Wrote Common Sense

Encouraged colonists to join the patriots during the American Revolution

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

Democratic-Republican

Bought Louisiana Territory from France

"Give me liberty of give me death!"

Opposed ratification of the Constitution

Negotiated a Treaty of Alliance with France during the American Revolution

General of Continental Army

President of the Constitutional Convention

First President of the United States

"Father of the Constitution"

Kept copious notes from the Constitutional Convention

Author of the "Virginia Plan"

Democratic-Republican

Wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights

Ideas inspired contents of the Bill of Rights

Opposed ratification of the Constitution

Fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Strengthened Supreme Court

Explored the Louisiana Territory

Guided by Sacagawea

Fifth President of the United States

Declared the Americas off-limits to European colonization

First president from the Democratic Party

Spoils System

President of the "common man"

Threatened to use military force during the Nullification Crisis

President of the United States

Manifest Destiny

Mexican-American War

Democrat

Led slave rebellions in Virginia

Led to harsh fugitive slave laws

Abolitionist

Publisher of The Liberator

Leaders of the Women's Suffrage Movement

Seneca Falls Declaration

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

One of the causes of the Civil War

Enslaved person who sued for his freedom

Supreme Court ruled against him

One of the causes of the Civil War

President of the United States during the Civil War

Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

"With malice toward none, with charity for all..."

Union military commander

"Unconditional Surrender"

Opposed punishment of the South after the Civil War

Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia

President of Washington College after the Civil War

Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the Civil War

President of the Confederate States of America

Former senator from Mississippi

Former enslaved person who became a prominent abolitionist

Urged Lincoln to recruit African Americans in the Union Army

Created a new process for making steel

Industrial Revolution

Invented the (commercially viable) lightbulb

Invented the telephone

Invented the airplane

First manned flight in Kitty Hawk, NC

Perfected assembly line manufacturing to produce automobiles

Industrial leader

Made fortune in steel

Industrial leader

Made fortune in petroleum (oil)

Entrepreneur

African American woman

Hair care and cosmetics products

Industrial leader

Made fortune in finance

Industrial leader

Made fortune in railroads

Early Civil Rights leader for African Americans

Led federal anti-lynching campaign

Muckraker

Exposed Standard Oil Company

Early Civil Rights leader for African Americans

Believed in equality through vocational education

Early Civil Rights leader for African Americans

One of the founders of the NAACP

Education was useless without political and social equality

President of the United States

_________ Corollary

Panama Canal

President of the United States during World War I

Fourteen Points

"Make the world safe for democracy"

Labor leader during Progressive Movement

Leader of the American Federation of Labor

Labor leader during the Progressive Movement

Leader of the American Railway Union

U.S. Secretary of State

Open Door Policy

President of the United States

Dollar Diplomacy

President of the United States

New Deal

Lend-Lease Act

"...a date which will live in infamy"

Military commander in the Pacific

"Island hopping"

Led occupation of Japan after World War II

Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

Orchestrated D-Day invasion of Normandy

President of the United States

"Massive Retaliation"

Federal Highway System

President of the United States

Made decision to use atomic weapons on Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Doctrine to contain communism during the Cold War

U.S. General

Became Secretary of State

Plan to rebuild Europe through financial aid after World War II

President of the United States

Began military buildup in Vietnam

"Ask not what your country can do for you..."

Supported space program

President of the United States

Intensified military buildup in Vietnam

Great Society and War on Poverty

Signed Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

President of the United States

"Vietnamization"

Watergate Scandal

Led communist revolution in Cuba

Formed close relationship with Soviet Union

Tried to overthrow in Bay of Pigs Invasion

U.S. Senator

Led "witch hunts" against communists during the Cold War

Red Scare

Convicted as communist spies during the Cold War

Last President of the Soviet Union

Glasnost and Perestroika

President of the United States

Conservative

Supply-side economics, low taxes

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"

President of the United States

Persian Gulf War - Operation Desert Storm

Breakup of the Soviet State

Unification of Germany

President of the United States

NAFTA

Full diplomatic relations with Vietnam

Lifted economic sanctions against South Africa

President of the United States

Terrorist Attacks on 9/11/2001

War in Iraq

War in Afghanistan

Brown v. Board of Education

NAACP legal defense team (national)

First African American Supreme Court Justice

Brown v. Board of Education

NAACP legal defense team in Virginia

Civil Rights leader

"I have a dream..."

Massive scale, nonviolent protest

First female Supreme Court Justice

Nominated by Ronald Reagan

First man to set foot on the moon

"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind"

Apollo 11

American astronaut

First American woman in space

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Civil Rights Movement

Brown v. Board of Education

Developed the Polio vaccine

University of Pittsburgh

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

Student leader in Prince Edward County, VA

Brown v. Board of Education

Civil Rights Movement

American astronaut

First American to orbit earth