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The Civil War began in this year
What is 1861?
The Civil War lasted this number of years
What is 4?
This is known as the greatest battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This northern state was the first to enlist black soldiers
What is Rhode Island?
This famous author served as a nurse in the Civil War
Who is Louisa May Alcott?
This group won the first battle in the War of Independence
Who are the Massachusetts militiamen?
The Battle of Bunker Hill actually took place on this hill
What is Breed’s Hill?
This Revolutionary War figure is best remembered as the President of the Continental Congress whose flamboyant signature graces the Declaration of Independence
Who is John Hancock?
This number of grievances was listed against King George III in the Declaration of Independence
What is 27?
This treaty was signed on February 3, 1783 and ended the Revolutionary War
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This is the name of the third empire of Germany established by Adolph Hitler
What is the Third Reich?
These laws, enacted at the 1935 Nazi National Convention, deprived Jews of their German citizenship
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
This concentration camp was responsible for the largest number of Jews killed during the Holocaust
What is Auschwitz?
This company used prisoners of concentration camps for cheap labor in their factories
What is BMW? (Bavarian Motor Works)
These men were elite members of Hitler’s army during the Holocaust
Who are the SS, or the Blackshirts?
This is the year that English law declared witchcraft a capital crime
What is 1641?
Barren slope near Salem Village used to hang persons convicted of witchcraft
What is Gallows Hill?
Famous slave girl of the Parris family accused of witchcraft
Who is Tituba?
The first accused witch to be brought to trial
Who is Bridget Bishop?
Arthur Miller’s fictional account of the Salem witch hunts
What is The Crucible?
In 1777 this state pioneered emancipation by being the first to abolish slavery
What is Vermont?
She was the first African- American female elected to Congress
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared separate facilities for blacks and whites unconstitutional
What is Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka?
Founded in 1909 in New York City by a group of black and white citizens committed to social justice, this is the nation’s largest and strongest civil rights organization
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) ?
A nationally-known advocate for equality and justice, this African- American female is a former slave who lived in Northampton in the mid- 1800’s
Who is Sojourner Truth?