The History of Our United States Quiz 15

Match the following

• Leonard Kleinrock

•  first American in space (p. 379)

• Neil Armstrong

• first man on the moon (p. 379)

• Thurgood

  Marshall

• invented technology that led to the internet (p. 379)

• Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

• first Black American Supreme Court justice (p. 374)

Match the following

• Billy Graham

• invented modern mouse-operated computer (p. 379)

• John Glenn

• minister who worked to achieve civil rights (p. 369)

• Douglas Engelbart

• first American to orbit the earth (p. 379)

•  Dr. Martin Luther

  King, Jr.

• American evangelist whose meetings were televised worldwide (p. 368)

Match the following

• Rosa Parks

• seamstress whose actions resulted in the bus boycott that ended Montgomery bus segregation

  (p. 369)

• Dr. Jonas Salk

• first Black American to be an adviser to the president (p. 374)

• Robert Weaver

• developed polio vaccine (p. 377)

After the March on Washington, _______ gave his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. (p. 370)

• Malcolm X
• Rosa Parks
• John Lewis
• Martin Luther King Jr.

 The _______ made the first successful moon landing. (p. 379)

• Apollo 12
• Gemini 8
• Voyager 1
• Apollo 11

In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the ___________ ruled that schools should not be segregated. (p. 368)

• State Legislature
• District Court
• Supreme Court
• Local School Board

Match the state to its capital.

• Albany

• Rhode Island

• Providence

• Massachusetts

• Annapolis

• Maryland

• Boston

• New York

• Augusta

• Maine

Identify the states shown on the map.

a

b

c

d

Delaware

Connecticut

New Jersey

Vermont