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Author of the Declaration of Independence and president who purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Succeeded Lincoln after his assassination and first president to be impeached
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
He became the most prominent civil rights leader in American history after the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955; assassinated in 1968
Who is Martin Luther King?
100
The largest of the Native American tribes forcibly removed from their lands in the southeastern US in what became known as the Trail of Tears
What is the Cherokee?
100
Japanese cities destroyed by US atomic bombs
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
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Nicknamed "Old Hickory," hero of the Battle of New Orleans (1815), first common man to be elected president, founder of the Democratic Party, popularized the spoils system, signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and destroyed the Bank of the United States (BUS)
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
Most educated president; first to travel overseas while in office; domestic agenda was called the New Freedom; 17th, 18th and 19th Amendments were ratified during his two terms; president during World War I
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
African American leader of the late-19th century who founded the Tuskegee Institute and called for a gradual approach to equal rights for blacks through technical education and the learning of trades; was more accepting of segregation than more radical black leaders
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
White supremacy group founded in Tennessee in 1866 to keep former slaves "in their place"; the group was revived and expanded to its largest membership ever in the aftermath of WWI (1919-early 1920s)
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
200
Islands that became permanent US territories as a result of the Spanish-American War
What are Guam and Puerto Rico?
300
One of the authors of The Federalist Papers (published in 1788), a founder of the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1790s, president during the War of 1812, and the smallest man to ever serve as president
Who is James Madison?
300
Only president ever elected to more than two terms; started the New Deal to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression; crippled by polio and left paralyzed before being president
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
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Leaders of the women's rights convention of 1848 and the women's suffrage movement of the late-1800s
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
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The first two political parties founded in America during the presidency of George Washingto
What are the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans?
300
Islands annexed by the US in 1898 after having earlier deposed their queen in 1893
What is Hawaii?
400
Greatest one-term president, who expanded the US through war with Mexico and negotiations to acquire the Oregon Territory
Who is James Polk?
400
Youngest and only Roman Catholic ever elected president; domestic agenda was called the New Frontier; led America through the Cuban Missile Crisis; dedicated America to becoming first to put a man on the moon; assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
The symbol of working women during World War II
Who is "Rosie the Riveter"?
400
Non-violent protest organization formed by college students from Shaw University in Raleigh, NC in 1960; led sit-ins at "whites only" lunch counters before leading the Freedom Summer voter registration drive of 1964
What is SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)?
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Site where both Continental Congresses met in 1774 and 1775 and where the Constitutional Convention met in 1787
What is Philadelphia?
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The first Vice President of the US, a staunch Federalist, ambassador to Britain during the writing of the US Constitution, nicknamed "His Rotundity," and president who urged passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts to silence his critics
Who is John Adams?
500
Resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal; first president to visit both China and the USSR; negotiated America's withdrawal from the war in Vietnam
Who is Richard Nixon?
500
The first African American to graduate with a PhD from Harvard, this black leader of the early 20th century advocated a more radical, direct approach to ending racial discrimination and was a founding member of the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
500
Group of World War I veterans that marched on Washington, DC in 1932 demanding early payment of a bonus owed them for their military service; Pres. Hoover ordered their removal from the city and their make-shift village destroyed
What is the Bonus Army, or Bonus Expeditionary Force?
500
Location of the women's rights convention of 1848
What is Seneca Falls, NY?