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What state is split into two parts by one the the Great Lakes?
Michigan
Who wrote: “Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”?
Benjamin Franklin
Who is the current governor of Mississippi?
Phil Bryant
Who is the current vice president of the U.S.?
Joseph Biden
Who founded the first public library in the U.S.?
Benjamin Franklin
What state is known as the Volunteer State?
Tennessee
What state has the armadillo as its small state mammal?
Texas
What amendment to the Constitution outlawed slavery?
13th
What amendment to the Constitution guarantees due process of law?
14th
To the Great Plains Indians, what was the most important animal to be hunted?
buffalo
What mail transport service lasted from 1860 to 1861?
Pony Express
What American general was defeated at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
George Custer
Who founded Hull House, a settlement house that provided for the poor in Chicago?
Jane Addams
In 1899, what African American woman from Mississippi started a Memphis newspaper called Free Speech?
Ida B. Wells
What American compser wrote so many band pieces that he became know as the “March King”?
John Philip Sousa
After the Great Depression, what animal was known as the Hoover Hog or the Poor Man’s Pig?
the armadillo
What state in the continental U.S. has an active volcano?
Washington
One of the hydroelectric power plants is located on a dam across the Colorado River. Name the dam.
Hoover Dam
What famous speech did Lincoln give at the dedication of a cemetery on a Civil War battlefield?
Gettysburg Address
Who led the Mexican army that defeated the American forces at the Alamo?
Santa Anna
What American landmark contains the inscription, “I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”?
the Statue of Liberty
What was the nickname given to the 1920s in America because they were such exciting, fast-paced times?
Roaring Twenties
What do we call the time period from 1920 to 1933 when there was a ban on the making and selling of beer, wine and alcohol everywhere in the U.S.?
prohibition
What do we call the time period after WWI when many African-Americans headed for Chicago and New York City?
Great Migration
What do we call the time period in American when African-American artists, writers and scholars were especially brilliant and creative?
Harlem Renaissance
One of the programs set up under Roosevelt’s New Deal was the CCC. What did the CCC stand for?
Civilian Conservation Corps
