So much for historical accuracy...
...which, for a history class project, is only slightly important! (and of course you get an amateur history buff as a reviewer) But, as you pointed out yourself, this was a bit too much of an undertaking for you for a simple history project. As it is, being your first submission to Newgrounds, this is actually pretty good compared to a lot of other first attempts you see. Don't worry, I'm not going to nail you for the historical accuracy thing I mentioned earlier, if only because there is so much involved in everything that lead up to that moment in time - you could never possibly fit a full understanding of it into a flash movie of viewable size on Newgrounds. You had some good sprite manipulation here, so I fully expect to see that get better over time, but you really need to get more sound clips - that laugh got really annoying as it kept on going and going and going.