A | B |
commander of Allied Powers in WWII | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Fascist leader of Italy during WWII | Benito Mussolini |
inventor of the electric light bulb | Thomas Edison |
first man to walk on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
first black baseball player to play in the major leagues | Jackie Robinson |
Nazi leader of Germany during WWII | Adolf Hitler |
America's most famous evangelist of the 19th century | Dwight L. Moody |
President who helped with a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel | Jimmy Carter |
gained his military experience during the French & Indian War, from Virginia | George Washington |
his expedition led to the discovery of the North Pole | Robert Peary |
President of the U.S. during WWI | Woodrow Wilson |
wrote the first major American dictionary | Noah Webster |
invented the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
called the "George Washington" of S.America | Simon Bolivar |
Communist dictator of Cuba | Fidel Castro |
first U.S. president to resign from office | Richard Nixon |
Father of American Missions | Adoniram Judson |
Communist leader of Russia during WWII | Joseph Stalin |
black minister active in the Civil Rights Movement | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
developed the assembly line method of production | Henry Ford |
"Angel of the Battlefield" who founded the Red Cross | Clara Barton |
great opera singer | Marian Anderson |
the "Plant Genius" who found 285 uses for the peanut | George Washington Carver |
inventor of the first liquid fuel rocket | Robert Goddard |
President during the Cuban Missle Crisis | John F. Kennedy |
one of the driest regions in the world | Atacama Desert |
first woman Supreme Court Justice | Sandra Day O'Connor |
most famous early S.American Indian civilization | Incas |
famous Indians of Mexico | Aztecs |
famous Indians of Central America | Mayas |
the woman who began the first American Sunday School | Catherine Ferguson |
the record of what has happened to mankind | history |
Indians who joined the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving | Wampanoag |
a plain or hilly region covered by tall grasses | prairie |
the first permanent English settlement in the New World | Jamestown |
said "Give me liberty or give me death!" | Patrick Henry |
founded the American Red Cross | Clara Barton |
founded Tuskegee Institute | Booker T. Washington |
Islamic terrorist group who attacked America Sept. 11, 2001 | Al Qaeda |
largest tropical rain forest | Amazon River Basin |
president who was assassinated during a play | Abraham Lincoln |
capital of Brazil | Brasilia |
invented the electric light bulb | Thomas Edison |
someone who wants to preserve traditional beliefs and values in America | conservative |
American general who was a hero of the Pacific during WWII | Douglas MacArthur |
one of the best known circuit-riders | Peter Cartwright |
country known as the emeral capital of the world | Colombia |
V-E Day | WWII |
he invented the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
countries in which the U.S. attacked terrorists | Iraq and Afghanistan |
general who surrendered to end the Civil War | Robert E. Lee |
gold miners in California | 49ers |
our 49th state | Alaska |
our 50th state | Hawaii |
the plants of a region | flora |
the animals of a region | fauna |
the largest river in South America | Amazon |
the Emancipation Proclamation was signed during the war | Civil War |
said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." | Nathan Hale |
guaranteed voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic minorities | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
first woman justice appointed to the Supreme Court | Sandra Day O'Connor |
interpreter for Lewis and Clark on their expedition west | Sacagawea |
capital of Canada | Ottowa |
Operation Desert Storm was directed against this country | Iraq |
one inventor of the airplane | Orville Wright |
highest navigable lake in South America | Lake Titicaca |
largest canyon in the U.S. | Grand Canyon |
it carried the mail for 19 months in America | Pony Express |
America's first missionary to a foreign land | George Liele |
November 11 | Veteran's Day |
U.S. navy base bombed by Japan | Pearl Harbor |
major mountain range in South America | Andes |
a cornfield that became a volcano | Paricutin |
the Rough Riders were involved in this war | Spanish American War |
General George Washington was active in this war | Revolutionary War |
the bombing of Pearl Harbor happened during this war | WWII |
Veteran's Day was declared at the end of this war | WWI |
the Declaration of Independence was signed during this war | Revolutionary War |
first European to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific | Ferdinand Magellan |
one of the first protestant missionaries to South America | James Thomson |
"Remember the Maine" was a slogan during this war | Spanish American War |
Battle of Gettysburg | Civil War |
the first use of the atomic bomb | WWII |