Famous Speeches
in American History
A Puzzle by David Pleacher



Match these 21 famous speeches with their speechmakers.   Names may be used more than once or not at all.

1.   "Fourteen Points" speech
2.   "Four Freedoms" speech

3.   "I Have a Dream" speech
4.   "A More Perfect Union" speech

5.   Gettysburg Address
6.   "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" speech

7.   "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
8.   Pearl Harbor ("A Day that will live in Infamy")

9.   "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a citizen of Berlin)
10.   "Cross of Gold" speech

11.   "Duty, Honor, Country" speech
12.   "The Great Silent Majority" speech

13.   "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech
14.   Speech "For the Equal Rights Amendment" to the House of Representatives

15.   "Tear Down this Wall" speech
16.   Address to the nation on September 11, 2001

17.   "We Shall Overcome" speech to Congress
18.   "Women's Right to Vote" speech

19.   "A House Divided" speech
20.   Monroe Doctrine address

21.   "Ask not what your country can do for you ..."



A.   Susan B. Anthony
B.   Yogi Berra

C.   William Jennings Bryant
D.   George W. Bush

E.   Shirley Chisolm
F.   Hillary Clinton

G.   Frederick Douglass
H.   Patrick Henry

I.   Jesse Jackson
J.   Lyndon B. Johnson

K.   John F. Kennedy
L.   Robert F. Kennedy

M.   Martin Luther King, Jr.
N.   Abraham Lincoln

O.   Douglas MacArthur
P.   James Monroe

Q.   Richard Nixon
R.   Barack Obama

S.   Ronald Reagan
T.   Franklin D. Roosevelt

U.   Theodore Roosevelt
V.   Harry Truman

W.   George Washington
X.   Daniel Webster

Y.   Woodrow Wilson
Z.   Malcolm X

Send any comments or questions to: David Pleacher