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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

Pioneer women in Law - & Bradwell	Women's Rights leader Susan B. Anthony	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	Architect Frank Lloyd Wright	President Franklin Roosevelt

Amelia Earhart Aviator	Scientist George Washington Carver	Howard Hughes Aviator	Scientist Dr. Robert H. Goddard

President Harry Truman	General George C. Marshall	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	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	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	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

1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis	1964 - Kennedy Assasination	1969 - Man Walks on the Moon	1980 - Mount St. Helens Eruption