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| Supported a secret route that escaped enslaved African Americans took known as the Underground Railroad. |
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| Led a raid on the United States Armory (Arsenal) at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was trying to start a slave rebellion. |
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| He was elected president of the United States in 1860. After he was elected some southern states seceded from the Union and for the "Confederate States of America". Later, Virginia seceded and joined them. |
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| He played a major role in the first major clash of the Civil War in the first Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). |
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| General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
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| He was Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg, Virginia. |
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| This was known as the capital of the Confederacy and fell to General Ulysses S. Grant and was burned near the end of the war. |
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| He was the commander of the Union Army. |
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| He was a twentieth century president who wrote a plan for world peace. |
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| He was a military leader who created an economic plan to ensure world peace. |
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| He led the Massive Resistance Movement against the desegregation of public schools. |
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| She was the first African American woman in the United States to establish a bank and become a bank president. |
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| He was known for the "pay as you go" policy for road improvements, and he modernized Virginia state government. |
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| He was a lawyer and civil rights leader and worked for the equal rights of African Americans. He played a key role in the Brown v. the Board of Education decision. |
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| The first African American winner of a major men's tennis singles championship. He was an author and a spokesperson for social change. |
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| He was a governor of Virginia who promoted racial equality and appointed more African Americans and women to positions in state government than previous governors. |
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| As governor of Virginia he was the first African American to be elected a state governor in the United States. |
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