Historical Figures

Question 1

Susan B. Anthony

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(1820-1906) American leader of the suffrage movement to grant women the right to vote.

Question 2

Simón Bolívar

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(1783-1830) South and Central American general and liberator. Liberated Venezuela, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru from Spanish rule in the 19th century.

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Fidel Castro

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(1926-present) Cuban Communist revolutionary and dictator.

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Winston Churchill

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(1874-1965) British Prime Minister during World War II.

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Oliver Cromwell

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(1599-1658) British general, member of Parliament, and revolutionary who ruled as Lord Protector without a king during the mid-1600s.

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Jefferson Davis

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(1808-1889) President of the Confederacy during the US Civil War.

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Frederick Douglass

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(1817-1895) Perhaps the foremost African American abolitionist.

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Mohandas K. Gandhi (Mohatma)

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(1869-1948) Indian leader who achieved independence for India from the British through an organized campaign of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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(1805-1879) Noted American abolitionist.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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(1822-1885) US president after being general of the Union forces during the US Civil War.

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Che Guevara

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(1928-1967) Famous communist revolutionary in South and Central America.

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Henry VIII

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(1491-1547) British monarch who began the Church of England in the 16th century.

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Thomas Jefferson

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(1743-1826) US president and author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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John F. Kennedy

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(1917-1963) US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Robert E. Lee

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(1807-1870) The most successful general of the Confederate forces during the US Civil War.

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Vladimir Lenin

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(1870-1924) Leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917. First leader of the Soviet Union. Bolshevik and Communist.

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Abraham Lincoln

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(1809-1865) US president who governed during the US Civil War. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Question 18

Louis XIV

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(1638-1715) Known also as the “Sun King.” His rule represents the height of the French monarchy at Versailles. He was an absolute monarch who claimed to rule by Divine Right.

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Louis XVI

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(1754-1793) French monarch who ruled until the French Revolution.

Question 20

Mao Tse-Tung (or Zedong)

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(1893-1976) Chinese revolutionary who established Communism in mainland China.

Question 21

Karl Marx

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(1818-1883) Philosopher who first articulated the economic principles of communism.

Question 22

Napoleon Bonaparte

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(1769-1821) Emperor who ruled France and much of Europe following the French Revolution. Nearly conquered Europe but waged an unsuccessful campaign in Russia and two years later lost a key battle at Waterloo.

Question 23

Carry Nation

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(1846-1911) Leader of the temperance movement (banning alcohol).

Question 24

Maximilien Robespierre

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(1758-1794) French revolutionary who ruled brutally during the early years of the French Revolution.

Question 25

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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(1882-1945) US president elected to four terms of office. Present during the New Deal and the bulk of World War II.

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Adam Smith

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(1723-1790) British economist and author. Wrote ‘The Wealth of Nations’ (1776), which outlines the basic ideas of free-market (laissez-faire) capitalism.

Question 27

Joseph Stalin

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(1879-1953) Soviet leader during World War II and the Cold War years that followed.

Question 28

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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(1815-1902) American leader of the women’s rights movement.

Question 29

Booker T. Washington

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(1856-1915) Important African American spokesperson and scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Question 30

George Washington

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(1732-1799) First US president and general of the American Colonies’ revolutionary army.