World War II
First city on which the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945
Hiroshima, Japan
Pinkerton Guards
The name of the theater in Washington D.C. where Lincoln was assassinated
Ford's Theater
Future U.S. President who was appointed civilian governor of the Philppenes (for the U.S.) in 1901
Escaped slave, biographer, orator and abolitionist who wrote a famous speech called "What to the Slave is a the Fourth of July"
Frederick Douglass
Famous joint statement by the U.S., U.K., and China issued on July 26, 1945 demanding Japan's unconditional surrender of World War II
The Potsdam Declaration
Muckraking journalist who wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln's Secretary of State
William H. Seward
Panama
Famous 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that held that state-sponsored racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
Brown v Board of Education
Oil
Wrote a famous essay called The Gospel of Wealth (1889)
Andrew Carnegie
Lincoln's Vice President during his second term in office as President
Andrew Johnson
Future U.S. President who led his "Rough Riders" to victory during the Spanish-American War (1898)
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute (1881) who encouraged African-Americans to prioritize economic equality over social and political equality
Booker T. Washington
Women's branch of the U.S. Naval Reserves during World War II
WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Service)
President famous for raising tariffs to 50% on most imported goods in 1890
President William McKinley
First commanding officer of the Union Army in the Civil War dismissed from the army by Lincoln in 1862
General George B. McClellan
American territory who name means "Rich Port" in English
Puerto Rico
Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery
Thirteenth Amendment (1865)
He was president throughout most of World War II, until his death in 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Famous co-author (along with Charles Dudley-Warner) of an 1873 novel called The Gilded Age
Mark Twain
Lincoln's famous debates with Senator Stephen Douglas in 1858
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Island nation annexed by the U.S. at the behest of U.S. sugar companies in 1898
Hawaii
Famous 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine in public facilities
Plessy v Ferguson