February Day-by-Day Study Guide
Name
Block
Ronald Reagan
Oldest U.S. elected to office
William Henry Harrison
U.S. President who had the shortest term
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution
Mark Twain
Author of Huckleberry Finn
John Glenn
First astronaut to orbit the Earth
Buffalo Bill
Real name William Cody-symbol of the American West
Langston Hughes
Black poet during the 1920s-Voice of the Harlem Renaissance
Jules Verne
French author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Fidel Castro
Cuba’s president and dictator
Frederick Douglass
African American who fought for voting rights
Samuel F.P. Morse
Invented the telegraph and its code
John Steinbeck
Author who wrote about the 1930’s migrant workers
Republican Party
Lame Duck
Amendment
U.S. political party whose first president was Abe Lincoln
Amendment who sets January for the inauguration of a new President
of the U.S.
Confederate States Southern states that succeeded from the Union
Gestapo
Nazi Germany’s secret police, the SS
Voice of America
U.S. radio broadcasts to world countries
Iwo Jima
U.S. Marines landed on this Pacific Island in 1945
Alamo
A fort in Texas which became the rallying cry for the Mexican-American War
16th Amendment
Authorized the income tax