President's Day
This US President lived the longest.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
He was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
This is the year was the Northwest Ordinance adopted.
What is 1787?
True or False. St. Valentine is also the patron saint of beekeepers and travelers.
What is true?
Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous, "I have a dream" speech in the US city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This US President did not speak English as his first language.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
This set of battles is known collectively as "the shot heard 'round the world."
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This was not allowed in the new Northwest Territories.
What is slavery, or involuntary servitude?
In 1537, this English king abolished St. Valentine's Day as a holiday.
Who is Henry VIII?
Appointed in 1967, this man became the first black US Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This US President served as US Supreme Court Justice after his term ended.
Who was William Howard Taft?
This document declares, "A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Name four of the six states, or partial states, that were a part of the Northwest Territory.
What are Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota?
Esther Howland, of Worcester, Massachusetts, created the first one of these out of colored paper and lace.
What is a Valentine's Day card?
"I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing," is the first body of work from this author.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This US President met his wife while acting in a community theater play.
Who is Richard Nixon?
In 1781, at the Battle of Yorktown, this British general surrendered.
Who is General Lord Charles Cornwallis.
A territory needed to achieve this number of free inhabitants in order to be considered for statehood.
What is 60,000?
The event happened in Chicago, on February 14, 1929.
What is the Saint Valentine's Day massacre?
Jesse Owens is considered one of the greatest athletes of all time in this sport.
What is track and field?
This man served as the first "President of the United States in Congress Assembled."
Who is John Hanson of Maryland? [He served one year from 11-5-1781 thru 11-4-1782]
Passing away at the age of 109, in Freedom, New York, in 1869, Daniel Frederick Bakeman was the last of these.
What is a Revolutionary War Veteran?
The Northwest Ordinance was drafted in Massachusetts by Rufus King and Nathan Dane, after being inspired by this American President?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Richard Cadbury is credited with inventing the first box of these especially for Valentine's Day.
What are chocolates/chocolate candies?
This singer is known as the "Queen of Jazz."
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?