Apr 01, 2015
•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