| A | B |
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| inventor of the light bulb | Thomas Edison |
| abolitionist who led the attack on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry as well as killing pro-slavery settlers in Kansas | John Brown |
| the agreement that ended the Revoultionary War | the Treaty of Paris |
| a military struggle in which the British fought against the French and their Native American allies | French and Indian War |
| incident in which five colonists were shot by British soldiers in the 1770's | Boston Massacre |
| people who remained on the side of the king during the American Revolutionary War | loyalists |
| the fight that ended Revolutionary War when General Cornwallis was forced to surrender to General Washington | Siege of Yorktown |
| Zimmerman Note | Published in the United States papers. German minister was in Mexico, a note was sent to Mexico saying that if Mexico joins the war that they will have an alliance |
| 1865-1876- rebuilding of the South after the Civil War | Reconstruction |
| Lusitania | sunk by the German U-boat in May 4, 1915 |
| proposal to admit California into the Union as a free state | Compromise of 1850 |
| senator who was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act | Stephen A. Douglas |
| slave who sued for his freedom in the 1850's and was turned down by the Supreme Court | Dred Scott |
| name given to Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and later West Virgina | Borders States |
| issued on Jan. 1, 1863 and it freed those slaves living in those states at war with the North | Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation |
| David Lloyd George | British prime minister |
| commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War | Robert E. Lee |
| author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| inventor of the cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
| group started after the Civil War that still preaches hate and interolence today | KKK- Ku Klux Klan |
| the forced separation of people based on skin color or ethnic background | segregation |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in the united States. |
| gold | California gold rush 1848 |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of United States during WWI |
| the name of the United States peace plan following WWI | Wilson's 14 Points |
| the document that officially ended WWI | the Treaty of Versailles |
| shot President Lincoln on Good Friday evening, April 14, 1865 | John Willkes Booth |
| New Deal | the goal of giving work to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the economy during The Great Depression. |
| Henry Ford | car maker |
| Wagner Act | recognized the right of employees to join labor unions and gave employers the right to collective bargaining. |
| the President of the United States during the Depression and WWII | FDR-Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| flappers | a group of women with short skirts, rouged cheeks and hair cropped close in a style known as bob. |
| Civilian Conservation Corp | CCC- jobs for more than 2 million men. They replanted forests, built trails, dug ditches, and fought the fires. |
| tax on colonial newspapers and other printed materials | Stamp Act |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans seek the bonus Congress had promised them. In 1932, they argued that they needed money to support themselves and Congress agreed and passed a bill to provide for early payment of the bonuses. |
| written by Thomas Paine | Common Sense and The Crisis |
| buying on margin | another form of buying on credit |
| hoovervilles | many people lost their jobs and they were hungry and poor looking for a place to live. Makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks built on public land or vacant lots. |
| the Prime Minister of England during WWII | Winston Churchill |
| written by Harriet B. Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
