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20 Cards in this Set
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Stephen Crane
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wrote the civil war novel The Red Badge of Courage
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CREEP
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Committee for the Re Election of the President. Associated with the Watergate Scandal
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Involved soviet nuclear missiles placed in Cuba, nearly led to nuclear war between the US and USSR
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Jefferson Davis
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First and only president of the Confederate States of America
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De Lome Letter
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Dupoy De Lome wrote this letter criticizing president McKinley, helping to start the Spanish American War
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Eugene Debs
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Union leader who ran for president several times for the Socialist Party
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Declaration of Independence
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document stating the American colonies indepence from British rule.
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Detente
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Ease of tensions between the US and Soviet Union in the 1970s
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George Dewey
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Won the Battle of Marilla Bay for the US Navy
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John Dickinson
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Pennsylvania delegate for the Continental congress
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Dien Bein Phu
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City in northen Vietnam which was an early location of the Viet Minh
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Dorothea Dix
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reformer of the American mental asylums. Created the first American
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Stephen Douglas
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Democratic candidate in the election at 1860 won by Lincoln
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Federick Douglas
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former slave who later became a prominent abolitionist leader
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Dred Scott Decision
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ruled that if a slave was brought into freel land, the slave was not freed
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W.E.B Du Bois
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Early American Civil rights activist
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Dust Bown
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a series of severe dust storms in the Great Plains region, brought on by drought
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Thomas Edison
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famous for the invention of the electric lightbulb
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Jonathan Edwards
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Early American Theologion who had a key role in the first Great Awakening
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Dwight D. Eisehower
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34th U.S. President, who served from 1953 to 1961
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