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Patriotic who declared give me liberty or give me death

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Patrick Henry

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Entrepreneur who made his fortune in the oil industry

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JD Rockefeller

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President known as the great humanitarian

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Herbert Hoover

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Served as president of the Confederacy during the Civil War

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Jefferson Davis

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Said I only regrets that I have but one life to lose for my country

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Nathan Hale

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Religious group who wrote the first classical music composed in America

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Moravians

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Former shoe salesman who became a great evangelist across America

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DL Moody

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Hymnist to roll blessed assurance and many other hymns in the late 1800s

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Fanny Crosby

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Chairman of joint chiefs of staff during the Persian gulf war

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Colin Powell

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General who led troops into come back in operation Desert Storm

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Norman Schwartzkopt

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First woman justice appointed to the Supreme Court

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Sandra day O’Connor

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Leader of al Qaeda terrorist network during the night 9-11 attacks

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Osma bin laden

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President who initiated the war on terror after 9/11

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George W. Bush

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Calvary commander killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn

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George Armstrong

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First Roman Catholic president

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John F. Kennedy

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Chief justice appointed to the Supreme Court and to dads and five by George W. Bush

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John G Roberts

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Dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait sparking in the Persian Gulf war

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Saddam Hussein

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Conservative prime minister of Great Britain during the Reagan administration

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Margaret thatcher

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Communist leader of the Soviet Union who signed INS treaty with President Reagan in 1987

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Father of the Constitution

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James Madison

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Best-known missionary to the Indians

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David Brainerd

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Invented the steel plow

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John Deere

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First European known to travel the length of Asia

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Marco Polo

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Discovered the Mississippi River

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Hernando De Soto

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Invented the telegraph

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Samuel Morse

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Invented the reaping machine

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Cyrus McCormick

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Wrote history of Plymouth plantation

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William Bradford

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Led the rough riders in the battle of San Juan Hill

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Not see dictator of Germany during World War II

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Adolf Hitler

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President known as the great communicator

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Ronnald Reagan

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Known as the father of progressive education

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John Dewey

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Founded the settlement of Providence Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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Developed hundreds of uses for the peanut

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George Washington Carver

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German soldier that team George tired to fight the colonist

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The Soviet Union collapsed during the administration of this president

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George W. Bush

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Posted the 95 thesis sparking the Proston we formation

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Martin Luther

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Lead a movement to have prayer and Bible reading banned from public schools

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Madalyn Murray O’hair

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Became the first black American to achieve the rank of four stars general and the US Armed Forces

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Chappy games

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Wrote the famous porn that became a national anthem the Star-Spangled Banner

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Francis Scott key

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Name of the Indian guide who accompanied the Louis and Clark expedition

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Repealed prohibition

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21st amendment

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The board with printed Scriptures and the alphabet

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Codename for America’s atomic bomb project

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Manhattan Project

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The murder of over 6 million Jews

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Prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol

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18th amendment

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Gave Congress the power to tax incomes

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16th amendment

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United states lead you and forces to Liberate Kuwait in 1991

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Persian Gulf War

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Name of Charles Lindbergh’s plane

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Spirit of St. Louis

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Formed out of dislike for President Jackson and his powerful presidency

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Whig party

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Name for President Franklin Roosevelt massive government welfare program

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Passed in Massachusetts to make sure children learn how to read and write

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Ole’Deluder Satan act

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It’s purpose is to balance the powers of the three branches of government

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Checks and balances

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Name given to the presidents advisory

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First 10 amendments to the Constitution

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Bill of Rights

55
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Doubled the size of United States

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Louisiana purchase

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Used to be known as armistice day

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Veterans Day

57
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Stroke a nice big and sank in 1912

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Fast Overlink munication service before the telegraph

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Pony express

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You and biblical theory that Charles Darwin promoted

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Scandal which forced President Nixon to re-sign from office

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President Reagan’s conservative economic views were known as this

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Reaganomics

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Need for evangelist who rode on horseback and conducted church services on the frontier

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Circuit riders

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President George W. Bush created this US department to promote the safety of the American people

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Agreement which eliminated Terrace and other trade restrictions between the United States Canada and Mexico

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Homeland security

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Name the two American cities that were attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001

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New York City and Washington DC

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Known as the lone star Republic

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William Penn founded both Pennsylvania and

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First city to be bomb do with an atomic weapon

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Oldest permanent settlement in the United States

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St. Augustine

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First shot of the Civil War was fired

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For Sumter

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John Winthrop described it as a city upon a hill

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Massachusetts Bay colony

72
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First permanent English settlement in North America

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Natural pass and the Appalachian Mountains that allowed settlers to travel west

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Cumberland gap

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First nation targeted in the war on terror for sheltering al Qaeda terrorists

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Afghanistan

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Place where the Japanese made their final stand and lost nearly all their remaining ships in World War II

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Leyte gulf

76
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Searched for the fabled fountain of youth

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Ponce Leon

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