Presidents
Command-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and the only President to be unanimously elected.
President (General) George Washington
A bill that passes both chambers of Congress goes to the President's desk for a signature. What is it called when the President refuses to sign the bill into law?
Veto
The march of over 200,000 people into downtown Washington, D.C. where Dr. King would give his "I have a dream" speech.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
After teaching himself to read, he wrote 3 best selling books about his life as a slave and became known as the Father of the Civil Rights movement before the Civil War.
Frederick Douglass
The wealthiest person in world history, with an estimated net worth of over $400 billion, he gained his wealth in gold and salt as the King of Mali.
Mansa Musa I
He signed the Emancipation Proclamation and is the only President in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, he had an alleged record of 300-1.
Abraham (Abe) Lincoln
Under the War Powers Act the President must get Congressional approval for any military action lasting longer than ______ days.
60 (Sixty)
Known as "Bloody Sunday", the Freedom Marchers led by John Lewis were attacked by Sheriff's Deputies after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in this Alabama town.
Selma
Born Araminta "Minty" Ross, during the Civil War she became the first woman to fight in combat for the US Army and she was known as "Moses" to those she helped escape from slavery.
Albert Einstein's most famous equation, called the Theory of Special Relativity, which determined that energy and mass are interchangeable.
E=MC2
He became President after the assassination of JFK and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964; he also created the SNAP / EBT food program.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
The power of the President to speak directly to the American people is called this, a term coined by President Teddy Roosevelt.
Bully Pulpit
In 1961 these bus riders were testing the Supreme Courts ruling that desegregated interstate bus travel when they were attacked in South Carolina and a bus was firebombed by the KKK in Alabama.
Freedom Riders (Freedom Rides)
During the 1950s they were among the first groups of Black players in the NBA and they popularized the Slam Dunk in basketball.
(Name either of the two players)
Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain
The Declaration of Independence created the United States by declaring war on the British Empire, the Declaration was signed on this date.
July 4th, 1776
He ended the Vietnam War and was the first President to visit Communist China; although he hated hippies he did create the Environmental Protection Agency.
President Richard Milhous Nixon
The President is in command of this Department, which is in charge of the Secret Service, Border Security, and Anti-Terrorism Defense; it was created after 9/11.
Homeland Security
In this state in 1957 the "Little Rock 9" were the first Black students to attend a formerly all-White school and were protected from racist mobs by National Guard soldiers under the order of President Eisenhower.
Arkansas
The first black Heavyweight Champion in Boxing, he won the "Fight of the Century" against undefeated former champion James Jeffries, who came out of retirement and was billed as the "Great White Hope".
Jack Arthur Johnson
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second (or 671 million miles per hour). The sun is 93 million miles away from Earth. This is how long it takes light from the Sun to reach Earth.
About 8 minutes (8 minutes and 20 seconds on average)
Only President to train in Judo, Boxing and Wrestling; he is closely associated with the state of North Dakota.
President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, Jr.
After the death of FDR, he became President and gave the order to drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan to end World War II. It is the only time Nuclear Weapons have ever been used in combat.
President Harry S Truman
One of the worst race riots in US history, leading to 6,000 arrests and dozens dead, happened in 1921 in the wealthy neighborhood known as "Black Wall Street" in this city of Oklahoma.
Tulsa
Half-black and Half-Native, he was a free man and the first American killed by the British during the American Revolution as a part of the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
After being released from prison in 1990 he would eventually become the first Black president of South Africa after the end of Apartheid.
Nelson Mandela