History's Ghosts
Answer Key



In case you were wondering...
The Red Dean was Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, who held much faith in the workings of Stalinist Russia.
Big Bill Thompson was the Mayor of Chicago under whose administration Scarface Al Capone and other gangsters flourished.
And the Little Flower was the nickname given to New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, actually a translation of his Italian name into English.




1. Henry Clay
2. Cleopatra
3. William the Conqueror's great victory over the English in 1066
4. Andrew Jackson
5. Thomas Jefferson's home

6. Abraham Lincoln
7 Thomas Jonathan Jackson
8. Oliver Cromwell's overthrow of the monarchy of seventeenth-century England
9. Economic disaster of 1929
10. War between France and Prussia, 1870-71

11. William Henry Harrison
12. U.S. Navy ship that sank the Virginia (formerly named the Merrimac)
13. The U.S.S. Constitution
14. A Civil War battle site
15. Robert E. Lee's horse

16. Mass emigration to California goldfields in 1849
17. Book by Benjamin Franklin
18. President Zachary Taylor
19. Napoleon Bonaparte
20. Joe Namath

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