IT’S NICE TO BE FIRST!
THE FIRST...
1. _______________________ English settlement in the “United States”
2. _______________________ Permanent European Settlement in the “United States”
3. _______________________ Permanent English settlement in the “United States”
4. _______________________ English child born in the “United States”
5. _______________________ Colonist to plant tobacco in 1611
6. _______________________ Representative body in the colonies
7. _______________________ Book printed in the colonies
8. _______________________ College in the colonies
9. _______________________ American textile mill site
10. ______________________ Secretary of State
11. ______________________ Secretary of the Treasury
12. ______________________ Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
13. ______________________ Census
14. ______________________ Use of executive privilege
15. ______________________ Political parties
16. ______________________ Man to discover gold at Sutter’s Mill
17. ______________________ Leader of the Shakers
18. ______________________ Leader of the Mormons
19. ______________________ Tax of this type was imposed during the Civil War
20. ______________________ Woman to swim the English Channel
21. ______________________ Motion Picture
22. _____________________ Talking Motion Picture
23. _____________________ Woman Cabinet Member
24. _____________________ Group to use the sit-down strike
25. _____________________ Representative body in Maryland
26. _____________________ College in the Southern colonies
27. _____________________ Major victory for freedom of the press 1735
28. _____________________ Patriot killed in the Boston Massacre
29. _____________________ Maker of the American flag
30. _____________________ Postmaster General of an intercolonial post office
31. _____________________ First Lady
32. _____________________ Federal aid to education in American history from this
law
33. _____________________ State to ratify the Constitution
34. _____________________ Amendment guarantees
35. _____________________ Number of Supreme Court justices
36. _____________________ excise tax resulted in this
37. _____________________ exercise of executive privilege arose during debate
about this treaty
38. _____________________ treaty between the U.S. and Spain
39. _____________________ instance of the doctrine of nullification
40. _____________________ president to live in the White House
41. _____________________ presidential election to be decided by the House of
Representatives
42. _____________________ person in America to grow a tomato
43. _____________________ arms limitation treaty; it was made with Britain and
limited naval forces on the Great Lakes
44. _____________________ political party to develop a party platform (1832)
45. _____________________ and only time the vice presidential election was decided
by the Senate
46. _____________________ Dark Horse presidential candidate
47. _____________________ Group to lead an organized antislavery movement
48. _____________________ White person to promote immediate abolition.
49. _____________________ to lay the basis for a free public education
(Massachusetts, 1840’s)
50. _____________________ American to orbit the earth
51. _____________________ immigrants excluded from the United States
52. _____________________ and only president married in the White House
53. _____________________ president to have electricity in the White House
54. _____________________ Jewish Supreme Court justice
55. _____________________ Woman to be a member of Congress
56. _____________________ American forces to fight in World War I
57. _____________________ Black brigadier general (1940’s)
58. _____________________ military alliance joined by United States since 1778
59. _____________________ Black student to attend the University of Mississippi
(1962)
60. _____________________ American in space