The Slacker's Guide to U.S. History: The Bare Minimum on Discovering America, the Boston Tea Party, the California Gold Rush, and Lots of Other Stuff Dead White Guys Did (44 page)

These people were kind enough to volunteer to relocate to a less desirable location to make room for us.

He was an icon for young Southern boys who enjoyed wearing bed sheets.

She was an underage Indian bride.

Much to his dread, the court ruled he was not even a person, but property.

If your best friend breaks up with his girlfriend it is
for you to begin dating her after three months.

Who was so hard up he went door-to-door in the middle of the night?

The settlers to this lost colony were mostly likely lured inland for hot and spicy Anglo-Indian love and then never heard from again.

Canadian-born porn star

America joined this organization so Luxembourg would protect us.

This war saw 2.8 million age-qualified American men have their name pulled from the draft hat.

This former Secretary of State purchased the polar bear playground of Alaska for 1.9 cents an acre.

Sympathizer to the poor Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act into law, requiring American workers to receive a get-rich-quick wage of at least
an hour for their time and effort while at work