All they need to remember is Concord and Lexington.
That's the problem, they wouldn't even get the reference. These people think the "Tea Party" is made up of rich white people and got it's name from "Taxed Enough Already" and have no clue they named themselves after the Boston Tea Party (or even what the BTP was all about).
The only history they care about reaches all the way back to Carter. The rest they either revise or ignore as unimportant to modern society.