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History Exam People
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.
Definition
Peter Stuyvesant
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Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania
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William Penn
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Founding Father, philosopher
Definition
Benjamin Franklin
Term
"Common Sense"
Definition
Thomas Paine
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Philosophers, influenced the founding fathers
Definition
John Locke and Montesquieu
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Father of the Declaration of Independence
Definition
Thomas Jefferson
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Farewell Address
Definition
George Washington
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Frenchman, helped the American Revolution
Definition
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
Definition
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
Definition
John C. Calhoun
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Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
Abraham Lincoln
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Union commander at the end of the war
Definition
Ulysses Grant
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Southern Commander
Definition
Robert E. Lee
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Southern Calvary leader, killed
Definition
"Stonewall" Jackson
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Burned Atlanta.
Definition
William T. Sherman
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President of Confederacy
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Jefferson Davis
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1st president impeached
Definition
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
Definition
Theodore Roosevelt
Term
American Socialist
Definition
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.
Definition
Louis Armstrong
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Poet, Philosopher, African American
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Langston Hughes
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Share Our Wealth
Definition
Huey Long
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Train Porters Union
Definition
A. Philip Randolph
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Dropped bomb
Definition
Harry S. Truman
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Red Scare
Definition
Joseph McCarthy
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US Commander at D-day
Definition
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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US president during Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs
Definition
John F. Kennedy
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Great Society
Definition
Lyndon B. Johnson
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President candidate, assassinated
Definition
Robert F. Kennedy
Term
Black Panthers
Definition
Stokely Carmichael
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Nation of Islam
Definition
Malcolm X
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Migrant Farm Workers Union
Definition
Cesar Chavez
Term
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
Definition
George W. Bush
Term
Silent Spring
Definition
Rachel Carson
Term
Feminine Mystique
Definition
Betty Freeden
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