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Final Exam - People Flashcards

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Who was President during World War I?

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Woodrow Wilson

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Who established the colony of Rhode Island?

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Roger Williams

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Who led the conquest of the Aztecs?

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Hernando Cortes

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Who wrote the Blue-Backed Speller?

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Noah Webster

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Who was president of the Confederacy?

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Jefferson Davis

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For whom was the New World named?

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Who is considered the “Father of the Constitution”?

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James Madison

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What President helped negotiate the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel?

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Jimmy Carter

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Who was the prosecutor at the Scopes Trial?

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Williams Jennings Bryan

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Who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world?

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Who was the first president of the “Lone Star Republic”?

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Sam Houston

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What is the strict Islamic regime governing Afghanistan called?

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Taliban

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Who was the first black Cabinet member?

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Robert Weaver

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Who built the Great Northern railroad?

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James J. Hill

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Who was the dictator of Panama that was arrested by U.S. Troops?

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Manuel Noriega

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Who was the spokes man for detente during the Nixon Administration?

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Henry Kissinger

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Who became the first woman justice to serve on the Supreme Court?

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Sandra Day O’Connor

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Which General led at D-Day?

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Dwight Eisenhower

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Who was known as the “Great Communicator”?

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Ronald Reagan

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Who wrote History of Plymouth Plantation?

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William Bradford

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What U.S.general was sent to the Philippines during World War II?

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Douglas MacArthur

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Who has been called the greatest inventor of all time?

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Thomas Edison

23
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Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?

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John Steinbeck

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Who gave the famous “Seventh of March” speech?

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Daniel Webster

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Who promoted the idea of public primary schools for all children?

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Horace Mann

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Who was the leader of the Bolshevik revolution?

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Lenin

27
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Who preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?

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Jonathan Edwards

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Who was the “Father of New France”?

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Samuel de Champlain

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Who was the best-known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening?

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Charles Finney

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Who was the best known of the local color writers?

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Mark Twain

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Who invented the reaper?

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Cyrus McCormick

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