HISTORY KNOWLEDGE SCAVENGER HUNT

1. Who is the governor of Alabama? ____________________
2. What is the capitol of Alabama? _____________________
3. What states border Alabama? _________________________________________
4. Who is called the “Father of our country”? _______________________________
5. Who is the Vice President? ___________________________________________
6. Who is the Secretary of Defense? _______________________
7. Who is the Secretary of State (federal)? __________________
8. Who is Gordon Brown? _______________________________
9. How old is the US? ___________
10. What is the President’s cabinet? _______________________________________
11. Who is the chief justice of the US Supreme Court? ________________________
12. What are the three branches of government?_____________, _______________, _______________________________
13. What are political parties?____________________________________________

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14. What political party controls Congress today? ____________________________
15. How many people are in the Senate of the United States? ___________________
16. How many states are in the United States? _________________
17. How old do you have to be to vote in the US? ______________
18. Who is Rosa Parks? _________________________________________________
19. What is the Declaration of Independence?

20. Who did the US declare independence from? _____________________________
21. What is Plessy vs Fergurson? _________________________________________
22. Who was the 44th President of the US? ______________________
23. What is the US Constitution?

24. What are the first ten amendments to the US Constitution called? _____________
25. What are the two houses of US Congress? _____________________, _________
26. US Senators are elected every ________years.
27. Which house of congress represents the population of each state?_____________
28. Which state was the last to be admitted to the Union? ______________________
29. When is America’s Independence Day? _________________________________
30. 16^th Amendment    ______________________________  
31. What is Roe v Wade?   ______________________________________________
32. What was the Gettysburg Address about?

Who wrote it?_____________

33. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? ______________________________
34. Who was Dwight Eisenhower? _________________________________________
35. What international organization was started in 1863 in Switzerland to alleviate suffering and promote public health? The American chapter was started by Clara Barton. ___________________________________
36. 13^th Amendment    __________________________
37. What was the Manhattan Project (1945)?  ________________________________
38. In 1880 the US capital moved to Washington D.C. from where? ______________ 
39. What was the Trail of Tears?  _________________________________________
40. America ’s first subway line opened in what city in 1897? __________________
41. Who wrote “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calevares County” in 1867?______
42. Who is the largest employer in Birmingham?  ________________________
43. What was Woodstock ? ______________________________________________
44. What were the Roaring 20’s? __________________________________________
45. Who invented the Assembly line?  _____________________________
46. Who introduced the Theory of Relativity? _______________________
47.  Who gave the “Give me liberty or give me death” speech?  _________________
48. A member of the US House of Representatives must be how old?  _______
49. If something were to happen to both the President of the US & the VP, who is next in line to assume the office?  ______________________________________
50. Which Article of the Constitution sets up the Judicial Branch?  _______________
51. What was the first battle of the Revolutionary War? ________________________
52. 15^th Amendment    ______________________________________   
53. 19^th Amendment    ______________________________________  
54. What is NASA?   _______________________________________
55. What is EPA?      _______________________________________
56. 1st Amendment   _______________________________________
57. 2^nd Amendment   _______________________________________
58. 3^rd Amendment   ________________________________________
59. 4^th Amendment   ________________________________________
60. 5^th Amendment  _________________________________________
61. 6^th Amendment  _________________________________________
62. 7^th Amendment  _________________________________________
63. 8^th Amendment  _________________________________________
64. 9^th Amendment  _________________________________________
65. 10^th Amendment _________________________________________
66. What year was the first Earth Day? 1921, 1952, 1970, 1984, 1990
67. What were the causes of the Civil War? ___________________________________
68. Why did the US enter WWII? _________________________________________
69. What was the cause of the Korean War? _________________________________
70. What was the longest war the US fought and the only one it lost? _____________
71. What type of government does the US have? _____________________________
72. What type of economy does the US have? _______________________________
73. What was the Cold War? (between whom)
74. When is the next presidential election? _____________