Famous Americans
This woman is known as the black Moses, for her work in leading slaves to freedom through the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This man was known as the Candy Bomber. He grew up in Tremonton, Utah.
Who was Gail Halverson?
This was a major musical movement of the 1920s.
What is jazz?
What is the Civil War?
This American is credited with the invention of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Emma Lazarus's famous poem sits at the feet of this famous American statue:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched *refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This was a major musical movement of the 1920s.
This is the title of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous speech on civil rights.
What is "I Have A Dream?"
This was the #1 medical procedure of the Civil War.
What is amputations?
George Eastman first patented rolled film for cameras. You created these, to test Newton's laws of motions using something inspired by George Eastman's invention.
What are film canister rockets?
This famous American was born blind, deaf and unable to speak.
Who is Helen Keller?
This mode of transportation was completed, when a golden spike connected it in Promentory, Utah.
What was the transcontinental railroad?
Name two typical items a Civil War soldier's "housewife" contained.
What are: buttons, thread, a needle or extra fabric? (answers need to contain 2 of these items)
This flower represents support for the men and women who have served in the military.
What is the poppy?
This man discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This man served as President of the United States during the Civil War, but was assassinated in Ford's Theater 6 days after it ended.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Before becoming a state, Utah was the first territory where women practiced this legal right.
What is suffrage?
L. Frank Baum struggled to stay financially afloat. His mother-in-law encouraged him to become an author, after listening to him tell fantastical stories to his own children. He wrote a series of novels, which all began with this book.
What is "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"?
What is Pearl Harbor?
These brothers experimented with flight, resulting in the first successfully powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Who are the Wright Brothers (or who are Orville and Wilbur Wright)?
This determined lady was the first American woman to graduate from medical school.
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
This famous protagonist (main character) from our spring book club is actually related to one of your classmates, Ivy Velazquez.
Who is Esperanza (Esperanza Ortega)?
This American general would later become President of the United States. During World War II, he held the title of supreme commander. He led Operation Overlord, a surprise attack on the beaches of Normandy.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This group of Americans was instrumental in creating codes that were never broken by our World War II enemies.
Who are the Navajo code talkers?
The March of Dimes was originally held to raise money for this medical cure.
What is the polio vaccine?