved through the Jim Crow South
What is the Green Book? (The Negro Motorist Green Book)
The Virginia Resolves were a document authored by this "give me liberty, or give me death" speaker that argued that colonists could only be taxed by their own assemblies
Who is Patrick Henry?
This so-called "political commentator" once described Obama and Hillary Clinton as "smelling of sulfur," prompting real news headlines like "Obama smells himself, confirms he is not a demon"
Who is Alex Jones?
This volunteer regiment during the war was made up of entirely Japanese Americans and was the most decorated unit of the entirety of WWII
What is the 442nd?
A major slave uprising in this former French colony from 1791-1804 saw the creation of the only other nation in this part of the world, aside from the U.S., that was the result of a successful insurrection
What is Haiti?
An protest against the involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam at this university in Ohio became an iconic example of the stark generational differences in the 1960s and 1970s
What is Kent State?
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This sect of Puritanism was created by English Protestants who wanted to step away from the Anglican Church and create their own religion, rather than reforming an existing one
What is Separatism?
In 2014, Obama imposed drastic sanctions against this leader of a European state in response to his "violations of another nation's sovereign borders"
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This American state played a particularly important role in the war effort during WWII and contained over 40 different military bases in that state alone by the time the war had ended
What is California?
This President, one of the two during the 19th century who were gifted a giant wheel of cheese, is better known for his victory at the Battle of New Orleans and signing the Indian Removal Act in 1830
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This belief about the spread of Communism was used in part to justify U.S. intervention in Vietnam
What is the Domino Theory?
This Englishman founded the penal colony of Georgia in 1732 after receiving a charter from King George II
Who is James Ogelthorpe?
This Republican member of the Senate, whose appearance has been compared to a turtle or tortoise, once famously said: "my number one priority is making sure President Obama is a one-term president"
Who is Mitch McConnell?