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100
This leader gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
This document begins with the words “We the People.”
What is the United States Constitution?
100
This woman helped enslaved people escape using the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
100
This river was essential to the development of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
100
This holiday celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Independence Day?
200
This Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
How many branches of government does the United States have?
What is three?
200
During World War II, this cultural symbol represented women working in factories.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
200
This ancient civilization built the Parthenon.
Who were the Greeks?
200
This wall divided a German city during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in this Alabama city.
What is Montgomery?
300
This branch of government interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
300
This women’s rights convention, held in 1848 in New York, produced the “Declaration of Sentiments.”
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
300
This writing system used picture symbols in Ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
300
The United States purchased this territory from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
400
This group of nine African American students integrated Central High School in 1957.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
400
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
This activist worked for both women’s rights and abolition and gave the speech “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Who was Sojourner Truth?
400
This empire was ruled by Julius Caesar before becoming an empire under Augustus.
What is Roman Empire?
400
This American naval officer is known for his famous quote "I have not yet begun to fight" during a 1779 battle with a British warship, and is often referred to as the Father of the U.S. Navy.
Who is John Paul Jones?
500
This law, passed in 1965, outlawed unfair barriers to voting such as literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
This principle means that no branch of government becomes too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
500
This journalist and activist investigated lynching in the South during the late 1800s.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
500
This was the final battle of the Second Punic War.
What is the Battle of Zama?
500
Which founding father created the "Join or Die" political cartoon?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?