History 8

People

100

Pilot who made the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Charles Lindbergh

200

The assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

300

Discovered multiple uses for the sweet potato, peanut and soybean

George Washington Carver

400

Family name for those who built the Brooklyn Bridge

Roebling (John, Washington, and Emily)

500

Head military leader of Japan during World War II

General Hideki Tojo

Places

100

Location of where the treaty to end World War I was signed.

Versailles

200

The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie to _________ River

Hudson

300

Custer's Last Stand a.k.a. The Battle of __________

Little Bighorn

400

Single bloodiest day of the Civil War took place at the Battle of _____________

Antietam

500

The first transcontinental railroad was completed when the two lines met in 1869 at this Utah location.

Promontory Summit

Dates

100

Dates of the Reconstruction Era

[1865-1877]

200

What year did the Titanic sink?

1912

300

The year that Alexander Graham Bell patented his first telephone.

1876

400

What is the full date of the assassination of JFK?

November 22, 1963

500

V-J Day

September 2, 1945

Legislation

100

This Constitutional amendment prohibited the sale of alcohol.

18th Amendment

200

This act essentially nullified the Missouri Compromise by allowing western settlers to decide on the issue of slavery for themselves.

 Kansas-Nebraska Act

300

This act, approved by Congress in March 1941, gave the President sweeping powers to lend or lease war supplies to any non-belligerent nation.

Lend Lease Act

400

This legislation both ended Reconstruction in the South while simultaneously finalizing the Election of 1876.

The Compromise of 1877

500

This legislation, perhaps the most important factor to stimulate western settlement in the United States, provided that a settler could acquire up to 160 acres of land by living on it for five years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of ten dollars.

Homestead Act (1862)

Misc

100

The explosion that destroyed this ship in Havana's harbor enraged Americans and contributed to the Spanish American War

U.S.S. Maine

200

Era from 1865-1900, according to Samuel Clemens, was known as the _______________.

Gilded Age

300

Founder of the American Red Cross

Clara Barton (Angel of the Battlefield)

400

The last major speech of Daniel Webster given in Congress

Seventh of March Speech

500

First Black American to reach the rank of 4-Star General in the United States Air Force

General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr.