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President George Washington	President Thomas Jefferson	Vice-President Aaron Burr	Pioneer Daniel Boone

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Artist John James Audubon	Inventor Eli Whitney	Abolishionist Frederick Douglass	Admiral David Farragut

President Abraham Lincoln	Alexander Graham Bell	Outlaw Doc Holliday	Pioneer women in Law - & Bradwell

Women's Rights leader Susan B. Anthony	Outlaws Frank & Jesse James	Sharpshooter Annie Oakley	Inventor Thomas Alva Edison

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Inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright	President Theodore Roosevelt	Educator Booker T. Washington	Inventor Henry Ford

Gangster Al Capone	Scientist Albert Einstein	Athlete Jesse Owens	Artist Georgia O'Keeffe

President Franklin Roosevelt	Scientist George Washington Carver	Scientist Dr. Robert H. Goddard	Boxer Joe Louis

President Harry Truman	General George C. Marshall	Baseball Star Jackie Robinson	Senator Prescott Bush

Senator Joseph McCarthy	President Dwight Eisenhower	First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt	President John Kennedy

Astronaut & Senator John Glenn	Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King	Civil Rights Leader Roy Wilkins	Civil Rights figure James Meredith

President Lyndon Johnson	President Richard Nixon	Author Isaac Asimov	President Jimmy Carter

President Ronald Reagan

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1773 - The Boston Tea Party	1775–1783 - The Revolutionary War	1791 - The Whiskey Rebellion	1791 - Bill of Rights Ratified

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1903 - Wright Brothers at Kittyhawk, NC	1912 - Sinking of the Titanic	1915 - Sinking of the Lusitania	1914 - 1918 - World War I

1918 - Influenza Epidemic	1920s - The Roaring Twenties	1927 - 1st Trans-Atlantic Flight	1929 - 1941 - The Great Depession

1931 - 1936 - The Hoover Dam	1937 - The Hindenburg Disaster	1937 - Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific	1938 - The War of the Worlds Broadcast

1940 - Mine Disaster	1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor	1941 - 1945 - World War II	1946 - Railroad Strike

1950 - Assasination attempt: President Truman	1959 - Alaska Statehood	1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis	1963 - March on Washington

1964 - Kennedy Assasination	1969 - Man Walks on the Moon	1976 - Bicentenial	1980 - Mount St. Helens Eruption