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US History Highlights

American history review · Medium · 20 min

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This board helps players review History · United States through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Founding Era, Civil War, 20th Century, Civil Rights, Presidents. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Founding Era

    Year the Declaration of Independence was signed.

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    1776

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  • Civil War

    Years the Civil War was fought.

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    1861-1865

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  • 20th Century

    Stock market crash year.

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    1929

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  • Civil Rights

    Activist who refused to give up her bus seat in 1955.

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    Rosa Parks

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  • Presidents

    President on the $5 bill.

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    Abraham Lincoln

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Founding Era

$100 — Year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
1776
$200 — Main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
$300 — First U.S. president.
George Washington
$400 — The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights
$500 — 1787 document creating our government.
The U.S. Constitution

Civil War

$100 — Years the Civil War was fought.
1861-1865
$200 — President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
$300 — Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox.
Robert E. Lee
$400 — 1863 speech given at a battlefield.
The Gettysburg Address
$500 — Document that freed enslaved people in the Confederacy.
Emancipation Proclamation

20th Century

$100 — Stock market crash year.
1929
$200 — U.S. president during WWII (most of it).
Franklin D. Roosevelt
$300 — Pearl Harbor was attacked in this year.
1941
$400 — 1969 first moon landing astronaut.
Neil Armstrong
$500 — President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
John F. Kennedy

Civil Rights

$100 — Activist who refused to give up her bus seat in 1955.
Rosa Parks
$200 — Leader of the 1963 March on Washington.
Martin Luther King Jr.
$300 — 1964 law banning segregation in public places.
Civil Rights Act
$400 — Supreme Court case that ended school segregation.
Brown v. Board of Education
$500 — Activist who led the United Farm Workers.
Cesar Chavez

Presidents

$100 — President on the $5 bill.
Abraham Lincoln
$200 — First president to resign.
Richard Nixon
$300 — First African American president.
Barack Obama
$400 — President during the New Deal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
$500 — Only president elected to four terms.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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