19th Century

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1 Napoleon 5x

2 Mexico 4x

3 the Gadsden Purchase 3x

4 Oklahoma 3x

5 Louisiana 3x

6 John Quincy Adams 3x

7 Hawaii 3x

8 gold 3x

9 George III 3x

10 Garibaldi 3x

11 Butch Cassidy 3x

12 Washington 3x

13 the Ottoman Empire 3x

14 Legion of Honor 3x

15 Beethoven 3x

16 (Ulysses) Grant 3x

17 Zionism 2x

18 Utah 2x

19 Thomas Jefferson 2x

20 Thomas Edison 2x

21 the Salvation Army 2x

22 the Penny Black 2x

23 the Monroe Doctrine 2x

24 the Grange 2x

25 the Erie Canal 2x

26 the Clermont 2x

27 the Bourbons 2x

28 the Boer War 2x

29 the America's Cup 2x

30 Singer 2x

31 Queen Victoria 2x

32 Nebraska 2x

33 Mecca 2x

34 London 2x

35 Karl Marx 2x

36 Italy 2x

37 Grover Cleveland 2x

38 Ellis Island 2x

39 Dreyfus 2x

40 Cecil Rhodes 2x

41 Brazil 2x

42 bicycle 2x

43 Australia 2x

44 Antarctica 2x

45 Abraham Lincoln 2x

46 a Christmas tree 2x

47 William McKinley 2x

48 Vincent Van Gogh 2x

49 U.S. Steel 2x

Sample Clues

Following his victory in the Battle of Friedland in June, he forced the capitulation of the Russian Empire

Napoleon

In 1821 a Spanish viceroy signed a treaty giving this New World country its independence

Mexico

What we call this 1853 "Purchase" is known in Mexico as La Venta de la Mesilla

the Gadsden Purchase

7 weeks after B. Harrison took office, the land rush officially began in what is now this state

Oklahoma

France got this territory back from Spain in 1800, saying it wouldn't transfer it again to anyone but Spain

Louisiana

Sub-Areas

Other 457

Napoleon (5) the Ottoman Empire (4) Dreyfus (4) Grover Cleveland (3) the America's Cup (3) Beethoven (3) Louisiana (3) Thomas Jefferson (3) Legion of Honor (3) John Quincy Adams (3)

Ancient 17

Muhammad Ali (1) Ramses the Great (1) Rossini (1) Zeus (1) the Valley of the Kings (1) cotton (1) Garibaldi (1) (P.T.) Barnum (1) Greece & Turkey (1) Athens (1)

Colonial / Exploration 9

The Arabian Nights (1) discovery of America by Christopher Columbus) (1) the New World Symphony (1) Timbuktu (1) Mexico (1) Algiers (1) Manitoba (1) Mecca (1) Haiti (1)

Revolutionary Era 9

Garibaldi (1) sign the Declaration of Independence (1) The Meiji Restoration (1) the Statue of Liberty (1) Russia (1) December Revolution (1) Marshall (1) "Liberty Leading the People" (1) Brazil (1)

World War II 3

Pensacola & St. Augustine (1) Hawaii (1) Adolf Hitler (1)

Modern (post-1990) 3

Madison (1) Sevastopol (1) DeWitt Clinton (1)

Medieval 2

Sweden (1) George IV (1)

World War I 2

Archduke Rudolf (1) Kaiser Wilhelm I (1)

Cold War 1

Trotsky & Stalin (1)