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Lizzie Borden
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lizzie Borden | was an American woman suspected of brutally murdering her stepmother and father with a hatchet in 1892. Borden’s trial, in which she was acquitted, was a national sensation in the United States. |
| James Buchanan Brady | was an American financier and philanthropist, noted for his lavish lifestyle, fondness for ostentatious jewelry, and enormous appetite. |
| Aaron Alpeoria Bradley | was born on a South Carolina plantation owned by a prominent politician. A Gullah man. He escaped to Boston and became one of America’s first black lawyers. |
| William Jennings Bryan | was a Democratic and Populist leader and a magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency (1896, 1900, and 1908).He was influential in the eventual adoption of such reforms as popular election of senators, income tax, creation |
| Andrew Carnegie | was a Scottish-born American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era. |
| Octavius Catto | He later became a highly regarded educator and Principal of the boys department at the institute. While in his 20s, he rose to prominence in Philadelphia through his work to fight for the betterment of education for black students and efforts to recru |
| Grover Cleveland | The first Democrat elected after the Civil War in 1885, our 22nd and 24th president that was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later (1885-1889 and 1893-1897). |
| William Cody | the boy who would become Buffalo Bill, was born in a log cabin near LeClaire, Iowa Territory, on February 26, 1846. Cody left home at the young age of eleven to herd cattle and work as a driver on a wagon train, crossing the Great Plains several times. He |
| Schuyler Colfax | was the 17th vice president of the United States (1869–73) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant. |
| Roscoe Conkling | was a prominent U.S. Republican leader in the post-Civil War period. He was known for his support of severe Reconstruction measures toward the South and his insistence on the control of political patronage in his home state of New York. |