History

• When was the Decleration of independence signed ?

  August 2, 1776
• The United States bought alaska from which country ?

  Russia
• Who was the fourth president of the United states ?

  James Madison
• Which era marked a switch from agricultural practices to industrial practices?

  The Industrial Revolution
• What was the name of the series of programs and projects President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted during The Great Depression?


  The New Deal
• Fill in the blank: The 19th Amendment guarantees ____ the right to vote

  Women
• Which four presidents are on Mount Rushmore?

  George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt
• Who was the first woman to make a million dollars in the United States?


  Madam C.J. Walker
• Which year was George H.W. Bush elected president?

  1988
• What do the stripes on the American flag represent?

  The 13 original colonies
• Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?

  Atlanta, Georgia
• Which two Native American leaders led Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors in the fight against Lieutenant Colonel George Custer’s troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

  crazy horse and sitting bull
• Finish the line President Franklin D. Roosevelt said during his speech addressing the attack on Pearl Harbor: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941…”


  “A date which will live in infamy”
• What was the name of the landmark Supreme Court case that ruled the racial segregation of schools unconstitutional?

  Brown v. Board of Education
• The “shot heard ’round the world” describes the beginning of which battles in the American Revolution?


  The Battles of Lexington and Concord
• What was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage?


  Massachusetts
• Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

  John F. Kennedy
• What was Black Tuesday ? - one of the major causes of The Great Depression.

  The stock market crash
• When did Black Tuesday occur ?

  October 29, 1929
• Which supreme court case established the principle of ”judicial review” ?

  Marbury v. Madison
• Which early american document established the first form of national government? -was later replaced by the U.S. constitution due to its inherit weaknesses. 


  The Articles of Confederation
• Dred Scott B v. Sanford (1857)


  Ruled that enslaved African Americans were not U.S. citizens - and therefore couldn’t sue for their freedom.
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

  Upheld racial segregation and Jim crow laws
• Brown v. The Board of Education 


  Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - specifically out lawing segregation in schools
• What court case was under the “seperate but equal“ doctrine ?

  Plessy v. Ferguson