WHAT EVERY AMERICAN
SHOULD KNOW?

Yana Efremova
2 min readSep 22, 2022

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These are the things that I either don’t know about or (mostly) can’t really say anything about:

  1. Slavery
  2. Voting
  3. The Civil Rights Movement
  4. Law & Order
  5. Declaration of Independence
  6. US Civil War
  7. Immigrants to the United States
  8. Police brutality
  9. Taxes in America
  10. Holocaust
  11. Gun violence in the United States
  12. Black History
  13. Amendments
  14. Respect
  15. U.S. Constitution
  16. Bill of Rights
  17. Women’s rights
  18. World War I
  19. American History
  20. American Revolution
  21. Branches of government
  22. The Great Depression
  23. Mental health
  24. United States Constitution
  25. Native Americans in the United States
  26. Government
  27. Corruption
  28. Economics
  29. The Trail of Tears
  30. Gettysburg Address
  31. Cold War
  32. Money management
  33. War on Drugs
  34. Activism
  35. Vietnam War
  36. Rosa Parks
  37. Literacy
  38. Voting Rights Act of 1965
  39. Pearl Harbor
  40. Human rights in the United States
  41. Japanese — American Internment
  42. Manifest Destiny
  43. Ethics
  44. Pledge of Allegiance
  45. Obesity
  46. Democratic Party (United States)
  47. Brown v. Board of Education
  48. Capitalism
  49. Harriet Tubman
  50. Roe v. Wade
  51. Stonewall Riots
  52. Supreme Court of the United States
  53. Civics
  54. Juneteenth
  55. Empathy
  56. Reconstruction
  57. American exceptionalism
  58. Ku Klux Klan
  59. Sex trafficking
  60. Malcolm X
  61. The New Deal
  62. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
  63. Equity
  64. Chicano Movement
  65. John F. Kennedy
  66. Critical thinking
  67. Marshall Plan
  68. Thomas Jefferson
  69. The Emancipation Proclamation
  70. Self-reliance
  71. Human trafficking
  72. The Federalist Papers
  73. Gilded Age
  74. Industrial Revolution
  75. #MeToo
  76. Criminal justice system
  77. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  78. Boston Tea Party
  79. Global warming controversy
  80. Mass incarceration
  81. Benjamin Franklin
  82. Ellis Island
  83. Civic Power
  84. American Imperialism
  85. Participation
  86. Miranda Rights
  87. George Floyd protests
  88. Jim Crow laws
  89. War on Terror
  90. Chinese Exclusion Act
  91. Foreign policy of the United States
  92. Electoral college
  93. Public policy
  94. Intersectionality
  95. Redlining
  96. Frederick Douglass
  97. Ronald Reagan
  98. Self-defense
  99. Indigenous peoples of the Americas
  100. Ten Commandments

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