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Christopher Columbus was a Spanish explorer, colonizer and navigator. He got three ships and a crew from the Queen and King of Spain and sailed to Central America.
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John Cabot was an Italian explorer and navigator. King Henry VII of England,requested Cabot to sail to the "New Word" He landed in Newfoundland, Canada
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Jacques Cartier left France in 1534 to find a passage way through North America to get to Asia. While he was exploring he was traveling in the Great Lakes and St. Lawence River.
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Walter sailed to America with his half brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert. After he helped fight off Irish settelers the Queen of French was proud of him and told him to establish a colony.
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John left Englend on December 20th 1606 to get to America. King James I sent John to settle in Virginiato make a profit off the land.
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The first 20 slaves came to Jamestown.
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The Mayflower Compact was to make fair and equal laws for their new settlement. This compact helped to make a good government for the new settelers.
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The first public school was a Boston Latin School, it was for Boston elite sons'.
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Harvard Collage was the first insitute for higher education in North America.
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Frist American slave carrier was made and launched.
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The English Bill of Rights sets rules and boundries for our country. It also says what freedom we have and information about our government.
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Ben Franklin invented the lightning rod was a step to finding electicity.
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The French and Indian war lasted 7 years and was faught in 3 different countries, Europe, India and North America.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was made to orginze the new North America and set peace to Native Americans. It made british settelers who lived past the Appalachian mountians to come back and live on the East side.
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The Stamp Act ended in March 18th, 1766. People didn't like having to pay tax on every single piece of paper they bought no matter what kind it was.
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The first Santa Clause was first pictured as a Dutch sailor with a pipe and green coat in America.
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Started April 19th 1775 and ended September 3rd, 1784. Was between Great Britian and United States.
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The Declaration of Independence clearly states that it's the day when our country becomes free from the ruling of Great Britain.
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Vermont is 1st colony to free all slaves.
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On March 4, 1787 the United Stated Constitution replaced the Article of Confederation because it had better government polices.
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The Constitution was made to bring peace to the new country and set up a good government.
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State Flower - Peach blossom
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State Dinosaur - Hadrosaurus foulkir
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State Reptile - Gopher tortoise
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State Animal - Sperm Whale
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State Shell - New England Neptune
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State Dog - Chesapeake Bay retriever
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State Song - Caroline
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State Fruit - Pumkin
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State boat - Chesapeake bay deadrise
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State Gem - Garnet
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Religion - Episcopalian
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4 million
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State Flower - Violets
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State Motto - Freedom and Unity
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The Bill of Rights says what every individual citizen can do that will not get them in trouble in anyway.
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State Nickname - " Bluegrass State
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Eli Whitney intcented the Cotton Gin to clean cotton and pick out the seeds.
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The 11th Amendment states the judicial power of the United states can not have more power than the other branches of government.
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State Nickname - The Volunter state
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Salary - 25,000/year
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5.3 million
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had five children
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State Fossile - Trilobite Isotelus
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The 12th Amendment states that you must go to their represnitve states and go to a ballot to vote for the Presidnet or Vice Presidnet.
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Occupation: Lawyer
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7.2 million
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State fresh water fish - White Perch
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Started June 18th, 1812 and ended Feburary 18th, 1815. Was a military war between America and the Bristish Empire.
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State Bird - Cardinal
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Had two nicknames - "The Last Cocked Hat"; "Era-of-Good-Feeling President"
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State mammal - White Tailed dear
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President Ronald Wilson Reagon was born in Illinois.
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State Bird - Yellowhammer
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9.6 million
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State Herb - Wintergreen
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State Musical Instrument - Fiddle
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Had four children.
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Religion: Presbyterian
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12.8 million
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The Indian Removal Act stated that the president could remove Indians that were east of the Mississippi River and make them move west of the River.
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Oberlin College was the first college to accept women to attend.
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In 1835 the college Oberling was the first to let blacks attend college.
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Stared October 2nd, 1835 and ended April 21st, 1836. Between Texas and Mexico.
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State Tree - Pine Tree
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Michigan University was founded and made before Michigan became a state.
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State Stone - Petoskey Stone
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Political Party: Democrat
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17 million
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Died after a month of being president.
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15 children
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Charales Goodyear invented Vulcanized Rubber when he was heading a mixture of sulfur and rubber. In 1839 but didn't tell people intil 1844.
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Alexander Cartwright invented the first baseball field.
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Floridia's Motto - " In God We Trust "
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Was a speaker of the house form 1835 to 1839
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State Plant - Prickly Pear Cactus
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Ended on Feburary 2nd, 1848. Final war between Texas and Mexico, for Texas' independence.
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Iowa is the 29th state.
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Elizibeth Gregory invented the doughnut for men when they went on long ship trips, she called them doughnuts because she put nuts in the middle.
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State grain - corn
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Didn't have any government positions.
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23 million
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Religion: Unitarian
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State Nicknam - The Golden State
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was a lawyer and public official
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Michigan State first really only majored in packadgindg, hospitality buisnesses, telecommunication and music therepy.
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Political Party: Democrat
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Hymen Lipman was the first to attach a eraser to the top of a pencil.
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State Muffin - Blueberry
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State Dance - Folk dance
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31.4 million
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The Henry Rifle was the first level action repeating rifle.
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William Schrafft invented the jelly beans and urged people to send them to solders during the American Civil War.
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Richard Gatling was hoping that his gun would reduce the number of people in a war battelfield.
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Kansas is 82,282 square miles.
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Political Party: Republican
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Ended April 9th, 1865. Was between north and south america to stop slavery.
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State vegetable - sweet potato
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James Caleb Jackson invented the first dry cereal wich he called Granola.
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State Tree - Sugar tree
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State Reptile - Desert turtise
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13th Amendment - Abolition of Slavery
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was the vice president before he was a president.
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Kool-aid was inveted in Nebraska
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The 14th Amendment is about citizen rights, how to become a citizen and what makes you a citizen of the United States.
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Walter Camp invented the football rules and was the leader of the American Football rules committe.
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Nickname: "Hero of Appomattox"
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The first international soccer game was England vs Scottland in 1872.
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38.6 million
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African Americans’ Right to Vote.
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The 15th Amendment states that no matter what race you are, color or other conditions you may vote.
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Levi Strauss first jeans were called "waist overals".
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State Soil - Seitz
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Seth Wheeler started selling the toilet paper by puch cart around the streets.
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Presidential Salary: $50,000/year
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Thomas Alva Edison invented the first light bulb that stayed on for 1500 hours.
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50.1 million
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Occupation: Teacher, public official
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was a vice president.
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Was the president twice but not back to back.
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John S. Pemberton changed his formula of French Wine of Coca to make Coca-Cola.
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George Hancock invented softball as an indoor baseball on a winter day.
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When the Graham Cracker first came out it was considered a healthy food.
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Had three children.
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State Beverage - milk
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State Animal - Grizzly Bear
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State Fossile - Columbian Mammoth
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62.9 million
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William Phelps Eno installed the first stop sign in Detoit Michigan.
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State Insect - Monarch butterfly
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State Grass - Western Wheatgrass
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Central Michigan Univeristy is the fourth largest public univeristies in the state.
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Religion: Presbyterian
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Nikola Tesla invented the radio but it wasn't popular until 1895.
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Will Keith Kellogg created Corn Flakes in Michigan.
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William Morgan invented volleyball at Holyoke, Massachusetts, YMCA.
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State cooking pot - Dutch oven
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Nickname: "Idol of Ohio"
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76.2 million
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Ransom E. Old's factory in Lansing Michigan made 425 cars in 1901.
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Henry Ford was the first to build a car with conveyor belt-based assembly line in a car factory.
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Had six children.
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Morris Michtom saw the political cartoon of the bear that Presednet Roselvet didn't want to kill and decided to make a toy.
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The Banana Split Sundae originally costed only 10 cnets.
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State colors - green and white
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was the Governor of the Philippines.
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92.2 million
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State Cookie - Bizochit
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State Song - Arizona March Song
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The 16th amendment states that the goervnment can collect tax off of anything but food.
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Was the Governor of New Jersey.
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The 17th Amendment says that there shall be two Senators from each state and they will elected for 6 years.
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Ended on November 11, 1918. The war was between the greatest emipires at the time.
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The 18th Amendment defined intoxicating liquors to exclude them from religious purposes.
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106 million
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The 19th Amendment says that any sex (male or female) may vote.
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Occupation: Editor-Publisher
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Religion: Congregationalist
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Kool Aid was invented in Nebraska.
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The very first television was invented in Germany in 1885.
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Walter Diemer created the working fromula for bubble gum, he called it “Double Bubble”
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In 1978 Mickey Mouse was the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Wak of Fame.
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Religion: Society of Friends (Quaker)
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123 million
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George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker invented the electric guitar so jazz players could ampufi their music.
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The 20th Amendment says the dates of when Presitdents' and Vice Presidents' terms will end of the year that the term refers to.
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Presidential Salary: $75,000/year
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The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment saying you may not transport intoxicating liquors.
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Soft serve ice cream was invented when an ice cream truck got a flat tire and the icecream started to melt.
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Ended on September 2nd, 1945. Was the most wide spreed war in history.
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132 million
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Nickname: "Give 'Em Hell Harry"
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In 2006 58.4% of people had cable TV.
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Cathode ray tube Amusement Device was the frist "video game" device that was sold in stores.
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151 million
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Ended on July 27th, 1953. Was between North and South Korea, was the reason they are seperate countires.
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The 22nd Amendment states that Presidents may not be elected more than 2 terms.
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Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver updated their frist UPC code to make it better and easier for store clerks to use.
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Occupation: Soldier
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The first proficinal video tape that were introduced by Ampex.
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Alaska has 27 counties.
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State Gem - Black Coral
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179.3 million
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Ended on April 30th 1975. The Vietnam War was between the North and the South. We partnered with South Vietnam becasue they were against communism.
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Education: Graduated from Harvard College (1940)
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The 23rd Amendment
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Douglas Englebart and Bill English invented the computer mouse to help people interact with computer screens.
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Presidential Salary: $100,000/year + $50,000 expense account
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The 24th Amendment states that even if you didn't pay your poll tax or other taxes you may still vote for anything.
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Buffalo Wings were made on an accident, the peroson used chicken wings instead of the neck and dipped in it sauce. That's how they came arouond.
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Was originally made to store and playback sound recordings.
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The first minicomputer was called the PDP-8.
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The 25th Amendment says that if anything happens to the President during his term and needs to step down or is he dies the Vice President will take his place.
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Education: Graduated from Whittier College (1934) and Duke University Law School (1937)
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203 million
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Was made to exchange digital messages with other people.
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The 26th Amendment says that anyone 18 years of age or older may vote.
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The Cell phone was commercially introduced to USA on October 13, 1983.
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Presidential Salary: $200,000/year + $50,000 expense account
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Education: Graduated from U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. (1946)
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226.5 million
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Laptops were made so people could take their information on their computers anywhere.
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Education: Graduated from Eureka College (1932)
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The Nintendo was frist launched in Asia and Japan.
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Nickname: "Poppy"
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248.7 million
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Ended on Febuary 28th, 1991. Is the begining of the war we know as the Iraq War.
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The 27th Amendment states that Senators can't change their amount of pay until two year of their job has passed.
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Presidential Salary: $200,000/year + $50,000 expense account
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281.4 million
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Education: Graduated from Yale University (1968); Graduated from Harvard Business School (1975)
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The US Invasion of Afghanistan was the start of the prosess to find Osabid bin latin.
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The first Ipod was devolped in less than a year.
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The US and United Nations and a couple other contries invaded Iraq so help them win freedom.
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Presidential Salary: $400,000/year + $50,000 expense account
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308.7 million
