US History
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This European country was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
This civil rights leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This “King of Rock and Roll” became famous for songs like Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This river was the lifeblood of ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This “Iron Lady” was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This Polish-born scientist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
This German composer continued to write music even after becoming completely deaf.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This ancient Greek city-state was famous for its military discipline and training.
What is Sparta?
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War and is often cited as the beginning of the modern state system.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This British suffragette founded the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903.
Who is Emmeline Pankhurst?
This 20th-century Russian composer shocked Paris audiences in 1913 with The Rite of Spring.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
This civilization on Crete developed the palace at Knossos and is often linked with the legend of the Minotaur.
What is the Minoan civilization?
This U.S. president’s foreign policy was known as “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This 20th-century leader launched the “Four Modernizations” to reform China’s agriculture, industry, defense, and science.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
This South American revolutionary, known as “The Liberator,” helped free much of the continent from Spanish rule.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This American folk singer wrote protest anthems like This Land Is Your Land.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
This Mesopotamian epic, one of the world’s oldest works of literature, tells the story of a king’s quest for immortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This Supreme Court case of 1832 ruled that the state of Georgia could not impose its laws within Cherokee territory.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This West African empire reached its height under Mansa Musa, famed for his pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is the Mali Empire?
This Ethiopian ruler successfully resisted Italian colonization at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
Who is Menelik II?
This Renaissance composer, often called the “Prince of Music,” was a master of polyphony and worked in the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Josquin des Prez?
The Epic of Gilgamesh describes a great flood story that closely parallels the biblical story of this figure.
Who is Noah?