| Americana Folk Song lyrics | U.S. Holidays | Native American Tribes | Current Events | America Since World War II |
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What is "America the Beautiful"
"Oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain...for purple mounted majesties above the fruited the plain"
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What is "Independence Day"?
July 4
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Who are the Sioux?
Native-Americans who massacred Custer's 7th Calvary at Battle of Little Big Horn
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What is Canada?
1st industrialized country to legalize marijuana
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What is communism?
United States biggest concern during the Cold War
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What is "Oh Susana"
"Oh I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee, I'm goin' to 'Louisiana for my true love for to see."
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What is "Veterans Day"?
November 11
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Who are the Inuits?
Eskimos
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What is Philadelphia?
City of the Tree of Life Synagogue terrorist attack where 11 people were shot and killed
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What is Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education?
Supreme Court decision which ordered de-segregation of public schools
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What is the "Star Spangled Banner?"
"...whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
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What is "Memorial Day"
Last Monday in May
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Who are the Arapahos?
"Our People" from "Centennial" who helped Pasquinel and McKeeg
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Who are the Democrats?
Political party who took back control of House of Representatives at the mid-term elections.
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Who was Elvis Presley?
The King of Rock and Roll during the 1950's
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What is "This Land is Your Land"?
"As I was walking that ribbon of highway I looked above me to the endless sky way..."
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What is "Labor Day"?
First Monday of September
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Who are the Northern Pauites?
Tribe living on Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee) in northern Nevada
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What is 10?
Number of U.S. states that have legalized recreational marijuana.
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What was the day President Kennedy was assassinated?
November 22, 1963
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What is "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"?
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, he is tramplin' out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored."
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What is MLK, Jr. Day?"
January 15
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Who are the Indians who helped the Pilgrims?
Squanto and Samoset
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Who is Paul Allen?
Co-founder of Microsoft who passed away last month at age 65 due to cancer.
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What was TET offensive?
Turning point in Vietnam War where most "middle of the road" Americans began to believe it was time to pull our troops out of South Vietnam
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Who is Vice President Mike Pence?
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