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A SOL Review of People for US History

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Settled in New England for religious freedom; not tolerant to other religioius donominations   Puritans  
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Rich, English nobility who settled in the south; received large land grants from the King of England; started plantations   Cavaliers  
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settled in Pennsylvania (part of the middle colonies); didn't believe in fighting; most famous is William Penn   Quakers  
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poor people who agreed to work on plantations for a period of time in exchange for passage to the colonies   indentured servants  
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Enlightenment philosopher who influenced Jefferson; natural rights of life, liberty, and property; social contract; people have a right to rebel if their rights were not being protected by the government   John Locke  
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writer of Common Sense; spoke out against the King of England; contributed to the breakout of the American Revolution   Thomas Paine  
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Virginian writer who wanted the colonies to rebel against England; said, "but as for me, give me liberty or give me death"   Patrick Henry  
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writer of the Declaration; President of the US; leader of the Democrat-Republicans; favored states' rights; wrote Virginia Statute for Religious Freedoms   Thomas Jefferson  
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Massachusetts militia who fought at the first battles of the Revolution--Lexington and Concord   Minutemen  
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people who supported the colonies fighting the English in the American Revolution   patriots  
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colonists who continued to support England during the American Revolution   loyalists  
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people who didn't choose sides during the American Revolution; tried to stay uninvolved   neutrals  
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Negotiated a Treaty of Alliance with France during the American Revolution   Benjamin Franklin  
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leader of the Continental Army; chairman at the Constitutional Convention; President of the US   George Washington  
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"father of the Constitution"; wrote most of the Bill of Rights; authored the Virginia Plan; President of the US   James Madison  
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wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights; said human rights should not be violated by the government   George Mason  
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contributed to the Federalist Papers supporting the ratification of the Constitution; leader of the Federal party; wanted a strong central government   Alexander Hamilton  
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Supreme Court Chief Justice; Marlbury vs. Madison (judicial review) and McCulloch vs. Maryland   John Marshall  
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hired by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase   Lewis and Clark  
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Indian woman who served as a tour guide for Louis and Clark   Sacagawea  
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US President who said European countries must stay out of affairs of the Western Hemisphere   James Monroe  
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US President; leader of the Federalist Party;   John Adams  
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invented the cotton gin; resulted in expansion of slavery   Eli Whitney  
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responsible for theTrail of Tears; issued the most vetos of any prior President; vetoed the existence of the Bank of the US; his actions caused the Panic of 1837   Andrew Jackson  
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wanted a Bank of the US; ran against Jackson under the National Republican Party, but lost; known as the Great Comprimiser because of the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850   Henry Clay  
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white abolitionist who headed the newspaper, "The Liberator"   William Lloyd Garrison  
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abolitionist who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; help fuel anger towards slavery and contributed to the Civil War   Harriet Beecher Stowe  
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These two slaves led slave rebellions in the South; caused the South to impose harsh laws against runaway (fugitive) slaves.   Nat Turner & Gabriel Prosser  
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His election caused the Civil War; first Republican Party President; issued the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address and "A House Divided" speech; did not want to punish the South for the war: "with malice towards know, and charity for al   Abraham Lincoln  
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responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act which supported popular sovereighty (the right for the people to vote whether their state would be slave or free), ran against Lincoln in the Presidential Election   Stephen Douglas  
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court case about an escaped slave; favored the South and said fugitive slaves who escaped must be returned to their owners; angered many Northerners   Dred Scott  
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these two women led the women's rights movement; organized the Seneca Falls Convention; wanted women's suffrage   Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony  
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Leader of the Union (Northern) Army during the Civil War; later becomes President   Ulysses S. Grant  
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leader of the Confederate (Southern) army   Robert E. Lee  
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first and only President of the Confederacy during the Civil War   Jefferson Davis  
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escaped slave turned abolitionist; urged Lincoln to use black troops in the Union army   Frederick Douglass  
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became President after Lincoln's assassination; very lenient (easy) towards the South during Reconstruction   Andrew Johnson  
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discovered a cheap way to make steel; steel production is important for the Industrial Revolution to occur   Henry Bessemer  
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invented the light bulb   Thomas Edison  
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invented the telephone   Alexander Graham Bell  
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invented the airplane   Wright Brothers  
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invented assembly line manufacturing when producing his Model T Fords   Henry Ford  
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big businessman; steel production   Andrew Carnegie  
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big businessman; built railroads   Cornelius Vanderbuilt  
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big businessman; finance   J.P. Morgan  
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big businessman; oil   John D. Rockefeller  
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led an anti-lynching campaign   Ida B. Wells  
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said blacks should receive vocational education for economic success; said segregation was okay   Booker T. Washington  
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said education was meaningless without equality; created the NAACP   W.E.B. DuBois  
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"Square Deal"   Theodore Roosevelt  
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14 Points (WWI) freedom of the seas, mandate system, self-determination, League of Nations   Woodrow Wilson  
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Man who led the American Federation of Labor   Samuel Gompers  
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Man who led the American Railway Union   Eugene Debs  
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"Dollar Diplomacy" with Latin America   President Taft  
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"New Deal" to end the Depression; President also during WWII   Franklin D. Roosevelt  
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Leader of Germany; Nazi Party; WWII   Adolf Hitler  
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Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII and the beginning of the Cold War   Josef Stalin  
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Prime minister of Britain during WWII   Winston Churchill  
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US General at D-Day invasion during WWII; later becomes President during the Korean War   Dwight D. Eisenhower  
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President who decided to use the atomic bomb in Japan; during the Cold War said the US would follow a policy to stop the spread of communism; resulted in the US entering the Korean and Vietnam Wars   Harry S. Truman  
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African-American group who served during WWII with distinction in Europe   Tuskegee Airmen  
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Japanese-American regiments during WWII   Nisei  
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their Native American language was used in a code that was never broken during WWII   Navajo Indians  
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"nickname" representing the American women who replaced the men in the factories during WWII   Rosie the Riveter  
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his plan gave billions of dollars to western Europe to rebuild after WWII; help stop these countries from becoming communist during the Cold War   Marshall  
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President during the 60s; resigned from office because of the Watergate affair;   Richard Nixon  
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Cold War President assassination in Texas in 1963; responsible for the US military build-up in Vietnam; began the space with USSR; said "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" Also said, "pay any price, bear any b   John F. Kennedy  
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President who replaced Kennedy   Lyndon B. Johnson  
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communist leader of Cuba; allowed USSR to place missiles in his country; Cuban Missile Crisis   Fidel Castro  
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Americans convicted of spying for the USSR against the US; caused americans to fear communists living among them   Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg  
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during the Cold War; this man accussed many government officals and citizens of being communists based on little evidence   Joseph MaCarthy  
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President who is given credit for ending the Cold War; told Soviet to "tear down that wall" in Berlin, Germany; said Communism was immoral; built up massive amounts of nuclear weapons   Ronald Reagan  
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Soviet leader who allowed his country to open up to the "free" world; glasnost and perestroika   Gorbachev  
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led the NAACP Legal Defensive Team in Brown vs. Board of Education which reversed Plessy vs. Ferguson' s segregation   Thurgood Marshall  
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"I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington 1963; leader of the Civil Rights Movement;   Martin Luther King, Jr.  
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first US woman on the Supreme Court   Sandra Day O'Conner  
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first American in space   John Glenn  
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US astronaut; first man on the moon; said, "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"   Neil Armstrong  
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developed a vaccine for polio   Dr. Jonas Salk  
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first woman in space   Sally Ride  
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