Remember the Ladies
This spouse of a U.S. founder asked her husband to "remember the ladies," urging him to grant women rights in the newly independent U.S.
Who is Abigail Adams?
This system divides power between the national government and state governments.
What is federalism?
This Mesopotamian King was famous for his written code of laws.
Who is King Hammurabi / Hammurabi?
Shoshone women who acted as a translator and guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1804-1806.
Who is Sacajawea?
Geographic term for a chain of islands.
What is a archipelago?
English author best known for her 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights.
Who is Emily Brontë?
The final court of appeals in the U.S.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
South Asian civilization (3000-1300 B.C.E.) known for its precise urban planning and sanitation systems.
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
This 1905 novel written by Upton Sinclair led to the passage of major food safety reforms, such as the Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is The Jungle?
After it lost the Opium Wars in 1842, China was made to cede this island to Great Britain.
What is Hong Kong?
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This clause in the U.S. consitution says that states must honor the laws of other states.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
The Aztec civilization governed their empire from this island city.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This was the first state to secede from the Union in the American Civil War.
What is South Carolina?
An anti-Apartheid activist who was jailed for 27 years for government sabotage and became president of South Africa in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress, and authored the Title IX legislation.
Who is Patsy Mink?
This document was replaced by the U.S. Consitution in March 1789.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
She was one of the most powerful women in Byzantine history and oversaw the rebuilding of Constantinople in the 6th century C.E.
Who is Empress Theodora?
Military alliance created in 1949 by the U.S. and other western nations to help each other if one is attacked by the Sovet Union
What is NATO/North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
The Allied firebombing of this German city during World War 2 was described in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five.
What is Dresden?
From her 2021 poem, The Hill We Climb: "There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Before a U.S. general election, these elections are held to determine the party candidates.
What are primary elections / primaries?
He distributed so much gold and wealth on his hajj to Mecca in 1324 C.E. that he disrupted regional economies for over a decade.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This 1960's-1970's NYC and Chicago Puerto Rican activist group staged demonstrations to demand city services and organized healthcare clinics and free breakfast programs
Who are the Young Lords?
Women exerted unprecedented political influence during this period of the Ottoman Empire (1533-1656 C.E.)
What is the Sultanate of Women?