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Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg
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Known for creating over a hundred uses for the peanut

George Washington Carver

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Lincoln's nickname

The log cabin president

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The year of the battle of Gettysburg

1863

100

Bodies of water connected by the Erie Canal

Hudson River and Lake Erie

100

1849

49ers and the California Gold Rush

200

A black American college in Hampton, Virginia

Hampton Institute

200

Lincoln's wife

Mary Todd

200

The length of the battle of Gettysburg

Three days

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Year Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin

1793

200

1830

The Cherokee Trail of Tears

Or, Slavery Establishes the South

300

Known for his support of black colleges

Booker T. Washington

300

Lincoln's political party

Republican Party

300

The victors in the battle of Gettysburg

The Union Army

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Trading post established by John Jacob Astor

The Astoria

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1861–1865

Lincoln, the 16th President

Or, The Civil War

400

1870 amendment to the Constitution

The 15th Amendment which gave all black men the right to vote

400

Lincoln's first job in Illinois

Lawyer

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Tactics of the Confederate Army on the second day of battle

Attacking various positions around the Union ridge 

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Four trails that led deeper into the Western territories of the United States

Oregon, California, Santa Fe, and Mormon trails

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1829–1837

Jacksonian Democracy

500

Vocational school which trained students in farming, carpentry, teaching, and other useful jobs

The Tuskegee Institute

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Lincoln's last day

April 14, 1865

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General Lee's reasons for invading Pennsylvania

To turn the Union public opinion against the war and obtain badly needed supplies

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Man known as the "pathfinder to the West"

Capt. John C. Fremont

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1835–1836

Remember the Alamo!

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