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The first people coming to America used this landbridge
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Bering Passage
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Former name of Native Americans
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Indians
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Large poles built by ^
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Totem
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Historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy
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Iroquois
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In 1520, Umi-a-Liloa ruled this island
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Hawaii
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First European who led expeditions deep into the modern U.S.
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Hernando de Soto
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Oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement
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St. Augustine
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Year the Mayflower arrived
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1620
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Place where the pilgrims of the Mayflower landed
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Plymouth Rock
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Group of English Reformed Protestant who fled to the New World
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Puritans
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Who founded the city of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania?
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William Penn
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Site of the 1692 witch trials
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Salem
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War in which the French lost their territories in North America
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Seven Years' War
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Group of colonies who declared their independence and formed the U.S.
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Thirteen Colonies
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Protest slogan against the colonist's Sugar and Stamp Act
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"No taxation
without representation"
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Year in which the colonies declared themselves independent
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1776
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From whom?
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Great Britain
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The Residence Act made this city the new capital
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Washington, D.C.
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First state to ratify the Constitution
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Delaware
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Supreme law
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the Constitution
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It starts with which three words?
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We the People
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First ten amendments to the ^
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the Bill of Rights
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Highest federal court
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Supreme Court
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Second U.S. president
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John Adams
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The U.S. bought this territory from France in 1803
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Louisiana Territory
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Explorers who discovered the Pacific coast
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Meriwether Lewis
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William Clark
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Traditional border between northern and southern states
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Mason-Dixon Line
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In 1814, this became the national anthem of the U.S.
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Star-Spangled Banner
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Policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas
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Monroe Doctrine
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Forced removals of Native American tribes
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Trail of Tears
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This canal, opened in 1825, connects New York with the Great Lakes
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Erie Canal
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Four-letter party active in the middle of the 19th century
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Whig
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Mission in San Antonio besieged in 1836
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Alamo
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This was discovered near Sutter's Mill in 1848
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Gold
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Popular name for the western part in the 19th century
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Wild West
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Quintessential symbol of ^, animal herder
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Cowboys
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In 1845, this state joins the union following a war between the US and Mexico
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Texas
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He invented Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
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Brigham Young was a leader of this religious group
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Mormons
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Party formed in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854
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Republican Party
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Revolting southern states which formed an unrecognized country
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Confederate States
of America
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16th president and today a national hero
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Abraham Lincoln
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North vs. South, 1861-1865
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American Civil War
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State which broke away to support the North
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West Virginia
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Commander of the southern Army, statues of him were destroyed in 2017
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Robert E. Lee
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Bloodiest battle and the war's turning point
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Battle of Gettysburg
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This proclamation freed more than 3 million enslaved people
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Railroad connecting Omaha with Oakland
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Custer's Last Stand
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
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New York island, once gateway for over 12 million immigrants
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Ellis Island
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Wealthiest American of all time, made a fortune in oil
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John Rockefeller
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In this war, the U.S. became a superpower, USS Maine
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Spanish-American War
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This canal in Central America opened in 1914
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Panama Canal
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Statement of principles for peace to end WWI, initiated by W. Wilson
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Fourteen Points
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Car tycoon from Michigan
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Henry Ford
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His most successful car, colloquially known as Tin Lizzie
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Model T
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It used to have almost 2 million people, now this city only has 670,000 people
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Detroit
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Home of the U.S. film industry
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Hollywood
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The 21st Amendment repealed this
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Prohibition
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Gangster who made business during ^
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Al Capone
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Severe worldwide economic depression, started on Black Tuesday 1929
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Great Depression
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Famous for his "New Deal", also the only president to be in office for 12 years
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"A date which will live in infamy"
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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French region where U.S. troops landed in 1944
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Normandy
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Common term for Tuesday, 6 June 1944
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D-Day
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Japanese cities struck by atomic bombs
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Hiroshima
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Nagasaki
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Capitalist counterpart to the Warsaw Pact
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NATO
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"ism" describing the period of anti-communist suspicion
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McCarthyism
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War consisting of proxy wars, 1947-1991
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Cold War
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War of the 50ies between a communist north and a capitalist south
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Korean War
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Highway system formed in 1956
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Interstate
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Also known as the Mother Road
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Route 66
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49th state
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Alaska
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He was assassinated in November 1963
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John F. Kennedy
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The only war America ever lost
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Vietnam War
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The first two people on the moon
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Neil Armstrong
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Buzz Aldrin
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Year the ^ landed on the moon
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1969
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"I have a dream"
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Music festival in Bethel, New York
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Woodstock
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Political scandal which caused R. Nixon to resign the presidency
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Watergate
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In 1973, a crisis began because of a lack of this liquid
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Oil
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"King of Rock and Roll"
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Elvis Presley
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This superpower collapsed in 1991
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Soviet Union
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Longest-running American sitcom
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The Simpsons
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War led by the US to bring down Iraq
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Gulf War
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Peace solution for Bosnia & Herzegovina
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Dayton Accords
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He lost the 2000 presidential election very close
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Al Gore
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Buildings attacked during 9/11
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World Trade Center
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the Pentagon
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Bush's response to ^
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War on Terror
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Despite having nothing to do with 9/11, the U.S. invaded this country
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Iraq
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2005 hurricane which caused severe damages around New Orleans
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Hurricane Katrina
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First Hawaiian and Afro-American president
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Barack Obama
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^ restored relations with this country, after 54 years
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Cuba
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Whistleblower who leaked NSA documents
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Edward Snowden
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Very controversial businessman elected in 2016 as 45th President
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Donald Trump
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