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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


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.............


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


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...


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


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


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


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


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


Founded Neoplatonism - tried to link Greek philosophy and Christian philosophy (200 AD)

Founded Baptist Missionary Society


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)


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 with shortest term in office (1 month)

Stalwart Republican who assassinated Garfield


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

30

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)



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






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


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


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


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


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


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

4

Lame Duck Amendment

18

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

9

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”


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)


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

55

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



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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