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Ulysses S. Grant ( 1869-1877)
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. -
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States. As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile -
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Chester A. Arthur ( 1881-1885)
Chester Alan Arthur was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States; he succeeded James A. Garfield upon the latter's assassination -
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James A. Garfield 1881
James Abram Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his assassination later that year. -
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Benjamin Harrison ( 1889-1893)
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States; he was the grandson of the ninth President, William Henry Harrison. -
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Grover Cleveland ( 1885- 1889) ( 1893-1897)
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times – in 1884, 1888, and 1892 – and was one of the two Democrats . -
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Grover cleveland 1893-1897
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Thomas nast
Thomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was the scourge of Democratic Representative "Boss" Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine. -
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William McKinley 1897- 1901 till his assiantion
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term. -
Telegraph Industry
is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message. -
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Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. -
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William Howard Taft 1909-1913
William Howard Taft was an American jurist and statesman who served as both the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States -
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Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt, often referred to as Teddy or TR, was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States, from 1901 to 1909 -
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Urbanization
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. -
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Warren G. Harding (march 4 1921 tilldeath Augest 2 1923)
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death. -
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Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. -
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. -
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Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. -
Bicycle
a vehicle composed of two wheels held in a frame one behind the other, propelled by pedals and steered with handlebars attached to the front wheel. -
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States. As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. -
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United states Imperilaism
American imperialism is the economic, military and cultural influence of the United States on other countries. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961, and the last U.S. President to have been born in the 19th century. -
Ellis island
Ellis Island is an island that is located in Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey, United States. -
Radio
the transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves of radio frequency, especially those carrying sound messages -
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J.Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States, appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924. -
cody talkers
Code talkers are people in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. The term is now usually associated with the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. -
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Ronald Reagan 1981-1989
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician, commentator, and actor, who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. -
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Richard Nixon 1969-1974
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. -
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Gerald Ford 1974-1977
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. -
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World War 1
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. -
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Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. -
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John F kennedy 1960-1963
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Interstate Highway system
is a network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System of the United States. -
George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993, and the 43rd Vice President of the United States -
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Jimmy carter 1977-1981
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. -
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
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Martin luther king jr
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; -
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl drought was a natural disaster that severely affected much of the United States during the 1930s. -
The American Dream
The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society -
good neighbor policy
a diplomatic policy of the U.S., first presented in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt, for the encouragement of friendly relations and mutual defense among the nations of the Western Hemisphere. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. -
Television
a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. -
Election of 1936
The United States presidential election of 1936 was the 38th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936. -
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World War ll
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier. -
Lend-lease bill
President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on 11 March 1941. It permitted him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government [whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States] any defense article -
preemptive military
A preemptive war is a war that is commenced in an attempt to repel or defeat a perceived imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending (allegedly unavoidable) war shortly before that attack materializes. It is a war which preemptively 'breaks the peace'. -
George W bush 2001-2009
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 -
Bill clinton 1993-2001
William Jefferson Clinton, commonly known as Bill Clinton, is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War . -
Triple Nichel
Triple Nickel, Triple Nickels or Triple Nickles may refer to: 555th Engineer Brigade (United States) 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States), aka "Triple Nickles" 555th Fighter Squadron, part of the United States 31st Fighter Wing. 555 Field Artillery Battalion, part of the United States 5th Infantry -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
Alaska
Alaska, northwest of Canada, is the largest and most sparsely populated U.S. state. It's known for its dramatic, diverse terrain of wide-open spaces, mountains and forests, with abundant wildlife and many small towns. -
Greensboro sit ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Internet
The global communication network that allows almost all computers worldwide to connect and exchange information. Some of the early impetus for such a network came from the U.S. government network Arpanet, starting in the 1960s. -
U-2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace. -
Election of 1960
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. The Republican Party nominated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, while the Democratic Party nominated John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. -
Barack obama 2009- 2017
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States, as well as the first African American to hold the office -
limited nuclear test ban treaty
On August 5, 1963, representatives of the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere. -
Election of 1980
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980 -
NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries. -
Election of 2000
In Bush v. Gore (2000), a divided Supreme Court ruled that the state of Florida's court-ordered manual recount of vote ballots in the 2000 presidential election was unconstitutional. -
9/11 terror attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. -
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Hurricane katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States