US History and Politics Flashcards by Jen Kennings

speaker of the house 1977-1987

Tip O’Neill

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Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island home

Sagamore Hill

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“chicken in every pot” politician

Hoover

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Teflon Don

John Gotti

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first female secretary of state

Albright

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CCC New Deal program

Civilian Conservation Corps

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South Dakota senator lost to Nixon in 1972 landslide

McGovern

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year Alaska and Hawaii became states

1959

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Richelieu king

Louis XIII

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Jayhawkers state Civil War

Kansas

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Era of Good Feelings president

Monroe

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Nation of Islam leader

Farrakhan

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Million Man March leader

Farrakhan

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1777 New York Revolutionary battle where colonists won against Burgoyne

Saratoga

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year British burned the White House

1814

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1863 Civil War battle where the Union took control of the Mississippi

Vicksburg

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first president born 20th century

JFK

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last Revolutionary battle

Yorktown 1781

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year Revolution ended

1783

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WWII policy US gave supplies to Allies that couldn’t pay

Lend-Lease Act

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general fired by Lincoln

George McClellan

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organized mine workers early 1900s, Irish->American

Mother Jones

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“I have not yet begun to fight”

John Paul Jones

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Father of the American Navy

John Paul Jones

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Coffeyville, Kansas bank robbers

Dalton gang

Depression photographer, notably of "Migrant Mother"

Dorothea Lange

1889 Pennsylvania flood

Johnstown

Queen of Mean hotel heiress

Leona Helmsley

The boy bandit king

Billy the Kid

the singing cowboy

Gene Autry

long serving West Virginia Democrat senator 1950s-2010s

Robert Byrd

Apache state

Arizona

1800s Missouri bank/train robber (outlaw)

Jesse James

"The lone eagle"

Lindbergh

Wyoming fort

Laramie

Confederate raider burned Lawrence Kansas

William Quantrill

captain of the Olympia "fire when ready" Manila Bay 1898 Spanish-American war

Charles Gridley

Battle of Manila Bay commander

Charles Dewey

Charles Dewey war

Spanish-American war

frontier judge, only law west of the Pecos

Roy Bean

ship rescued Titanic survivors

Carpathia

Birdman of Alcatraz

Robert Stroud

Brooklyn Bridge designer

John Roebling

Alexander Graham Bell's assistant

Thomas Watson

doctor helped John Wilkes Booth

Samuel Mudd

FDR/Churchill post-WWI cooperation document

Atlantic Charter

Belgian priest leper colony on Molokai

Father Damien

founder of California missions

Junipero Serra

largest reservation/tribe in the US

Navajo

Cordell Hull/FDR Latin American policy

Good Neighbor

presidential guest house

Blair House

first chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Omar Bradley

Marion, Ohio president

Harding

Little Flower NYC mayor

LaGuardia

1980 FBI Arab sting caught US congressmen

ABSCAM

Reagan presidential library location

Simi Valley CA

longest serving SCOTUS justice

William O. Douglas

post-Civil War government agency to help former slaves

Freedmen's Bureau

congresswoman/wife of magazine publisher/playwright of The Women

Clare Booth Luce

Confederate Secretary of State

Judah Benjamin

VP from Ceylon Minnesota

Walter Mondale

Chief Justice 1953-1969

Earl Warren

1807 law banning exports to Britain

Embargo Act

Wild Bill Hickok town

Deadwood, South Dakota

wagon trail Missouri to New Mexico

Santa Fe trail

joined the Union during the Civil War, "Battle Born State"

Nevada

only president's child born in the White House

Esther Cleveland

John Wilkes Booth brother

Edwin Booth

“Remember the Maine” war

Spanish American

California Japanese internment camp site

Manzanar

1944 site of UN planning conference

Dumbarton Oaks, DC

highest US military honor for valor

Congressional Medal of Honor

"Mad" Revolutionary general

Mad Anthony Wayne

WWI hero from Tennessee, played by Gary Cooper

Sergeant Alvin York

Freedom March cities

Selma to Montgomery

1920 shipping act gave citizenship to Puerto Ricans

Jones Act

Lincoln's Secretary of State

Seward

Al Gore's running mate, Jewish, Connecticut

Lieberman

Connecticut spy executed by the British in NYC

Nathan Hale

1979 Pennsylvania disaster

Three Mile Island

1930s pilot accidentally flew to Dublin instead of LA

Wrong Way Corrigan

cross of gold speechwriter

William Jennings Bryan

1890s Nebraska politician and orator

William Jennings Bryan

WWI veterans marched on Washington for more benefits

Bonus Army

US History and Politics Flashcards

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