United States History Significant People STAAR Test
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| Jane Addams | show 🗑
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| show | Advocated for women's suffrage
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| show | Awarded several top military honors in WWII, including the Medal of Honor
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| Roy Benavidez | show 🗑
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| show | Radical group in the 1960's who advocated self-defense and revolution to end black oppression; more militant than MLK and other civil rights leaders but also established daycare centers, medical clinics, etc.
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| show | Commanded 1st US Army during D-Day Invasion, lead liberation of Paris, won the Battle of the Bulge
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| show | Important Politician during time period,supported prohibition, women's rights, income tax; Gave famous "Cross of Gold" speech attaching tariffs. Prosecuted John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" for teaching evolution
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| Andrew Carnegie | show 🗑
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| Charles Carroll | show 🗑
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| show | Fought discrimination against migrant workers and Hispanics;Founded the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee Union
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| show | 42nd President,Democrat; third President to be Impeached but acquitted by the Senate
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| Hillary Clinton | show 🗑
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| Glenn Curtiss | show 🗑
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| Clarence Darrow | show 🗑
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| *Alexis de Tocqueville | show 🗑
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| Sanford Dole | show 🗑
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| show | Early civil rights leader,published "The Souls of Black Folks" in 1903 & helped found the NAACP in 1909;Advocated for Pan-Africanism(all African descent people should fight oppression togther)
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| *Dwight Eisenhower | show 🗑
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| Orval Faubus | show 🗑
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| show | Americans who volunteered to serve as pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the US entering the war
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| Henry Ford | show 🗑
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| Betty Frieden | show 🗑
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| show | Mexican American physician and civil rights advocate;organized the American GI Forum(1948)initially to improve veteran benefits and enhance medical attention
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| *Hector P. Garcia | show 🗑
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| show | publisher,journalist, & Black Nationalist;founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association & African Communities League
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| show | Developed a small software business in his garage that eventually employed numerous Americans and set the standard for computer software
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| Barry Goldwater | show 🗑
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| Billy Graham | show 🗑
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| John Hancock | show 🗑
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| show | President in the 1920's;advocated "return to normalcy"(meaning life before WWI)& "America First" campaign encouraged industrialization and a strong economy, independent of foreign influence
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| Dolores Huerta | show 🗑
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| show | Representative from New York at the Continental Congresses;signer of the Declaration of Independence;helped negotiate Treaty of Paris 1783 ended American Revolution;diplomat to England late 1700's negotiated Jay's Treaty averted threat of 2nd British war
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| Robert Johnson | show 🗑
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| John F Kennedy | show 🗑
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| *Martin Luther King, Jr. | show 🗑
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| Estee Lauder | show 🗑
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| show | First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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| Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. | show 🗑
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| *Douglas MacArthur | show 🗑
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| Lester Maddox | show 🗑
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| show | Historian & author of a book on the importance of the navy to a country's power
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| show | Chief of Staff that coordinated the war effort from Washington DC in WWII
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| Thurgood Marshall | show 🗑
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| Joseph McCarthy | show 🗑
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| John Peter Muhlenberg | show 🗑
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| show | President in the 1970's;Helped US withdraw from Vietnam and improved relations with China but resigned Presidency after Watergate Scandal
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| show | Commander of the US Navy and Allied Land and sea forces in the Pacific in WWII
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| show | First African American President of the United States; elected in 2008
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| show | First woman to be appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1981
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| *Rosa Parks | show 🗑
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| show | Colorful and celebrated tank commander for the Third Armored Division who spearheaded the final attack into Germany in WWII
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| show | Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI
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| show | President in the 1980's;grew the US economy through "Reagonomics";influenced the end of the Cold War ;advocated a strong military to deter aggression against the Monroe Doctrine
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| Theodore Roosevelt | show 🗑
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| show | First Lady,appointed by President Truman as a delegate to the United Nations Assembly and became the first chair person of the preliminary United Nations Commission on Human Rights
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| show | President during the Great Depression and WWII;Famous for "New Deal" recovery program which helped alleviate the Great Depression and expanded the role of government;said Dec.7,1941 is a "day which will live in infamy."
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| show | From Pennsylvania; treasurer of the US Mint from 1797 to 1813;physician,writer,educator,Founding Father;signed the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress
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| show | A political conservative known for her anti-feminism and campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment; she believed you could be a mother and have a career,too; wrote/co-authored several books
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| show | Author;wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the US meat packing industry,causing a public uproar and leading to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
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| Lionel Sosa | show 🗑
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| Sonia Sotomayor | show 🗑
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| show | As President,ended segregation in the military;proposed his"Fair Deal" including full employment and fair employment practices bills, federal control of the unemployment compensation program,a large housing program & development of natural resources
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| Harry Truman | show 🗑
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| show | Eventually, Soviet suspicions affected his leadership in the early years of the Cold War and led to his Doctrine where the US supported Greece and Turkey in their attempt to ward off communist threats.
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| show | The only colonial governor who supported the American cause/side in the Revolution
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| show | Determined young men who enlisted to become America's first black military aviators at a time when the US military stilled practiced racial segregation. They participated in over 15,000 sorties and earned over 100 Flying Crosses.
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| show | Governor of Alabama;ran for President four times;fierce pro-segregationist;quote from inaugural address,"I say segregation today,segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."
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| show | small-town general store manager who believed he could bring goods to rural America;store WalMart is industry leader in supply chain operations and brings low prices and common goods to communities across the world
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| show | American reformer and leader in the anti-lynching crusade and women's suffrage movement
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| show | suffragette and member of the WTCU(Women's Christian Temperance Union)
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| Oprah Winfrey | show 🗑
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| show | active clergyman;New Jersey representative that signed the Declaration of Independence;later President of modern Princeton University
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| Booker T. Washington | show 🗑
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| show | Civil Rights Activist (1925–1963) who organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination, gunned down at home
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| show | Politician, first black woman elected to the Texas state senate & first black Texan in Congress,Member of the House Judiciary Committee, she gave the influential opening speech of Richard Nixon’s 1974 impeachment hearings
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| show | Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist and poet most famous for authoring The Color Purple,Women's Rights Activist, Civil Rights Activist,(1944- )
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| show | African-American leader (1925-1965)and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and '60s and supported violence;Assasinated at Audubon Ballroom in Manhatten
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| Alexis de Tocqueville | show 🗑
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| show | Baseball player, brought an end to racial segregation in Major League Baseball
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| Stokely Carmichael | show 🗑
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| show | Commander of Continental Army during American Revolution; First president of the US
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| Thomas Jefferson | show 🗑
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| show | Business tycoon, owned Standard Oil Co. and controlled 90% of oil industry by making Standard Oil into a trust or monopoly
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| show | leader of New York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s, is delivered to authorities in New York City after his capture in Spain
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| show | political cartoonist which helped raise awareness of political corruption during the Gilded Age
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| Eugene V. Debs | show 🗑
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| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | show 🗑
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| Herbert Hoover | show 🗑
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| Lyndon B. Johnson | show 🗑
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| show | a former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement, was the first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank,1818–1895
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| show | American journalistic crusader who helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States, 1805-1879
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| show | One of most decorated American from WWI; received Medal Of Honor for leading an attack on German machine gun nest; captured 32 guns, killing 28 Germans and capturing 132 Germans
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| Mary Edwards Walker | show 🗑
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| show | Entrpreneur of Mary Kay Cosmetics; built company from scratch and created opportunities for women to acieve financial success; left traditional workplace after yet another man she trained was promoted over her
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