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Horse Racing in America (Story of America Cards, Deck #12, Card #28)
Aaron Montgomery Ward (Story of America Cards: Deck #3, Card #7)
Chicago traveling salesman who started Montgomery Ward, the nation's first mail order house in 1872.
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Uploaded on Mar 27, 2008
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Clay Allison (Story of America Cards: Deck #83, Card #21)
The State of Georgia (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #4)
Boston Massacre Trials (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #13)
Six of the eight British soldiers were acquitted of firing upon the protesting crowd in Boston, the event that lead to the American Revolution.
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Uploaded on Feb 12, 2008
Unemployment Insurance (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #10)
Custer's Civil War Years (Story of America Cards: Deck #19, Card #12)
Taft-Hartley Labor Act (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #5)
The Presidency of William McKinley (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #1)
Served during the Spanish-American war. An inspiration to Karl Rove. The 3rd president to be assassinated.
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Uploaded on Feb 11, 2008
Refrigeration in Early America (Story of America Card: Deck #76, Card #8)
The National Archives (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #3)
Holds the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill...
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Uploaded on Jan 29, 2008
Colonial Newspaperwomen (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #2)
Many major dailys prior to the Revolution were headed by women.
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Uploaded on Jan 29, 2008
The Jeep (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #16)
U.S. Aid to the Soviet Union (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #15)
A WW II measure which dissolved in the face of the Cold War.
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Uploaded on Jan 28, 2008
President Lincoln's Condolence Letter to Mrs. Bixby (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #17)
At the end of the Civil War, President Lincoln wrote a condolence letter to a Boston mother, Mrs. Lydia Bixby, who lost 4 sons in battle and capture.
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Uploaded on Jan 28, 2008
Francis Perkins: FDR's Secretary of Labor, Architect of the New Deal (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #6)
The first woman to hold a cabinet post, Secretary Perkins was the driving force behind social security, labor reform and unemployment insurance.
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Uploaded on Jan 28, 2008
Battle of Tupelo (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #18)
Union victory but General Sherman's failed attempt to catch Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2008
Cowboy Boots and Spurs (Story of America Cards: Deck #76, Card #19)
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