Indigenous America
The ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Renowned playwright and the author of The Piano Lesson.
Who is August Wilson?
The first law to exclude immigrants based on their ethnicity or race.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
The event which forced the United States to join the war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Tony Thomas is from this Caribbean island.
What is Trinidad?
The author of An Indigenous People's History of the United States.
Who is Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz?
What are forty acres and a mule?
What was the MS St. Louis?
The physicist responsible for the atomic bomb.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
These two films both hit theaters on July 17, 2023.
Barbie and Oppenheimer
This tribal nation lived where the Pilgrims landed in 1620.
Who are the Wampanoag?
MLK wrote a letter from jail in this city.
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
This ethnic group made up the majority of Jewish immigrants during the late 1800s.
What is Ashkenazi?
The day that Germany surrendered to the Allies.
What is May 7, 1945?
Ms. S-E's newly employed cousin recently began working in this job.
What is a Production Assistant?
The document written in 1493 that established a religious, political, and legal justification for colonization and seizure of land not inhabited by Christians.
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
Booker T. Washington's 1895 speech in which he advocated that African-Americans should work hard and not politically agitate.
What is "The Atlanta Compromise"?
This poem is written on the base of the Statue of Liberty.
What is The New Colossus?
This Japanese American took the US government to court to challenge the constitutionality of the Japanese incarceration.
Who is Fred Korematsu?
This Celtic scored the game-winning buzzer-beating point in Game 6 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals.
Who is Derrick White?
Member of the Pueblo of Laguna and current Secretary of the Interior.
Who is Deb Haaland?
The Black feminist lesbian organization founded in 1974 in Boston and famous for their statement.
What is the Combahee River Collective?
The Japanese word for "first-generation" immigrants to the US.
What is issei?
The name given to the women who served in the airforce during WWII. (acronym works)
What is the Women Airforce Service Pilots WASPs)?
Daveed Diggs plays both of these historical figures in Hamilton.
Who are Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson?