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What signer of the Declaration of Independence is know for founding the University of Virginia?
Thomas Jefferson
During the War of 1812, what was the nickname of the battleship Constitution?
Old Ironsides
during the 1830s and 1840s, what two word term meant that it was obvious that the U.S. would expand until it covered the North American continent?
Manifest Destiny
In the middle 1800s, what woman gave her name to the loose-fitting, comfortable pants that she urged women to wear under their dresses?
Amelia Bloomer
In what war did we hear “the shot heard ‘round the world”?
American Revolution
What character was the symbol of working women during and after WWII?
rosie the Riveter
More than one hundred and ten thousand men, women, and children of a specific heritage were placed in interment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. What heritage were they?
Japanese American
What do we call June 6, 1944, when the Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy?
D-Day
What american President is know for saying, “The buck stops here.”?
Harry Truman
What do we call the long, tense period of hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
the Cold War
Most of the houses build after WWII were built in suburbs surrounding large cities. This required that homeowners purchase _____ in order to work.
automobiles
By the mid-1950s, two-thirds of American families spent their evenings gathered around what?
television set
In 1968, Americans proudly gathered around their TV sets to watch what major event?
the moon landing
Who was the first African American baseball player to play in the major leagues?
Jackie Robinson
What does the acronym NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What landmark legal case decideed tha discrimination in schooling was unconstitutional?
Brown versus the (Topeka) Board of Education
Who was the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
9
What woman could be considered the “mother” of civil rights?
Rosa Parks
In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a campaign to end segregation in what Alabama city?
Birmingham
In 1963, during the Cuvanmissile crisis, who was the leader of Cuba?
Fidel Castro
What does the acronym NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Who “supposedly” assassinated John F. Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
In 1851, what AFrican American abolitionist and women’s rights activist wrote Ain’t I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
