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7th Grade
01/03/2012
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GERALD FORD
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appointed Vice President
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ROSA PARKS
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refused to give up her seat on the bus
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY
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suffragist
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RICHARD BYRD
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Flew over the South Pole
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WINSTON CHURCHILL
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Britain's Prime Minister during WWII
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GALILEO
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perfected the telescope
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ELI WHITNEY
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invented the cotton gin
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GENERAL GEORGE CUSTER
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killed during the Battle of Little Big Horn
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STEVEN SPIELBERG
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movie director (Saving Private Ryan)
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WILBUR & ORVILLE WRIGHT
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1st airplane flight
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FERDINAND MAGELLAN
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Explorer/reached the Pacific from the Atlantic
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MANHATTAN PROJECT
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developed the atomic bomb
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PEARL HARBOR
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Japan attacked the U.S. naval base in Hawaii
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
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capital of the U.S.
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BRADY BILL
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hand gun control bill
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GONE WITH THE WIND
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Civil war movie
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USSR
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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WYOMING
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1st state to adopt women's suffrage
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BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE
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last battle between the U.S. army and Native Americans
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
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Written by Charles Dickens
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