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Suffrage

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Right to vote

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Abolition

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Civil Rights

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Dorothea Dix

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Improved hospital conditions and asylum

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Frederick Douglass

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Black man, reformer

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Anti-slavery News Papers

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Sojourner Truth

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Female abolitionist - “Ain’t I A Woman”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Primary author of Deceleration of Sentiments

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Rose Schneiderman

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Worked for workers rights - “Bread and Roses”

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Jane Addams and the Hull House

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Rights for poor

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Progressives

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People who improve lives for day to day people

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Booker T. Washington

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Founded Tuskegee institute

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W.E.B. DuBois

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Progressive who founded NAACP

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Ida Wells-Barnett

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Female reporter for lynching

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Dolores Huerta

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Equal Rights reformer who worked closely to Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers

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Equal Rights Amendment

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Proposes equal rights, for men and women

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Roe v. Wade

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Abortion rights

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Antietam

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Bloodiest one day in Civil War

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Vicksburg

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Union sieges South and Gains Mississippi river

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Gettysburg

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3 day battle, Lee would never invade Union again after.

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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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First use of total war

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Surrender at Appomattox Court House

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End of Civil War with Lee and Grant

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Robert E. Lee

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General of the Confederacy = South

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Ulysses S. Grant

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General of the Union = North

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Robert Gould Shaw

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Colonel of 54th Mass. Regiment

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54 Mass. Regiment

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First all black regiment, led by Robert Gould Shaw

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Clara Barton

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Nurse who opened her house up as a hospital. Founded the Red Cross

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Rose Greenhow

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Confederate Spy

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13th Amendment

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Ended Slavery

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14th Amendment

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Gave African-Americans citizenship

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15th Amendment

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Gave African-American men the right to vote

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Total War

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Using military force against civilian population of the enemy

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Manhattan Project

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Secret Government Project for A. Bomb

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Head scientist on the Manhattan Project

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Enola Gay

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Plane that dropped the bomb

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Which two cities were bombed?

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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