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US Historical People
Middle School US historical people stock clues
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| was nearly replaced by Horatio Gates due to the Conway Cabal | George Washington |
| Jay's Treaty and the whiskey rebellion | George Washington |
| Victor at Trenton | George Washington |
| Citizen Genet | George Washington |
| a Leutze painting Crossing the Delaware | George Washington |
| was defeated by the French at Fort necessity | George Washington |
| kitchen cabinet | Andrew Jackson |
| old Hickory | Andrew Jackson |
| Indian removal act | Andrew Jackson |
| shutdown the second Bank of the United States | Andrew Jackson |
| specie circular | Andrew Jackson |
| court packing scheme | FDR |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | FDR |
| new deal | FDR |
| succeeded Herbert Hoover | FDR |
| executive order 9066 | FDR |
| Elkins act and Hepburn act | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Square deal | Theodore Roosevelt |
| bull Moose party | Theodore Roosevelt |
| leader of the Rough Riders | Theodore Roosevelt |
| became president in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley | Theodore Roosevelt |
| injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| letter from a Birmingham Jail | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| joined with Ralph Abernathy to form the Southern Christian leadership conference | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| shot in Memphis by James Earl Ray | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| I have a dream | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| I've been to the mountaintop | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| house divided | Abraham Lincoln |
| government of the people, by the people, for the people | Abraham Lincoln |
| issued the Gettysburg address | Abraham Lincoln |
| the captain of a Walt Whitman elegy | Abraham Lincoln |
| assassinated in Ford's theater | Abraham Lincoln |
| debates with Stephen Douglas | Abraham Lincoln |
| dealt with the Cuban missile crisis | JFK |
| created Peace Corps | JFK |
| Bay of Pigs | JFK |
| defeated Richard Nixon | JFK |
| ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country | JFK |
| one the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville | Robert E Lee |
| discovered a hidden pass which was instrumental to American victory at the Battle of Cerro Gordo | Robert E Lee |
| led the Marines that defeated John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | Robert E Lee |
| commander of the Army of Northern Virginia | Robert E Lee |
| leader of the Confederate Army | Robert E Lee |
| signed the Brady Bill | Bill Clinton |
| presided over military actions in Bosnia and Somalia | Bill Clinton |
| plagued by the Whitewater affair | Bill Clinton |
| American entrance into NAFTA | Bill Clinton |
| namesake doctrine stated that European countries should no longer colonize the Americas | James Monroe |
| was able to secure the release of Thomas Paine | James Monroe |
| Era of good feelings | James Monroe |
| a view of the conduct of the executive | James Monroe |
| had a falling out with George Washington | James Monroe |
| fifth US president | James Monroe |
| John Hinckley Junior attempted to assassinate | Ronald Reagan |
| he fired thousands of striking air traffic controllers | Ronald Reagan |
| president during the Iran Contra affair | Ronald Reagan |
| he proposed the strategic Defense initiative or Star Wars | Ronald Reagan |
| Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall | Ronald Reagan |
| his personal secretary Orville Babcock was implicated in the whiskey Ring | Ulysses S Grant |
| Oakes Ames sold shares to this man's vice president Schuyler Colfax in the credit Mobilier scandal | Ulysses S Grant |
| victorious Union commander in the Civil War | Ulysses S Grant |
| accepted the surrender of Robert E Lee at Appomattox | Ulysses S Grant |
| published a weekly journal called the revolution | Susan B Anthony |
| did not support the 15th amendment, which caused the split with her friend Frederick Douglass | Susan B Anthony |
| refused to pay a fine imposed for voting in the 1872 presidential election | Susan B Anthony |
| suffragist who is immortalized on the dollar coin | Susan B Anthony |