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Colonial Period
Amendments
Presidents
Landmarks
War Heroes
100
Taunton signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Robert Treat Paine?
100
This Amendment prohibited slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
This president served an unprecedented four terms in office.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
The building that was recently torn down on Main St.
What is the Star Theater?
100
2003 Taunton High School graduate killed in Iraq
Who is Shane Duffy?
200
The name of Taunton's first church
What is the First Parish Church?
200
What were the two amendments about Prohibition?
What are the 18th and 21st Amendments?
200
This president spoke at Mechanics Hall.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The river that flows from Pembroke to Mount Hope Bay.
What is the Taunton River?
200
Navy soldier killed while rescuing fellow soldiers
Who is Richard Dewert?
300
The Native American group that lived in Taunton prior to English settlement
Who are the Wampanoags?
300
This amendment prohibits poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
300
The last president to visit Taunton. (He spoke in the THS Field House)
Who is Bill Clinton?
300
The name of the cemetery with unmarked gravestones.
What is the Potter's Field?
300
Taunton High School teacher killed leading infantry company in Italy
Who is James Mulcahey?
400
After the French and Indian War, this group gained control of all land east of the Mississippi River.
Who are the English?
400
This president gathered the largest crowd in Taunton history.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
The name of the building in the Weir that was torn down in 2006.
What is the Rogers Silver Company?
400
The last Taunton soldier to die in WWII
Who is Johnny Henchy?
500
He was a Tory and Robert Treat Paine's best friend.
Who is Daniel Leonard?
500
The nickname for the 20th Amendment in which shortened the period from election to inauguration.
What is the Lame Duck Amendment?
500
The first sitting president to visit Taunton.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
500
The type of store that the current police station was before it was the police station.
What is a grocery store?
500
The first Taunton soldier killed in action in WWII
Who is Stanley Callahan?