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| Spiro T. Agnew | VP under Nixon from 1969 to his resignation in 1973 |
| Alamo | Texas fort in San Antonio where a small number of Americans made a stand against larger force of Mexican army;1836; Davy Crocket killed; Mexicans led by Santa Anna |
| Ethan Allen | Leader of Green Mountain Boys that captured Fort Ticonderoga (1775) |
| Benedict Arnold | US general and traitor; fled to British lines and was given command in the royal army |
| Crispus Attucks | First to die in Boston Massacre |
| Clara Barton | Nurse founded Red Cross (1881) |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | Attempted invasion of Cuba (1961/Kennedy) by Cuban exiles given support by US |
| Lizzie Borden | Woman who was charged with the axe murder of her father and stepmother (1892) |
| Boston Tea Party | During the American Revolution over 300 chests were dumped into the sea in protest of British attempts at direct taxation of Americans |
| Boston Massacre | 1st bloodshed of the American Revolution |
| Chappaquiddick Incident | 1969 car accident in which a woman on Ted Kennedy's staff was drowned off the MA coast after the car Kennedy had been plunged off of bridge; Kennedy survived;never fully explained |
| Henry Clay | US statesman famous for efforts to reconcile differences between N and S before Civil War; Known as the "Great Compromiser" he helped produce the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 |
| Virginia Dare | 1st child born of English parents in the US (1587) |
| Clarence Darrow | Defense attorney during Scopes or "Monkey" trial in Tennessee |
| Jefferson Davis | President of Confederacy (1861-1865) |
| Geraldine Ferraro | First woman major party VP candidate (1984 w/Mondale) |
| Patrick Henry | Polictical leader who said,"Give me liberty or give me death" |
| Homestead Act | Law passed in 1862 that gave 160 acres of land to any family that lived and cultivated the land for 5 years |
| Sam Houston | Led Texans in their struggle for their independence from Mexico; Served as president of the Republic of Texas (1836-1838) and (1841-1844) |
| J. Edgar Hoover | Director of FBI (1924-1972) |
| John Paul Jones | Naval officer on Revolutionary War known for quote,"I have not yet begun to fight." |
| Robert Kennedy | Attorney General and US Senator,brother of JFK, shot in 1968, Sirhan Sirhan |
| Kent State Incident | Students demostrating against Vietnam War were fired upon by national guard troops at Kent State University in Ohio (1970); 4 students killed |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate Civil War general; surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865 |
| Lousiana Purchase | Jefferson purchased a huge plot of land from France (under Napeleon) that more tham doubled the area of the US |
| Julliet Gordon Low | Founded the Girl Scouts in 1912 |
| Annie Oakley | Sharpshooter start of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; known as "Little Sure Shot' |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | 1st Woman justice of the Supreme Court (1981) |
| Thomas Paine | Revolutionary patriot who wrote pamphlets such as Common Sense, and American Crisis; also wrote The Age of Reason |
| Rosa Parks | Black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery,AL bus to a white person (1955) |
| William Penn | Founder of Pennsylvania; was a Quaker |
| Robert Baden Powell | Founded the Boy Scouts |
| Scopes Trial | Monkey Trial; (1925) Trial of John Scopes, a HS teacher from TN who taught evolution in violation of the law; William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor, and Clarence Darrow was the defense; movie entitled "Inherit the Wind" |
