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What activist founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense?
Bobby Seale
100
What does ICBM stand for?
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
100
Who is the first African American woman to get her writings published?
Phyllis Wheatly
100
Who was the first African American baseball player to play in the MLB?
Jackie Robinson
100
What course case created the doctrine of separate but equal facilities?
Plessey vs. Ferguson
200
Who is the black activist that organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which gave him a base to pursue further civil-rights activities, first in the South and later nationwide?
Martin Luther King Jr.
200
The United States policy of resisting communism during the Cold War was named after what President?
Truman
200
Who is the woman that was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man sparked the Montgomery bus boycott?
Rosa Parks
200
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
What court case gave the Supreme Court the power to declare laws Unconstitutional?
Marbury vs. Madison
300
Who is known as the black edison, who patented 35 devices vital to electronics and communications?
Granville T. Woods
300
North Korea and South Korea were divided by what line?
38th parallel
300
Who is the woman who was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association and of the National American Woman Suffrage Association? She was a brilliant orator and an able journalist, and as a writer and lecturer she strove for legal, political, and industrial equality of women and for liberal divorce laws.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
300
In 1996 what overtook Coca-Cola as being the most well known brand name in the world?
McDonalds
300
What court case required that the government provide legal counsel for indigent criminal defendants?
Gideon vs. Wainright
400
Who was a preacher and possessed some influence among local slaves and apparently believing himself divinely appointed to lead fellow slaves to freedom? He plotted a revolt with a band of approximately 60 followers.
Nat Turner
400
What was the name given by the American soldiers during the Vietnam War to the Vietcong?
Charlie
400
Who is the woman that had outspoken Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army and Notes on Hospitals,that helped create changes in hygiene and overall treatment of patients?
Florence Nightingale
400
What popular 1921 musical comedy is credited with launching the Harlem Renaissance?
Shuffle Along
400
What court case decided that since "the power to tax is the power to destroy" state governments are not allowed to tax federal property? It also helped define the "Necessary and Proper" clause of the Constitution.
McCulloch vs. Maryland
500
Who is the person that attached herself to the Union forces in coastal South Carolina, serving as a nurse, cook, laundress, scout, and spy, and in 1863 she played an important part in a raid that resulted in the freeing of more than 700 slaves?
Harriet Tubman
500
What 2 leaders signed the SALT I treaty in 1972?
Nixon and Brezhnev
500
Who is the 1st woman ever to sit in congress?
Jeannette Rankin
500
What was Mickey Mouse's original name?
Mortimer Mouse
500
What court case declared that women had a Constitutional right to abortion?
Roe vs. Wade