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All-new eniac! (first computer, 1946) -- Baseball (first organized game, 1845) -- Civil War (1861-1865) -- Close calls (elections of 1876 and 2000) -- Cold War (1950-1991) -- Dangerous (rock 'n' roll, 1954-on) -- Depressing Depression (the Great Depression, 1929-1930s) -- Discovery (discovery of America, 1492) -- Explanation (Declaration of Independence, 1776) -- FDR's ABC (Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933-1939) -- First (dinosaurs, 245,000,000 B.C.-65,000,000 B.C.) -- Fun in the fifties (television, 1950's) -- Fun in the forties (radio, 1940s) -- Great War (World War I, 1917-1918) -- Groovy (1960's) -- Job available (Lewis and Clark/ Sacajawea, 1804) -- Kitty Hawk (Wright brothers, 1903) -- Lady (September 11, 2001) -- Manhattan (purchase of Manhattan Island, 1626) -- Mr. Seward's folly (purchase of Alaska, 1867) -- Pilgrims (Mayflower landing, 1620) -- Poor you (child labor, 1902-1915) -- Presidents on parade, part I (Washington-Tyler) -- Presidents on parade, part II (Polk-Cleveland) -- Presidents on parade, part III (Harrison-Roosevelt) -- Presidents on parade, part IV (Truman-Bush) -- Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment, 1919) -- Purchase (Louisiana Purchase, 1803) -- Recipe (Boston Tea Party, 1773) -- Revolution (industrial revolution, 1870-1900) -- Roaring twenties (1920's) -- San Francisco, 1906 (earthquake) -- Space race (1957) -- Teddy (Theodore Roosevelt and the teddy bear, 1902) -- This train (slavery and the underground railroad, 1830-1865) -- To the tune of ... ("Star-Spangled Banner, 1814) -- Trail of Tears (Indian Removal Act, 1830) -- Vehicle (westward migration and the Oregon Trail, 1840's-1860's) -- Vietnam (Vietnam conflict, 1965-1975) -- Watergate (Richard Nixon, 1972) -- Wheels on the (Montgomery) bus (Rosa Parks, 1955) -- World War II (1941-1945) -- Y2K (new millennium, New Year's Eve, 1999). |
