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| American soldier and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named, mapped much of the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase |
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U.S. engineer, explorer, and military officer, designer of steam locomotives, led a pioneering scientific expedition throughout a large area of the Great Plains, which he famously described as the " Great American Desert ". Longs Peak in Colorado is named for him. |
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national stumping tour for presidential candidates. In his three failed presidential bids, promoted Free Silver (“Cross of Gold”), anti-imperialism in 1900, and trust-busting in 1908, embrace populist ideas. Wilson appointed him Secretary of State in 1913, strong supporter of Prohibition, crusade against Darwinism, which culminated in the Scopes Trial in 1925.
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| British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary of State during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War), Prime Minister of Great Britain. He is often known as William Pitt the Elder. |
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| “Absolute Proprietor” of the Province of Pennsylvania Charter of Liberties ["the lower counties”] champion of democracy/religious freedom & made treaty with Lenape Indians |
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abhorrence of slavery and had weekly newspaper The Liberator & he found the New England Antislavery Society and American Antislavery Society
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significant American writer in the 1920s who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote The Sound and The Fury |
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Governor of Plymouth, signed Mayflower Compact |
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| another American writer in the 1920s, famous for her novels about frontier life |
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| Early 19th century author: Sleepy Hollow, Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle, Father of American literature, satirical histories |
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supported the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor, in the presidential election of 1848, opponent of the Fugitive Slave Act, and defended runaway slaves in court, leader of the anti-slavery wing of the Whig Party, Seward’s Folly
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Supreme Court Chief Justice during Nixon’s term, conservative, replaces Earl Warren, more moderate in social reform, Bakke v. Board of Regents of CA |
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reformist investigative reporting and lurid sensationalism (yellow journalism), member of House of Representatives, Hearst Castle, owned 28 major newspapers and 18 magazines, along with several radio stations and movie companies.
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| Protestant theologian with socialist inclinations, publishes series of influential discourses on possibilities for human salvation through Christian reform (Social Gospel) |
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| 19th century author, poet, journalist, Leaves of Grass, poems a celebration of American democracy, liberation of individual, yearning for emotion/physical release. Transition between transcendentalism and realism. |
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| Founded NAACP, The Souls of Black Folk, open attach on Atlanta Compromise (Booker T. Washington), blacks should fight for civil rights |
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| Muckraker, wrote The Jungle |
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Founded the National Women’s Loyal League as a worker for the abolition of slavery and suffrage of women. Helped write the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (Declaration of Independence for Women)
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Supreme Court Justice, file legal challenges against segregation—basis for Brown decision |
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Leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); black activist against racism who was affiliated with the Black Panther Party |
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Common Sense, propagandist, changed American outlook on war and turned anger to English constitution and the king |
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| Led small army to capture Santa Fe; joined Bear Flag Revolution in CA where he brought the American forces together and completed the conquest of CA |
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| Political cartoonist of 1870s |
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| Tory governor of Massachusetts, pro-Brit. Aristocrat, officer of crown, Boston crowd attacks home because of Stamp Act |
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Realistic writer who captured Civil War realities in the Red Badge of Courage; wrote Maggie Girl of the Streets about the plight of working class women
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| Minister of Newton, leads people to town of Hartford, founds colony of Connecticut |
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| successful American intermediary who received land from Mexico and encouraged settlers to move to Texas; settled the first legal American settlement in Texas |
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Abolitionist who believed slavery was a sin; co-wrote American Slavery as it is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses alongside wife Angelina Grimke |
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Helped with underground railroad, black woman born into slavery, also women’s rights activist |
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Wrote Sister Carrie exposing the plight of single women in urban surroundings |
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Leader of the Sioux with Crazy Horse, Battle of the Little Bighorn, killed George A Custer |
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| believed in the use of war to abolish slavery immediately and completely; led the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction |
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| 1st American to win Nobel Prize in literature, Main Street, Babbit, Arrowsmith, lashed out against one aspect of modern society after another, “debunker”-> disenchanted, found new society disturbing |
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