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American History Flashcards

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Cornerstone of Massachusets; Bears date 1620

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What is Plymouth Rock?

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Place John Handcock signed the Declaration of Independence

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What is Independence Hall?

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Target of November ‘83 bomb blast

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What is the Capitol?

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General who said “I shall return” [to the Philippines]

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Who is Douglas MacArthur?

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Quarantined from 1915 - 1938 in the Bronx

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Who is Typhoid Mary?

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1980s NYC mayor buried in Manhattan; “The idea of leaving Manhattan permanently irritates me”

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Who is Ed Koch?

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Training ground in Florida for aviators in WWII

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What is Pensacola?

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Hellen Keller’s teacher

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Who is Anne Sullivan?

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Famous suffragette; 19th amendment passed on her bicentennial

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Who is Susan B. Anthony?

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Issue defining LBJ’s presidency

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What is Vietnam?

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In 1856, this west pointer cast his only vote for president before his own election – for Buchanan

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Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

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Most common presidential religious affiliation

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What is Episcopalian?

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Act putting a duty on deeds, wills, newspapers, and playing cards

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What is the Stamp Act?

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On Nov. 3 1948 the Chicago Tribune erroneously reported that this New York Governor defeated Truman for President

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Who is Thomas E. Dewey?

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Carrying up to 400 passengers the first jumbo jet entered airline service in 1970

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What is a Boeing 747?

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Before he was Vice President, he was the CEO of the energy firm Haliburton

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Who is Dick Cheney?

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Sadly, of the 17,000 Union soldiers buried in the national cemetery at this battle site, 75% are listed as unknowns

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What is Vicksburg?

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Creator of the Boy Scouts

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Who is Lord Baden Powell?

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This Vietnam vet was senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013

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Who is John Kerry?

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Captain Max Pruss was in command of this vehicle over New Jersey on May 6, 1937

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What is the Hindenburg?

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The Constitution gets its first state ratification: State, year

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What is Delaware in 1787?

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An official of the FBI’s New York office said in 1992, “The Don is covered in Velcro” & every charge stuck when the Bureau, at last, succeeded in convicting mafia boss John Gotti, known by this slippery nickname

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What is The Teflon Don?

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The Hughes Flying Boat was also known by this nickname

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What is The Spruce Goose

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In 1971 Nixon presented the first proof of the dollar coin featuring this president to his widow Mamie

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Who is Eisenhower?

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First minted in 1809, the “Liberty Cap” this was .74 inches in diameter, just a bit bigger than today

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What is a dime?

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Old West artist James Earle Fraser designed this 1913 coin with a Native American design

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What is a nickel?

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On May 31, 1921 a white mob began attacking what was called “Black Wall Street” in this Oklahoma city

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What is Tulsa?

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This major Vietnam offensive began January 31, 1968 during the Vietnamese lunar new year

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What is the Tet Offensive?

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This former slave & orator wrote, “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man”

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Who is Frederick Douglas?

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Marian Wright Edelman, the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar, also founded the CDF, short for this

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What is the Children’s Defense Fund?

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Her friendship with Robert Baden-Powell inspired her to establish the Girl Scouts

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Who is Juliette Lowe?

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In 1938 he was lead chair in the NAACP’s legal office; nearly 30 years later, he began making supreme decisions

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Who is Marshall?

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1973 Kentucky Derby winner

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Who is Secretariat?

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Now owned by Mattel, they began rolling off the assembly line in the 1950s & were named for their small cardboard containers

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What are matchbox cars?

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About midway between L.A. & San Francisco, Fresno was founded by this railroad co.; Leland Stanford was said to have picked the site

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What is the Central Pacific?

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“Wild Bill” Donovan headed this 1940s U.S. intelligence service

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What is the Office of Strategic Services?

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In 1986, Ralph Hollis & Dudley Foster joined Robert Ballard aboard the submersible Alvin to explore this wreck

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What is the Titanic?

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Michael Collins was in the command module Columbia while Armstrong & Aldrin made it to the moon on this “avian” craft

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What is the Eagle?

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This cartographer set out to explore the Mississippi in birchbark canoes with Jacques Marquette in 1673

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Who is Louis Jolliet?

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Of the last 12 sitting U.S. presidents, the only one Elizabeth never met; she had her youngest child 3 months into his presidency

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Who is Lyndon Johnson?

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At the age of 12 this future Founding Father was apprenticed to his brother James, a printer

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Who is Ben Franklin?

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Begun in 1764, this Hartford, Connecticut Journal is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the USA

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What is the Hartford Courant?

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True Treats in W.V. sells candy from many eras, including peanut brittle from this 19th century horticulturist’s recipe

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Who is George Washington Carver?

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Though their exploits promoted a Depression-era chic, this pair is thought to have murdered about a dozen people

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Who are Bonnie and Clyde?

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In 1961, the Foreign Assistance Act gives birth to this agency

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What is U.S.AID?

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$5,800 of this parachuting hijacker’s money turned up near the Columbia River in 1980

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Who is D.B. Cooper?

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In 1825, during his celebrated return visit to the U.S., this Frenchman laid the cornerstone for the Bunker Hill Monument

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Who is Lafayette?

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EPITAPHS & TRIBUTES: Revolutionary War hero: “His spirit is in Vermont now”

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Who is Ethan Allen?

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