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Roosevelt, Franklin D., 16, 25, 40, 102–103, 104–105 Ulmer, Mikaila, 119
Roosevelt, Theodore, 79, 81, 106–107 Underground Railroad, 34, 116–117
United Farm Workers of America (UFW), 26
Sacagawea, 72–73 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 123
Sadat, Anwar, 22 United States Postal Service Museum, 47
Salk, Jonas, 108–109 University of Virginia, 65
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 109 US president, 22, 42, 64, 74, 82, 96, 104, 106, 114, 120
Scott, Alexandra (Alex), 110–111
Shawnee Confederation, 112–113 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 65
Shepard, Alan, 50 voting rights, 16
Sierra Club, 81
Silent Spring (Carson), 20–21 Walker, Madam C. J., 118–119
Sitting Bull, 113 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, 92
slavery, 16, 74, 87 Washington, DC, 17, 32, 43, 71, 75, 84–85, 94, 102–103
Small, William, 64 Washington, George, 8, 120–121
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 30 Washington Monument, 121
space program, 50–51 White, Ryan, 89
space shuttle, 50, 56–57, 66, 97 Wiesel, Elie, 79, 122–123
space walk, 56–57 Wilson, Emma Jane, 16
SpaceX, 57 Winfrey, Oprah, 8, 124–125
Spanish-American War, 106 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 13 (WILPF), 10, 79
Supreme Court of the United States, 84–85, 89 Woods, Tiger, 99
World War II, 41–42, 78, 96, 98, 102, 104, 114
Team Hoyt, 60–61 Wright, Orville, 126–127
Tecumseh, 112–113 Wright, Wilbur, 126–127
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, 35 Wright Brothers National Memorial, 127
Tippecanoe, Battle of, 113 Wythe, George, 64
Treaty of Alliance, 47
Truman, Harry S., 78, 114–115 Yosemite, 80–81, 106
Tubman, Harriet, 8, 116–117
Tuskegee Institute, 25 Zamperini, Louis, 128–129
Twain, Mark, 114–115

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