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Important Men/Woman in US History.
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History
11th Grade
05/23/2011
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The Dutch leader of New Amsterdam.
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania
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William Penn
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Founding Father, philosopher
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Benjamin Franklin
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"Common Sense"
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Thomas Paine
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Philosophers, influenced the founding fathers
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John Locke and Montesquieu
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Father of the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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Farewell Address
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George Washington
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Frenchman, helped the American Revolution
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Marquis de Lafayette
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British commander, surrendered at Yorktown
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Lord Cornwallis
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Author of the Federal Papers
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Alexander Hamilton
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Invented the Cotton Gin
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Eli Whitney
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Abolitionist, The Liberator
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Started the Trail of Tears
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Andrew Jackson
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Nullification Crisis
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John C. Calhoun
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Abraham Lincoln
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Union commander at the end of the war
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Ulysses Grant
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Southern Commander
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Robert E. Lee
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Southern Calvary leader, killed
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"Stonewall" Jackson
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Burned Atlanta.
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William T. Sherman
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President of Confederacy
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Jefferson Davis
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1st president impeached
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Andrew Johnson
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Inventor, light bulb, phonograph
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Thomas Edison
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Father of American Union, labor, AFL
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Samuel Gompers
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Rough rider, Panama Canal
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Theodore Roosevelt
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American Socialist
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Eugene V. Debs
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14 points, League of Nations
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Woodrow Wilson
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Mass production, assembly line
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Henry Ford
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Jazz.
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Louis Armstrong
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Poet, Philosopher, African American
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Langston Hughes
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Share Our Wealth
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Huey Long
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Train Porters Union
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A. Philip Randolph
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Dropped bomb
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Harry S. Truman
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Red Scare
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Joseph McCarthy
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US Commander at D-day
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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US president during Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs
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John F. Kennedy
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Great Society
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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President candidate, assassinated
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Black Panthers
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Stokely Carmichael
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Nation of Islam
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Malcolm X
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Migrant Farm Workers Union
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Cesar Chavez
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Stood up to the soviets
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Ronald Reagan
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2nd president impeached
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William "Bill" Clinton
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Iraqi Freedom
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George W. Bush
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Silent Spring
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Rachel Carson
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Feminine Mystique
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Betty Freeden
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