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Civil Rights$100 On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." How many years have passed since the Supreme Court made this ruling?

Civil Rights$100 Did You Know? The 1954 decision was the first major piece of Civil Rights legislation since the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson Case, which Brown overruled. Answer: current year

Civil Rights $200 This picture shows a line of people wanting to get a seat in the Supreme court for Brown vs. Board of Education. If there are only 50 seats available, and only one thirteenth of the people were able to get a seat, how many people were waiting in line?

Civil Rights $200 While Brown called for school desegregation, integration of public places was not legally supported until the Civil Rights Acts ten years later, in Answer: 650 People

Civil Rights $300 From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech to a crowd of 250,000. If there was a 4:1 ratio of African American viewers to White viewers, how many African Americans watched the speech?

Civil Rights $300 March organizers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin had planned a similar march 22 years earlier to protest segregation in the armed forces, but the event was cancelled after the passage of the Fair Employment Act in Answer: 200,000

Civil Rights $400 Martin Luther King made his famous speech in How many years have passed since this speech?

Civil Rights $400 Martin Luther King became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize in Answer: current year

Civil Rights $500 Rosa Parks was 42 years old when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Eight years later, in 1963, Martin Luther King gave his famous speech. Use the dates listed to find the year Rosa Parks was born. Rosa Parks, seated on bus, looking out window, her face in profileRosa Parks, seated on bus, looking out window, her face in profile

Civil Rights $500 The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which followed Parks’ incident, lasted over a year until the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Boycotters in November Answer: Rosa Parks, seated on bus, looking out window, her face in profileRosa Parks, seated on bus, looking out window, her face in profile

Brands $100 Idaho's first potatoes were planted in 1837 by Presbyterian minister Henry Spalding. He developed a 15-acre potato plot and produced successful harvests. Give a dimension (length and width) of a potato plot that would give an area of 15 square acres?

Brands $100 The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s cut Ireland’s population in half from widespread starvation and migration. Answer example: 3 acres x 5 acres

Brands $200 In 1870, Luther and Eliza Tibbets planted three “navel” orange trees. Today, more than 6,000 citrus growers make up the Sunkist Cooperative. Of 6000 growers, if two thirds of the growers grow oranges, and half of the oranges grown are navels, how many citrus growers have navel oranges?

Brands $200 By 1910, the Tibbets’ trees had turned into a very profitable business: at least 100,000 acres of orange groves existed in the state with profits reaching over $200 million. Answer: 2,000 navels

Brands $300 Milton Hershey was born in His interest in coating caramels with chocolate resulted in the birth of the Hershey Chocolate Co. in Today, Hershey's produces more than 1 billion pounds of chocolate products each year. If the Hershey company must spend $24,000 on milk, $6,000 on sugar, and $20,000 on cocoa to make 1 billion pounds of chocolate, how much did they have to spend per pound for ingredients?

Brands $300 Milton Hershey apprenticed for a printer before eventually working at a candy shop. He opened his own candy store in ( Answer: cents

Brands $400 In 1886, Atlanta physician and chemist Dr. John Stith Pemberton developed a nerve tonic called "Pemberton's French Wine Cola”, which was the start of Coca-Cola. In 1886, about nine drinks were sold each day. Today's daily sales number 450 million. How many Coca-Cola drinks are sold in one year today?

Brands $400 The First Newspaper advertisements for Coca-Cola appeared in Answer: 164,250,000,000

Brands $500 In the early 1900s, Edwin Perkins enjoyed studying chemistry and inventions. He experimented with methods to remove the liquid from a concentrated drink mix called Fruit Smack. The resulting powder was repackaged under the name "Kool-Ade," and later changed to "Kool-Aid.” More than 563 million gallons are consumed in a year. How many gallons are consumed in a day?

Brands $500 Kool-Aid got its start in Hastings, Nebraska. Answer:

Labor$100 If a child received a weekly wage of 75 cents, how much money would they receive after 5 weeks?

Labor$100 The National Child Labor Committee campaigned for tougher state and federal laws against the abuses of industrial child labor, and Lewis Hine was its greatest publicist during the 1910s. Answer: $3.75

Labor $200 This is the seal of the National Women’s Trade Union League of On the seal are the words “The Eight-Hour Day. A living wage. To guard the home.” On weekdays, a woman might work 8 hours a day in the industry, then 4 hours a day for her family. On weekends she worked 6 hours a day around the house. How many hours a week would she spend working?

Labor $200 The seal was added to the national office's letterhead, became “increasingly popular with all the Local leagues on all their publications,” was fashioned into a pin, and -most satisfying of all - was reproduced and framed at Samuel Gompers's request to hang in his presidential office at the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor in Washington, D.C. Answer: 72

Labor$300 Chinese laborer in potato field. Walla Walla, WashingtonChinese laborer in potato field. Walla Walla, Washington Members of minority groups such as this Chinese man were forced to migrate from one temporary, low-paying job to the next. Some workers had to support their families on as little as $1.50 a week. If today’s minimum wage in Virginia is $5.15 an hour. If this man were to work 40 hours a week, what is the minimum that his employer would have to pay him?

Labor$300 Some states enacted laws “to protect…from conditions detrimental to their health and morals, resulting from wages which are inadequate to maintain decent standards of living”. Most laws targeted women, children and later immigrants. In 1937 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that minimum wage laws were constitutional in WEST COAST HOTEL CO. V. PARRISH, 300 U.S Answer: $206 mem/awhhtml/awlaw3/pr otective.html Chinese laborer in potato field. Walla Walla, Washington

Labor $400 On May , 2500 out of 3100 of the railroad workmen went on strike. What percent of 3100 workmen went on strike?

Labor $400 The Strike of 1894 lasted for over two months, as it was not fully resolved until August. Answer: 81 percent

Labor$500 The period from 1894 to 1915 was a period of change, unrest, and economic uncertainty for the workers of the United States. If a man made $1.00 a week during this period, how much would he make from the beginning of 1894 till the end of 1915? America at work

Labor$500 While many cities experienced labor strikes during this period, Chicago in particular was a center of labor activity in the early-twentieth century with the Chicago City Railway strike of 1903, the Stockyard strike of 1904, the Garment Workers strike of 1915, and the Bloomington and Normal Electric Power and Railway strike of 1917, all involving confrontations with police. Answer: $1092 America at work

Inventions$100 Orville and Wilbur Wright had the first successful flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1901, with a glider that covered a distance of 389 feet. If there are three feet in a yard, how many yards did they fly?

Inventions$100 The Wrights only used three materials, wood, cloth, and steel, to make their airplane. Answer: yards.

Inventions $200 Orville piloted the first flight, which lasted just 12 seconds. On the fourth and final flight of the day, Wilbur flew for 57 seconds. How many more seconds did they fly the fourth day? Wilbur and Orville on porch in Dayton, 1909Wilbur and Orville on porch in Dayton,

Inventions $200 The 1903 machine contained not only a 200-pound aluminum, 4-cylinder, water-cooled gasoline engine that the Wrights had designed and built, but also two propellers, all mounted on a controllable airframe. Answer: 45 seconds Wilbur and Orville on porch in Dayton,

Inventions$300 It took Thomas Edison over 2,000 tries to invent the light bulb. Afterwards he claimed that he did not fail 2,000 times, but that he knew 2,000 ways NOT to make a light bulb. What percent is 1 of 2,000?

Inventions$300 Thomas Edison acquired a total of 1,093 patents during his life. Answer: 0.05 %

Inventions $400 Ice cream cones were invented and sold for the first time at a fair. If you have $3.50, and ice cream cones are 30 cents, how many can you buy?

Inventions $400 Thomas Jefferson once offered a recipe for his take on vanilla ice cream. Answer: 11 cones

Inventions $500 The Model T Ford can go 45 miles per hour. How many hours will it take to get to a destination 320 miles away?

Inventions $500 When the model T was first sold in 1908, it cost $ Answer: 7 hours and 7 minutes

Elections$100 Once three-fourths of the states had ratified the 19th Amendment, women were granted the right to vote in In the city of Springfield, 44 women voted. Orange county had 5 more than double the female votes that Springfield had. How many women voted in Orange County?

Elections$100 Between 1880 and 1910, the number of women employed in the United States increased from 2.6 million to 7.8 million. Answer: 93 votes

Elections$200 Electors are people who represent their state and vote for a president. Depending on the size of its population states may have more electoral votes. California has 54 electoral votes while New Mexico has only five. If a state had three times as many people as New Mexico, how many electoral votes would they receive?

In the early 1800's, the term "electoral college" came into general usage as the unofficial designation for the group of citizens selected to cast votes for President and Vice President. It was first written into Federal law in 1845, and today the term appears in 3 U.S.C. section 4, in the section heading and in the text as "college of electors." Answer: 15 votes Elections$200

Elections$300 By 1920, World War I was over, and America was ready for a presidential election. If elections happen every four years, when did the next election take place? American Leaders Speak

Elections$300 President Harding won the 1920 election but died in office in 1923 before the next election. V.P. Calvin Coolidge assumed the office and won the 1924 election to remain in office until Answer: 1924 American Leaders Speak

Elections$400 If 12 women voted for every 116 men, write the ratio of women to men in simplest form. Famous GOP women arrive

Elections$400 Answer: 3 to 29 By 1896, women had Famous GOP women arrive gained the right to vote in four states (Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah).

Elections$500 In 1909, James Cox represented Ohio in the house of representatives. He was the governor of Ohio when he was nominated as a candidate for the presidency by the democratic party in How many years passed between when he represented Ohio until he was a candidate for the presidency? James Cox, Governor of Ohio, half-length portrait, facing left, seated at desk, reading.

Elections$500 Franklin Roosevelt was selected as Cox’s running mate for the 1920 election. Answer: 9 years James Cox, Governor of Ohio, half-length portrait, facing left, seated at desk, reading.

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