Influential Books
The book that is set in the Great Depression and talks about the struggles farmers face.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
The first president to be assassinated.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The general of the Confederacy.
Who was Robert E Lee?
The war that led to the rise of hippies.
What is the Vietnam war?
The cities the US bombed in Japan.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The book that expressed the duty of white men was to civilize natives of Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
What is White Man's Burden?
The president involved in the Watergate Scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The wild goose chases to find and jail communists in the United States.
What are the Palmer Raids?
The President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Gas used to disable or kill enemies that originated during WWI.
What is poison gas?
The novel that exposed the conditions of meat packing houses and eventually led to the creation of the FDA.
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
The first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This note made the United States enter World War I.
The Central powers in World War I.
Who are Italy, Germany, and Japan?
The three step plan of the Confederacy to win the Civil War.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The novel that opened peoples' eyes to the inhumanity of slavery and inflamed the issue so it could not be ignored.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The first president to resign.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The United States failed attempt to overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The President of the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
When planes try to shoot each other out of the sky.
What are dog fights?
The book that inspires colonists to break away from Great Britain.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
The president who served the shortest term (31 days) in office.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
The nickname of war time bonds in the United States during WWI.
What are "Liberty Bonds"?
The blade attached to the end of the riffle that was used during the Civil War.
What is a bayonet?