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John Adams
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The first president to live in the _________ ___________.. John Adams was the ________ president of the United States. Name of first daughter. The month John Adams died in.. John Adam's first son..
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Older Children
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Julius Caesar
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the number of senators who plotted to kill Caesar. where he was born. Caesar's full name. Caesar added all the land west of this river to Roman control. the two Roman leaders that caused the chaos before Caesar;conflict caused bloodbath, eventually one won and became a dictator.
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Julius Caesar
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not active or in use; without purpose or effect; pointless. made something appear unexpectedly or seemingly from nowhere as if by magic. the expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions like wearing black clothes. small pointed tool used for piercing holes. extremely unpleasant.
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Hard
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Julius Caesar
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Heir of Julius Caesar.. Author of Julius Caesar.. Antony spoke at Caesar's___.. Calpurnia tried to convince Caesar that her___ are omens of tragedy.. Beware the Ides of___..
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Julius Caesar
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Fill in the best you can. Some may repeat and you may have to look some up on the internet.
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The nephew of Caesar. Killed for his bad verses. How did Portia die?. Follower of Caesar. Is caesar deaf in one ear?.
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Julius Caesar
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To present clues that shows what is to come later in the work.. A speech delivered to other characters.. A comparison of two unlike things.. Over-exaggeration for effect.. Caesar’s adopted son and appointed successor..
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Kim Il Sung
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This is the political party in which he is the chairman of. It is known to be what got him started with politics. . Shortly after this event in history, Kim came into power and became the leader.. First brought this into North Korea as a way for him to have all control of the power.. He took this name in honor of a famous guerilla fighter.. What Kim's birthday is called and it is known as a national holiday..
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King Arthur
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Arthur's nephew who plots to kill him. Most noble knight or King Arthur; falls in love with Gwynevere . Arthur as a boy, weak, alone, obedient, ordinary, orphan. Added humor and a modern view point to the story. Magician, powerful, proper etiquette, intelligent, tutor.
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Moderately Challenging
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King Arthur
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Characters, Creatures, Objects and Places
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An Enchantress Who Lived under a lake . The Sword In The Stone. Son of Sir Lancelot. Arthur's Brother. Nephew of Arthur.
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Big
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King Richard of England
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the number of crusade he was in. the month he was born in. his grandson's name. his grand father's name. did this with saladin in 1191.
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Older Children
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Kingdoms and Crusades
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One of the eastern Slavs groups.. Holy War.. Jury that decides whether an accused person was guilty or innocent.. Magna Carta established the idea that people have _______.. King who developed the use of courts and juries to increase his power..
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Kings and Christianity
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top general of Justinian's fleet of ships. Grand Duke of Kiev. brother of Methodius. church officials. king of the Franks.
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Knight Time
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the inside courtyard of a castle. what monks spend their lives writing. a fort-like building used to protect serfs in a manor. protective metal clothing worn by knights. another name for the middle ages.
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Big
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Korean War
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Key communist communications junction during the Korean War. An American General during the Korean War. House used by the President while the White House was under construction. Native of South or North Korea. Village in demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
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Older Children
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Korean War
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british prime minister. general of un. planned to invade south korea. one of the first war engagments. taken over by north korea.
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Older Children
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Korean War
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Dismissed for disobeying orders. Passed by the UN Security Council in response to the North Korean invasion. The estimated number of Korean deaths during the conflict. The circle of latitude that separates North Korea from South Korea. The USA were trying to prevent this kind of effect happening to countries all over Asia.
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Older Children
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Korematsu v. US
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Limits one’s freedom of speech (various types) during wartime. Used during WW2; The US government put Japanese-Americans in because of fear of their loyalty to Japan rather than the US. Military base in Hawaii bombed in December of 1941 by the Japanese during WWII. The most stringent standard of Judicial Review. Courts review the actions of the executive and legislative branches.
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Lakota Crossword
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what area of the United States this group comes from. name for this group. these hang above our beds and catch our good dreams. the orphan boy did this to make the grieving mother laugh and forget her grief. most of the myths are about or based on _____.
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Older Children
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Late 19th Century
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Farming with artifical water. A settler under the Homestead Act.. Farmers that only provited for themselfs.. Raising crops without the use of irrigation. A boat that transports both peple and freight..
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Older Children
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Late 19th Century
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Farming with artifical water.. A settler under the Homestead Act. . Farmers that only provited for themselfs.. Raising crops without the use of irrigation.. A boat that transports both peple and freight..
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Latin America
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He was a Mexican priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.. A group of indigenous people that built their capital city in Cuzco, Peru. They often used animal sacrifices instead of human sacrifices. They only used humans if the situation was urgent. They fell to the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro.. A group of indigenous people that built the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They often used human sacrifices. They fell to the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés.. He was a Spanish conquistador. He conquered the Aztec people.. An armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement and its allies against the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista..
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Latin American Independence
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Country who ruled Mexico, Venezuela, Peru and other territories before they gained independence. Toussaint L'Ouverture led this type of revolt in Haiti. Social class of mixed European and Indian heritage in Latin America. This European revolution sparked was an inspiration for the push for independence in Latin America. Brazilians signed this, asking the king's son for their independence .
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Teenage
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Latin and Greek Roots
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Having the same measure or measuring the same.. To measure eyesight.. The study of writing.. Wisdom.. Love..
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Latin History
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Julius Caesar defeated the Roman Senate's troops, which was commanded by Pompey. . He was a Greek general. He was also king of a Greek tribe. . On the Ionian Sea. . She killed herself, by means of a snake bite. . He was a gladiator in the Third Servile War. .
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Legacy of Rome
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If a solider lost his equipment what would happen? . In the Roman military who was well-bathed, well-fed, and well-trained?. What consisted of 3,000 to 5,000 troops?. Where were legionnaires recruited?. What language is no longer spoken?.
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Lessor Known Figures of the Civil Rights Era
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A political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party.His 1968 book Soul On Ice is a collection of essays, praised by The New York Times Book Review at the time of its publication as 'brilliant and revealing'.. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville); the Freedom Riders, co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); and co-initiating the Alabama Voting Rights Project.. He is noted for being part of the defense team for 25 black men charged in attempted murder for the Columbia race riot of 1946 and winning acquittals for most. He was a lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee and taught at Fisk. . One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century, perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement. A critic of professionalized, charismatic leadership and a promoter of grassroots organizing.. Helped found numerous civil rights organizations, including Vision, the National Anti-Klan Network and the Center for Democratic Renewal. In the words of Martin L. King Jr. 'the greatest preacher to ever live.”.
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Lewis & Clark
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platforms built on the shore or out from the shore;wharves;piers. a smell. to convince someone to buy or do something. to make someone laugh. felt the same by each other.
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Older Children
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Lewis & Clark Expedition
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military court where military crimes are tried. study of a people & how they live. narrow platform on a keel boat. condition of being sad or dejected. pertaining to plant life.
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Very Difficult
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Lewis and Clark
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Name of the passage that was supposed to connect the east coast to the west. Name of the fort that the Corps spent their last winter. The name of the river that took the Corps of Discovery to the Pacific Ocean. River named after William Clark's cousin. The name of Lewis' slave.
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Older Children
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Lewis and Clark
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This person found plant and animal life in the Louisiana Territory.. What month did the expedition start?. How many people died on the expedition?. When the expedition returned people thought they were ________.. Lewis and Clark were promised _________ when they returned..
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Lewis and Clark
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Name of the passage that was supposed to connect the east coast to the west. What month and year they returned home?. Where did they started their expedition?. Meriwether Lewis wrote about great herds of this animal. On a expedition Lewis Newfoundland Dog.
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Life During the Civil War
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Woman in South who established a hospital for soldiers in Richmond, Virginia.. Northern Democrats were nicknamed this after a poisonous snake.. Woman from Alabama who nursed wounded in Corinth after Battle of Shiloh.. Number of days the riot lasted in New York City.. Game soldiers played in camp..
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Very Difficult
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Life In Colonial America
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the leader of the Jamestown Settlement. founded by Pilgrims. wanted to be separate from the Church of England. name of the people who settled in Massachusetts. businessmen who were granted approval to settle lands across the Atlantic.
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Life in the English Colonies
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Ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind. Mayflower ------- ; a document written in 1620 by the Pilgrims. A person who moves from one country to another. ------ Passage; a voyage that brought slaves to America. The first successful colony in America; set up in 1607.
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Older Children
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Looking to the West
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Federal lands set aside for Native Americans.. An animal the Native Americans heavily relied on.. A disease nicknamed 'prairie fever'.. A drop in the prices of goods.. A set of tracks that trains run on..
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Louisiana Purchase
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Important Vocabulary for the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark Expedition
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a country that wanted power in US. Mountain named after expedition leader. leader of a slave revolt. Expedition in southern Louisiana Territory. treaty negotiator in Spain.
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Very Difficult
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Louisiana Purchase
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This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. Its intent was to damage the economies of the United Kingdom and France. Like its predecessor, the Embargo Act, it was mostly ineffective, and cont. a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars.. was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States.. fought on November 7, 1811, near present-day Lafayette, Indiana between American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American warriors . a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million..
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Older Children
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Mae Jemison
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someone who flies into space. the space shuttle Mae Jemison took with road with six other crew members in September, 1992. someone who is courageous. where astronauts take off to go into space in Florida . a special vehicle that astronauts use to get into space.
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Older Children
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Major Battles of World War II
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Site of a U.S. naval base attacked by the japanese.. Was a small railway town on the Egyptian coast.. Germany invades Soviet Union for space, land, and raw materials. . The battle was the turning point in the Pacific war.. Six month battle, also a brutal air, sea, and land campaign..
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Malcolm X
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under the influence. Malcolm's white girlfriend. Malcolm's favorite dance partner. style of dance. Nation of Islam's leader.
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Malcolm X
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What happened to Malcolm's home on February 14, 1965. how did Malcolm X die. What month does Malcolm X travel to Middle East & Africa. month Malcolm Little was born. what was his last name before he changed it to X.
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Malcolm X
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Malcolm felt like this animal while in school. The month when Malcolm was assassinated. The name of the white woman that Malcolm dated. Malcolm's Spouse. Took a pilgrimage to this place.
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Hard
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Malcolm X Vocabulary
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basic human rights. Muslim pilgrimage. avoiding of military draft. neighborhood in New York where Malcolm X spent time. place of worship for Muslilms.
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Teenage
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Manifest Destiny
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Trails West, The Texas Revolution, and The War with Mexico
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An area of land that Mexico gave up from the U.S.A.. An African American slave who recorded his life and journey on the settlement out west.. A war in which Sam Houston led his army of Texans against Mexico and won back Texas Territory.. A rebellion of citizens of California against the Mexican government.. A nickname for Texas when it was considered its own independent nation for nine years..
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Manifest Destiny
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A meeting.. Mexicans that lived in California.. Canvass covered wagons.. People who obtained grants and recruited settlers.. Left the US to move to Oregon..
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Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher went to ______________ University. Margaret Thatcher's son's name. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister for _______________ years. Margaret Thatcher was the first ______________ Prime Minister. The science and art of government.
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Marie Antoinette
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2nd child. group that abolished the monarchy. method of Marie's execution. group that 'suspended' the King. number of children Marie had.
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Marie Antoinette
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How many children did she have?. Which revolution was she in?. She is Queen of ...... The month of when she died.. Age of her death. (use hyphen).
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Older Children
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Marie Rivier
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Marie was a ____________ to many.. Marie joined a __________.. On September 7th, Marie's ________ died.. She died on ___________ 3rd.. Marie had believed very strongly in the Holy _________..
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Maritime Colonies
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Where trees are cut into pellets. This colony had several trading ports used by many other colonies. This was New Brunswick's biggest secondary industry. Which colony had no close relationships with other colonies of North America. Capital of NewFoundland.
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