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| most famous american during colonial era |
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| group of senators who punished the south |
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Seperate but equal case |
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| supreme court case that legalized segregation |
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| immigrants were processed here |
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| homestead acts & railroads |
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| two things that were responsible for opening the west |
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| George Washington & Thomas Jefferson |
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| two famous founding fathers that were part of the american revolution |
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| Wyatt Earp & Bat Masterson |
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| two famous lawmen of the wildwest |
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| father of the constitution |
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| war that we acquired cuba, philippines ... |
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| July 4 1776 by Thomas Jefferson |
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| declaration of independence was made when and by who |
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| british troops surrendered here ending the revolutionary war |
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| Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth |
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| president during civil war and was killed by |
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| Louisiana Purchase, Lewis & Clark |
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| land purchased that doubled the size and two explorers |
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| Andrew Jackson, Battle of New Orleans |
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| first common man's president remembered for what |
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| Battle of Saratoga b/c french helped us |
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| turning point of revolutionary war & why |
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| Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller |
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| Christopher Columbus , San Salvador |
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| discovered the New World and where |
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Jamestown
Plymouth Rock
St.Augustine |
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first permanent living place
where pilgrims landed
oldest city |
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| leader of women's rights movement |
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| Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun |
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| 3 senators in the great debate |
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| went all the way around the world |
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| two territories we obtained from mexico |
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Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee |
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union commander
confederate of the civil war |
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| Gettysburg b/c confederates lost too many |
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| famous battle of civil war and why |
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| Red Cloud, Geronimo, Crazy Horse |
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| president of the progressive era and ushered the big stick policy |
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| group of investigative reporters who exposed corruption |
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Woodrow Wilson
John J. Pershing |
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president of U.S. during WW1
american general who led the troops |
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1)unrestricted submarine warfare
2)british cut the transatlantic cable
3)zimmerman note |
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| three reasons america got dragged into ww1 |
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| oct 29, 1929 stocks dropped and stayed down |
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| decade of the 20s known as this b/c of 18th amendment |
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famous trial of 20's
2 italian immigrants killed |
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| leading gangster of the 20's |
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| Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan |
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| 2 famous lawyers in the scopes monkey trial |
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president for WW2
and his program |
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| fdr tried changing the makeup of the supreme court |
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| drought in central america |
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| immigrants who moved away from the dust bowl |
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| three countries that made up the axis powers |
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| hitlers plan for a 1000 year empire |
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| hitlers attempt to bomb england |
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| prime minister of england that ralied the british not to give up |
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| turning point of ww2 european theatre |
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| supreme ally commander who planned the D-Day invasion |
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| place where allied troops landed on D-Day invasion |
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| Hitlers Final Solution "The Holocaust" |
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| policy of extermination for jewish people |
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| Battle of Midway b/c in one battle we even up the odds |
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| turning point of pacific & why |
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| gen mcarthurs famous quote to the phillippines |
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| Enola Gay, Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
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| name of first plane that dropped bombs and where |
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Manhatten project
J. Robt. Oppenheimer |
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| codename of secret project for atomic bomb and father of the atomic bomb |
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| sudden increase in birth rate |
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| cornerstone of foreign policy in communism |
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| huge economic plan to rebuild west europe and the military alliance |
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| wisconsion senator who conducted a communist witchhunt |
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| brown vs. board of education and earl warren |
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| famous court case that overturned segregation and the chief justice |
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| rosa parks montgomery bus boycott |
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| refused to give up seat and name of protest |
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| turning point of korean war and american general who planned it |
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| ho chi minh, general von giap |
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| leader of north vietnam and name of genrreal |
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| president of 8 out of 10 years during 1950s |
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