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USII People
2008 SOLs
49
History
7th Grade
05/11/2011

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Abraham Lincoln
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Reconstruction plan called for reconcilliation, perserving the Union was more important than punishing the South
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Robert E. Lee
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Urged southerners to reconcile at the end of the war, became President of Washington College
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Frederick Douglass
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fought for adoption of constitutional amendments that guranteed voting rights
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Sitting Bull
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Fought against the American's "Westward Movement"
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Chief Joseph
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Chief of the Nez Pearce, forced to relocate his people "Trail of Tears"
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Nez Pearce
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Indian tribe led by Chief Joseph
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Thomas Edison
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Lighting and mechanical uses of electricity
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Telephone Service
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Jane Addams
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Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants
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Boss Tweed
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Tammany Hall political machine
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Booker T. Washington
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believed equality could be achieved through vocational education, accepted social segregation
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W.E.B. duBois
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believed in full political civil and social rights for African Americans
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John D. Rockefeller
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Captain of Industry: Oil
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Andrew Carnegie
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Captain of Industry: steel
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Andrew Carnegie
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Captain of Industry: steel
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Captain of Industry: shipping and railroad
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Susan B. Anthony
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worked for women's suffrage
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Women's Suffrage, wrote the Women's Declaration of Rights
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Henry Ford
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Assembly Line
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The Wright Brothers
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invention of the airplane
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Rough Riders, President, Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine "Big Stick Diplomacy"
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Woodrow Wilson
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President during World War I, said "The World must be made safe for democracy", proposed the League of Nations
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Georgia O'Keefe
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artist known for urban scenes and later paintings of the southwest
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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a novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920's
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John Steinbeck
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a novelist who portrayed strength of poor migrant workers during the 1930's
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Aaron Copeland
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compser who wrote uniquely American music
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George Gershwin
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composer who wrote uniquely American Music
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Jacob Lawrence
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Harlem Renaissance painter, artist who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration north through art
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Langston Hughes
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Harlem Renaissance, poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots
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Duke Ellinton
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Harlem Renaissance, musician and jazz composer
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Louis Armstrong
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Harlem Renaissance, musician and jazz composer
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Bessie Smith
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Harlem Renaissance, blues singer
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New Deal, WWII
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Harry Truman
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President, end of WWII, made the decision to drop the bomb
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Winston Churchill
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Great Britain (England) Prime Minister, WWII
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Joseph Stalin
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Soviet Union leader, WWII
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Adolph Hitler
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German leader, WWII
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Hideki Tojo
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Japanese General WWII
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Benito Mussolini
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Italian leader, WWII
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George C. Marshall
Definition
Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, massive financial aid
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Martin Luther King
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promoted passive resistance against segregation, Civil Rights movement
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Charles Drew
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blood plasma
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Manhatten Project (atomic bomb) physics
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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architecture
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Martha Graham
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dance
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Henry Louis Gates
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Historian
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Maya Angelou
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poety, literature
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Bill Gates
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computer technology, Microsoft
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Ray Kroc
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Mcdonalds (franchising)
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