Quiztory: Week of March 20
Test your students’ knowledge of the notable events covered in findingDulcinea’s “On This Day” column this week with Quiztory. It makes a fun extra credit assignment.
1. How far was the Selma-to-Montgomery march?
2. When was the Equal Rights Amendment most recently reintroduced?
3. Following Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” speech, who ordered royal soldiers to remove gunpowder from Williamsburg so that it couldn’t be used by colonialists?
4. What event at a New York City factory galvanized the labor and progressive movements of the early 1900s?
5. Which 1978 document outlined a framework for peace between Egypt and Israel?
What’s Coming Up?
Next week, “On This Day” will examine Three Mile Island, Charles Manson and his followers, the banishment of Jews from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition and Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands. We’ll also take a look at the U.S. purchase of Alaska, Hitler’s boycott of Jewish businesses and the deadly collision of two 747s on a Tenerife runway.
