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Names with Significance
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History
11th Grade
11/25/2007

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James Madison
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4th president, president war of 1812
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James Slidell
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sent to Mexico to purchase CA, failed
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William Marbury
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"midnight appointee/justice" blocked by Madison -> Marbury v. Madison
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George Whitefield
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created orphanage in GA, first celebrity, itinerant preacher, 1739-1770
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Daniel Shays
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led Shays Rebellion in MA (farmers)
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James Otis
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"taxation with representation"
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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"total warfare" concept, Union Army general, "March Through Georgia"
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Paolo Toscanelli
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wrote "go west to go east" letter
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Pontiac
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led Pontiac's Rebellion, an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War.
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John Jay
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1st justice of Supreme Court, co-wrote the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
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Brigham Young
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Morman, IL->UT after Joe Smith
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John Tyler
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10th pres. after death of William Henry Harrison,
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Alexander Hamilton
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co-wrote Federalist Papers, first secretary of Treasury, funding and assumption
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Thomas Gage
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MA governor after Coercive Acts
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Robert E. Lee
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commander of Confederate Forces during American Civil War, N. VA
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Ethan Allen
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Green Mountain Boys Vermont, cannons from Fort Ticonderoga
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Metacom
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King Philip in King Philip's War, fought war of survival, 1675/6
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Roger Williams
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co-founder of RI, promoted separation of Church and State
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Charles Sumner
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caned by Preston Brooks 1856, symbol of crazy sountherns pre-Civil War
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Samuel Gompers
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organized American Federation of Labor (craft union)
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Samuel Adams
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founding father of US, MA
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Patrick Henry
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"Give me liberty or give me death."
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Horace Mann
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education reformer and abolitionists, MA
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Susan B. Anthony
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women's suffrage, senaca falls convention
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John Rolfe
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tobacco to VA
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Aaron Burr
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3rd VP of US, killed Hamiliton in duel
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John Marshall
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4th Chief Justice of US, established judicial review
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Frederick Douglass
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slave -> black abolitionist
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation's colonial history
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Henry David Thoreau
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author- resistance to civil gov't to uphold justice, wrote walden
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John C. Calhoun
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nullification, concurrent presidency
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William Berkeley
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gov. of VA during Bacon's Rebellion, Green spring faction led Va during 17th century
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John Winthrop
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gov. of MA, City on a Hill speech (entire world would be watching)
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William Penn
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founded Pennsylvania, Quaker
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Samuel Parris
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Rev. during Salem Witch Trials
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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co-founder of Lowell, Boston Manufacturing Company, all processes under one roof
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James Monroe
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5th pres., FL, MI compromise and Monroe Doctrine
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Washington Irving
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author who wrote "Rip Van Winkle" and "Knickerbocker Tales"
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John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon
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radical whigs, cato letters
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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first female dr. in US
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Martin Van Buren
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8th P and VP, organizer of Democratic Party, "Red Fox of Kinderhook"
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Dred Scot
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slave who sued to freedom in Dred Scot Case, lost
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Charles G. Finney
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leader of 2nd great awakening
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Opechancanough
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fuck the white people (Powatan's Bro -> blunt)
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Paul Revere
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patriot
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Stephen Douglas
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popular sovereignty, kansas-nebraska act
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Edmund Ross
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acquitted Andrew Johnson
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William Seward
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made higher law than constitution speech (slavery was an immoral issue), bought Alaska
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Henry Clay
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the great compromiser (eg. Missouri Compromise), founder of whig party, compromise tariff, 1833
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