•16th President of the United States (March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865)

•Nicknames: "Honest Abe"; "Illinois Rail-Splitter“

•Born: February 12, 1809, Kentucky

•Died: April 15, 1865

• Passed the Tea Act in 1773

• 7000 agitated locals milled about the wharf where the ships docked

• Collector of Customs refused to allow the ships to leave without payment of duty

• Passed the Tea Act in 1773

• 7000 agitated locals milled about the wharf where the ships docked

• Collector of Customs refused to allow the ships to leave without payment of duty

• Adopted Sep. 17, 1787

• Bill of Rights

• 27 Amendments

• Born July 1, 1961• Princess of Wales• Died August 31,

1997• Over a million

people lined the streets of London

• Over 2.5 million more watched on T.V.

• On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared all slaves free

• It actually only freed few people

• Showed that the Civil War was being fought to end slavery

• Best known victim of Hitler’s Jewish Holocaust

• Spent two years with her family hiding in an apartment hiding from the Jews

• Died in 1945 in a typhus epidemic camp

• James Marshall found gold nuggets on January 24

• Half a million people started to migrate west after the founding of the gold

• The first printed notice was on March 15

• 5,860,000 Jews were killed

• 11,000,000 total lives were lost during the Holocaust

• 5,000,000 were non-Jewish; 3,000,000 were Polish Christians and Catholics

• War started on March 19, 2003

• Objective was to end the regime of Saddam Hussein

• Consist of largest military operation forces since Vietnam War

• Youngest man elected president and youngest to die

• First Roman Catholic President

• Served exactly 1000 days in office

• Lasted from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953

• Between North Korea and South Korea

• A million and a half American veterans went home at the wars end

• Born Michael Luther King Jr., but changed his name to Martin

• 1957 – elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• In 11 years, traveled over 6 million miles and spoke more than 2500 times

• Made up of corn syrup or sugar, gelatin, gum arabic and flavoring

• Can be made by piping fluffy mixture through long tubes and cutting into equal pieces

• Grows in salt marshes and near large bodies of water

• Born February 12, 1809

• Thought secession to be illegal

• Had to struggle for living and learning

• 16th President of the United States

• Assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865

• Founded by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

• Many had to travel on bare foot

• Cholera was a major problem on the Trail

• Started December 7, 1941

• Started all within a few minutes

• Left 2403 dead, 188 planes destroyed, 8 damaged and destroyed battleships

• Born September 7, 1533

• She never married• Became Queen in

1558 and reigned until her death in 1603

• I = 1; V=5; X=10; L=50

• Usually indicate the order of rulers or ships

• Sometimes still used in publishing industry for copyright dates

• 1756-1763• Last and most

significant of the French and Indian War

• War did not go well for England

• Designed to be one of the greatest achievements of prosperity, confidence, and propriety

• The ship was considered “unsinkable” by the press because of its size

• Ship remained a mystery until September 1, 1985

• Invented by the Chinese over 4000 years ago

• Designed to provide shade from the sun

• Comes from the Latin word “umbra”

• First umbrella shop was called “James Smith and Sons”

• The U.S. began to send troops in 1950

• Almost 3 million men and women were sent to the Vietnam War

• About 2.5 million were killed

• Fought for a questionable cause

• Plaza Hotel in NYC announced Windows on November 10, 1983

• Founded by Bill Gates

• Faced potential competition from IBM’s Top View

• Started December 1895

• Founded by Professor Wilhelm Roentgen

• Tried on his wife; her reaction was “"Oh my God...It makes me somehow feel that I'm looking at my own death!"

• October 18, 1914 – November 12, 1914

• On September 26, 1914, first battle broke out

• Only winter saved the Allied lines from a total collapse.

• First raid on London took place May 31, 1915

• Killed 28 people and injured 60 more.

• Could deliver successful long-range bombs