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Inventor of the light bulb
Thomas Edison
1st American President to be assassinated
Abraham Lincoln
the route that Choctaw, Cherokee and Seminole Natives were forced to travel
Trail of Tears
The 1979 nuclear disaster that took place in the United States
Three Mile Island
Native woman who assisted the Corp of Discovery
Sacajawea
Revolutionized the cotton harvest
Eli Whitney
Nez Perce leader who took his people to Canada rather than live on the reservation
Chief Joseph
Journalism that is bason on sensationalism and crude exaggeration
Yellow Journalism
Camp Minidoka
an Idaho internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII
Author of the Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key
Supporters of the Constitution
Federalists
This 1862 Act allowed a settler to acquire 160 acres of land by living on it for five years and improving (farming) the land.
The Homestead Act
Required a citizen to prove he could read/write in order to vote
Literacy Tax
Divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel in 1954
Geneva Accords
Date of the Terrorist Attacks in New York City and the Pentagon
9/11/2001
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese resistance leader
Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Denied Chinese laborers to enter the US while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.
Chinese Exclusion Act
United Nations was created in this year
1945
The name of the trail that led settlers west to California and Oregon
The Oregon Trail
A time in the US defined by great wealth and great poverty
The Gilded Age
Union General who marched to Atlanta
William T. Sherman
The scandal in 1972 where 5 men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters.
Watergate
A move to shift governmental power from the national level to the state level
Reagan's New Federalism
First man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong