IDs Flashcards
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Jane Addams
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1860-1935
- born: Illinois
- social and political activist; one of the reformers of the progressive era
2
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Alexander Graham Bell
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1847-1922
- born:United Kingdom
- invented the telephone/hearing devices
3
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Jame G. Blaine
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1830-1893
- born: Western Pennsylvania
- an american, republican politician who represented Maine in the US House of Representatives
4
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Louis D. Brandeis
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1856-1941
- born: Kentucky
- an associate justice on Supreme Court
5
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William Jennings Bryan
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1860-1925
- born: Illinois
- liberal leader and magnetic orator; US Representative
6
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Andrew Carnegie
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1835-1919
- born: Scotland
- Self made steel tycoon; wealthiest 19th century US business man who donated to expansion of New York public library
7
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Samuel L. Clemens
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1835-1910
- born: Missouri
- (AKA Mark Twain) wrote the classic american novels
8
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Grover Cleveland
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1837-1908
- 22nd and 24th president
born: New Jersey - President of the United States of America; governor; lawyer; mayor
9
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Eugene V. Debs
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1855-1926
- born: Indiana
- activist; labor organizer
10
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Thomas A. Edison
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1847-1941
- born: Ohio
- inventor of electric light bulb and phonograph
11
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Henry Ford
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1863-1947
- born: Michigan
- America’s foremost industrialist
12
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Emma Goldman
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1869-1940
- born:Lithuania
- activist for peace, free love and birth control
13
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Samuel Gompers
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1850-1924
- born: United Kingdom
- Cigar maker
14
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Ulysses S. Grant
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1822-1885
- born: Ohio
- US general(commander of Union Army) and US president
15
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John Hay
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1838-1905
- born: Indiana
- promoted ‘Open Door’ policy in China
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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1822-1893
- born: Ohio
- US President; helped in reconstruction building efforts