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PBHS People 1
People in History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Helped plan the Boston tea party and signed the Dec of Independence. | Samuel Adams |
| Davy Crockett was killed at | The Alamo |
| Santa Anna led the Mexicans against Texas at | The Alamo |
| Authorized fining and imprisionment for public criticism of the government and was led by the VP, Thomas Jefferson. | Alien and Sedition acts |
| Captured Fort Ticonderoga | Ethan Allen |
| Father of Texas | Stephen Austin |
| Angel of the Battlefield | Clara Barton |
| Charged with the ax murder of her father and stepmother | Lizzie Borden |
| 1st Bloodshed of the American Revolution | Boston Massacre |
| Died at the Alamo and invented the knife that bears his name. | James Bowie |
| led the US 1st Army in the invasion of Normandy. | Omar Bradley |
| French colonial governor and founder of Detroit Michigan | Antoine Cadillac |
| convicted for 1931 for fedral income-tax evasion, served part of his sentence on Alcatraz, known as Scarface | Al Capone |
| Johnny Appleseed | John Chapman |
| Ted Kennedy's car accident in which a woman on his staff drowned. | Chappaquiddick Incident |
| Led the United Farm Worker strike and the boycott against California grape growers. | Cesar Chavez |
| Worked on the Missouri Compromiseand the Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay |
| Known as the "Great Compromiser" and "Great Pacificator" | Henry Clay |
| Led the campaign against the Sioux on the Little Big Horn River. | George Cluster |
| Derfense Attorney in Scopes trial. | Clarence Darrow |
| First woman to fly across the Atlantic | Amelia Earhart |
| The first person to fly alone from Hawaii to California. | Amelia Earhart |
| Was involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. | Wyatt Earp |
| Said, "Damn the torpedoes" in Mobile, AL. | David Farragut |
| First Officer in the US Navy to receive the rank of Admiral. | David farragut |
| First woman major party VP candidate with Mondale. | Geraldine Ferraro |
| 14 goals put forth by Woodrow Wilson after WWI | Fourteen Points |
| Four Score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation... | Gettysburg Address |
| President of the Teamster's Union | James Riddle Hoffa |
| Disappeared in 1975, widley believed to be a murder victim. | James Riddle Hoffa |
| Nicknamed the "Great Dissenter" | Oliver Holmes |
| 160 acres of land to any family who lived on and cultivated the land for 5 years. | Homestead Act |
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