Who wrote the Declaration of Indepedence, was the 3rd President of the United States and was an Anti-Federalist.
100
Agricultural Revolution of the 19th Century
What is the revolution that will drive America to be lead the world in agricultural innovation and progress: tractors, reapers, seeds, etc.
100
October 29, 1929
What is the day that the Stock Market crashed reeling the World into a depression that lasted 10 years.
100
United Nation
What is the organization that was created in 1945 to establish a system that allowed nations to find solutions to their problems outside of warfare?
100
Richard Nixon
Who is the President that ended the Vietnam War, the first President to travel to China and associated with the Watergate Scandal?
200
The Pilgrims
Who established the Plymouth Colony?
200
The Monroe Doctrine
What was the policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention
200
Causes of the Great Depression
What are bank failures, buying stock on margin, high tariff taxes, droughts, personal and national debt?
200
U.S. Foreign Policy of Containment
What is the policy that committed the U.S. to contain Communism at all costs from 1945-1990.
200
Barrack Obama
Who is the 44th President of the U.S., the first Black American President and who presides over the Democratic Party today?
300
Virginia House of Burgesses
What is the first legislative assembly in the New World?
300
Homestead Act of 1862
What is the program that an offered an applicant ownership at no cost of farmland called a "homestead" – typically 160 acres (65 hectares or one-fourth section) of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River.
300
Why the U.S. entered WWI
What is the sinking of the Luisitania, the Zimmerman Note and our Alliances with Great Britain and France?
300
Korean (1950-1951) and Vietnam (1965-1975)Wars
What are two major wars that will test the U.S. committment to contain communism worldwide.
300
George Wallace Bush, Sr.
Who was Ronald Reagan's Vice President for 8 years, was U.S. President from 1988-1992 and who led American Armed forced into Iraq January 1991?
400
13 Original States
What is MA, CT, MD, VA, RI, NJ, NY, NC, SC, GA, PN, DE, NH
400
Causes of the Spanish-American War
What is the explosion on the USS Maine, U.S. Imperialism and Yellow Journalism
400
Treaty of Versailles
What is the treaty that ended the Great War (WWI) and attributed to Germany's financial ruin leading to WWII?
400
Brown vs. Board of Education 1954
What is the ruling from the Supreme Court claiming that "seperate but equal" is not constitutional.
400
1962
What year was Mrs Sneed born?
500
Constitutional Convention
Met three times between 1774 and 1789 to declare War against Britain, elect the first President and write the Constitution.
500
Black Codes
What were the southern state statutes and ammendments that restricted the civil rights of newly freed slaves?
500
Battle of Normandy (D-Day)
What is the turning allied turning point during WWII when British and American troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in Jun of 1941?
500
NASA
What is the National Aeronautical and Space Administration that financed and organized U.S. Space Missions from 1960-present day
500
The Importance of Studying History
What is a window into the past that provides understanding of the present-day, and how individuals, nations, and the global community might develop in the future. Historical study instructs how societies came to be and examines cultural, political, social, and economic influences across time and space. It also builds the personal understanding of how we as individuals are the sum of a vast range of past experience and actors ourselves in the process of historical change. In short, the study of the past helps lead to greater personal insight and comprehension of each person’s place in the grand sweep of the human story.