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18th CENTURY AMERICA
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The Levi Coffin House in Indiana was a stop on this system, that defied the Fugitive Slave Act

the Underground Railroad

200

Before his raid on Harpers Ferry, this abolitionist consulted with Harriet Tubman

(John) Brown

200

The first one of these was made in 1973 from a Motorola executive to his competitor at AT&T

a cellular phone call

200

Appropriately, the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum is located on Music Square in this Tenn. city

Nashville

200

Just like the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation had one of these introductory statements

a preamble

400

By 1962 this doc's injected vaccine helped reduce polio cases in the U.S. from more than 50,000 a year to fewer than 1,000

Salk

400

On this silversmith's death in 1818, one paper said, "Seldom has the tomb closed upon a life so honorable & useful"

Paul Revere

400

In 19th c. New York politics, a repeater was a man hired to do this several times in a day, shaving to change his identity

vote

400

Surprisingly, the Hilton Hawaiian Village in this state capital has an outdoor penguin pond

Honolulu

400

In the 1770s George Washington enlarged this house by adding smaller wings & erecting many outbuildings

Mount Vernon

600

It was a tempest in this govt. scandal, so large that Senate committees & a special commission looked into it from 1922 to 1928

Teapot Dome

600

A memorial park & museum in Alabama honors this track-&-field legend who made history at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin

Jesse Owens

600

Although his Supreme Court case changed the way police talked to suspects, this Arizona man was retried & sent to prison in 1967

(Ernesto) Miranda

600

Annual events in this state include the Threshing Show in Makoti & the Folkfest in Bismarck

North Dakota

600

"African Slavery in America", a 1770s article by this noted pamphleteer, railed against the practice

Thomas Paine

800

Katherine Johnson was such a genius she made sure the computer was correct in planning the 1962 flight of Friendship 7 for this astronaut

John Glenn

800

In 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross became America's first woman governor when she was sworn in to lead this Equality State

Wyoming

800

The Platt Amendment of 1901 became a treaty between the U.S. & this new country & even became part of its constitution

Cuba

800

The Other Half tour of this restored Colonial capital of Va. focuses on African-American life

Williamsburg

800

In the 1780s this Kentucky frontiersman began serving in several offices, including sheriff & deputy surveyor

Daniel Boone

1000

The 1968 Democratic National Convention became a battleground despite this mayor's promise of law & order

Daley

1000

Held as a P.O.W., this Apache warrior asked Theodore Roosevelt to be allowed to return home to the S.W. but was denied

Geronimo

1000

A 1621 treaty says English settlers & these native people led by Massasoit will "leave their bows & arrows" when visiting the other

Wampanoag

1000

You can take a tour of this city's Lafayette Cemetery, featured in Anne Rice's vampire novels

New Orleans

1000

This southernmost colony was the only one not represented at the first Continental Congress in 1774

Georgia

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