Presidents
Barack Obama became the first ______ President in U.S. history?
From what country did Scalia's parents immigrate from?
Italy
What city and state is Silicon Valley located?
San Fransisco Bay, California
He had a bachelors degree in _____ and graduate study in _______?
agriculture and botany
How did people dress for 4th of July celebrations in the Little House on the Prairie books?
Sunday finest
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Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare during his presidency. It guaranteed people with _______could get health insurance. (3 words)
preexisting health conditions
What 2 universities did Scalia teach at, and what did he teach?
University of Virginia and University of Chicago
He taught law
Where did Silicon Valley get its name?
William Shockley built transistors out of silicon instead of germanium, his use of silicon eventually gave rise to the name.
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What responsibilities did he have as a teacher at Tuskegee Institute?
teach science, agriculture and art
run a laboratory
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Why do we celebrate Independence day on July 4th?
the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the continental congress on July 4th, 1776
Covid took place during which 2 presidencies?
Trump and Biden
What was the purpose of the "freedom train?"
to reawaken in the American people, the loyalty it is known they have for the American way of life.
or
Tom Clark wanted to show Americans their founding documents
name at least 5 companies that have been at Silicon Valley.
Google, Apple, HP, Facebook, Netflix, Adobe, eBay, Tesla
Why did he encourage farmers to plant other crops beside just cotton?
it was depleting the soil
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what three presidents or former presidents died on 4th of July?
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe
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Name the Vice Presidents for Obama, Trump, and Biden
Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Kamala Harris
The American Heritage Foundation gave 1 condition that the train would not stop in a city, what was it?
Any city or town that would not allow blacks and white to visit the train together
What was the Stanford Research park and what are some inventions that have come out of there?
Frederick Terman, dean of engineering had the idea to create a place where technology innovators could start businesses
computer graphics, handheld calculators, electric cars, computer mouse, tech for satellites, etc.
name 2 reasons that Carver believed that farmers should grow peanuts and sweet potatoes.
they were nutritious
could be grown at different times than cotton
peanuts could produce their own fertilizer
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July 4th celebrations were cancelled during which war, for what reason?
WW2, black outs
Name 3 positive things that Trump did during his presidency.
Increase NATO contributions from other nations.
Moved American Embassy to Jerusalem
Increased military spending
Created a strong economy
He lowered taxes
Eliminated the penalty for not having insurance under Obamacare
Created the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement
What does it mean that Scalia was an Originalist when it came to interpreting the law?
It means he believed that justices must interpret the Constitution according to its original meaning.
Describe the significance of the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory for NASA and the military.
world's largest wind tunnel, used by NASA to test most of their spacecraft, planes were designed and test for WW 2 there.
Carver believed that nature revealed more about who God was. In a letter in 1930, he wrote two things about the subject. Name one
things in nature are little windows through which he saw much of God's glory, majesty, and power.
he liked to think of nature as broadcasting stations that God uses.
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Name 2 things that happened during the Bicentennial celebration Operation Sail
hundreds of ships sailed into New York Harbor
USS constitution fired her cannons
10,471 flags were flown over the US Capitol
Gerald Ford gave speech at Valley Forge
at 2:00pm July 4th churches and citizens rang bells
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