US History Flashcards
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1815 treaty that officially ended the War of 1812
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Treaty of Ghent (Belgium)
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Famous Tombstone - AZ - gunfight - 1881
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Gunfight at the OK Corral
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Knife inventor killed at the Alamo
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Jim Bowie
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Tennessee frontiersman killed at Alamo
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Davy Crockett
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Commander at the Alamo - 1836
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William Travis
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San Antonio shrine of Texas War of Independence
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Alamo
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It rang for the last time in 1835
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Liberty Bell
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He led unsuccessful slave rebellion - 1831
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Nat Turner
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Man-made waterway that opened in 1825
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Erie Canal
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Doctrine warning Europe not to interfere in Western Hemisphere - 1823
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Monroe Doctrine
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1820 compromise that temporarily ended slavery dispute
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Missouri Compromise
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Political party established by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
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Whigs
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States fighting in the Toledo war
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Ohio and Michigan
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“Old Fuss and Feathers;” he captured Mexico City in 1847
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Winfield Scott
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“The Great Compromiser;” he negotiated the Treaty of Ghent
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Henry Clay
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Treaty that ended Mexican-American War
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Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidgalgo
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Pirate who aided in Battle of New Orleans
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Jean Lafitte
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Man who captured New Orleans in 1815
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Andrew Jackson
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Man who wrote Star Spangled Banner in 1814
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Francis Scott Key
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Fort bombed by British in 1814
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Fort McHenry
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Winner of the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813
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Oliver Hazard Perry
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Louisiana Purchase explorer of southern territory
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Zebulon Pike (Pike’s peak)
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William Clark’s fronteirsman brother
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George Rogers Clark
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Louisiana Purchase explorers of northern territory
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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"The Pathfinder" who was governor of the Arizona Territory
John C. Fremont
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Man who burned the Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor - 1804
Stephen Decatur
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Case declared unconstitutional by Supreme court in 1803
Marberry vs. Madison
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US land purchase of 1803
Louisiana purchase (15M)
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Territory of states in the Ohio Valley and northward
Northwest Territory
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Supreme court decision - 1857 (a slave is not a citizen)
Dred Scott Decision
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What was the first permanent settlement in North America - 1565?
St. Augustine
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Laws enacted for segregation in the 1880s
Jim Crow laws
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City of the Great Fire - 1871
Chicago
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Railroads that met at Promontory Point
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
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Utah point where the transcontinental railroad met
Promontory Point
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Transportation route - completed 1869
Transcontinental Railroad
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He instituted the national banking system
Salmon P. Chase
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Land purchase - 1867 - a.k.a. Seward's Folley
Alaska Territory (7.2M)
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Congressional act giving land to settlers - 1862
Homestead Act
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Pony Express Terminals
St. Joseph - MO and Sacramento - CA
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Mail delivery service - 1860-61
Pony Express
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"The boss of Tammany Hall" in the 1860s
(William Marcy) "Boss" Tweed
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Northwest land dispute motto - 1844
"54-40 or fight"
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He debated with Abe Lincoln - 1858
Stephen Douglas
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Liquor tax rebellion of 1794
Whiskey Rebellion
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's preacher brother
Henry Ward Beecher
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"Ignorant party"
Know Nothings
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"Paper note party"
Greenbacks
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Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) party
Prohibition party
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1854 act that nullified Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska act
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Territory bought from Mexico in 1853
Gadsden Purchase
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First U.S. steamship commander - he negotiated a trading treaty with Japan in 1853
Commodore Matthew Perry
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Site where gold was discovered in1848
Sutter's Mill
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Settlers trapped in Sierra Madres - 1846-47
Donner Party
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Birthplace of the Conestoga wagon
Lacaster - PA
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Short-lived U.S. state in western Tennessee
Franklin
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Langtree - Texas judge - "The law west of the Pecos"
Judge Roy Bean
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He raided Harpers' Ferry - 1859
John Brown
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Colonial capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
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Pocahontas' father
Powhattan
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He married Pocahontas
John Rolfe
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Increase Mather's son
Cotton Mather
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Puritan husband of Maria Cotton
Increase Mather
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Colonial silversmith - engraver and gunpowder maker
Paul Revere
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Philadelphia founder
William Penn
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Fort Orange location
Albany
67
Georgia founder
James Oglethorpe
68
Maryland founder
Cecil Calvert (second Lord Baltimore)
69
Dutch governor of New Netherlands
Peter Stuyvesant
70
Providence and Rhode Island founder
Roger Williams
71
He purchased Manhattan from the Indians
Peter Minuit
72
American Frigate launched in Boston - 1797
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides)
73
Virginia namesake
Queen Elizabeth I (The Virgin Queen)
74
Detroit founder
Antoine Cadillac
75
Virginia rebellion - 1676
Bacon's rebellion
76
Boston to New York road established in 1672
Boston Post Road
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New York City's original name
New Amsterdam
78
Dutch settlement in the Americas - 1624
New Netherlands
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First legislature in Virginia - 1619
House of Burgesses
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Pilgrim known as "Little Shrimp"
Miles Standish
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Plymouth father - elected Plymouth governor 30 times
William Bradford
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First governor of Plymouth - died during first winter
John Carver
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First pilgrim at Plymouth Rock and colonial barrel maker
John Alden
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Massachusetts colony - 1620
Plymouth
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Virginia colony - 1607
Jamestown
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First English colony in the Americas - 1588
Roanoke Island
87
Man who claimed Virginia for England
Sir Walter Raleigh
88
First president under the Articles of Confederation
John Hanson
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Feuding families of West Virginia and Kentucky - 1882
Hatfields and McCoys
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Eli Whitney's invention - 1791
Cotton gin
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He founded the Bank of America - 1791
Alexander Hamilton
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Document established in 1787
U.S. Constitution
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Massachusetts farmers rebellion of 1786
Shays' Rebellion
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U.S. capital from 1789-1790
New York City
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U.S. capital - 1783
Annapolis
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U.S. capital from 1775-1783
Philadelphia
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Designer of the American Flag
Francis Hopkins
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Roadway across the Appalachians
Cumberland Road
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Party of the first two presidents
Federalist
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Continental Congress last president
Cyrus Griffin
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Man Pocahontas saved
John Smith
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Body representing the colonies - 1774-1789
Continental Congress
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Pocahontas' burial place
Gravesend Church - England
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First constitution - Nov. 15 - 1777
Articles of Confederation
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Kentucky frontiersman - 1775
Daniel Boone
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Colonial legislature established in 1774
First continental Congress
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British acts legislated because of the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
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Street clash that killed five colonists in 1770
Boston Massacre
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Act passed by British Parliament in 1763
Stamp Act
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Father of the Great Awakening - fire and brimstone preacher
Jonathan Edwards
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New England religious revival - 1730-1750
Great Awakening
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Pre-Revolutionary War patriotic societies
Sons of Liberty
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Boston hall - "The Cradle of Liberty"
Faneuil Hall
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Colonial seamstress
Betsy Ross
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John Adams' cousin and Boston Tea Party organizer
Samuel Adams
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Diplomatic incident with France in 1797
XYZ affair
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Continental Congress president - 1775-1777
John Hancock
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Man given the correct answers to quiz show questions
Charles Van Doren
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Tombstone - AZ - marshall - 1881
Wyatt Earp
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Spring - 1968 - North Vietnam offensive
Tet Offensive
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Law that opened up governemnt files - 1966
Freedom of Information Act
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LBJ's social program
Great Society
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Cities of Martin Luther King's 1965 Freedom March
Selma to Montgomery
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Commission set up to investigate JFK assassination
Warren Commission
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Nuclear weapons treaty of 1963
Test Ban Treaty
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American pilot exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolph Abel
Francis Gary Powers
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Member of the Weavers and political activist
Pete Seeger
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Doctor defended by F. Lee Bailey before the Supreme Court in 1962
Sam Shepard
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Nightclub comedian arrested for obscenity - 1961
Lenny Bruce
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Failed Cuban invasion site - 1961
Bay of Pigs
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Name of the Apollo 11 space capsule
Eagle
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J.F. Dulles' brother and head of the CIA
Allen Dulles
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Rock concert at Bethyl - New York - 1969
Woodstock
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He was 14-year-old U.S. chess champion in 1957
Bobby Fischer
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High school integration city - 1957
Little Rock
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Man who created first state board of education
Horace Mann
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Bus boycott city - 1955
Montgomery
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Supreme Court anti-segregation decision - 1954
Brown vs. Board of Education
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Generation that followed baby boomers
"Generation X"
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Post WWII generation
"Baby Boomers"
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First U.S. nuclear powered submarine - 1954
Nautilus
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"Hollywood Ten" spokesman
Humhrey Bogart
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"Hollywood Ten" were investigated by this committee
HUAC
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Pacific site of first H-bomb test -1951
Eniwetoc
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Tennessee senator who held organized crime hearings - 1951
Estes Kefauver
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They participated in the "Kitchen Debate" - 1959
Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushschev
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This became an American territory in 1978
American Samoa
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World Trade agreement ratified 1994
GATT
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Trade agreement ratified in 1993
NAFTA
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Banker whose conviction was overturned in 1993
Charles Keating
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Idaho site of FBI standoff - 1992
Ruby Ridge
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Gun bill named for White House press secretary
Brady Bill
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Bill intended to balance U.S. budget - 1985
Grahan-Rudman (Hollings)
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Commission that presided over Iran-Contra hearings
Tower Commission
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Admiral indicted over Iran-Contra affair
John Poindexter
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He funneled arms sales profits to Nicaraguan Contras
Oliver North
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Volcano that erupted in 1980
Mt. St. Helens
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Peace agreement worked out by President Carter - 1979
Camp David Accords
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Site of nuclear power accident - 1979
Three Mile Island
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Base on the Moon - 1969
Tranquility Base
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News program established to cover Iran hostage crisis
Nightline
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Great Robbery of 1950
Brinks robbery
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Oil artery finished in 1977
Alaska pipeline
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Disease first recognized in Philadelphia - 1976
Legionaire's Disease
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Environmental act of 1973
Engangered Species Act
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Company given 1.5 billion governemnt bailout in 1973
Chrysler
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Head of committee investigating Watergate
Sam Irvin
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White House lawyer caught up in Watergate
John Dean
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He directed the Watergate Hotel burglary
E. Howard Hunt
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Nixon's White House Chief of Staff
H.R. Haldeman
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Analyst who leaded the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg
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Nixon's attorney-general who resigned in1972
John Mitchell
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Ads banned - 1971
Cigarette ads
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Air quality standards act of 1970
Clean Air Act
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Number of days of the Iran hostage crisis
444
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Disaster that killed 6000 in 1900
Galveston Hurricane
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Major police strike - 1919
Boston police strike
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Law that banned export of alcohol - 1919
Volsted Act
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He chased Pancho Villo into Mexico
John (Black Jack) Pershing
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Teddy Roosevelt's independent party
Progressive or Bull Moose Party
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Agency created to prevent unfair business practices - 1914
Federal Trade Commission
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He established the first auto assembly line - 1913
Henry Ford
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Central US banking authority created in 1913
Federal Reserve System
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1912 health claims act
Pure Food and Drug Act
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William Howard Taft's policy toward Latin America
Dollar Diplomacy
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"Saloon Smasher " 1910
Carry Nation
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Oil baron who was first billionaire in the U.S.
J.D. Rockefeller
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Railroad "robber baron" who organized U.S. Steel in 1901
J.P. Morgan
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Computer used by U.S. Census Bureau - 1951
UNIVAC
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Five-time Socialist presidential candidate - starting 1900
Eugene Debs
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U.S. declined to join this body in 1920
League of Nations
192
He won the Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Commodore George Dewey
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War that commenced in 1898
Spanish-American War
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Ship that exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898
Maine
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1896 William Jennings Bryan Speech
"Cross of Gold"
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"Separate - but equal" Supreme Court Decision - 1896
Plessy vs. Ferguson
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1894 rail workers strike
Pullman Strike
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American Railway Union founder - 1893
Eugene Debs
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1890 trust busting act
Sherman anti-trust act
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Pennsylvania flood of 1889
Johnstown flood
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Chicago riots - 1886
Haymarket riots
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Statue that was dedicated in 1886
Statue of Liberty
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"The Son of Morning Star" who died at Little Big Horn
George Armstrong Custer
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Disaster that killed 500 - 1906
San Francisco earthquake
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Louisiana senator shot - 1935
Huey Long
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Militia who had an 81 day standoff with the U.S. government - 1996
Montana Freemen
207
_Time_ magazine editor involved with Alger Hiss
Whitaker Chambers
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Statesman convicted of lying to HUAC - 1948
Alger Hiss
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Sex researcher at Indiana University - 1948
Alfred Kinsey
210
Army Chief of Staff - 1948
Omar Bradley (last five star general)
211
Law that banned closed union shops - 1948
Taft-Hartley Act
212
He broke the sound barrier in 1947
Chuck Yeager
213
Site of first postwar atomic bomb test in 1946
Bikini Atoll
214
Statesman awarded Nobel Peace Prize - 1945
Cordell Hull
215
Boston night club fire in which 491 people were killed - 1942
Coconut Grove
216
He broadcast "The War of the Worlds" in 1938
Orson Welles
217
He set around-the-world flying record - 1938
Howard Hughes
218
He organized the U.S. Communist Party in 1919
John Reed
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U.S. gold repository - established in 1935
Fort Knox
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Baseball scandal 1919-20
"Black Sox" Scandal
221
Group of dams built as part of the New Deal
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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FDR's 1933 program to end the depression
New Deal
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FDR established this holiday in 1933
Bank Holiday
224
Date of the stock market crash
October 29 - 1929 ("Black Tuesday")
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Secretary of Interior convicted of taking bribes - 1929
Albert Fall
226
Beaumont - Texas oil field
Spindle Top Field
227
Voting league established - 1928
League of Women Voters
228
First U.S. underwater tunnel - 1927
Holland Tunnel
229
He launched first liquid fuel rocket - 1926
Robert Goddard
230
Tennessee trial on teaching evolution in schools - 1925
Scopes (monkey) trial
231
Wyoming oil leasing scandal - 1923
Teapot Dome Scandal
232
Harding pardoned this Socialist in 1921
Eugene Debs
233
First computer - 1950
ENIAC
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Chicago to L.A. highway; "Main Street of America"
Route 66
