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early American botanist and horticulturalist. Carolus Linnaeus said he was the "greatest
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president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from the mid-1950s to the mid-
1960, was convicted on charges of jury tampering and fraudulent handling of Teamster money, he was
sentenced to 13 years in prison, but pardoned by Richard Nixon and released after serving 7 years of his
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| black track athlete, showed up Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics |
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an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister; was a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as "shadow senator" for the District of Columbia
from 1991 to 1997 |
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| an American UN ambassador and an ardent anticommunist, served under Reagan |
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a founder of the U.S. Settlement House (Hull House) movement, and the first American
woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| prominent Harlem Renaissance author |
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| “No Taxation w/out Representation!” |
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| military founder of Georgia colony |
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| champion of Half-Breeds, lost 1884 election to Cleveland |
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1st great american novelist. Master of adventure and suspense. America’s very own
hero, settings, style in literature. |
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of north Carolina established the tobacco-processing industry and a foothold in that region.
Created the American Tobacco Company. |
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| How the Other Half Lives. Shows the slums of cities. |
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first black person to play major league baseball. By 1950s blacks established themselves as a
powerful force in sports. |
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popular and powerful writer of his time. This American literary genius brilliantly and
compassionately portrayed his life and times, as well as the neverending struggles of man and nature. The
Call of the Wild in 1903, The Iron Heel, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf |
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| a muckraker who talked trash on the Standard Oil trust. |
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senator. “the kingfish” rose to power on his attacks on banks, oil companies, and utlilities and on
the conservative political oligarchy allied with them. He launched an assault so vicious on his opponents that they
were left with no power left. |
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| editor and publisher of the New York Tribune. Radical leader of the Liberals. |
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nationalist, who focused on some form of coordination of the industrial economy. One
of the most influential spokesmen for the emerging “nationalist” position. His book The promise of
American life was one of the most influential progressive documents. |
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was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman,
social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th Century.An 1875 adultery trial in which
he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most famous American trials of
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(1807-1882)-Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day.
He wrote fireside poems with simple moral messages for family audiences. He was the first and only American
poet for whom a commemorative sculpted bust was placed in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey in London. |
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Nixon's special assistant for national security affairs. Helped with Vietnam war policy
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"debunker" of the 1920s, ridiculed middle class values including democracy in his
magazines Smart Set and American Mercury |
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realistic writer of the late 1800s who wrote The American, Portrait of a Lady (1881) and The
Ambassadors (1903) |
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wrote Progress and Poverty, was a critic of capitalism and modern American industrial
society, champion of the rights of labor in the late 1800s |
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| transcendentalist who advocated civil disobedience and wrote Walden Pond |
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the great compromiser who developed the American system, the Missouri Compromise of
1820, and the Compromise of 1850. He was an advocate of programs for modernizing the economy, especially
tariffs to protect industry, a national bank, and internal improvements to promote canals, ports and railroads. He
was a leading War Hawk and he was part of the "Great Triumvirate" or "Immortal Trio," in the 1830s and
1840s along with his colleagues Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun. He alleviated the nullification crisis
when South Carolina tried to secede from the union because of Jackson's Tariff of 1828 by brokering a deal in
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- progressive Republican Senator from Massachusetts who was an advocate of
imperialism (especially the annexation of the Philippines in the 1900s), a nativist, and was strongly against
Wilson and his Treaty of Versailles for WWI |
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| wrote Ramona (1884), a book about California as a paradise before its settlement,part of the authors who romanticized the west as a utopia (response to the "Lost Frontier") |
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born into slavery in Maryland, she moved to Philadelphia in 1849 and assisted up to 300
slaves in escaping from Maryland using the Underground Railroad |
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wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin; attacked cruelties of slavery making it a political
issue |
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| Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Mitchell |
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| involved in the Watergate scandal during Nixon’s term |
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| Grant, McClellan, Sherman, Meade |
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| officers in the Union army during Civil War |
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| Methodist preacher from New Jersey during the Great Awakening |
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| American painter, one of the foremost portraitists |
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| Apache chief that defended his tribal lands for over 25 years |
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preacher in the Church of England and one of the leaders of the Methodist
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| American botanist; peanut industry black people <3 peanut butter |
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- United States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat four
times and ran for U.S. President four times, running as a Democrat in 1964, 1972, and 1976, and as the
American Independent Party candidate in 1968. |
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soldier from Virginia and the preeminent American military officer on the
northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War; brother was William Clark (Lewis and
Clark Expedition) |
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US political leader. A wealthy Virginian, he was a principal author of the Virginia
constitution and Declaration of Rights (1776), which influenced the US Bill of Rights and Declaration of
Independence. |
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American army officer who held the rank of general in the Mexican War and
was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for president in 1852 |
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| General Douglas MacArthur |
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- U.S. general, who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World
War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations
forces during the first nine months of the Korean War |
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- unsuccessful British commander in North America in the early stages of the
French and Indian War. |
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African American slave leader of an unsuccessful revolt in Richmond, Va., during the
summer of 1800. |
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American historian best known for the “frontier thesis”; asserted that the
American character had been shaped by frontier life and the end of the frontier era. |
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– Black abolitionist who escaped to freedom; wrote the Narrative of the Life of BLANKITY BLANK
; began the North Star, an antislavery newspaper. |
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| - American novelist who was the first naturalist writer in the United States |
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architect and writer, the most abundantly creative genius of American
architecture. His “Prairie style” became the basis of 20th-century residential design in the United States. |
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helped establish the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU); devoted most
of her life to the organization of women for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages but was active in
other causes, especially that of woman suffrage. |
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built up an American textile manufacturing industry, Boston Manufacturing
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U.S. Secretary of Labor; the first woman ever appointed to the US Cabinet; supporter of
FDR; helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition |
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– a Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak; one of the first political leaders to use
radio to reach a mass audience; commentary about Jews, polices of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini |
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an American writer of novels and short stories during the Jazz Age; a member of “Lost
Generation”; themes of youth and promise, and despair and age; author of The Great Gatsby |
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an American union leader; one of the founders of the International Labor Union and the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
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- an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist; a veteran of “Lost
Generation”; author of Old Man and Sea |
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an American women's rights advocate and the pioneer who founded the first women's
school of higher education |
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an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman's movement,
presented her Declaration of Sentiment at the first women’s rights convection |
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an American Presbyterian minister, journalist and newspaper editor of St. Louis Observer
and Alton Observer who was murdered by a mob for his abolitionist view |
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an American lawyer and statesman; the prototype of the 20th century "wise man"; US
Secretary of War under McKinley and T. Roosevelt; Secretary of State under T. Roosevelt |
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| Constructed a sewing machine in 1846 |
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Inventor best known for his cotton gin. Promoted the idea of interchangeable parts for the
manufacture of firearms. |
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| Wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. An advocate for civil rights. |
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Secretary of War through most of the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
President Andrew Jackson, under the violation of the Tenure of Office Act, dismissed him |
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Author of Looking Backward which presented a science fiction look into a prosperous,
but regimented future. |
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| First woman to win Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence (1921 |
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: Produced stories and poems that were primary sad and macabre such as "The Raven" and
Tamerlane and Other Peoms. |
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: Proposed Townsend Plan. The plan proposed that every retied person over sixty
receive a pension of $200 every month |
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| : Mental Health pioneer; advocates for mentally ill in the nineteenth century. |
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a West Indian slave plotted an uprising against their white masters in Charleston, South
Carolina in 1822. Vesey and others were captured, tried, and later executed |
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| Irish immigrant who created Workingmen’s Party of CA |
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| Secretary of State, Great Triumvirate, Comp. of 1850, Whig leader of second party system, Webster-Ashburton Treaty (border between Maine and Canada) |
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| Leaked Pentagon Papers to press |
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| Peace Democrats, opposed Civil War |
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| Commander of navy, helped seize Philippines, first hero of the war |
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| Leader of Nez Perce, group of Indians who killed 4 white settlers while being forced to move to a reservation |
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| Beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks, Sumner was a radical in Congress |
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| President of US Steel Corp, left and took over Bethlehem Steel Co. |
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| Evangelistic Presbyterian minister, most influential revival leader in 1820s-1830s |
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| Progressive Secretary of State, declared end to war with Germany, set peace treaties with former Central Powers |
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| United Farm Workers, CA’s table grapes, signed contract with his union |
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| Temperance advocate who promoted her viewpoint through vandalism |
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| Woman’s suffrage leader elected president of National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA) |
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| Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan |
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| the Influence of Sea Power Upon History, great countries had sea power |
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| The Man Nobody Knows, 1920s, portrayed Christ as “super salesman” |
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| Established Mormon community in Utah |
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| Boss of NY’s Tammany Hall in 1860s-70s |
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| founder & president of the Tuskegee institute; born into slavery; spokesman for African Americans |
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| leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe; involved with Black Hawk war |
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| an American feminist writer, started "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique |
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| an American financier, stock market speculator who devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters |
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| - the unauthorized Puritan minister of a dissident church discussion group and a pioneer settler; went beyond Bible study to proclaiming boldly facets of her own theological interpretations |
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| the first American poet. Wrote The Tenth Muse Lately Spring Up in America |
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| – Secretary of treasury under President Coolidge. Wealthy steal and aluminum tycoon devoted to substantial reductions in taxes on corporate profits, personal incomes and inheritance. |
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| – Steel tycoon. Gospel of Wealth. Hiring of Pinkerton detective during Homestead strike/fiasco |
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| head of the “militant” Nation Woman’s Party. Argued tat 19th amendment wouldn’t be enough to protect human rights. Pushed for the Equal Rights Amendment |
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| Secretary of Treasury under President Jefferson. Drastically reduce government spending. Cut national debt in half. Part of American delegation for Treat of Ghent |
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