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Academic Team
Fast Facts
Social Studies Vol. 1
What Every GREAT Quick Recall Player Should Know!
The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)..
Founded Germany (First Reich) ......
Amendment 18 deals with...
Aviation...........
Positivism or Sociology........
Skepticism ................
Pantheism ......
Sikhism.....
Atheism .......
History....
Largest sea battle in World War II
Amendment 25 deals with...
Largest sea battle in World War I
Burned Washington DC in War of 1812
Largest air battle of World War II
Modern education........
Girl scouts.......
Christian Science Movement....
Women’s’ Suffrage Movement.......
Salvation Army......
Behaviorism or Operant Conditioning......
Imprinting......
Pragmaticism.........
N.A.A.C.P.............
Amendment 27 deals with...
Hierarchy of questioning....
Hierarchy of needs…
Oliver Hudson Kelley
Henry I
Prohibition
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Auguste Comte
David Hume
Baruch Spinoza
Guru Nanak
Thomas Paine
Herodutus
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Presidential Succession
Battle of Jutland
General Robert Ross (British)
Battle of Midway
John Dewey
Juliette Low
Mary Baker Eddy
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Catherine and William Booth
B.F. Skinner
Konrad Lorenz
John Dewey
W.E.B. Du Bois
Limits on Congressional Raises
Jean Piaget
Abraham Maslow
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Taxonomy of knowledge...
A. F. L. (American Federation of Labor)
C. I. O. (Congress of Industrial Organizations)
A. F. L. - C. I. O.
Psychoanalysis..........
Atomic Bomb (Manhattan Project)...
Hydrogen Bomb..........
Phenomenology.......
Birth control movement ....
Ku Klux Klan......
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Jazz.......
Navy......
Economics (wrote Wealth of Nations)
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
First African American Governor
Created Uncle Sam.......
Basketball........
Baseball.........
Hull House......
Article I (the Preamble) deals with...
Founder of modern ethology (the study of comparative animal behavior)
Classical Conditioning (conditioned reflex) Experimental Psychology...
Gestalt Psychology (Individuals)
Existentialism......
Modern calendar........
Benjamin Bloom
Samuel Gompers
John L. Lewis
George Meany
Sigmund Freud
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Edward Teller
Edmund Husserl
Margaret Sanger
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Roger Baldwin
W.C. Handy
John Paul Jones
Adam Smith
Frances Willard
Douglas Wilder (governor of Virginia)
James Flagg
Dr. James Naismith
Abner Doubleday
Jane Adams
The Legislature
Konrad Lorenz
Ivan Pavlov
Wilhelm Wundt
Max Wertheimer
Soren Kierkegaard
Pope Gregory XIII
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Opposed Freud and gave us alternative theory of the libido - will to live was stronger than sexual drive -- he gave us the words introverts and extroverts
First Female Doctor
First Computer Programmer
Last Major Civil War Battle
Founded Boys Scouts of America
First Organization for maintaining World Peace
Established the League of Nations
Founded Fast Food Industry (McDonalds) Founded Pakistan
First American killed in Vietnam
Founded Zionism (in Israel)
Last Queen of Hawaii
Article 2 (Preamble) deals with...
Founded Oceanography
Largest River in the World
Founded Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
Battle where Stonewall Jackson got his nickname
Confederate general who said, “There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall!”
Founded African Methodist Episcopal Church
Founded and led Tuskegee Airman - a unit of black airmen that fought in World War IILongest River in World (Africa)
Founder and First President of Czechoslovakia
Founded Utah
Discovered the Pacific OceanCarl Jung
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
Augusta Ada Byron
Battle of Perryville (Kentucky)
Robert Baden-Powell
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
Ray Kroc
Mohammed Jinnah
Robert Capa
Theodor Herzl
Queen Liliuokalani
The Executive Department
Matthew Maury
Amazon River (in South America)
Booker T. Washington
First Battle of Bull Run
Bernard Elliott Bee
Richard Allen
Gen. Benjamin Davis Jr.
Nile River
Tomas Masaryk
Brigham Young
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Vasco BalboaOnly U.S. President from Kentucky
Oldest Town in Kentucky
First Governor of Kentucky
Founded Reform Party
Founded first American Bank - Bank of North America
Invented Telegraph
Gave us Arizona and New Mexico
First ship to sail around the world
Founded American Red Cross
Article 3 (Preamble) deals with...
Founded Socialist Party in U.S. and ran for presidency from prison; also founded I.W.W. (International Workers of the World)
Famous charter drawn up against King John I
First Tudor Monarch in England
First Stuart King of England
First President elected in Hungary
First Christian King in Hungary
Designed First skyscraper Homes Insurance Building (Chicago)Wrote work that inspired our U.S. Government’s System (3 Branches exec., jud., and legis.)
First woman to reach North Pole (on foot) Founded Greenland
First to reach South Pole
Founded first steel company in USA and used the Bessemer Process to make steel
Bought Carnegie Steel in 1901 to form US Steel
First to FLY over the South PoleZachary Taylor (12th President)
Harrodsburg
Isaac Shelby
Ross Perot
Robert Morris
Samuel Morse
Gadsden Purchase
Vittoria (Magellan’s ship)
Clara Barton
The Judicial Department
Eugene V. Debbs
Magna Carta (1215)
Henry VII
James I
Arpad Goncz
Stephen
William L. Jenney
Montisquieu
Ann Bancroft
Eric the Red
Roald Amundsen
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
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Richard E. ByrdHe owned the Pullman Company (first OIL company)
Imaginary line in America that divided land between Spain and Portugal
1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain that established the “Line of Demarcation” in America
Gave us Texas
Founded (Started) British Imperialism
First Computer (built by Grace Hopper and Howard Aiken)First Billion Dollar Corporation (Andrew Carnegie)
Founded U S Steel (later consolidated with) Founded Standard Oil - government passes Sherman Anti-Trust Act to stop his monopoly
He drilled the first oil well in the U.S.
Location of the first oil well...
Article 6 (Preamble) deals with...
Founded First American Monopoly -American Fur Company
Founded INTEL Corporation
Founded MICROSOFT
World’s First Civilization
First Black Female to hold a CABINET Position
First country to outlaw slavery
First U.S. Secretary of Treasury
Commanded the Texas forces against the Mexicans at the Alamo
First man killed in Boston Massacre
Famous British General of War of 1812, called the “Hero of Upper Canada”Andrew Carnegie
Line of Demarcation
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Benjamin Disraeli
MARK I
United States Steel Corporation
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Edwin Drake
Titusville, Pennsylvania
Role of National Government
John J. Astor
Robert Noyce
Bill Gates (and Paul Allen)
Mesopotamia
Patricia Harris
France
Alexander Hamilton
William B. Travis
Crispus Attucks (an escaped slave from the South)
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General Isaac Brock
Oldest American University
Oldest European University
Founded First Anti-Slavery Newspaper called The Liberator
Founded KODAK
Unified Russia into one country
First Romanov Czar of Russia
Last Czar of Russia (he was a Romanov) Founded General Motors Corporation
First Christian emperor of Russia
Last Rurik to rule Russia
First Empress of Russia
Article 7 (Preamble) deals with...
First to reach the North Pole
Made First solo flight over North Pole
Lowest spot in the oceans (in Pacific)
Founded Greek philosophy (he even believed that magnets had souls)
First known Greek philosopher and scientist
First great philosopher who, because he was “accused” of corrupting the youth of Athens was forced to drink hemlock unless he renounced his claims; he didn’t, drank hemlock, and died
Method of teaching by asking questions
Founded Quakers or Society of Friends
Founded metaphysics - a part of philosophy that seeks to explain our existenceFounded Judaism
Founded anthropology
Founded and First Ruler of ChinaHarvard
University of Bologna (Italy)
William Lloyd Garrison
George Eastman
Peter I (Peter the Great)
Michael
Nicholas II
William Durant
Vladimir I
Fedor I
Catherine I (Romanov) – later was Catherine II or Catherine the Great
Ratification
Robert E. Peary
Charles Blair
Mariana Trench (lowest explored part of this trench is “Challenger Deep”)
Thales
Thales
Socrates
Socratic Method
George Fox
Heraclitus
Akibu ben Joseph
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Johann Blumenbach
Kublai Khan (Mongol)Founder of Humanism - living according to our desires and needs onlyFirst Mongol Emperor of India
Founded Israel
Founded Plymouth Colony and was Captain of the Mayflower
Founded Stoicism - branch of philosophy that states that nature is governed by laws
Gave us a paradox that says if you get half closer to something repeatedly you will never theoretically reach it (founded concept of limit); he also formulated a paradox dealing with Achilles and a tortoise: Achilles runs ten times faster than the tortoise but the tortoise has a head-start of ten units so Achilles will, theoretically, never pass the tortoise
First President of Turkey
Founded Jamestown
Founded Roanoke Island (Lost Colony)
First Governor of Roanoke Island who sailed of Virginia Dare) back to England for supplies and, when he returned, the colonists had vanished
Boy born at sea while on the Mayflower
Boy born on the Mayflower while it was in harbor, off the coast of Cape Cod
Two leaders of the Pilgrims who established the Plymouth Colony
Wrote History of Plymouth Plantation
Ship that originally planned to sail to America with the Mayflower, but was found unseaworthy
“Plantation covenant” signed on November 21, 1620 by all 41 of the men aboard the Mayflower
First Sociologist
Designed City Hall in New York
Petrarch
Baber
Golda Meir
John Carver
Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Elea
Kemal Attaturk
John Smith
Sir Walter Raleigh
John White (father of Virginia Dare)
Oceanus Hopkins
Peregrine White
William Bradford and William Brewster
William Bradford
Speedwell
Mayflower Compact
Emile Durkheim
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Pierre L’Enfant
Planned the city of Washington DC- dismissed by George Washington (reasons unknown)
After Lincoln was assassinated, his body lay in the rotunda of this building as tens of thousands of Americans joined in a mournful farewell
Built Washington DC from memory of Pierre L’ Enfant’s Plans and built first American Clock
First Kentuckian Justice on Supreme Court
First ruler of Sweden
Current ruler of Sweden
First Democratic Presidential Candidate and our first Democratic President
Liberty Party’s First Candidate for President
Independent Party’s First Presidential Candidate
First and Second (Last) Progressive Party’s Candidates to run for President
Only Progressive Party President
First Anti-Federalist President
First Whig President
First Republican Presidential Candidate - was beaten by Democrat James Buchanan (15th)
DixieCrats only Presidential Candidate – beaten in 1948 by Harry S Truman (33rd President)
Party in the 1850’s that opposed immigration and Roman Catholicism
Largest Dam (on Yangtzee River in China) First Black Female U.S. Senator....
Pope that abolished the Jesuits
He re-established the Jesuits
Governor of New Netherlands....Pierre L’Enfant
New York’s City Hall
Benjamin Banneker
Fredrick Vinson
Gustavus I
Charles VI (Gustavus Dynasty)
Andrew Jackson (7th President)
James G. Birney
George C. Wallace
Robert LaFollette (first) and Henry C. Wallace (second)
Theodore Roosevelt (26th President)
Thomas Jefferson (3rd President)
William Henry Harrison (9th President)
John C. Freemont
Strom Thurmond
American Party or Know-Nothing Party
Three Gorges Dam
Carol Moseley Braun
Pope Clement XIV
Pope Pius VII
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Peter MinuitUnified Italy....
Famous German Port....
Amendment 2 (Bill of Rights) deals with...
Famous Russian Port....
First Victim of Cold War, a Baptist missionary killed by Chinese Communists in 1945
Anticommunist organization founded in US by Robert Welch; it is organized into local chapters and has campaigned for US withdrawal from the United Nations, repeal of the income tax and social security laws, and other right-wing causes
Founded John Birch Society
First English Child Born in America
Only Medal of Honor awarded that was not war related
President that awarded Charles Lindbergh this medal
First woman to cross Atlantic- did it on May 21, 1932...
First Stuart King of Scotland....
Amendment 2 (Bill of Rights) deals with... Built First hospital in South Africa
First to translate Bible into English
New Deal ……
Square Deal .........
Fair Deal..........
Great Society .........
New Frontier (Passed Alliance for Progress) Designed Vietnam War Memorial
Lead Gunpowder Plot of 1605- tried to assassinate King James I
First King of FranceCount Cavour under Victor Emmanuel II
Hamburg
Right to Bear Arms
Kiev
John Birch
John Birch Society
Robert Welch, Jr.
Virginia Dare
Charles Lindbergh
Calvin Coolidge
Amelia Earheart
Robert II
Quartering of Troops
Albert Schweitzer
John Wycliffe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Maya Lin
Guy Fawkes
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PharamondFirst Carolinian King of France and father of Charlemagne
Amendment 4 (Bill of Rights) deals with... Louis XIII’s Minister or Cardinal
French Calvinist Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries
Wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion
Religious and political civil wars fought in France from 1562 to 1598
Leader of the Huguenots in the French Wars of Religion
Established legal toleration of Calvinism in Roman Catholic France and ended the Wars of Religion
Mass killing of French Protestants (Huguenots) by Catholics
Date St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre began
Authorized the Edict of Nantes on April 13, 1598
Ordered the death of all Huguenots
Catherine de Medicis’ son who, at his mother’s instigation, gave the order for the death of all Huguenot leaders
Catherine de Medicis’ famous daughter
Wife of Henry IV or Henry of Navarre
Henry IV and Marie de Medici’s famous child
Wife of Louis XIII
Anne of Austria’s father
The hated cardinal of Louis XIII who actually ruled France
Regent that ruled France after Louis XIII’s death in 1643
Louis XIV’s Minister
Louis XIV’s nicknamePepin III (or Pepin the Short) (751-768)
Search and Seizure
Cardinal Richelieu
Huguenots
John Calvin
Wars of Religion
Gaspard de Coligny
Edict of Nantes
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
August 24, 1572
King Henry IV
Catherine de Medicis
King Charles IX
Marie de Medici
Marie de Medici
Louis XIII
Anne of Austria
King Phillip III or Spain
Cardinal Richelieu
Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin
Cardinal Mazarin
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The Sun KingFrench Minister of finance under Louis XIV who was a leading exponent of French mercantilism
Series of attacks against the crown that made Louis XIV realize as a child that he needed to be a great leader
Wife of Louis XIV
Youngest King of France
French judge-administrator who wanted to succeed Cardinal Mazarin as chief minister; his irregular financial methods and personal loans from the treasury helped Colbert to discredit him and Louis XIV imprisoned him
Series of major revolts in France from 1648-1653 during the minority of Louis XIV
Name given to the First Fronde
Name given to the Second Fronde
Louis XV’s famous foreign policy
Derogatory name for French Protestants
Louis XV’s famous prime minister and also Louis XV’s tutor when he was younger
Three wars that Louis XV involved France in
Louis XV’s famous prophecy
Meaning of the word “deluge”
Famous 1733-1735 War
Outcome of the War of Polish Succession
Famous 1740-1748 War
1756-1763 war in which France lost all its possessions
Louis XVI’s wife
Mother and Father of Marie Antoinette
Amendment 5 (Bill of Rights) deals with...
Famous 1789-1799 “civil war” in FranceJean Baptiste Colbert
The Fronde
Maria Theresa
Louis XIV
Nicolas Fouquet
The Fronde
Parliamentary Fronde
Princely Fronde
Secret Diplomacy
Huguenots
Andre Fleury
War of Polish Succession, War of Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years War
“After me, the deluge.”
Downfall
War of Polish Succession
Poland loses Lorraine to France
War of Austrian Succession
Seven Years War
Marie Antoinette
Maria Theresa (Sutria) and Francis I (Holy Roman Emperor)
Rights of Accused Persons
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French RevolutionFirst Capetian King of France
First Valois King of France
First Bourbon King of France
Ruler of the First Empire of France
Defeated Napoleon I and Restored Bourbons
Only Ruler of France from the House of Orleans (1830 - 1848)
Famous 1950’s President of France
Amendment 6 (Bill of Rights) deals with... President of France Until 1994
Current President of France
First Habsburg to be Crowned Holy Roman Emperor and also King of Germany in 1400’s
First King of Prussia
Last Danish King to rule Norway
King of Iraq before Sadam Hussein
Famous Louisiana Senator who was assassinated in 1961.....Leader of Aztecs (Mexico)
Greatest Mayan City (Mesoamerica)
Greatest Aztec City
Amendment 7 (Bill of Rights) deals with... Greatest Incan City (Peru)
Defeated Aztecs (Mexico)
Defeated Mayans
Defeated Incas
First state to abolish slavery
First Roman EmperorHugh Capet (987-996)
Phillip VI (1328-1350)
Henry IV of Navarre (1589-1610); Followed by Louis XIII, XIV, XV, and XVI who ruled throughout 1600’s and 1700’s
Napoleon I (Ruled from 1804-1815)
Louis XVIII (1814-1824)
Louis Philippe
Charles de Gaulle
Right to Speedy Public Trial
Francois Mitterrand
Jacques Chirac
Fredrick III
Fredrick I
Fredrick VI (1784-1808)
King Fisol
Huey P. Long
Montezuma
Tikal
Tenochtitlan (oldest city in the world)
Trial by Jury in Civil Cases
Machu Picchu (Capital was Cuzco)
Hernando Cortez
Francisco de Montejo
Francisco Pissarro
Vermont
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OctavianFounded Rome
Printing From Moveable Type
First Tang Emperor in China
First Sung Emperor in China
First Sui Emperor in China
Founded Islam
Founded Texas
Amendment 9 (Bill of Rights) deals with... Founded Pennsylvania
Founded Georgia
Founded Modern Warfare
Founded Ottoman Empire
Leaders of the Protestant Reformation:GermanySwitzerlandFranceScotlandEngland
Founded First U. S. Textile Mill
Founded Baptist Movement
Founded Mormons
Founded Geography
First Russian Dynasty
First Rurik Ruler
Founded Republican Party
Highest Mountain in the World
Second Highest Mountain in the World
Highest Mountain in South America
Highest peak in the Alps
Amendment 10 (Bill of Rights) deals with...Romulus
Johannes Gutenberg
Li Yuan
Tai Tsu
Wen Ti
Muhammad
Samuel Maverick
Rights of the People
William Penn
James Ogelthorpe
Alfred Krupp (German)
Osman I
Martin Luther (95 theses)Huldrych ZwingliJohn CalvinJohn KnoxHenry VIII
James Lowell
John Smith
Joseph and Hyrum Smith (later Brigham Young)
Karl Ritter
Rurik
Ivan III (Ivan the Great)
Sean MacBride
Mt. Everest (located in Tibet, Nepal)
K2 or Mt. Godwin Austen (located In Kashmir)
Mt. Aconcagua (located in Argentina)
Mt. Blanc (France)
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Powers of the States and PeopleHighest Mountain in Europe
Highest Mountain in Africa
Amendment 11 deals with...
Highest Mountain in Australia
Highest Mountain in Canada
Highest Mountain in North America
Highest Mountain in Antarctica
Highest Mountain in U. S. (excluding Alaska) Chief of Gestapo (German Secret Police) Leader of Schutzstaffel (S S - Elite Guard) President of Reichstag (National Parliament of Germany during World War II
Chief of Luftwaffe (German Airforce)
Deputy of Reichstag
First German Concentration Camp
Most notorious German concentration camp
British Prime Minister at start of World War II
British Prime Minister throughout most of World War II
British Prime Minister at end of World War II
Commanded U S Pacific Fleet in WWII
Commanded U S Atlantic Fleet in WWII
Turning Point of World War II
Biggest Volcano in Antarctica (active)
Amendment 12 deals with…
Biggest dormant Volcano in Africa
Biggest active Volcano in Africa
Biggest Volcano in Japan
Most active Volcano in Central America
Mt. El’ Brus (located in Russia)
Mt. Kilimanjaro (located in Tanzania)
Lawsuits Against States
Mt. Kosciusko
Mt. Logan (located in Yukon Territory)
Mt. McKinley
Mt. Vinson Massif
Mt. Whitney (located in California)
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Hermann Goering
Hermann Goering
Rudolph Hess
Dachau
Auschwitz (in Poland)
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Clemente Atlee
William Nimitz
Joseph King
Battle of Stalingrad
Mount Erebus
Election of Executives
Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Cameroon
Mount Fugi
Mount Izalco (in Salvador)
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World’s Highest continuously active volcano
Biggest Volcano in U S (in Cascade Mts) Three largest islands off the coast of Italy
Island where Napoleon was FIRST exiled
Black Shirted Party of Italy in 1920’s
Founded Fascist Party
Ruled Italy over Victor Emmanuel III
Son of Victor Emmanuel III who replaced his father and Mussolini (only served one month)
First Premier of Italy (1945 - 1953)
Current Prime Minister of Italy
Oldest U S city (located in Florida)
First African American male in CABINET
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Vice President
Ran against Dwight Eisenhower (Democrat) First U S Volunteer Cavalry
Leader of the Rough Riders
First black to serve on U S Supreme Court
AXIS Powers of World War II
1805 Battle that killed Horatio Nelson
First black female Senator
First man in space (Russian on Vostok I) First American in space (Mercury III)
First American on moon (Apollo XI)
First American to Orbit Earth (Mercury VI) Oldest man in space
Last Tudor monarch of England
Mt. Cotopaxi (in Andes Mountains in Ecuador)
Mount Rainier (in Washington)
Sicily, Sardinia, and Elba
Elba
Fascist Party
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Umberto II
Alcide de Gasperi
Romano Prodi
St. Augustine
Robert C. Weaver
Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
Adlai Stevenson
Rough Riders (during the Spanish-American War)
Theodore Roosevelt
Thurgood Marshall
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Battle of Trafalgar
Carol Mosley-Braun
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Shepard
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
John Glenn
Elizabeth I
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American Political Cartoonist that gave us the Republican elephant and Democratic donkey
First Roman Triumvirate
Second Roman Triumvirate
Great Philosophers and their Students
1896 Supreme Court Case that established “separate but equal”
1954 Supreme Court Case
1974 Supreme Court Case which ordered the surrender of White House Tapes
Only Supreme Court Justice to be impeached (acquitted)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1864 - 1873
Leader of the Underground Railroad called “The Moses of Her People”
Invented the Cotton gin
He invented a machine drill for sowing seeds
Leading Female Abolitionist (real name was Isabella Van Wagener)
Invented the sewing machine
Louisiana Governor and Senator who pushed for his radical Share the Wealth Program (he was nicknamed “Kingfish); he was assassinated in Baton Rouge
Came up with Braille printing
Invented the Telegraph
5 Star General of the 1940’s and 1950’s
Came up with Morse code
Invented the blueprint
1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortionThomas Nast
Pompey, Caesar, Crassus (PCC)
Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus (AOL)
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great (SPA-A)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
United States vs. Richard Nixon
Samuel Chase
Salmon P. Chase
Harriet Tubman
Eli Whitney
Jethro Tull
Sojourner Truth
Elias Howe
Huey P. Long
Louis Braille
Samuel F.B. Morse
Omar Bradley
Samuel F.B. Morse
John Herschel
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Roe vs. Wade
Richard Nixon’s First Vice President
Richard Nixon’s Vice President whom he nominated after Agnew resigned
Ran against Eisenhower in 1952 & 1956
Invented the Telephone
Developed the Phonograph
First Monotheist Ruler (Egypt); he tried to replace Egypt’s traditional polytheistic religion and replace it with the worship of Aten, the “Sun Disk”; it is believed his son could have been King Tut
Capital of Egypt under the “heretic king” Akhenaten
King Akhetaten’s wife of whom a famous bust still survives
King Tut’s real name
Invented the Kodak camera
FDR’s 3 Vice Presidents (in order)
Came up with Wireless telegraphy
First Woman Cabinet Member
1963 Supreme Court Case about free legal counsel for those arrested
Invented the Polaroid camera
The most dishonest and notorious politician in U S history; New York City Mayor of 1850’s - Real name William L. Marcy
Boss Tweed’s corrupt political organization
Father of Abolitionism
Father of Modern Geography
First of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient WorldSpiro Agnew
Gerald R. Ford
Adlai Stevenson
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
King Akhenaten (changed name from Amenhotep)
Tell el-Amarna
Nefertiti
Tutankhamen
George Eastman
John Nance Garner (1933-41)Henry A. Wallace (1941-46)Harry Truman (1946-47)
Guglielmo Marconi
Francis Perking (was Secretary of Labor under FDR)
Gideon vs. Wainright
Edwin Land
Boss Tweed
Tammany Hall
William Lloyd Garrison
Gerardus Mercator
Pyramids at Giza
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Lighthouse of Alexandria (at Pharaoh’s Peninsula)Father of Philosophy (wrote Opus Majus) Father of English Inductive Philosophy (wrote Advancement of Learning)
Father of Modern Philosophy (wrote Discourse on Method and said “Cogito ergo sum”)
What “Cogito Ergo Sum” means
Supreme Court Justice from 1801 – 1835
Supreme Court Justice from 1836 – 1864
1857 Supreme Court Case said that slaves were property and thus couldn’t sue
1819 Supreme Court Case said that state had no authority over private college
1819 Supreme Court Case that established a National Bank and said Federal Government is supreme over states
Invented the Reaper
Invented the Steel plow
1803 Supreme Court Case that established Judicial Review
Term used to describe the power to look over laws passed by congress to determine their constitutionality.
Pioneered quick-frozen food
1966 Supreme Court Case about rights being read to those arrested
1989 Supreme Court Case - said desecration of flag is protected by First Amendment
1992 Supreme Court Case that addressed the right to remove life support
Famous 1917 telegram associated with WWI sent by Germany to try to gain an alliance with Mexico (Intercepted by U S)
Famous Prussian Chancellor
Famous Telegram of Franco Prussian WarRoger Bacon
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
“I think, therefore, I am”
John Marshall (longest time as Chief Justice)
Roger B. Taney
Dred Scott vs Sandford
Dartmouth College vs. Woodward
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Marbury vs. Madison
Judicial Review
Clarence Birdseye
Miranda vs. Arizona
Texas vs. Johnson
Cruzan vs. Missouri
Zimmerman Note
Otto von Bismarck
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Ems TelegramFamous 1797 situation between France and U.S. during the French Revolution. France wanted U.S. to help them fight Great Britain. U.S. didn’t so France was angered. U.S. sent Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pickney, and John Marshall to settle differences. France demanded $250,000 - Pickney replied “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute”
Pendulum clock
Bifocal spectacles
Freed Venezuela from Spain’s control
Freed Chile and Peru from Spanish control
Famous hero of Hungary
Airplane
Helicopter
Revolver
Tank
Chief Justice of Supreme Court during WWI
Chief Justice of Supreme Court during WWII
Automatic rifle
Chief Justice of Supreme Court in 1950’s and 1960’s (ruling in Brown vs. Bd of Ed)
French military officer imprisoned on Devil’s Island because he was a Jew; this is called ‘The Dreyfus Affair’
Group appointed by LBJ to investigate JFK assassination (discovered little)
German army officer who devised the blitzkrieg strategy used by the Germans during WWII
Method of fast-moving air-and-land warfare first used extensively during WWII by the Germans; it means “lightning war”
Armored units used by the Germans in WWII to carry out blitzkrieg tactics
Invented dynamiteXYZ Affair
Christiaan Huygens
Benjamin Franklin
Simon Bolivar (1821)
San Martin (1817)
Magyar Arpad
The Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville)
Igor Sikorsky
Samuel Colt
E.D. Swinton
Edward White
Charles Evans Hughes
John Browning
Earl Warren
Alfred Dreyfus
Warren Commission (headed by Earl Warren)
Heinz Guderian
Blitzkrieg
Panzers
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Alfred NobelFamous detective who learned of an 1861 plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
Secret terrorist society operated in Pennsylvania from the mid-1860’s to the late 1870’s; they were named after a secret antilord group in Ireland and they attempted to improve the working conditions in the mines by threatening and killing mine owners; they were crushed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Abraham Lincoln’s opponents in 1860
Abraham Lincoln’s opponent in 1864
Three wives of Julius Caesar
Most important port on English Channel
Wrote Pomp and Circumstance, which is played at graduations
First woman to swim English Channel
Father of the American Public School
Harry S Truman’s Famous Vice President
The two Vice Presidents who took office because of the death of a Whig President
Twelfth President of U S (died in 1850)
Shortest term of any president (1 month)
Name of the three ossicles in the ear
Famous 1800’s Mexican Emperor
Wife of Louis XVI
Ordered the death of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette - brought on the French Revolution years were called the Reign of Terror
Three Leaders of the Reign of Terror that headed the Committee of Public Safety
Religious leader and ruler of Tibet
First U S President to talk with Dalai Lama
Allan Pinkerton
Molly Maguires
Stephen Douglas (N) and John Breckenridge (S)
George B. McClellan
Cornelia, Pompeia, and Calpurnia
Dover Port
Edward Elgar
Gertrude Ederle (1926)
Horace Mann
Alben Barkley
John Tyler (10th) then Millard Fillmore (13th)
Zachary Taylor
William Henry Harrison (9th)
Malleus (Hammer), Incus (Anvil), and Stapes (Stirrups)
Maximillian
Marie Antoinette
Maximillien Robespierre
Maximillien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat, and Georges Danton
Dalai Lama
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George Bush, Sr.
King of England who ordered the death of Thomas a Becket.
King who destroyed the shrine of Thomas a Becket
1529 Lord Chancellor of England
Oxford Reformers who promoted the Renaissance
Cardinal of Henry VII and Henry VIII; Served his kings and not God
Real name of the painter Charles Marin
Wrote Life of Marlborough & The River War
Nickname of the British national Flag
Discovered the St. Lawrence River (1534) Founded Quebec
Discovered New York
First to Round the Cape of Good Hope
First to reach India by way of the Cape of Good Hope (1498)
First to see Mississippi River
Henry Clay’s compromise that admitted Maine as a free state & Missouri as a slave state
1854 Act that sought to admit two free states west of Mississippi, and set the stage for Civil War
Allowed New Mexico and Utah to become territories and admitted California as a free state written by Henry Clay
Imaginary line between North and South
Delivered famous Seventh of March Speech against slavery - it was against the law of nature
First space probe to land on Mars
Tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan
Henry II
Henry VIII
Thomas More
Thomas More, Desiderius Erasmus, John Colet
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill (Won Nobel Prize in 1953)
Union Jack
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Giovanni da Verrazanno
Bartholomew Diaz
Vasco da Gama
Hernando de Soto
Compromise of 1820 or Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850 or California Compromise
Mason-Dixon Line
Daniel Webster
Viking I
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John Hinckley
Puritan whose nickname was Ironsides
Greatest manuscript discovery of all times
Site of Dead Sea Scrolls when discovered
Lord Protector - Commonwealth of England
Martin Luther’s Famous Hymn
Signed at 1215 in Runneymede by King John to protect the rights of English Nobility
Founded Jehovah’s Witnesses
Alternate name of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
American Indian that overthrew Mexican Government in1913 - lasted for short time!
1964 resolution that gave president power to take all steps necessary against North Vietnam
First CoEd College in U S
First country Hitler invaded in WWII
First country that Hitler conquered in WWII
V Day (Exact day that Germany surrendered)
French defensive line built in WWII
WWII German fortification against France
Largest state in Australia
Hero of Mexican War nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready” - famous battles were Battle of Monterrey and Battle of Buena Vista. He later became the 12th president of US
President on the $1
Zachary Taylor’s famous horse
President and Vice President of Confederacy
World’s largest producer of GOLD
President on the $2 bill
Oliver Cromwell
Dead Sea Scrolls
Qumran Valley (by Bedouin shepherd boy)
Oliver Cromwell
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Magna Carta
Charles T. Russell
Watchtower Movement
Victoriano Huerta
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Oberlin College (in Ohio)
Poland
Austria
May 7, 1945
Maginot Line
Siegfried Line
Queensland
Zachary Taylor
George Washington
Old Whitey
Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stevens
The Republic of South Africa
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Thomas Jefferson
Famous war fought 1846 to 1848 during James K. Polk’s Presidency
President on the $5 bill
Famous Mexican General of the War of 1812
President James K. Polk’s campaign slogan
Meaning of Polk’s slogan “54 - 40 or Fight”
First woman elected to House of Representatives
President on the $10 bill
Famous fort (called gateway to Mexico); captured by U S in Mexican War
Led Christians against Muslims in the Battle of Tours - nicknamed the “Hammer”
Famous rock and site of the last battle of the Mexican War
President on the $20 bill
Founded Neoplatonism - tried to link Greek philosophy and Christian philosophy (200 AD)
Founded Baptist Missionary Society
President on the $50 bill
Founded the first American Baptist Church
Mass immigration of Puritans to U.S.
Figure depicted on the $100 bill
Holy book of the Muslims; means “the reading” in Arabic
Latin phrase meaning “seize the day”
1832 attack on U S by Sauk Indians
Last and only major battle of Black Hawk’s War
Famous U.S. Act restricting immigration (1882)
Mexican War
Abraham Lincoln
General Santa Anna
“54-40 or Fight”
Boundary between U.S. and Mexico or we would fight to get it
Jeanette Rankin
Alexander Hamilton
Veracruz
Charles Martel
Rock of Chapultepec (or Grasshopper Hill)
Andrew Johnson
Plotinus
William Carey
Ulysses S. Grant
Roger Williams
Great Migration of 1630
Benjamin Franklin (non-president)
Koran
Carpe Diem
Black Hawk’s War
Battle of Bad Axe River
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Chinese Exclusion Act
1883 act that stopped spoils system and set up a civil-service commission to tests of competency for government jobs (passed by Chester A Arthur, the 21st president, after death of James A. Garfield our 20th)
President on the $500 bill
Republicans who pushed to have Grant a third term as president against James A. Garfield because they opposed Rutherford Hayes’ civil service reforms
Leader of the Stalwart Republicans
Greenback Party’s only presidential candidate
Founded Knights of Labor in 1869
Senator who fought to keep spoils system in US
President who installed elevator in White House
President on the $1000 bill
President with shortest term in office (1 month)
Stalwart Republican who assassinated Garfield
President on the $5000 bill
Founded Amish (branch of Mennonites)
Figure depicted on the $10,000
Improved conditions in mental institutions
Writer who wrote of conditions in mental hospitals (titled The Snake Pit); her writings led to improvements
Founded Scholasticism
Nicknamed “The Magna Carta of Labor”
Laws restricting unfair or monopolistic businesses
1890 law that outlawed monopolies and trusts
Pendleton Act
William McKinley
Stalwart Republicans
Roscoe Conkling
James B. Weaver
Uriah Stevens
Roscoe Conkling
James A. Garfield
Grover Cleveland
William Henry Harrison
Charles Guiteau
James Madison
Jakob Amman
Salmon P. Chase (non-president)
Dorothea Dix
Mary Jane Ward
St. Thomas Aquinas
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Antitrust Laws
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Domination of a market by a few businesses
1914 law outlawed unfair pricing and oligopolies
A group of companies that cooperate to monopolize a market (against the law only in United States)
President on the $100,000 bill
Largest lake in South America
Famous Prussian family of 1700’s
Famous Austrian Family of 1700’s
Famous lawyer of the N.A.A.C.P.
Appointed T. Marshall to Supreme Court
Famous document signed by Roosevelt and Churchill and later adopted as the charter of “The League of Nations”
Founded Presbyterian Church
1773 uprising against England
Acts passed by British Parliament as a reply to the Boston Tea Party
Spread the news the “redcoats are coming”
Leader of Boston Tea Party
First act of taxation on US by Britain
Required colonist to provide or pay for housing of British troops
British taxes on paint, lead, paper, and tea
British King during American Revolution
Coined the term “agnosticism”
First “Dark Horse” president
Nickname of Andrew Jackson
Ran against James K Polk in 1844; Polk was our 11th president
Insect worshipped and used by EgyptiansOligopoly
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Cartel
Woodrow Wilson
Lake Titicaca
Hohenzollerns
Hapsburgs
Thurgood Marshall
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Atlantic Charter
John Knox
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts
Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott
Samuel Adams
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Townshend Duties (Townshend Act)
King George III
Thomas Huxley
James K. Polk
Old Hickory
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Whig Party- Henry ClayLiberty Party- James G. Birney
ScarabHired Michelangelo to paint ceilings in the Sistine Chapel (Took him 4 years)
Family that ruled Italy in 1600’s and 1700’s
1895 Supreme Court Case that outlawed income Taxes by government
Archeologist that discovered Troy
Founded Utilitarianism
Treaty with Spain that gave the US all their lands east and west of Mississippi
Only state that was not admitted to union; was the only “failed state”
First Coed school
The “Birdman of Alcatraz”
Last U S president born in a cabin
Founded Polaroid
Famous Civil War Photographer
4 largest deserts in Africa
3 largest deserts in Asia
Largest sea
Smallest country
Highest waterfall in the world (Venezula)
Most spoken language in the world
Largest ship canal
Longest seaway
First foreign-born ruler of Rome
First woman to run for vice-president
First Secretary of War
Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln
Last Whig President
Pope Julius II
Medici
Pollock vs. Farmer’s Loan and Trust
Heinrich Schliemann
Jeremy Bentham
Adams Onis Treaty
Franklin
Oberlin College (in Ohio)
Robert Stroud (noted ornithologist while in prison)
James A. Garfield
Edwin Land
Matthew Brady
Sahara, Libyan, Kalahari, and Nubian
Gobi, Taklamakan, and Kara-Kum
Malay Sea (second largest is South China Sea)
Vatican City (second is Monaco)
Angel Falls (second is Tugela)
Mandarin (second is English)
Suez Canal
St. Lawrence Seaway
Odoucer
Geraldine Ferraro
Henry Knox
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Edwin Stanton
Millard Fillmore
Spy couple tried for treason (sold info to Russians)
Famous work written by Esther Forbes
Famous leader of the nomadic Huns who harassed the eastern half of the Roman Empire; he was called the “Scourge of God”
Date of the fall of the Roman Empire
The equatorial belt of calm winds
First Christian MARTYR
Oldest U S Fraternity
Word carved on tree in Lost Colony of Roanoke
Permanent low-level easterly winds in low altitudes
Founded Holy Roman Empire
Controversial president of Austria that resigned in 1992 because of his ties with Nazis in WWII
Current president of Austria
Famous statesman that restored stability in Austria
Most important river in Germany and Austria
Famous leader of the Congress of Vienna
Capital city and important river in Portugal
Capital of Switzerland
Two largest rivers in Switzerland
Four important rivers in Russia
Large mountain range in Russia
Famous English political philosopher and Father of Modern Thinking and Philosophy
Three most important rivers in Germany
Body of water between Iran and Russia
Largest lake in RussiaJulius and Ethel Rosenberg
Johnny Tremain
Attila the Hun
476 A.D.
Doldrums
Stephen
Phi Beta Kappa
Crotoan
Trade Winds
Otto I
Kurt Waldheim
Thomas Klestil
Klemens von Metternich
Danube River
Klemens von Metternich
Lisbon and the Tagus River
Bern
Rhine and Rhone Rivers
Danube, Ob, Amur, and Lena Rivers
Ural Mountains
John Locke
Elbe, Danube, and Rhine Rivers
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Caspian Sea
Lake BaikalLarge mountain range in Poland
Narrow mountain pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan
Three most important rivers in Poland
Body of water between Finland and Sweden
Body of water around most of the Netherlands
Body of water off the “toe” of Italy
Three island nations off the coast of Italy
Most important river in Ireland
Two large temples built on Acropilis in Athens
Nickname of Prussian/German Otto von Bismarck
Treaty that divided Charlemagne’s empire among his three grandsons
Secretary of State under, Nixon, Ford, and Carter
Group that ended Shang dynasty in China
Current President of Egypt
Religious leader and ruler of Tibet
People in Mesopotamia known for their cruelty
Narrow land separating Egypt and Israel
Peninsula that most of Russia lies on
Turning point of Civil War fought in Pennsylvania
City that Fransico Coronado was searching for
Canal owned by Egypt
Holiest day in Jewish religion
Famous Anglican Bishop of South Africa
The gaining of electrons in a reactionCarpathian Mountains
Khyber Pass
Vistula, Oder, and Warta Rivers
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Ionian Sea
Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica
Shannon River
Parthenon and Erechtheum
The Iron Chancellor
Treaty of Verdun
Henry Kissinger
Chou
Hosni Mubarak
Dalai Lama
Assyrians
Gaza Strip
Crimean Peninsula
Battle of Gettysburg
Seven Cities of Cibola
Suez Canal
Yom Kippur
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Desmond Tutu
ReductionGroup of islands in Pacific owned by Ecuador
1899 to 1902 war in South Africa against Britain
Ended Boer War
Groups of people involved in Boer War
Leader of the Afrikaner resistance to the British; He was President of the South African (Transvaal) Republic from 1883-1900; he was called “Oom Paul” or “Uncle Paul”
First citizen of Athens
Margaret Thatcher’s nickname
Leader & president of the Boers in Boer War
Father of the first efficient steamboat (Clermont)
Two republics that were combined to form The Republic of South Africa
Acronym ZIP Code stands for
Sumerian temple
First Prime minister of South Africa
Insane first century AD Roman Emperor that appointed his horse to the Senate
Famous 1836 massive migration into South Africa
President of South Africa from 1978 to 1984
Leader of Athens that built the Parthenon
President that replaced Botha in South Africa
Policy of strict racial segregation in South Africa
Current President and Vice President of South Africa
Britain’s first Prime Minister
Galapagos Islands
Boer War
Treaty of Pretoria
Boers- later called Africaans (blacks) and Uitlanders (whites)
Paul Kruger
Pericles
“The Iron Maiden”
Paul Kruger
Robert Fulton
Transvaal and the Orange Free State
Zone Improvement Plan
Ziggurat
Louis Botha
Caligula
Great Trek
P.W. Botha
Pericles
F.W. de Klerk
Apartheid
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Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk
Robert Walpole
First female Secretary of State (highest ranking female)
Secretary of State that Madeline Albright replaced
Lord Protector of England in 1600’s
“Sea Dog” knighted by Queen Elizabeth
Group of people lead by Oliver Cromwell
King of England during World War II
System of social divisions in Hinduism
Certificates issued by pope to reduce punishment in the afterlife and to cleanse sins
German Dominican Friar whose sale of indulgences to rebuilt Saint Peter’s aroused the anger of Martin Luther
Daughter of King George VI of England
Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in WWI - nicknamed “Blackjack”
Prime minister of England at the start of WWII
Holy war ordained by God in Islamic faith
Assisted Hitler in writing Mein Kampf
What the words “Mein Kampf” mean...
Terminal end of the Suez Canal (in Egypt) People in Indus River Valley about 2500 BC
Commanded U S Army in Mexican War
Earliest form of writing in China
Body of water separating Egypt & Saudi Arabia
Youngest golfer to win Masters
Study of the history of words
System of inheritance in England
Most often used IQ testMadeline Albright
Warren Christopher
Oliver Cromwell
Sir Francis Drake
Roundheads
George VI
Caste System
Indulgences
Johann Tetzel
Elizabeth II
John J. Pershing
Neville Chamberlain
Jihad
Rudolph Hess
“My Struggle”
Port Said
Harappans
General Winfield Scott
Oracle Bones
Red Sea
Tiger Woods
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Etymology
Primogeniture
Stanford Bennett TestGraph showing middle 50% and extremes
River running through India and Pakistan
Western most Kentucky County
A wise Hindu teacher
Discovered Niagara Falls and founded Quebec
Ancient city that has the “Hanging Gardens” Beginning of the Oregon Trail
First Premier of Egypt (1952 - 1954)
First recorded Chinese dynasty
Explorer established a colony in Newfoundland
Series of articles that supported ratification of Constitution
Authors of the Federalist Papers
Helen Keller’s famous teacher
Greek physician pioneered in the study of anatomy
Better-known name of French Protestants
1231 prosecution of heretics (non-Christians) ordered by Pope Gregory IX
City-states that fought in Peloponnesian War
President of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980
1428 prosecution of heretics in Spain (ordered by Pope Sixtus IV)
1572 mass killing of Huegonots in France
Huegonot military leader
King and Queen that ordered St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 1528
Huegonot who converted to Catholicism in order to become King of France
Premier of Egypt from 1956 to 1970Box-n-Whisker Graph
Indus River
Fulton County
Guru
Samuel de Champlain
Babylon
Independence, Missouri
Mohammed Naguib
Shang
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Federalist Papers
John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton
Anne Sullivan
Galen
Huguenots
The Inquisition
Athens and Sparta
President Tito
The Spanish Inquisition
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Gaspard Coligny
King Charles IX and Queen Catherine
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Henry IV (Henry of Navarre)
Gamal NasserKing of England who quarreled with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, and who is thought to have had him killed
Declared all slaves in Confederacy to be free
Decree made by Henry IV granting religious freedom to the Huguenots (1598)
King who revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1695
1122 agreement written by Pope Gregory VII
Great Chinese philosopher and teacher
Paine’s pamphlets that followed Common Sense
Two social classes of Marxism
Sumerian writing using wedge shaped symbols
Famous king of Mali who conquered Ghana
Annual period of fasting in Islamic religion
First president of Texas or “The Lonestar State”
Famous Fisher King and Keeper of the Holy Grail
Proposed that states be equally represented in Senate; also called The Great Compromise
Leader of Nationalist China before and during WWII
Last Tudor ruler of England
JP Morgan fought him to control steel production
Architect of St Paul’s Cathedral
Tallest Peak in Kentucky
First king of the Jewish people
First Lord Chief Justice of EnglandKing Henry II
Emancipation Proclamation
Edict of Nantes
Louis XIV
Concordat of Worms
Confucius
The Crisis
Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
Cuneiform
Sundiata Keita
Ramadan
Sam Houston
Amfortas
Connecticut Compromise
Chiang Kai Shek
Elizabeth I
Jay Gould
Christopher Wren
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Black Mountain
King Saul
Sir Edward CokeFamous hymn composed by Martin Luther
Chinese Nationalist Party based on Sun Yat-sen
Leader of the Nez Perce Indians
Famous British general who beat the French in 1704 at the Battle of Blenheim
First written plan of government in colonies
Founded Utopian community of New Harmony (located in Indiana)
1964 resolution allowing president to take all steps necessary to stop North Vietnam
Ruler of The People’s Republic of China
1787 plan that called for three branches of government and a bicameral legislature
1990’s criminal junk bond king
Astronomer famous for his continuing search for extraterrestrial life and work with NASA
Founded “Jehovah’s Witnesses”
Latin phrase meaning “let the buyer beware” Leader of Stalwart Republicans portrayed as a turkey in Thomas Nast’s cartoons
Laws stripping German Jews of their citizenship
Developed “Black Box” concept
Item storing the Ten Commandments in Israel
General of the French and Indian War nicknamed the “Great Commoner”; he replaced Gen Braddock
Symbols for the Republican and Democratic Parties
Connects the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara
Great King of the Hittites who destroyed BabylonA Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Kuomintang
Chief Joseph
Duke of Marlborough
Fundamental Order of Connecticut
Robert Owen
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung)
Virginia Plan
Michael Milken
Carl Sagan
Charles T. Russell
Caveat Emptor
Roscoe Conkling
Nuremberg Laws
B.F. Skinner
Ark of the Covenant
William Pitt
Elephant and Donkey
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Dardanelle Strait
Mursailis I
Leader of the Chinese Gang of Four and also Mao Zedong’s wife
Cardinal of Henry VIII of England
King of Egypt until 1952
Two books of Judaism
Sacred book of the Islam (God is ALLAH) 1982 war between Great Britain and Argentina
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990
Oldest known story in the world (Sumerian tale about a Priest-King)
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1951 to 1955
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1955 to 1957
Year the first modern Olympics were held
Place where the first modern Olympics were held
First man to swim the English Channel, doing so in 1875
Two spots where Matthew Webb swam between
Only swimmer ever to win 7 gold medals at one Olympics (he did it in 1972, when the Olympics were held in Munich, West Germany)
Swimmer who won 5 medals at the 2000 Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia
Prime Minister of England in the 1960’s
Code name used by Secret Service for President George Bush
Code name used by Secret Service for President Clinton
Prime Minister of England from 1970 until 1974
Jiang Qing
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
King Farouk I
Torah and Talmud
Koran
Falklands War
Margaret Thatcher
Epic of Gilgamesh
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
1896
Athens, Greece
Matthew Webb
Dover, England and Calais, France
Mark Spitz
Ian Thorpe
Harold Wilson
Timberwolf
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Eagle
Edward Heath
First Olympic champion to win the same event at 3 different Olympics (she did it in the 100-meter freestyle in 1956, 1960, and 1964)
Most widely used coin currently in circulation in US
Most widely used of all US denominations of money
Largest bill in general circulation in the US since 1969
Bill never in general circulation; used only in transactions between Federal Reserve Banks
Answer to the riddle of the Sphinx: “What walks on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening”
Original purpose for which the Secret Service was created in 1865; (today they also protect the President and other high-ranking officials)
Year the first U.S. coin was minted; that same year the mint in Philadelphia was established by an act of Congress; the mint’s first issue was 11,178 copper cents
Average life expectancy of a $1 bill
Average life expectancy of a $5 bill
Average life expectancy of a $10 bill
Average life expectancy of a $20 bill
Average life expectancy of a $50 bill
Average life expectancy of a $100 bill
Approximate life span of a US coin
What the “P” on coins means
What the “D” on coins means
What the “S” on coins means
Makeup of pennies minted today
Collection and study of coins and moneyDawn Fraser
Penny
Penny
$100
$100,000
Man (Human Being)
Investigate Counterfeiting
1793
18 Months
2 Years
3 Years
5 Years
9 Years
9 Years
25 Years
The coin was minted in Philadelphia
The coin was minted in Denver
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The coin was minted in San Francisco
97.5% Zinc and 2.5% Copper
NumismaticsSite of the U.S. Gold Bullion Depository
Prohibited the use of mintmarks on coins for 5 years in an effort to remove distinguishing marks from coins due to a coin shortage brought about by coin collectors
Process that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing uses to produce currency; dots, dashes, and lines of various depths are engraved into metal and make up the master die-- then the etching is printed on the currency
Prime Minister of Great Britain (1990 - 1997); he was Prime Minister for most of the 1990’s
Current prime minister of Great Britain (1997 - present)
Regulates and supervises the selling of securities
Body of water separating Romania and Russia
Famous river and mountain range in Britain
Amendment 17 deals with…
Mountains located in Scotland
1740’s collection of conflicts
English king which Thomas A Beckett argued with
Holy Roman Emperor whose death precipitated the War of Austrian Succession
It placed Henry VIII as head of Church of England
War between France and Great Britain over the control of North America
It placed Elizabeth I as head of Church of England
Island nation that was being fought over as part of the War of Austrian Succession
President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
Amendment 16 deals with…Fort Knox
Coinage Act of 1965
Intaglio
John Major
Tony Blair
Securities and Exchange Commission
Black Sea
Thames River and Pennine Mountains
Direct Election of Senators
Grampian Mountains
War of Austrian Succession
King Henry II
Charles VI
Act of Supremacy of 1534
King George’s War (George II)
Second Act of Supremacy of 1559
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Silesia
Anwar Sadat
Income TaxEnded the War of Austrian Succession in 1748
Famous dam on Nile River (built by Sadat) Replaced Charles VI as Holy Roman Emperor
Pope who crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor
Famous Fort associated with King George’s War; it was built at the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Famous 1346 battle of Hundred Years’ War
Native American leader - real name was Metacomet; Led Wampanoag Indians in the most severe conflict between Indiansand Settlers
Three most important rivers in France
He killed King Philip and then displayed Metacomet’s head on a pole in Plymouth for 20 years
Mountains separating France and Spain
Famous 1839 war in China
Mountains separating France and Italy
City ceded to Great Britain as a result of the Chinese loss in Opium Wars
Russian Peninsula with 30 + volcanoes
Treaty that ended the Opium Wars
1337 to 1453 war (France and England)
1900 Uprising in China
Kings of England and King of France at start of the Hundred Years’ War (1337)
Treaty that ended Boxer Rebellion
1330 prince of Wales nicknamed the “Black Prince” - son of Edward III
1880’s South American war fought over a small part of the Atacama Desert (involved Chile, Bolivia, and Peru)Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Aswan High Dam
Francis I
Pope Leo III
Fort Louisbourg
Battle of Crecy
King Philip
Loire, Seine, and Marne Rivers
Alderman
Pyrennes
Opium Wars
The Alps
Hong Kong
Kamchatka Peninsula
Treaty of Nanking
Hundred Years’ War (lasted 116 years)
Boxer Rebellion
King Edward III (England) and King Philip VI (France)
Treaty of Peking
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Edward, the Black Prince
War of the Pacific
Swept over Europe and killed more than 1/3 of the population in the 1350’s
Famous 400’s BC wars
Physically weak king of France in 1360’s
Wrote History of the Peloponnesian War
9-month-old king of England in 1422
Winner of the Peloponnesian War
Treaty that almost ended Hundred Years’ War
Persian rulers that lead the invasions against the Greek City States in the Persian Wars
Nickname of Joan of Arc
Famous battle in the Persian Wars
King of France that broke Treaty of Troyes
Built up the navy in Athens and helped defeat the Persian in the Persian Wars
Town Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake
Famous third and second century wars between Rome and Carthage (three parts)
Famous town where King Charles VII was crowned after help from Joan of Arc
Famous River and Mountains in Italy
Prime Minister of Great Britain (1874 to 1880) 1945 to 1953 premier of Italy who was nicknamed “the Premiere of Reconstruction”
Prime Minister of Great Britain (1868 to 1874)
Name of the European Recovery Program initiated after World War II
First to receive a social security check
Famous Carthaginian General in First Punic War
Black Death (or Bubonic Plague)
Peloponnesian War and Punic Wars
King Charles V
Thucydides
Edward VI
Sparta (defeated Athens)
Treaty of Troyes
Darius I and then Xerxes
“Maid of Orleans”
Battle of Marathon
Charles VII
Themistocles
Rouen
Punic Wars
Reims
Po River and Apennine Mountains
Benjamin Disraeli
Alcide da Gasperi
William Gladstone
Marshall Plan
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Ida May Fuller
Hamilcar Barca
Father of Modern Scientific Method
Famous Carthaginian General in Second Punic War
Six wives of Henry VIII
Famous Roman General in Punic Wars
Invented the gyroscope
Famous battle of Second Punic War that saw the defeat of the Romans by Hannibal
Roman General that defeated Hannibal (at the Battle of Zama) in the Second Punic Wars
Used on ships for navigation
General Scipio’s nickname
Invented gyrocompass
Roman politician that started the Third Punic War - he said “Carthage must be destroyed”
1702 war fought for control over America
Device built by Charles Beebe to explore the depths of the ocean (2 ton steel ball)
1700’s war of which Queen Anne’s War was a part of
Amendment 15 deals with...
Territory lost by France in Queen Anne’s War
Name given to Acadia by England
Act that started the War of Spanish Succession
Treaty ending War of Spanish Succession
1400’s English quarrel between the Yorks and the Lancasters over control of England
King of England at the start of Wars of the Roses
Wife of Henry VI of EnglandAristotle
Hannibal
Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr
Quintis Maximus
Bernard Foucault
Battle of Cannae
General Scipio
Gyrocompass
Africanus
Elmer Sperry
Cato the Censor
Queen Anne’s War
Bathysphere
War of Spanish Succession
Right to Vote (Suffrage)
Acadia
Nova Scotia
Louis XIV of France made his grandson Philip V the king of Spain
Peace of Utrecht (1713)
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War of the Roses
Henry VI
Queen MargaretFirst York King in England - took the throne from Henry VI for several months
Last Lancaster king of England
Killed Richard III and ended War of Roses
Boy king of England (age 12) that was imprisoned in the Tower of London by Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester and brother of Edward IV)
Supposedly ordered the death of Edward V and his brother to gain the throne of England
Battle where Henry VII killed Richard III
Took the throne of England after Richard III
Marriage that united white and red roses into a united rose called the Tudors
Henry VI and Queen Margaret’s SON
1904 war in Asia fought over Port Arthur on the Liaodong Peninsula in Russia
1905 treaty that ended Russo-Japanese War
Country that has controlled Port Arthur since 1945 and where the Liaodong Peninsula is now located
Modern name of Port Arthur
Mediator of the Treat of Portsmouth
Last battle in the War of Austrian Succession
Better-known name of Third Silesian WarWoman who lead Austria in Seven Years’ War
Famous mistress of Louis XV of France
Alliance between Russia (Queen Elizabeth I), France (Louis XV), and Austria (Maria
Theresa) against Prussia (Frederick I or Frederick the Great) during Seven Years’ War
Land being fought over in the Seven Years’ WarEdward IV
Richard III
Henry VII (Tudor)
Edward V
Richard III (Richard Plantagenet)
Battle of Bosworth Field
Henry VII
Henry VII to Elizabeth of York (the daughter of Edward IV)
Warwick
Russo-Japanese War
Treaty of Portsmouth (Russia lost Manchuria and Port Arthur to Japan)
China
Lushun
Theodore Roosevelt
Third Silesian War
Seven Years’ War (1756-1763)
Maria Theresa
Marquise de (Jeanne) Pompadour
League of Three Petticoats
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Silesia
Event that ended League of Three Petticoats
Amendment 22 deals with...
Wrote Letters From A Farmer in Pennsylvania
Wrote the first draft of the Articles of Confederation
Name John Dickinson signed to a series of letters he wrote in which he urged the adoption of the U.S. Constitution
1760’s King of England
Document sent by colonists to George III of England as an attempt for peace
Elected public official who represents a specific ward or district in the city legislature; they serve for 2 years
Chinese group that lead Boxer Rebellion means “Righteous and Harmonious Fists”
Famous 1898 War over Cuba
Battleship destroyed by Spain near Cuba that ignited the Spanish American War
Spanish general of Spanish American War
Famous resolution of 1898 that said the US would only help Cuba gain independence and the US would not try to rule Cuba
Secretary of the navy during Spanish American War - lead Rough Riders too
Prime Minister of England (1770-1782) under George III and during the American Revolution
Land granted to U S by Spain at end of the Spanish American War (Cuba got independence)
First genocide writing (protested U.S. imperialism and the Spanish American War)
1600’s or 17th century conflict between Protestants and Roman Catholics
Bohemian general of Thirty Years’ WarPeter III replaces Elizabeth I (he sides with Frederick I of Prussia)
Limits on Presidential Terms
John Dickinson
John Dickinson
Fabius
King George III
Olive Branch Petition
Alderman
I-ho Ch’uan
Spanish American War
U.S.S. Maine
Valeriano Nicolau or The Butcher
Teller Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Lord Frederick North
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
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To The Person Sitting In Darkness by Mark Twain
Thirty Years’ War
General Albrecht von WallensteinHoly Roman Emperor in Thirty Years’ War
Bohemian King that tried to completely wipe out Protestantism in Europe
Ruler of Sweden in Thirty Years’ War
King and cardinal of France who fought for Protestantism during the Thirty Years’ War
Treaty that ended Thirty Years’ War
Conflict that gave Britain control of seas
Battle that saw Napoleon gain supremacy in Europe and defeated Austrians and Russians
American frigate and British ship whose confrontation helped spark the War of 1812 (called the Chesapeake Affair)
Site of W. H. Harrison’s defeat of Tecumseh
Fiery congressmen led by Henry Clay who wanted US to go to war against England
US general of War of 1812
US navy commandant in War of 1812
Name of Captain Isaac Hull’s ship
Captain of the USS United States
Captain of USS Chesapeake who said “Don’t give up the ship!”
Treaty that ended the War of 1812
Republic in Germany from 1919 to 1933
Kaiser who fled Germany in 1918
Amendment 23 deals with...
Full name of the NAZI party
Hitler’s first attempt to take over Germany
First president of the Weimar Republic
Last president of Weimar Republic
This country celebrates the birthday of its former queen, Juliana, on April 30thFrederick V
Ferdinand II
Gustavus Adolphus
Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu
Peace of Westphalia
Battle of Trafalgar
Battle of Austerlitz
USS Chesapeake and the Leopard
Battle of Tippecanoe
War Hawks
William Henry Harrison
Oliver Perry
USS Constitution or Old Ironsides
Stephen Decatur
Captain James Lawrence
Treaty of Ghent
Weimar Republic
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Voting in the District of Columbia
National German Socialist Workers
Munich Beer Hall Putsch
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Paul von Hindenburg
Franz von Papen (ended by Hitler)
The Netherlands
Major port for shipping troops over seas from New Jersey during WWII
1970 protest over U.S. troops being sent to Cambodia
Amendment 21 deals with...
Man who led the Nation of Islam or Black Muslims after they were disbanded by Wallace D. Muhammad in 1978
Designed the Minuteman Statue that stands in Concord, Massachusetts
Assassinated by a nephew of the King of Saudi Arabia in 1975
Succeeded King Fisol in 1975
Monument on Britain’s Salisbury Plain that is surrounded by a complex of cemeteries and ritual sites
Secretary of the Treasury known as “Alexander the Coppersmith”; introduced the copper penny
President’s Day is observed on the third Monday in .....
Kentucky Senator who served on the Warren Commission
Found in the 5th amendment to the Constitution; states that the government can take private property for public use if just compensation is given
Treaty approved by Senate on February 17, 1815, that ended the War of 1812
Amendment 24 deals with...
Country with the largest population density
Dynasty replaced by the Manchu dynasty
Robert Walpole’s famous motto
Said, “I propose never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such”
Known as the “Robber Baron” and wrote Gospel of Wealth
Hoboken
Kent State Protest
Repeal of Prohibition
Louis Farrakhan
Daniel Chester French
King Fisol
Halid
Stonehenge
Alexander Hamilton
February
John Sherman Cooper
Eminent Domain
Treaty of Ghent
Abolition of Poll Taxes
India
Ming Dynasty
“Let sleeping dogs lie”
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Rene Descartes
Andrew Carnegie
Waterway opened in 1825; freight rates between Buffalo and New York City were cut by more than 90%
First Russian Czar
Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible’s feeble son that ruled Russia after his father
Brother-in-law of feeble-minded Fyodor I that actually ruled Russia instead of Fyodor I
Elected to lead Russia after the death of Fyodor I in 1598
Cossack adventurer that conquered Siberia for Russia
In 1603 an imposter claiming to be this man, the son of Ivan IV, appeared and challenged Boris Godunov
Period of chaos that followed the sudden death of Boris Godunov when his army seemed on the verge of victory
First Romanov ruler (came to power in 1613)
Nickname of the turbulent period in Russian history during the early 1600’s (several rulers murdered)
Man involved in the Napoleonic Wars that erected Duma
Popularly elected lower chamber mandated by Emperor Nicholas II following the Russian Revolution of 1905
Emancipated the serfs; caused the Decemberist Revolt
Held the position of Senate Majority Whip from Kentucky from 1965 to 1967
Powers exercised only by the National Government and denied to the States
Began the modern rule of Russia (1689-1725) and founded a Russian navy and St. Petersburg; also united Russia
Russia’s form of government
The day when Stalin diedErie Canal
Ivan IV, or Ivan the Terrible
Fyodor I
Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov
Yermak Timofeyevich
Czar Dmitry
Time of Troubles
Michael
Time of Troubles
Alexander I
Duma
Alexander II
Wendell Ford
Exclusive Powers
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Peter I or Peter the Great
Federal Republic
March 5, 1953Year the Soviet Union fell
Number of Rurik leaders
Amendment 20 is known as...
Number of Romanov leaders
In 1924, Stalin replaced this man as leader of the USSR
Year of the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
Year Stalin tried to drive western powers out of Berlin, blockading the city
Last Romanov ruler and the first to use “Duma” in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904
Date the Octoberist Revolution occurred
First President of Indonesia
Woman ruler of Pakistan in the 1980’s that gave birth to her first son while in office
Pact that admitted Germany to the League of Nations
Oldest Indian tribe to live in Southwest America
President that proposed New Federalism in 1969
Number of people that each representative in the House represents
Former name of Camp David
Established the International Monetary Fundin 1944
Wrote the pamphlet titled What is the Third Estate
Spans the San Francisco Bay
Developed the parliamentary government in England
Longest underwater vehicular tunnel in North America
Candidate for Vice President that said of the nuclear bomb, “It’s just another weapon.”1991
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Lame Duck Amendment
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Lenin
1945
1948
Nicholas II
October 25, 1917
Sukarno
Benazir Bhutto
Locarno Pact
Anasazi
Richard M. Nixon
½ Million
Shangri La
The Bretton Woods Agreement
Abbe Sieyes
Golden Gate Bridge
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Robert Walpole
San Francisco Bay
Curtis LeMay
Three capitals of the Republic of South Africa
Wars that took place from 1899 through 1902
U.S. statesman that was an advocate of free trade and was instrumental in organizing the United Nations
Highest peak of The Republic of South Africa
People in the mountains of North Africa
Hitler’s propagandist
Made The Star Spangled Banner our national anthem
Youngest person to ever graduate college
Secret Irish immigrants
Current King of Jordan
Largest port city in Britain
Ruler of Egypt in 1347
World’s largest lake
Nicknamed “Old Hickory”
First president of Bolivia
First automobile tunnel
Original inhabitants of Australia
Leading feminist of the 1960’s
Leading feminist of the 1970’s who worked undercover to gather information for her article I Was A Playboy Bunny
Said “Another such victory and we shall be undone”; was King of Epirus
Term used to describe a victory in which the winner suffers ruinous losses
Only Presidential candidate to give FDR a race for the presidency (1940)
Pretoria (administrative capital), Cape Town (legislative capital), and Bloemfontein (judicial capital)
Boer Wars
Cordell Hull
Champagne Castle
Berbers
Joseph Goebbels
Woodrow Wilson
Michael Kearney
Molly Maguires
King Abdullah
Liverpool
King Tut
Caspian Sea
Andrew Jackson
Antonio Sucre
Holland Tunnel
Aborigines
Bella Abzug
Gloria Steinem
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Pyrrhus
Pyrrhic Victory
Wendell Wilkie
Figureheads of the last Imperial Family of Czarist Russia
Famous bath houses in ancient Rome, named after the emperor who dedicated them; they were destroyed by the invading Goths but their ruins remain
Location of the Palace of Sennacherib
Crushed the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314; he was the basis for the movie Braveheart
Deep-sea explorer who found the Titanic
Site where, in 1997-98, the rains of El Nino fell with glorious effects (the rare plants that grew there burst forth in unparalleled flowering)
Cave in Spain that is a great example of Paleolithic art (cave paintings)
Cave in France that is a great example of Paleolithic art (cave paintings)
Main cavern of the cave of Lascaux, which depicts an elaborate frieze over the entire extent of its walls
Cave in southern France that contains the oldest known paintings in the world; discovered in 1994
Wrote Mandate for Change (his memoirs) and Waging Peace
Site where Eisenhower is buried
Name of the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures; it is commonly referred to as LXX (Seventy) because it is said to be the work of 70 translators; it is also the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament of the Bible
Group that translated the Septuagint
Books of the Old Testament included in Roman Catholic and Orthadox Bibles, but not in Protestant or Hebrew ones
American general of WWII known as “Vinegar Joe”; he commanded the U.S. and Chinese forces in AsiaNicholas and Alexandria Romanov
Baths of Caracalla
Nineveh
Robert I or Robert the Bruce
Robert Ballard
Mojave Desert
Altamira
Lascaux
Great Hall of Bulls
Chauvet Cave
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Abilene, Kansas
Septuagint
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The Seventy Interpreters
Apocrypha
Joseph Stilwell
He pressed for disarmament at the London Naval Conference of 1930 and wrote The Far Eastern Crisis and On Active Service in Peace and War
He was the premier of France a record 11 times; his efforts to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy culminated in the Kellogg-Briand Pact
He called protesting students and intellectuals an “effete corps of impudent snobs”
Location of the famous “Running of the Bulls” German-born psychoanalyst that stressed social and environmental factors as determining individual personality traits; she wrote The Neurotic Personality of Our Time and New Ways in Psychoanalysis; she oppossed Frued
U.S. economist known for his work in consumption analysis and monetary theory; he advocated laissez-faire principles
Helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and signed the Constitution for Connecticut
President of New Hampshire from 1790-1793; he signed the Declaration of Independence
Led the air forces in their invasion of Tokyo and was made commander of the N.W. African Strategic Air Force
B-25 bomber from which Jimmy Doolittle led the raid against Tokyo
General that predicted air supremacy would win the next war and during WWI, was given command of the U.S. Air Force in France
Senator from Massachusetts who made his famous speech in answer to Senator Robert Young Hayne of South Carolina; the issue was the nullification controversy
Psychiatrist that said “A healthy personality is the result of healthy relationships”; he believed the personality develops according to how others view youHenry Lewis Stimson
Aristide Briand
Spiro Agnew
Pampalona, Spain
Karen Horney
Milton Friedman
Roger Sherman
Josiah Bartlett
James “Jimmy” Doolittle
U.S.S. Hornet
Billy Mitchell
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Daniel Webster
Harry Sullivan
Country surrounded by South Africa
Last Viceroy of India
Accompanied James Cook on his second voyage around the world
Dutchman that discovered the Fiji Islands and New Zealand
Total number of justices on the Supreme Court
Name of the day after Christmas in Canada and England
1854 letter sent to Secretary of State William Marcy urging him to take Cuba; his reply was try to buy Cuba and if opposition occurred America would seize it; later repudiated
Also known as tree planting day
Name given to the amateur exploration of caves
Name given to the common ritual offerings in Hinduism
Name given to Buddha’s release from the cycle of rebirth
Name given to the Spanish or Portuguese followers of Judaism
Date the United Nations was founded
Fort set up to guard the harbor of San Juan, Puerto Rico
Founded United Farm Worker’s Union
Diamond miner who amassed a fortune in diamonds and who founded Rhodesia
Hobby of tracing your family history
Name of the first private residence constructed of reinforced concrete (located in Vienna, Austria)
Austrian architect of Steiner House
Precisely formulated statement of a religious doctrineLesotho
Louis Mountbatten
William Bligh
Abel Tasman
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Boxing Day (Feast of St. Stephens)
Ostend Manifesto
Arbor Day
Spelunking
Puja
Parinirvana
Sephardim
October 24, 1945
Fort San Felipe del Morro
Cesar Chavez
Cecil Rhodes
Genealogy
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Steiner House
Adolf Loos
Dogma
1940’s civil liberties leader; under FDR he helped set up Fair Employment Practices Committee
First union of black workers, organized by Philip Randolph
First Duke of Marlboro
Leading authority on finance throughout late 1600’s and early 1700’s; was Lord of Treasury under James II
Deposed King James II in 1688
Replaced James II after the Glorious Revolution
Appointed by Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court
Derogatory name for white southerners who helped implement Reconstruction in the South
Name given to northerners that traveled to the South to help lead Reconstruction
Charlemagne’s famous horse
Stated that the USA would not recognize any nation that had been conquered by force
Stated that the USA would take all actions necessary to protect the Middle East from Communism
Stated that the USA would prevent communist governments from being set up anywhere in the world
Former State Department member who sold secrets to the Soviet Union
Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower
First president of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
Famous leader of South Vietnam
Last president of South Vietnam who served as head of state from 1965 to 1975
Philip Randolph
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
John Churchill
Sidney Godolphin
Glorious Revolution
William III
Antonin Scalia
Scalawag
Carpetbaggers
Rabican
Stimson Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
Alger Hiss
John Foster Dulles
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nguyen van Thieu
Forerunner organization of the Viet Cong
Chief political-military organization that battled the French for independence in Vietnam
Real name of the Viet Minh
President of North Vietnam and Indochina’s most influential Communist leader; founded Viet Minh
City where the Communists of Vietnam defeated the French who were trying to regain control over them; the battle here lasted from March 13 until May 7
Established Social Security in 1935
Known as the “Henry Ford of Housing” because he introduced mass-production methods into the building of low-cost housing tracts
Name given to the entire towns William Levitt constructed that consisted of hundreds of homes built on concrete slabs as well as schools, shopping centers, playgrounds, and community centers
Period of rule by Breshnev in the Soviet Union
A country politically and economically dominated or controlled by another more powerful country
U.S.’s first photo reconnaissance satellite system, operating from August 1960 until May 1972; it was also the first mapping of earth from space
Leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death on Nov. 10, 1982
Name applied to the era when Brezhnev ruled Soviet Union
Stated that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene in any situation where communism was being threatened
Reason that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslavakia in 1968 and Afganistan in 1979
Viet Minh
Viet Minh
League for the Independence of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Dien Bien Phu
Wagner Act
William Levitt
Levittown
Era of Stagnation
Satellite Nation
CORONA
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev
Period of Stagnation
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Brezhnev Doctrine
Brezhnev Doctrine
What the acronym SEATO stands for
Placed the USA on a single gold standard and established Ft. Knox for storage
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWI
Established an agency to advise the President on all matters and set up National Security Council
Louis Farrakhan’s famous rally on Washington DC
Capital of Kosovo
Prohibited slavery in all of the American territories north and west of the Ohio River
Passed by British Parliament and required two things: 1) quartering of British troops by the colonists and 2) placed a tax on glass, paper, and tea
Man who was responsible for founding the Nation of Islam, or Black Muslims, and who disappeared in 1934
Served as leader of the Nation of Islam or Black Muslims from 1934 until his death in 1975; he was born Elijah Poole and succeeded W.C. Fard as leader; he wrote Message to the Black Man and was himself succeeded by Wallace D. Muhammad
Known as “The Great Chief Justice”
Amendment 26 deals with...
American naval officer who won fame as the “Hero of Manila”
Famous 12th century theologian that fell in love with his student Heloise and wrote the famous Letters to Heloise
Peter Abelard’s autobiography that he wrote in 1132 just before he was castrated in his monastery
Union naval officer during the Civil War who later lectured on the importance of sea power in his The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Nebraska’s nicknameSouth East Asia Treaty Organization
Gold Standard Act of 1900
David Lloyd George
National Security Act of 1947
Million Man March
Christina
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Townshend Act
Wallace D. Fard
Elijah Muhammad
John Marshall
Voting by 18-Year-Olds
Admiral George Dewey
Peter Abelard
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History of Misfortune
Alfred Thayer Mahan
“Cornhusker State”Iron collar used in Spain and Portagul to execute criminals by means of strangulation; the term is also applied to lengths of wire or cord used by robbers and murderers to strangle their victims
Birthplace of Douglas MacArthur
Nickname of the birthplace of Douglas MacArthur (includes home and area surrounding)
Amendment 19 deals with...
Most important order of knighthood in England; it is the oldest existing honor of knighthood
Founded the Order of Garter in 1349
Chivalric order in Scotland
Secret organization formed to maintain Southern white supremacy after the U.S. Civil War (they weren’t connected with the KKK, but did use terrorist tactics)
Established the Knights of the White Camelia in 1867 in Franklin, Louisiana
Secret society of Southern sympathizers before and during the Civil War that planned to create a slave kingdom on the “golden circle” (the Gulf of Mexico)
Established the first local branch of the Knights of the Golden Circle in 1854 in Cincinnati
Name that the Knights of the Golden Circle was renamed in 1863
What the Order of American Knights was renamed in 1864
Commander of the Sons of Liberty who raised $500,000 to organize a Confederate government in the North, but it was never carried out
Only U.S. state that has a unicameral legislature
Famous 1814 battle where General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians
Garrote
Little Rock, Arkansas
MacArthur’s Park
Women’s Suffrage
Order of Garter
Edward III
Order of the Thistle
Knights of the White Camelia
Judge Alcibiade de Blanc
Knights of the Golden Circle
Dr. George Bickley
Order of American Knights
Sons of Liberty
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Clement L. Vallandigham
Nebraska
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
State where Horseshoe Bend is located
French oceanographer that developed the aqualung in 1943
Address of the prime minister’s home in England
System that protects USA and Canada from air attacks
Ancient god worshipped by Hebrews
Famous Amorite ruler known for his judicial code
Superintendent of Andersonville that was executed for mistreatment of American prisoners during the Civil War
Islands with volcanic peaks off the coast of Africa
Four females that have appeared on US currencies
Capital of Prince Edward Islands
Saltiest body of water in the world (no fish or plants)
Director of Espionage for the Union that uncovered a plot to kill President AbrahamLincoln in 1861; he wrote Thirty Years A Detective
He said the Vice-Presidency was “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived”
Deepest gorge in the United States (formed by Snake River)
Location of Hell’s Canyon
Spanish military leaders who conquered Mexico
Two delegates to the Constitutional Convention that later became Presidents of the United States
Biblical name of Palestine
James K. Polk’s famous vice president
Alabama
Jacques Cousteau
Number 10, Downing Street, London
DEW (Distant Early Warning)
Yahweh
Hammurabi
Captain Henry Wirz
Canary Islands
Susan B. Anthony, Martha Washington, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea
Charlottetown
Dead Sea
Allan Pinkerton
John Adams
Hell’s Canyon
Idaho and Oregon
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Conquistadors
George Washington and James Madison
Canaan
George M. Dallas
Last military encounter of American Indians and whites
Date of the battle of Wounded Knee
State in which Wounded Knee is located
Sioux chief killed during the Wounded Knee massacre
Indian chief killed earlier on December 15 during an attempted arrest
Another name for the Sioux
3 Chiefs at the Battle of Little Bighorn who defeated Custer
American Indian religious movement of the late 19th century; followers believed in the imminent return of the dead and the buffalo, the disappearance of the white man, and the return of the land to the Indians, who would live a perfect life as their people had before the white man came
Indian prophet of the Paiute tribe whose teachings inspired the ghost dance religion; he claimed to have died and visited the Great Spirit who taught him a sacred dance and then restored his life
Name the white men called Wovoka
Political party of Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, William Seward, and Henry Clay; the party opposed Andrew Jackson
Site of the most famous battles of the Vietnam War
Current ruler of Saudi Arabia
He said of George Washington, “To the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, first in the eyes of his countrymen.”
Was awarded a Gold Medal during the American Revolution
Governor of Virginia from 1791-1794
Site captured by “Light Horse Harry” Lee that was called the most brilliant exploit of the American Revolution
Wounded Knee
December 29, 1890
South Dakota
Chief Big Foot
Chief Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Gall
Ghost Dance
Wovoka
Jack Wilson
Whigs
Hamburger Hill
King Fahd
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Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee
Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee
Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee
Paulus Hook (now Jersey City, New Jersey)
Ancient Greek city that was home to Medea and Sisyphus
Most famous Macedonian Queen of Egypt
Last of the Ptolemies who ruled Egypt for almost 300 years
Sea surrounded by Russia and Iran
Beginning and ending of the Danube River
Mountainous region in Germany known for making Cuckoo Clocks
Separates Italy from Slovenia and Yugoslavia
Sea off the coast of Romania
Second largest river in Europe
State in Germany where the Black Forest is located
Europe’s third largest river (in Ukraine)
Won the presidential election of 1876 by popular votes
Won the presidential election of 1876 by one electoral vote
South American capital city that the equator runs through
Separates Africa and Madagascar
Allowed Athenian citizens to banish dangerous officials
Athenian statesman that instituted ostracism
Tyrant of Athens who was the first person ostracized
Minor Athenian demagogue who was the last person ostracized
Lead the women’s suffrage movement in England
Two famous ironclad ships that battled to a draw in the Civil War in 1862
Largest concrete structure in the worldCorinth
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
Caspian Sea
Black Forest and Black Sea
Black Forest
Adriatic Sea
Black Sea
Danube River
Baden-Wurttemberg
Dnieper River
Samuel Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes
Quito, Ecuador
Mozambique Channel
Ostracism
Cleisthenes
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Hipparchus
Hyperbolus
Emmeline Pankhurst
Monitor and Merrimack
Grand Coulee DamSingle god of Hindus when the Trinity is combined
English nurse that helped Allies escape from Belgium before she was executed by the Germans in WWII
Capital of the Confederacy (chosen on May 21, 1861)
Date that the Civil War started when Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter
President that married 21 year old Francis Folsom at age 49
General who commanded the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Salamis
Motto of the Salvation Army
Hymn of the Salvation Army
Year that Kentucky became a state
Famous general of Israel; he lost his left eye while fighting the Allies in WWII
Name for the parliament of Israel
Prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983; he along with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat received the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
First dog in space
Nicknamed “The Professor” because he had 89 honorary degrees
Canadian province where Lake Winnipeg is located
American naval officer nicknamed “Hero of Manila”
Famous escaped Nazi that was caught in Argentina by Israeli agents and hanged for murder in 1962
Administrator of Hitler’s Nazi death camps in WWII
Austrian Jew who hunted down escaped German war criminals and located Adolf Eichmann; he wrote I Hunted Eichmann and The Murderers Among UsBrahman
Edith Clavell
Richmond, Virginia
April 12, 1861
Grover Cleveland
Themistocles
“Through Blood and Fire”
Onward Christian Soldiers
1792
Moshe Dayan
Knesset
Menachem Begin
Laika
Woodrow Wilson
Manitoba
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Admiral George Dewey
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
Simon Wiesenthal
Surrendered to General Horatio Gates at Saratoga
First U.S. female astronaut to walk in space (October 11, 1984)
Site of a 1979 nuclear power mishap
Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of the Treasury and George Bush’s Secretary of State
Connects the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
She was arrested for illegally voting in 1872
Famous caves in France where the first prehistoric drawings were found
Invented the seed drill
Lost presidential election bids in 1834 and 1844
Lost the presidential election three times
Years that W. Jennings Bryan lost the presidential election
Longest river in China
Leader of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
Mississippi city captured by Union forces in July 1863
Oldest capital of Japan; seat of the imperial government from 710 to 784; a Buddhist temple in this city contains the Great Buddha, a 53 foot tall bronze statue
Name of the day after Halloween
Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River
British act that stated that all colonial imports from foreign countries must be cleared through English ports
Voluntary relinquishment of office or throne
A sect of Buddhism
Founded Zen BuddhismGeneral John Burgoyne
Kathryn Sullivan (aboard Challenger)
Three Mile Island (in Pennsylvania)
James Baker
Suez Canal
Susan B. Anthony
Lascaux
Jethro Tull
Henry Clay
William Jennings Bryan
1896, 1900, and 1908
Yangtze
Yasir Arafat
Vicksburg
Nara
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All Saints Day
Hernando de Soto
Staple Act
Abdication
Zen
BodhidharmaHe said “old soldiers never die, they just fade away”
Montesquie’s work that influenced the Constitution
Tree under which the Buddha is said to have gained enlightenment
Indian Emperor who converted to Buddhism
Holy Indian city where Buddha is said to have gained enlightenment
Traditional founder of Jainism, a religion which insists that no living being be injured
Members of Jainism regard this man as founder, and Mahavira as the last of the 24 leaders or Tirthamkaras
Strict philosophy of nonviolence followed by Jainists
Practice of self-denial for religious purposes that strives to free the spirit from the body’s demands
Metaphysical principle that binds beings to the cycle of rebirth
Name given to the Hindu cycle of rebirth or wheel of life
Said as he watched the first test of a nuclear bomb “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds; waiting the hour that ripens to their doom”
Where you’ll find the words “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds; waiting the hour that ripens to their doom”
Where the Bhagavad Gita is found
Most popular god of Hinduism; he is regarded as the eighth incarnation of Vishnu
Hindu movement founded in the U.S. in 1966 and that derives its name from a mantra (chant) called O Lord Krishna
Hindu god known as the “Preserver”
Hindu god known as the “Destroyer”
Douglas MacArthur
The Spirit of the Laws
The Bodhi Tree
Asoka
Bodh Gaya
Mahavira
Rishabha
Ahisma
Asceticism
Karma
Samsara
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bhagavad Gita (The Lord’s Song)
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In the Mahabharata
Krishna
Hare Krishna [HAHR-ee KRISH-nuh]
Vishnu
Shiva
In Hinduism, a reincarnation of a god, especially of Vishnu
Military alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII
1676 uprising by Virginia settlers, disgruntled over taxes and land, that included attacking Indians, looting wealthy plantations, and burning Jamestown
1917 statement issued by Great Britain declaring its support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine
1846 uprising by U.S. settlers in California against Mexican rule (California becomes an independent republic)
Nicknames of the U.S. Flag
Nickname of the Confederate Flag
Laws adopted by former Confederates after the Civil War to limit the freedom of former slaves
1878 federal law passed in response to pressure from farmers; required government to buy and mint silver
1978 Middle East peace agreement drafted by the U.S., Egypt, and Israel
Document, issued by King James I of England, that licensed the Plymouth Company and the London Company to organize settlements in Virginia
Resolution proposed by Henry Clay that temporarily settled difference between the North and the South over slavery
Deal between leading Republicans and southern Democrats that gave the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 in exchange for a promise not to use the military to enforce Reconstruction laws in the South
Civil War era plan to resolve conflict between North and South by calling for the westward expansion of the Missouri Compromise line through the remaining territories
Avatar
Axis Powers
Bacon’s Rebellion
Balfour Declaration
Bear Flag Revolt
Stars and Stripes (or Old Glory)
Stars and Bars
Black Codes
Bland-Allison Act
Camp David Accords
Charter of 1606
Compromise of 1850
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Compromise of 1877
Crittenden Compromise
1975 federal law requiring public schools to provide education for children with physical and mental disabilities
Freed all slaves living in those areas of the Confederacy that were still in rebellion against the U.S. as of January 1, 1863
1807 measure that stopped shipments of food and other American products to all foreign ports in an effort to maintain U.S. neutrality in European conflicts
1933 federal law authorizing only banks that were financially sound to reopen after the New Deal bank holiday
Federal agency created in 1970 to enforce environmental laws
1917 federal law designed to silence dissenters during WWI
President Nixon’s proposal to replace the welfare system with a plan that would guarantee families minimum income
New Deal agency created in 1933 to insure bank deposits
Federal law proposed during President Woodrow Wilson’s administration that provided low-interest loans to farmers
1913 federal law that created a three-level banking system controlled by both private banks and the government
Government agency established in 1914 to enforce antitrust laws and investigate corporations engaged in unfair practices
1921 agreement between the U.S., Great Britain, France, and Japan to respect one another’s territories in the Pacific
1858 position held by Stephen Douglas, that people in a territory have the power to prohibit slavery by refusing to pass local laws necessary to make a slave system work
Law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 that made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Embargo Act
Emergency Banking Act
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Espionage Act
Family Assistance Plan (FAP)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Farm Loan Act
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
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Four Power Treaty
Freeport Doctrine
Fugitive Slave Act
1853 agreement by which the U.S. acquired Mexico’s territory south of the Gila River in present-day Arizona and New Mexico for 10 million dollars
1787 plan approved at the Constitutional Convention in which each state, regardless of the size, was given an equal voice in the upper house, while representation in the lower house was determined by population
1814 meeting of New England Federalists who debated seceding from the Union and negotiating a separate peace with England during the War of 1812
1862 federal law that gave public land to any citizen willing to live on the Great Plains and cultivate the land
1887 federal law that regulated railroad freight rates and created an agency to monitor railroad activities
Organization created by the Interstate Commerce Act to oversee railroad companies; it had little power, though
1774 series of laws passed by Great Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, while strengthening British control over the colonies
Confederation of Indian tribes formed in the 15th or 16th century, also called the Six Nations
Laws adopted in South that were designed to enforce segregation
Law that gave Filipinos the right to elect both houses of their legislature, but delayed
independence until a stable government was established
1789 law that created the federal court system, including district courts, circuit courts of appeals, and the Supreme Court
1854 federal law that established popular sovereignty in all new territories (it overturned the Missouri Compromise)
1916 law that outlawed the interstate sale of products produced by child labor
Gadsden Purchase
Great Compromise
Hartford Convention
Homestead Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)
Iroquois League
Jim Crow Laws
Jones Act of 1916
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Judiciary Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
1927 agreement signed by 62 nations that outlawed war but allowed countries to declare war in self-defense
State resolutions passed between 1798 and 1799 that declared states should be the final judge of whether a law was unconstitutional
National union founded in 1869 by Uriah Stephens; it consisted of skilled and unskilled workers
Federal law designed to reduce corruption in labor unions
1941 law that appropriated money for the U.S. to lend or lease arms and other supplies to non-Axis countries
1948 U.S. program that provided some $12 billion in economic aid to Western Europe after World War II
State programs established in 1965 and funded by Congress to provide free health care to the needy
1820 act that maintained the balance of slave and free states in Congress by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while prohibiting the spread of slavery in territories north of latitude 3690’
1862 federal law that gave land to states to establish agricultural colleges
1938 meeting attended by government leaders from Great Britain, Italy, France, and Germany in which a pact was signed giving Germany control of the Sudentenland
Federal agency established in 1958 to direct American space exploration
Civil rights organization founded in 1909 to work for various social reforms that would benefit African Americans and end racial discrimination
1651 series of mercantilist laws designed to increase English merchants’ profits by limiting direct trade between English colonies and other European nations
President of Mexico, 1917-1920Kellogg-Briand Pact
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Knights of Labor
Land Ordinance of 1785
Lend-Lease Act
Marshall Plan
Medicaid
Missouri Compromise
Morill Act
Munich Conference
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National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Navigation Acts
Venustiano CarranzaInternational treaty ratified in 1993 to relax trade barriers between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
Alliance formed in 1949 whose member nations agreed to protect one another in the event of an attack
Federal law that established a system for governing the Northwest Territory
Trials of Nazi war criminals by the Allies that began in 1945
Government agency formed in 1964 to coordinate antipoverty programs like Job Corps, VISTA, & Head Start
What VISTA stands for
1965 federal law that, together with the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, provided money for urban renewal and housing assistance for low-income families
1899 U.S. policy that called for all nations to have equal access to trade and investment in China
Proposed the Open Door Policy
Addition to Cuba’s constitution, enacted in 1902 and renounced in 1934, that gave U.S. greater control in Cuba
Declaration issued by Great Britain that barred settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
1867 federal laws that gave radical Republicans military control of the South after the Civil War
1774 law enacted by Parliament extending Quebec’s boundaries south to the Ohio River and granting full religious rights to French Roman Catholics
Federal agency created in 1932 to stimulate the economy by lending money to railroads, insurance companies, banks, and other financial institutions
President of Columbia University from 1948-1953North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787 or the Land Ordinance of 1787
Nuremberg Trials
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)
Volunteers In Service To America
Omnibus Housing Act
Open Door Policy
Secretary of State John Hay
Platt Amendment
Proclamation of 1763
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Reconstruction Acts
Quebec Act
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower
1904 policy that extended the Monroe Doctrine by allowing the U.S. a greater role in maintaining peace and order in the Western Hemisphere
1817 disarmament plan between the U.S. and Great Britain that limited each nation’s military presence on the Great Lakes to a few armed ships
1918 federal law enacted during World War I that made written criticism of the government a crime
1917 federal law that required men to register with local draft boards
1848 meeting held in Seneca Falls, New York, that marked the birth of the women’s rights movement in the U.S.
1786-1787 revolt by farmers against high taxes and debts
Leader of Shay’s Rebellion
1930 high-tariff law that contributed to the global economic downturn of the 1930’s
1935 federal law that provided a system of unemployment compensation and retirement pensions
1765 law enacted by Parliament that placed a tax on all printed material in the colonies
Agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, limiting the number of intercontinental nuclear missiles each nation could have
1764 law enacted by Parliament that set an import tax on foreign sugar, molasses, and other goods to the colonies
1916 promise by Germany not to sink ocean liners without warning or without assuring the passengers’ safety
1947 federal law that extended government regulation of labor unions and allowed courts to end strikes
1968 North Vietnamese attack on South Vietnam
Name of the Vietnamese New YearRoosevelt Corollary
Rush-Bagot Agreement
Sedition Act
Selective Service Act
Seneca Falls Convention
Shay’s Rebellion
Daniel Shays
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Social Security Act
Stamp Act
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
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Sugar Act
Sussex Pledge
Taft-Hartley Act
Tet Offensive
Tet1773 law enacted by Parliament that allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to American agents without paying certain duties
1926 scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for leasing the government oil reserve in Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to private oil companies
1964 act that gave the president authority to take all steps necessary to repel an armed attack against the U.S.
1767 law enacted by Parliament that placed duties on goods imported by the colonies
Chancellor of the Exchequer in England who proposed the Townshend Acts
1913 federal law that reduced tariffs to the lowest levels in 50 years
James Madison’s proposal during the Constitutional Convention of shifting power away from the states toward a central government
1919 federal law that enforced Prohibition
U.S. agency during WWI responsible for allocating materials, establishing production priorities, and setting prices
1945 postwar peace meeting between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union where they made plans to divide and occupy Germany
1943 racial attacks by U.S. sailors on Mexican American youths in Los Angeles
Filipino leader who took part in an unsuccessful revolt against Spanish rule in 1896; he led Filipino troops against Spain in Spanish-American war
Declared president of the Philippine Republic in 1899
President of Chile until his assassination in 1973
First Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas in 1836Tea Act
Teapot Dome Scandal
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Townshend Acts
Charles Townshend
Underwood Tariff Act
Virginia Plan
Volstead Act
War Industries Board (WIB)
Yalta Conference
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Zoot-Suit Riots
Emilio Aquinaldo
Emilio Aquinaldo
Salvador Allende
Stephen F. Austin
Wrote Six Crises
Wrote Years of Decisions
Type of therapy invented by Carl Rogers
African American opera singer who was the first African American soloist with NY’s Metropolitan Opera; served as U.S. delegate to United Nations in 1958
Last Incan king of Peru; he was held prisoner by Francisco Pizarro after refusing to convert to Christianity
First female telegraph operator; first female labor leader
Wrote Why England Slept
Napoleon’s wife
Most often used personality test
Upper house of government in Germany
Lower house of government in Germany
Secretary of Treasury who had to finance WWI and developed famous Liberty Bonds to finance the war
First President to be divorced
Wrote the book George Washington
Proclaimed independence of Israel and Israel’s first prime minister
Associate Justice for the Supreme Court, 1916-1939, known as “The People’s Attorney” for taking on cases involving social reform
Director of the CIA under Ford and Reagan’s vice president
Only Roman Catholic President
Wrote Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
Mexican president, 1934-1940, that began the Six-Year Plan of social reform, including redistribution of land and seizure of foreign oil properties
Richard Nixon
Harry S. Truman
Client-Centered Therapy
Marian Anderson
Atahualpa
Sarah G. Bagley
John F. Kennedy
Josephine Bonaparte
Briggs and Meyers
Bondestradt
Reichstagt
William McAdoo
Ronald Reagan
Woodrow Wilson
David Ben-Gurion
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Louis D. Brandeis
George Bush
John F. Kennedy
Herbert Hoover
Lazaro Cardenas
President known for “voodoo economics” Known for his campaign for global human rights and Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel
Communist dictator of Cuba arrested for leading attempted revolt against dictator Batista in 1953
Fidel Castro’s famous act that overthrew Batista in 1959
President’s daughter who was the first to be married inside the White House
President who addressed the Russian television
Wrote This Country of Ours
First female black U.S. representative, 1969-1983
First black woman to run for President (1972)
Nation’s youngest governor
Sioux chief that led the Fetterman Massacre and the Wagon-Box fight in Red Cloud’s War; he was victorious at Battle of Little Big Horn against Custer in 1876
Crazy Horse’s nickname by Sioux
Fought many battles against Indians; led Black Hills expedition; killed in Battle of Little Big Horn
Nickname of the Battle of Little Big Horn
Franklin Pierce’s secretary of war
Ran for president a record five times
President who had a child born while in the White House
President who opened the baseball season by throwing the first baseball
Wrote An Outdoor Journal
African American who founded the abolitionist newspaper North StarGeorge Bush
Jimmy Carter (or James Earl Carter)
Fidel Castro
“26th of July Movement”
James Monroe
Richard Nixon
Benjamin Harrison
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm
William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton
Crazy Horse
“Strange One”
George Armstrong Custer
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“Custer’s Last Stand”
Jefferson Davis
Eugene V. Debs
Grover Cleveland
William Howard Taft
Jimmy Carter
Frederick Douglas
Leader of the southern Cheyenne Indians in Colorado who is remembered in connection with the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864
President of Mexico, 1877-1880, who gained fame in the Mexican War against the U.S.-lost election Juarez in 1871
Porfirio Diaz overthrew him as president of Mexico (1876)
“Civil War” in Mexico in 1911
Obtained reform in the care of the mentally ill
Editor of Crisis from 1910-1934
Thomas Alva Edison’s nickname
Company founded by Thomas Alva Edison
President who was the first to set up a Christmas tree in the White House
Wrote The Naval War of 1812
Government employee who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times
Secret study done in 1967-1969 by analysts for the U.S. Department of Defense that investigated the U.S.’s actions during the Vietnam War and sharply criticized them
Official title of the Pentagon Papers
President who used the desk that was a gift from Queen Victoria
Wrote Where’s the Rest of Me
Geraldine Ferraro’s running mate in 1984 who ran for President
Naval officer who established relationships with Japan
First naval steamship
Commander of The Fulton
Estate name of Andrew Jackson
The estate of James MadisonChief Black Kettle
Porfirio Diaz
Lerdo de Tajada
Mexican Revolution
Dorothea Dix
W.E.B. Du Bois
“The Wizard of Menlo Park”
General Electric
Benjamin Harrison
Theodore Roosevelt
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon Papers
History of the U.S. Decision-Making Process on Viet Nam Policy
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John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Walter Mondale
Matthew Perry
The Fulton
Matthew Perry
Hermitage
MontpelierDaughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and was herself elected prime minister in 1966 and in 1980
City of the dead in Egyptian legend
Bay in Nova Scotia, Canada, where the world’s highest waves are produced by the Atlantic Ocean
Europe’s longest river
Europe’s second longest river
States have the right to vote on slavery used both in the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Adams estate other than the White House
The estate of Thomas Jefferson, which he designed himself
The estate of James Monroe
Name of Ronald Reagan’s ranch near Santa Barbara, California
Name of the retirement home of John Tyler
The 4 Presidents who were incumbent Vice Presidents
Two future Presidents who signed the Declaration of Independence
Only lifetime bachelor President
Won a Nobel Peace Prize for his role as peacemaker in the Russo-Japanese War
Nickname given to Teddy Roosevelt after being shot and still giving a speech while the bullet was still lodged in his lung
President elected to the Senate after Presidency
President that took his oath of office from a woman
Where LBJ took his oath of office from a woman
Indira Gandhi
Hamunaptra
Bay of Fundy
Volga River
Danube River
Popular Sovereignty
Peacefield
Monticello
Oak Hill
Rancho del Cielo
Sherwood Forest (so named because he considered himself an outlaw)
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin van Buren, and George Bush
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
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James Buchanan
Theodore Roosevelt
“The Bull Moose”
Andrew Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Aboard an Airplane
Presidents that were injured but not killed in an assassination attempt
State capitals named after Presidents
President who was the first to ever leave the continent while still in office
Where Teddy Roosevelt visited in 1906
Wrote A Time To Heal
Crimes that occur prior to and in preparation for what may be a subsequent offense
Founded Unitarianism
Famous explorer of the Middle East (after Marco Polo)
Came up with the famous Anaconda Plan during the Civil War; the plan was supposed to apply pressure on the Confederacy from all sides
Five-sided headquarters of the Department of Defense
The world’s largest office building
Where the Pentagon is located
Process of issuing Social Security numbers
Andrew Jackson, Harry S. Truman, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford
Lincoln, Madison, Jackson, and Jefferson City
Theodore Roosevelt
Panama
Gerald R. Ford
Inchoate Crimes
Theopolius Lindsey
Sir Richard Burton
General Winfield Scott
The Pentagon
The Pentagon
Arlington, Virginia
Enumeration
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