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David Farragut

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Led the union into victory in the battle of New Orleans

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Robert E. Lee

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Leader of the confederate army, surrendered in the Appomattox courthouse and that ended the war

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George McCellan

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Union leader who tried to capture Richmond but waited to long and failed

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Ambrose Burnside

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Union leader that lost the battle of Fredericksburg, over 13,000 casualties

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Joseph Hooker

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Defeated at the battle of Chancellorsville by the confederates which had half the men

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George Meade

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Led the Union forces at the battle of Gettysburg

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William Sherman

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Tried to inflict fear into the southerners by marching from Atlanta to the sea, destroying everything in his path

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Abraham Lincoln

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President for the Republican Party, proposed the ten percent plan

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Stonewall Jackson

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Confederate officer who stood firm at the battle of bull run, he later died at Chancellorsville

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John Wilkes Booth

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Assassinated Lincoln

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Andrew Johnson

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President after Lincoln

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Hiram Revels

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Nations first African American senator

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Elected president after serving as a general during the civil war

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Republican presidential candidate in 1876, he only won because he promised to end the reconstruction

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Samuel Tiden

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Democratic presidential candidate in 1876, he got the popularity vote but not the electoral vote

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Homer Plessey

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Arrested for sitting on a bench marked “ for whites only “. This led to the famous court case

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Walt Whitman

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Wrote the poem “ Oh captain, My captain “

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Mathew C. Perry

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He said to Japan in 1858 to open trade

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William Steward

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Secretary of State in 1867 and purchased Alaska

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Frederick Jackson Turner

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Historian that argued since America expanded, certain american principles and values, were lost forever

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Alfred T. Mahan

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Naval officer who thought the U.S. needed a strong navy

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Queen Liliuokalani

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Hawaiian queen that tried to resist outside forces and keep tradition and order to her people

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John Hay

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Secretary of State in 1899. He issued the open door policy

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Jose Marti

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Cuba’s greatest poet, that urged the U.S. To help Cubas independence

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William Randolph Hearst

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Journalist that created extreme headlines in order to sway Americas opinion

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William McKinley

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President who pressured into declaring war on Spain in Cuba and the Philippines

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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Filipino rebel that took back his country from Spain with help from America

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Theodore Roosevelt

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He supported the Panama Canal, he also was president and made the big stick policy

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William C. Gorges

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American expert on diseases, he got rid of the malaria problem in Panama

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William Toward Taft

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President that favored the dollar diplomacy

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Woodrow Wilson

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President that wanted to nurture democracy around the world, he dealt with the Mexican rebels

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Francesco Villa

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Mexican rebel who crossed into New Mexico and killed 18 Americans

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Franz Ferdinand

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His assassination set of world war 1

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Irvin McDowell

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Union general in the battle of bull run

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Arthur Zimmerman

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Sent a telegram to Mexico asking for help, and was a German foreign minister

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Nicholas ll

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Russian tsar who was overthrown during the Russian revolution

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Herbert Hoover

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Head of the food administration during the war

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Eugene V. Debs

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Leader of the socialist party and was jailed for speaking out against war

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John J. Pershing

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Commanded the U.S. Soldiers in Europe during WW1

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Vladimir Lenin

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Communist leader of Russia after the Russian revolution

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Wilhelm ll

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Monarch of Germany, stepped down from his position after World War One

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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Republican senator who opposed the League of Nations

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Josef Stalins

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Killed or imprisoned an estimate of 4 million of his own people for charges against his command

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Benito Mussolini

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Head of the fascist state in Italy

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Adolf Hitler

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Head of the nazis

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Haile Selassie

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Ethiopia emperor who appealed to the League of Nations

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Neville Chamberlain

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British prime minister who tried to appease Hitler

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Tried to keep america out of World War Two

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Winston Churchill

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British prime minister who fought Hitler and would never surrender

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Commanded the U.S. Troops in Europe during World War Two

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Douglas MacArthur

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Commanded the U.S. Troops in the pacific

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A. Phillip Randolph

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Union leader who threatened a massive protest unless Roosevelt ended military discrimination

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Harry S. Truman

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He was president after roosevelt and dropped atomic bombs

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