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Social Studies - People Flashcards

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An American novelist, journalist, and social activist. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain world wide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

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Jack London

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A Canadian-American physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach, and innovator.

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James Naismith

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Founded Hull House, a place for the peer and to get help, settlement house

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Jane Addams

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President of the Confederacy 1801-1865

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Jefferson Davis

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Education Reformer

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John Dewey

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Wrote military march music

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John Philips Sousa

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Architect
“father of skyscrapers”
“father of modernism”

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Louis Sullivan

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Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain

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Italy nun who worked with poor NYC

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St. Mother Cabrini

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Wrote ragtime music

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Scott Joplin

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First president that women could vote for

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Warren G. Harding

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President assassinated in Buffalo

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William McKinley

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President who became Supreme Court Justice

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William Howard Taft

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WWI President, 14 Points, League of Nations

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Woodrow Wilson

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Last desperate attempt to win at Gettysburg by South (failed)

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Picket’s Charge

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The President during Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation

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Abraham Lincoln

17
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First catholic to run for president, lost 1928

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Al Smith

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Suffragists, finally able to get women’s right to vote

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Alice Paul

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Tuskegee Institute

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Booker T. Washington

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Wrote the poem on the Statue of Liberty

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Emma Lazarus

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WCTU, anti-booze leader

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Frances Willard

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Elected to four terms, New Deal, WW2

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Union General, total war, siege of Atlanta, March to the Sea

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General Sherman

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Union General ran for President against Lincoln 1864 (lost)

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George McClellan

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Former Erie Country Sheriff, only person elected-defeated-then elected again…. President

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Grover Cleveland

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President during Great Depression, lost FDR 1932

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Herbert Hoover

27
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First Person to fly across Atlantic, Spirit of St. Louis

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Charles Lindbergh

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