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Name the 4 U.S. presidents whose faces appear on Mt. Rushmore.
Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt
What famous court case basically put an end to the theory of separate but equal school segregation?
Brown vs the Board of Education
In what year did terrorists bring down the Twin Towers in New York?
2001
How many terms can a US president serve?
2
What is the term given to the lowest amount of mine that an employer may legally pay his workers?
minimum wage
Before leaving the Mayflower, all make passengers signed an agreement that formed the basis of MAssachusetts’s colony’s government. Name the agreement.
Mayflower Compact
What was the nickname given to the armed men whno pledged to be read to fight on a moment’s notice just before and during the Revolutionary War in the US?
minutemen
The winter camp of 1777 was brutally cold and food and clothing were scarce for General George Washington and America’s Continental Army. What was the name of that winter camp?
Valley Forge
What was the name of the treaty where Great Britain formally acknowledged the independence of the US?
Treaty of Paris
Before the Constitution, what document laid out the terms under which the origianl thirteen states agreed to participate in a central from of government?
Articles fo confederation
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
What was the original capital of the US?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
From what country did we get the land we call the Louisiana Purchase?
France
Who did we fight during the War of 1812?
Great Britain (the British)
What African American slave/preacher and his band of followers launched a bloody, day-long rebellion in Virginia in 1831?
Nat Turner
this caused stricter slave laws
What term was given to people who wanted to do away with slavery?
abolitionists
What famous frontiersman and former congressman from Tennessee died at the Battle of the Alamo?
Davy Crockett
In 1838, more than 15,000 Cherokee Indians were forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory in what is now called______.
The Trail of Tears
In 1841, what president died one mont after his inauguration?
William Henry Harrison
What famous abolitionist and 21 followers captured the federal arsenal, in what was then Harpers Ferry, VA in an attempt to spark a slave revolt?
John Brown
After Abraham Lincoln became president, who was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
What amendment to the Constitution gave African AMericans the right to vote?
15th
Who is the only American president to serve 2 NONCONSECUTIVE terms?
Grover Cleveland
What was the nickname given to the state and local laws in the U.S. enacted between 1876 and 1967 that mandated racial segregation in all public places?
Jim Crow laws
What was the last state to be admitted to the US?
Hawaii
