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President George Washington	President Thomas Jefferson	Vice-President Aaron Burr	Pioneer Daniel Boone

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Artist John James Audubon	Inventor Eli Whitney	Abolishionist Frederick Douglass	Admiral David Farragut

Photographer Matthew Brady	Red Cross Founder Clara Barton	President Abraham Lincoln	Alexander Graham Bell

Outlaw Doc Holliday	Pioneer women in Law - & Bradwell	Women's Rights leader Susan B. Anthony	Outlaws Frank & Jesse James

Sharpshooter Annie Oakley	Inventor Thomas Alva Edison

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Inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright	President Theodore Roosevelt	Educator Booker T. Washington	Inventor Henry Ford

Gangster Al Capone	Charles Lindbergh Aviator	Artist Georgia O'Keeffe	Architect Frank Lloyd Wright

President Franklin Roosevelt	Amelia Earhart Aviator	Scientist George Washington Carver	Howard Hughes Aviator

Scientist Dr. Robert H. Goddard	Boxer Joe Louis	President Harry Truman	General George C. Marshall

Baseball Star Jackie Robinson	Senator Prescott Bush	Senator Joseph McCarthy	President Dwight Eisenhower

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt	President John Kennedy	Astronaut & Senator John Glenn	Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King

Civil Rights Leader Roy Wilkins	Civil Rights figure James Meredith	President Lyndon Johnson	President Richard Nixon

Author Isaac Asimov	Actor Bruce Lee	President Jimmy Carter	President Ronald Reagan

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1773 - The Boston Tea Party	1775–1783 - The Revolutionary War	1791 - The Whiskey Rebellion	1791 - Bill of Rights Ratified

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1803 - The Louisianna Purchase	1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition	1812- 1815 - The War of 1812	1814 - Amistad Trial

1846 - Donner Party	1849 - The California Gold Rush	1861 - 1864 - The Civil War	1869 - Driving the Golden Spike Transcontinental R

1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre

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1903 - Wright Brothers at Kittyhawk, NC	1915 - Sinking of the Lusitania	1914 - 1918 - World War I	1918 - Influenza Epidemic

1920s - The Roaring Twenties	1927 - 1st Trans-Atlantic Flight	1929 - 1941 - The Great Depession	1931 - 1936 - The Hoover Dam

1937 - The Hindenburg Disaster	1937 - Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific	1938 - The War of the Worlds Broadcast	1940 - Mine Disaster

1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor	1941 - 1945 - World War II	1946 - Railroad Strike	1950 - Assasination attempt: President Truman

1959 - Alaska Statehood	1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis	1963 - March on Washington	1964 - Kennedy Assasination

1969 - Man Walks on the Moon	1976 - Bicentenial	1980 - Mount St. Helens Eruption