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Having undergone the rest cure herself, she wrote protest essays and a short story about the damages of this practice.
Gilman
I own my own barber shop, and I’ll give just about anyone a shave.
Tom Taylor
This alphabet soup set of programs sought to get the US out of the Depression
New Deal
This war between the colonies and Britain ended with the Battle of Yorktown
American Revolutionary War
Robert Fulton sailed it on the Hudson River in 1807
Steam boat
When his English teacher asked him to write about himself, this poem came out.
Langston Hughes
This character wrote the book we read on the walls and floor of a room in a house that was never lived in.
Florenz
This Jackson program promised to relocate Native tribes from the south east to what is now Oklahoma
Cherokee Removal Act
Dueling constitutions to enter the US as slave and free resulted in this event, a mini-civil war.
Bleeding Kansas
Eli Whitney invented this machine, (except he didn't)
The Cotton Gin
She went to go to court to prove she wrote her poems.
Wheatley
If you falsely condemn someone to death, she is likely to haunt you.
Ethel Rosenberg
This Johnson era legislation made segregation in both public and private facilities illegal
Civil Rights Act
25% of American's invested wealth disappeared, despite JP Morgan's infusion of $25 million to shore up confidence
The Stock Market Crash
Henry Ford used this to manufacture cars quickly and cheaply
The Moving Assembly Line
A stolen Bible made many weeks living in the woods with Native Americans easier.
Mary Rowlandson
When he got home, the dog was gone.
The son in When the Emperor Was Divine
This Adams era legislation made it illegal to criticize the President in the press.
Alien and Sedition Act
This battle in Pittsburgh was put down by Pinkerton agents and returned company grounds to Andrew Carnegie
Homestead Steel Strike
This literally knit the nation together during the Transportation Revolution
His people started in the mountains and moved to the Plains.
Momaday
For one son, telling the truth is more important than keeping his father happy.
Biff
This 1972 proposal passed the House and Senate but failed to receive ratification by enough states.
Equal Rights Amendment
This uprising of poor tobacco farmers, free blacks, and escaped slaves led to the burning of Jamestown in 1676
Bacon's Rebellion
These reshaped the American landscape, accelerated suburbanization, and promised Americans unprecedented geographic and social freedom
American automobiles