U.S. History by Letter- H

Name these historical people, places and things starting with the letter H.

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Hint	Answer
First Secretary of Treasury, killed in duel	Alexander Hamilton
Scandal-ridden president, died in office	Warren Harding
Town raided by John Brown in 1859	Harper's Ferry
President for only 32 days	William Henry Harrison
State Department official accused of being a Communist spy in 1948	Alger Hiss
Wrote "The Scarlet Letter"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Newspaper magnate with a CA mansion	William Randolph Hearst
Businessman president blamed for Depression	Herbert Hoover
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"	Patrick Henry

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First US college, founded 1636	Harvard
Zeppelin that exploded in Lakehurst, NJ	Hindenburg
US Civil War general and 1880 presidential candidate	Winfield Scott Hancock
1862 act providing Western lands	Homestead Act
An influential poet, his son a Supreme Court justice	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Virginia colonial congress	House of Burgesses
British-hired mercenaries during the Revolution	Hessians
Texan war hero and president	Sam Houston
1886 bombing of a peaceful labor demonstration	Haymarket Riot