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US History and Politics Flashcards

1
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speaker of the house 1977-1987

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Tip O’Neill

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2
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island home

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Sagamore Hill

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3
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“chicken in every pot” politician

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Hoover

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Teflon Don

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John Gotti

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5
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first female secretary of state

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Albright

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6
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CCC New Deal program

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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7
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South Dakota senator lost to Nixon in 1972 landslide

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McGovern

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8
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year Alaska and Hawaii became states

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1959

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9
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Richelieu king

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Louis XIII

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10
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Jayhawkers state Civil War

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Kansas

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11
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Era of Good Feelings president

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Monroe

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12
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Nation of Islam leader

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Farrakhan

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13
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Million Man March leader

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Farrakhan

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14
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1777 New York Revolutionary battle where colonists won against Burgoyne

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Saratoga

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15
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year British burned the White House

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1814

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16
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1863 Civil War battle where the Union took control of the Mississippi

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Vicksburg

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17
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first president born 20th century

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JFK

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18
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last Revolutionary battle

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Yorktown 1781

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19
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year Revolution ended

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1783

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20
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WWII policy US gave supplies to Allies that couldn’t pay

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Lend-Lease Act

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21
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general fired by Lincoln

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George McClellan

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22
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organized mine workers early 1900s, Irish->American

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Mother Jones

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23
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“I have not yet begun to fight”

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John Paul Jones

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24
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Father of the American Navy

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John Paul Jones

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25
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Coffeyville, Kansas bank robbers

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Dalton gang

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26
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Depression photographer, notably of “Migrant Mother”

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Dorothea Lange

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27
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1889 Pennsylvania flood

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Johnstown

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28
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Queen of Mean hotel heiress

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Leona Helmsley

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29
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The boy bandit king

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Billy the Kid

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30
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the singing cowboy

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Gene Autry

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31
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long serving West Virginia Democrat senator 1950s-2010s

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Robert Byrd

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32
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Apache state

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Arizona

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33
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1800s Missouri bank/train robber (outlaw)

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Jesse James

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34
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“The lone eagle”

35
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Wyoming fort

36
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Confederate raider burned Lawrence Kansas

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William Quantrill

37
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captain of the Olympia “fire when ready” Manila Bay 1898 Spanish-American war

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Charles Gridley

38
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Battle of Manila Bay commander

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Charles Dewey

39
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Charles Dewey war

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Spanish-American war

40
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frontier judge, only law west of the Pecos

41
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ship rescued Titanic survivors

42
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Birdman of Alcatraz

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Robert Stroud

43
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Brooklyn Bridge designer

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John Roebling

44
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Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant

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Thomas Watson

45
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doctor helped John Wilkes Booth

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Samuel Mudd

46
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FDR/Churchill post-WWI cooperation document

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Atlantic Charter

47
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Belgian priest leper colony on Molokai

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Father Damien

48
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founder of California missions

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Junipero Serra

49
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largest reservation/tribe in the US

50
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Cordell Hull/FDR Latin American policy

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Good Neighbor

51
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presidential guest house

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Blair House

52
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first chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Omar Bradley

53
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Marion, Ohio president

54
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Little Flower NYC mayor

55
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1980 FBI Arab sting caught US congressmen

56
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Reagan presidential library location

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Simi Valley CA

57
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longest serving SCOTUS justice

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William O. Douglas

58
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post-Civil War government agency to help former slaves

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Freedmen’s Bureau

59
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congresswoman/wife of magazine publisher/playwright of The Women

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Clare Booth Luce

60
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Confederate Secretary of State

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Judah Benjamin

61
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VP from Ceylon Minnesota

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Walter Mondale

62
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Chief Justice 1953-1969

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Earl Warren

63
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1807 law banning exports to Britain

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Embargo Act

64
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Wild Bill Hickok town

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Deadwood, South Dakota

65
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wagon trail Missouri to New Mexico

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Santa Fe trail

66
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joined the Union during the Civil War, “Battle Born State”

67
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only president’s child born in the White House

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Esther Cleveland

68
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John Wilkes Booth brother

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Edwin Booth

69
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“Remember the Maine” war

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Spanish American

70
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California Japanese internment camp site

71
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1944 site of UN planning conference

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Dumbarton Oaks, DC

72
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highest US military honor for valor

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Congressional Medal of Honor

73
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“Mad” Revolutionary general

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Mad Anthony Wayne

74
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WWI hero from Tennessee, played by Gary Cooper

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Sergeant Alvin York

75
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Freedom March cities

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Selma to Montgomery

76
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1920 shipping act gave citizenship to Puerto Ricans

77
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Lincoln’s Secretary of State

78
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Al Gore’s running mate, Jewish, Connecticut

79
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Connecticut spy executed by the British in NYC

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Nathan Hale

80
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1979 Pennsylvania disaster

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Three Mile Island

81
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1930s pilot accidentally flew to Dublin instead of LA

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Wrong Way Corrigan

82
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cross of gold speechwriter

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William Jennings Bryan

83
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1890s Nebraska politician and orator

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William Jennings Bryan

84
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WWI veterans marched on Washington for more benefits

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Bonus Army

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