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First President of the United States.
George Washington
Amendment that ended slavery.
13th
First battle of the Civil War.
Ft. Sumter
Former runaway slave that helped on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Signing of the Declaration of Indpendence.
7-4-1776
Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Amendment that said that former slaves were U.S. citizens.
14th
Yorktown
Leader of the mental health and prison reform movement.
Dorothea Dix
Ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
1787
First African American elected to the U.S. Congress.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.
15th
Turning point battle of the American Revolution.
Saratoga
A leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement not named Stanton or Mott.
Susan B. Anthony
The Louisiana Purchase was bought in this year.
1803
First person killed in the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
Nickname for Republicans in Congress that wanted to punish the South after the Civil War.
Radical Republicans
Battle where the Union gained control of the Mississppi River.
Battle of Vicksburg
Told her husband in a letter to "remember the ladies" when he was helping in the American Revolution.
Abigail Adams
Founding of Jamestown.
1607
Author that coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny".
John O'Sullivan
What were Freedman promised to get by some Reconstruction plans, but it never went into effect?
40 acres and a mule.
Battle during the War of 1812 where Andrew Jackson became a hero.
Battle of New Orleans
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The year the Missouri Compromise was passed.
1820