U.S. History by Letter- P

Name these historical people, places and things starting with the letter P.

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Hint	Answer
Ban on production/sale of liquor	Prohibition
Old Blood and Guts	George Patton
Contemporaries of the Pilgrims	Puritans
Artificial waterway finished in 1914	Panama Canal
Civil War site of siege warfare	Petersburg
1800s detective agency, infiltrated unions	Pinkerton
Gave water to Revolutionary soldiers	Molly Pitcher
"Separate but equal" Supreme Court case	Plessy v. Ferguson
Founder of Pennsylvania	William Penn
Author of Common Sense	Thomas Paine

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Attacked on a "day of infamy"	Pearl Harbor
Led American troops in WWI	John Pershing
Disastrous Gettysburg attack	Pickett's Charge
Saved Capt. John Smith's life	Pocahontas
The King of Rock and Roll	Elvis Presley
Hero of Lake Erie in the War of 1812	Oliver Hazard Perry
Horse-riding letter deliverers	Pony Express
Benjamin Franklin's newsletter	Poor Richard's Almanack
Transcontinental railroad finished here, 1869	Promontory Point
Wrote "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe