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SOL People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John Locke | the Enlightenment philosopher who advocated the Social Contract and the idea that people have natural rights such as life, liberty, and property. |
| Thomas Paine | encouraged the colonies to declare independence from England by writing the pamphlet "Common Sense" |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was not only the primary author to the Declaration of Independence, He also purchased the territory west of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains from France (Louisiana Purchase) |
| Patrick Henry | As a Virginian, he supported the patriot cause when I stated "Give me liberty, or give me death"! |
| George Washington | He was the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. |
| Benjamin Franklin | He helped convince the King of France to give military assistance to the colonies during the Revolutionary War. |
| James Madison | Most of his ideas are found in the Constitution as I organized the Constitutional Convention which allowed its creation. He also authored the Virginia Plan for government and the Bill of Rights (1st ten amendments to the constitution) |
| George Mason | As an Anti-Federalist in Virginia, He opposed ratification (accepting as law) the Constitution because it had no Bill of Rights |
| Chief Justice John Marshall | He was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who established judicial review which established the role of the Supreme Court to decide if government actions are unconstitutional. (Marbury v. Madison) |
| John Adams | He was the other leader of the Federalists and was the second president of the united states. He was also defeated by Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800 (peaceful change of power). |
| Alexander Hamilton | He was one of the leaders (the main leader) of the Federalist Party. He also was shot by Aaron Burr |
| Lewis and Clark | they explored the territory of the Louisiana Purchase |
| Sacajawea | He helped guide Lewis and Clark through the Louisiana Territory |
| Eli Whitney | He invented the Cotton Gin, which increased the demand for slave labor in the south |
| Andrew Jackson | He appealed to the common man, used the spoils system in office, and vetoed the National Bank System in America |
| Nat Turner | He was the slave that led a successful slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia? |
| Gabriel Prosser | He was the slave that led an unsuccessful slave revolt in Richmond, Virginia? |
| William Lloyd Garrison | He was the abolitionist writer that published the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator? |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | She was the woman's suffrage leader that cofounded the Seneca Falls Convention and helped author the Seneca Falls Declaration |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | She was the author of the abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin? |
| Susan B. Anthony | She was the woman's suffrage leader that was a proponent for woman's rights and was arrested for trying to vote |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United states during the civil war |
| Ulysses S Grant | He was the Union military commander that won several victories after several Union commanders had failed. He also became president of the u.s after the civil war and stop the KKK. |
| Robert E Lee | He was the Confederate generaHe also surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House. After the war he encouraged Confederates to rejoin the union and advocated education. |
| Jefferson Davis | He was the President of the Confederate States of America? |
| Frederick Douglass | He was the former slave who became an abolitionist and urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight for the union army? |
| Andrew Johnson | He was Abraham Lincoln's successor as president who vetoed civil rights laws, which led to an unsuccessful Impeachment trial? |
| Thomas Edison | He invented the Light Bulb |
| Alexander Graham Bell | He invented the telephone |
| Wright Brothers | They invented the airplane |
| Henry Ford | He invented the assembly line |
| Andrew Carnegie | He was the leader of the steel industry |
| J.P Morgan | He was the American Financial leader? |
| John D. Rockfeller | He was the leader of the oil industry |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | He was the leader of the railroad industry |
| Ida B. Wells | She led an anti-lynching crusade during the Jim Crow Era and called on the Federal government to take action? |
| Booker T. Washington | He believed that the way to equality for African Americans was through vocational education and economic success |
| W.E.B. Du bois | He believed that education was meaningless for African Americans without equality Founded NAACP |
| Theodore Roosevelt | What president initiated the "Square Deal" progressive program and was responsible fro the construction of the Panama Canal? |
| Woodrow Wilson | Who was the president that initiated the "New Freedom" progressive program, declared war on Germany in World War 1, and came up with the "Fourteen Points" and League of Nations? |
| Samuel Gompers | Who was the founder of the labor union known as the American Federation of Labor (AFL)? |
| Eugene V. Debs | Who was the founder of the labor union known as the American Railway Union (ARU)? |
| Secretary of State John Hay | Who was the Secretary of state that promoted and supported the "Open Door Policy" with China? |
| President Taft | Who was the president that promoted and supported "Dollar Diplomacy" in Latin America? |
| Darwin (Charles) | Who discovered the Theory of evolution in his book, Origin of Species? |
| Scopes (John) | Who was the science teacher from Tennessee that was taken to court for teaching the theory of evolution in the 1920s? |
| Franklin Roosevelt | Who was the President that created the "New Deal" to pull America out of the Great Depression and said, "we have nothing to fear, but fear itself." (in relation of the Great Depression)? |
| Hitler | Who invaded Poland in 1939 with the Soviet Union to Start World War II? |
| President Eisenhower | Who was the U.S. army general that commanded the allied troops in the D-Day invasion (June 6,1944) of Normany, France? |
| President Harry Truman | Who was the President that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, believed in the "Containment' of communism, and had an anti-communist doctrine named after him? |
| "Rosie the Riveter" | Who was the poster woman for working women during World War II? |
| President Nixon | Who was the president that visited China in the 1970s, promised to get America out of Vietnam though "Vietnamization", but had to resign from the Presidency due to the Watergate Scandal? |
| President John F. Kennedy | Who was the President that originally sent troops into Vietnam, approved the invasion at the Bay of Pigs, initiated the American Space Program, and was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas? |
| President Lyndon B. Johnson | Who was the President that increased the number of troops in Vietnam, but passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at home in the U.S.? |
| Fidel Castro | Who was the communist leader of Cuba? |
| Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Who were the three key American spies that were arrested and convicted for providing the Soviet's with American State Department secrets and nuclear secrets in the early 1950s? |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | Who was the Senator that accused government officials and American citizens of being communist with little or no evidence? |
| President Ronald Reagan | Who was the President that said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. " |
| Gorbachev | Who was the Soviet leader that believed in glasnost and perestroika (openness and economic restructuring)? |
| George H.W. Bush | Who was the president that sent American forces into the Persian Gulf War in 1990- Desert Storm (a U.N. coalition)? |
| William J. Clinton | Who was the president that started NAFTA with Mexico and Canada ? |
| George W. Bush | Who was the president that declared war in Afghanistan due to the 9/11 terrorist Attacks and declared war in Iraq due to Saddam Hussein's potential weapons of mass destruction and genocide? |
| Thurgood Marshall | Who was the NAACP defense lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education case in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1953 and became the first African American on the Supreme Court? |
| Martin Luther King. Jr | Who was the civil rights leader that preached non-violent/mass protest and gave his famous speech " I have dream speech in Washington, DC in 1963? |
| Sandra Day O' Conner | Who was the first woman selected to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court? |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Who was the second female justice on the Supreme Court and the first Jewish member of the high court? |
| Clarence Thomas | Who was the second African American justice on the supreme court? |
| John Glenn | Who was the first astronaut to orbit Earth? |
| Neil Armstrong | Who was the first astronaut to walk on the moon and said, " one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."? |
| Sally Ride | Who was the first female astronaut in the American Space Program? |
| Dr. Jonas Salk | Who discovered the vaccine for Polio? |
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