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56 Cards in this Set
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The document passed to make sure children learned for to read and write |
Ole' Deluder Satan Act |
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President Reagan's conservative economic views |
Reaganomics |
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The Communist leader of the Soviet Union who signed the INF treat with President Reagan in 1987 |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
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The first shot of the Civil War |
Fort Sumter |
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The Confederate president during the Civil War |
Jefferson Davis |
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The amendment that repealed prohibition |
21st Amendment |
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What name was Texas referred to as? |
Lone Star Republic |
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Who hired the Hessians to fight the colonists? |
King George III |
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Who posted the Ninety-five These |
Martin Luther |
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The first woman justice appointed to the Supreme Court |
Sandra Day O' Connor |
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The Whig party was formed out of dislike for which President |
Andrew Jackson |
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What did the President call his advisers? |
Cabinet |
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The Great Communicator |
Ronald Reagan |
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Who discovered the Mississippi River? |
Hernando De Soto |
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Founder of Providence, Rhode Island |
Roger Williams |
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The nation as having sheltered al Qaeda terrorists |
Afghanistan |
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The religious group who wrote the first-classical music in America |
Moravians |
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The code name for America's atomic bomb project |
Manhattan Project |
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Who searched for the fountain of youth? |
Ponce De Leon |
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The dictator of Iraq who sparked the Persian Gulf War |
Saddam Hussein |
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The dictator of Nazi Germany during World War I |
Adolf Hitler |
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The war where the United States liberated Kuwaiit |
Persian Gulf War |
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The un-Biblical theory that Charles Darwin promoted |
Evolution |
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The first Roman Catholic President |
President John F. Kennedy |
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The Prime Minister of Great Britain during Reagan's Administration |
Margaret Thatcher |
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The "Father of Constitution" |
James Madison |
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The three countries where tariffs and trade restrictions were eliminated |
U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico |
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Who said, "I only have but one life to lose for my country."? |
Nathan Hale |
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What did Samuel Morse invent? |
Telegraph |
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The founder of Delaware and Pennsylvania |
William Penn |
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What were the evangelist riders on horseback called? |
Circuit riders
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What was the name of Charles Lindbergh's plane? |
The Spirit of St. Louis |
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The two cities in America that suffered terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 |
New York City and Washington D.C. |
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Who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death"? |
Patrick Henry |
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The best known missionary to the Indians |
David Brainerd |
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Who described Massachusetts Bay as "city upon a hill"? |
Governor John Winthrop |
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Name the terrorist leader of al Qaeda during the 9-11 attacks |
Osama Bin Laden |
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Who was instrumental in having prayer and Bible-reading banned from public schools? |
Madalyn Murray O' Hair |
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What doubled the size of the United States? |
Louisiana Purchase |
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The President of the United States during the collapse of the Soviet Union |
George H. W. Bush |
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The Indian guide who accompanied Lewis and Clark |
Sacagawea |
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The general whole troops into combat in Operation Desert Storm |
General Norman Schwarzkopf |
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The first city to be bombed with an atomic weapon |
Hiroshima |
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Who invented the steel plow? |
John Deere |
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What did President George Bush create in order to promote the safety of the American people? |
Department of Homeland Security |
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President roosevelt's massive government welfare program |
New Deal |
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Name the natural pass in the Appalachian Mountains |
Cumberland Gap |
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Who invented the mechanical reaper? |
Cyrus McCormick |
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Who wrote the "Star Spangled Banner"? |
Francis Scott Key |
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The President who initiated the "war on terror" after 9-11 |
President George W. Bush |
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The battle where the Japanese lost nearly all of their remaining ships during World War I |
Battle of Leyte Gulf |
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The murdering of over six million Jews called? |
Holocaust |
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The scandal that forced President Nixon to resign |
Watergate Affair |
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What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution? |
Bill of Rights |
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What is Armistice Day now celebrated as? |
Veterans Day |
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Who wrote History of Plymouth Plantation? |
William Bradford |
