In 1924 she was born in Brooklyn to Caribbean immigrant parents. In 1968 she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. Who is this woman? She served seven terms in Congress, was the first woman to appear in a Presidential debate, and most recently had a namesake state park opened in Brooklyn in 2019.
Metacomet, chief of the Wampanoag in what is now New England, was known to European colonists as a "King" with what English name? A 17th-century war between colonists and Native Americans is named for him.
Hundreds of thousands of Asian immigrants passed through what island in San Francisco bay in the early 20th century, sometimes called the "Ellis Island of the West?"
What "Army" of protestors, who gathered in Washington D.C. in 1932, took its name from the military service payments they were promised, but weren't meant to collect until 1945?
Citing policy differences with President Andrew Jackson, what Southerner became the first person to resign the U.S. vice presidency on December 28, 1832?
What is the name of the biographer whose famous American subjects include George Washington, John D. Rockefeller, and Alexander Hamilton -- the last of whose biography was adapted into a hit Broadway musical?
