Native Americans
This species, once numbering in the millions, was decimated to a low of around 541 animals by 1889.
What was the American bison (Buffalo accepted)?
These were the presidents of the Union and Confederacy, respectively.
Who were Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
Women gained the right to vote in this year.
What was 1920?
What was October 1929?
This is the human body's largest organ.
What is skin?
This location was significant as the sight of a mass murder in 1890 and as the sight of a protest occupation in 1973.
What is Wounded Knee?
These were the leading generals from each side of the Civil War.
Who were Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant? (Also: McClellan, Meade, Sherman, Stonewall Jackson)
This major event in 1911 gained large scale sympathy and attention for the Labor Movement.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This movement, which spanned the 19th and early 20th century, led to the passage of the 18th Amendment (prohibition).
What was the Temperance Movement?
This is where the hottest-ever temperature on Earth was recorded.
Where is Death Valley? (it hit 134 degrees Fahrenheit in July 1913)
The Indian Removal Act of 1830, resulting in the Trail of Tears, was enacted under this president.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
These were three famous abolitionists.
Who were Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, John Brown?
Name 3 achievements of the Labor Movement.
What were: the 8 hour work day, the 5 day work week, minimum wage, health & safety standards, child labor laws, creating unions & negotiations, etc.
Name 3 unintended consequences of the 18th Amendment.
What were: millions of Americans breaking the law, a back-up of the legal system, corruption within the legal system, organized crime (gangs/bootleggers), increased drinking, economic issues, loosening cultural norms for gender & sexuality, the birth of NASCAR, etc.?
This is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
Richard Pratt, often credited with starting the Indian Boarding School movement, is famous for this quote.
What is "Kill the Indian, save the man?"
This battle provided the necessary Union "victory" to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
Name 4 important leaders in the Women's Rights Movement.
Who were: Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, and/or Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
What were three contributing factors to the start of the Great Depression?
What were: deflation, credit freeze, bank failures, the stock market crash, and/or farms overproducing food?
This is the animal that has killed the most humans.
What is the mosquito?
This federal law was enacted in 1978, aiming to prevent the unnecessary removal of children from their families and communities.
What was the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)?
This was a wartime promise made by William Tecumseh Sherman to newly freed Black folks, aimed at helping them to establish economic independence.
What was forty acres and a mule?
Name 5 rights that women were denied in 1848, when they convened the Seneca Falls Convention.
What were rights to: vote, own property/wages if married, protection against domestic violence, equal access to jobs & higher education, child custody following divorce, "no fault" divorce?
This is the French term used to describe free market capitalism -- when a government does not interfere with the economy at all.
What is laissez-faire?
This is the national animal of Scotland.
What is the unicorn?