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Am.Studies. Historical Figures
The important people in american history from 1860 to about 1900
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History
11th Grade
01/21/2009

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Thaddeus Stevens
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Radical Republican

Wanted Radical reconstruction

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Thomas Edison
Definition

lightbulb+Electricity

Phonograph

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Mary Harris Jones
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Labor Organizer

Radical supporter for mine workers

 

Didnt actually do anything important :/

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Joseph Glidden
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Invented Barbed Wire
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Exodusters
Definition
Black southerners who fled the south in the 1880s for Kansas
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Ida Tarbell
Definition

Muckraker

Strongly against Standard Oil Co.

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Samuel Tilden
Definition

Democrat candidate for president in 1876 who lost because of deal between democrats and republicans to elect Hayes.

Won popular vote

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William Seward
Definition
Sewards Follie. Alaskan Purchase for 7 million from the russians. Gold found there! \o/
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Rosa Parks
Definition
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Definition

Fought for native American Rights

Writer

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Sitting Bull
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Sioux tribe Holy man

Ghost Dance Movement

Predicted win at BoLB

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Emmett Till
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Young black boy who was killed in the 1950s

Death pushed the Civil Rights Movement

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Carpetbaggers
Definition

Northerners who come down to the south during reconstruction

Loot and plunder the south

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Andrew Carnegie
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Philanthropist, Steel Company, Captain of Industry/Robber Baron
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Robber Barons
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Boss Tweed-Social Darwinism

rich buisness men who were anticompetitive

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George Armstrong Custer
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Army General

Killed at battle of little bighorn

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Booker T. Washington
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African Americana Leader

Thought education was most vital for Af. Am. advancement

 

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Lyndon B. Johnson
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36th president

designed the great society legislation which pushed civil rights

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