U.S. History by Letter- D

Based on the clues, name these people, places and things starting with the letter D.

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Hint	Answer
Escaped from slavery, became abolitionist	Frederick Douglass
First (and only) president of the CSA	Jefferson Davis
June 6, 1944	D-Day
First US state	Delaware
Nixon's "thawing" plan with Communism	Detente
Defense attorney in Scopes Trial	Clarence Darrow
Pan-Africanist, co-founded NAACP	W.E.B. Du Bois
Invented a library classification system	Melvil Dewey
First English person born in America	Virginia Dare

Hint	Answer
Isolated poet of Amherst, MA	Emily Dickinson
Unofficial CSA anthem	Dixie
Oregon Trail locale famous for cannibalism	Donner Pass
Agricultural tragedy of the 1930s	Dust Bowl
Depression-era bank robber	John Dillinger
Pioneer of animation industry	Walt Disney
Popular name for US WWI soldiers	Doughboys
50's actor killed in car crash	James Dean
1995 Balkan peace agreement	Dayton Accords

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Apr 9, 2022

Donner Pass where the Donner party ate each other is near Lake Tahoe, far away from the Oregon Trail to the north. The Donner party diverged from the Oregon Trail in present-day Utah.