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54 Cards in this Set
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record of mankind
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history
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Virginian who gained valuable military experience during the French and Indian War
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George Washington
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capital of Canada
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Ottawa
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first permanent English settlement in the New World
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Jamestown
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driest region in Wouth America
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Atacama
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Indians who joined the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving
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Wampanoags
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plain or hilly region within the Temperate Zone
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prairie
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the biggest canyon in the U.S. is the
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Grand Canyon
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Capital of Brazil
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Brazilia
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all 13 original colonies were eventually controlled by
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England
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"Remember the Maine"
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Spanish-American War
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the Zimmermann Note
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World WarI
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the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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World war II
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Civil War
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the Rough Riders
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Spanish-American War
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Civil War
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first use of atomic bombs
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World War II
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assassination of Archfuke Ferdinand
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World War I
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President during World War I
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Woodrow Wilson
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President during world War II
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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commander of Allied Powers, later became President
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Chinese christian leader during World War II
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Chiang Kai-shek
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leader of Germany during World War I
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Nazi leader of Germany during World War II
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Adolf Hitler
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man who developed assembly line methos of production
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Henry Ford
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the Fascist leader of Italy during World War II
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Benito Mussolini
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"Angel of the battlefield"
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Clara Barton
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military leader of Japan during World War II
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Tojo
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first black baseball player to play in major leagues
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Jackie Robinson
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Communist leader of Russia during World War II
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Joseph Stalin
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the emperor of Japan during World War II
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Hirohito
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black educator who served as special advisor on minority affairs to Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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black educator who founded Tuskegee Institute
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Booke T. Washington
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explorer who discovered the North Pole
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Robert Peary
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"Plant Genius" who found 285 uses for the peanut
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George Washington Carver
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America's most famous evangelist of the 19th century
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Dwight L. Moody
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"George Washington of South America"
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Simon Bolivar
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inventor of the lightbulb
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Thomas Edison
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inventor of the first liquid fuel rocket
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Robert H. Goddard
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inventor of mechanical reaper
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Cyrus McCormick
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one of the inventors of the airplane
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Orville Wright
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changed the way Americans spent their leisure time in 1950s
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television
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one of the world's ten most admired women of her time
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Marian Anderson
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legislation that guarantees voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic groups
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1964 Civil Rights Act
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black minister who was very active in the civil rights movement
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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major mountain range in South America
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Andes
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President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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John F. Kennedy
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most famous early South American Indian civilization
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Inca
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first President ever to resign from office
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Richard Nixon
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first woman justice was apointed to U.S. Supreme Court by
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Ronald Reagan
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Communist leader who agreed to a plan of "perestroika,"or"restructuring"
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Operation Desert Storm was directed at what country
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Iraq
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the world's largest tropical rainforest is where
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Amazon River Basin
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highest navigable lake in South America
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Lake Titicaca
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