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Squad Flashcards Semester 2 - terms and people that aren't blatantly obvious

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Meriwether Lewis

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captain in army, private secretary

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Sacagawea

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helped Lewis and Clark

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John Jacob Astor

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trading post (Columbia River), American Fur Trading Co.

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John C. Fremont

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wrote vivid reports of West, promoted expansion of CA/OR

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Brigham Young

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Mormon leader

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Stephen Austin

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brought 300 to Texas, created texas

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Harriet Tubman

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conductor on Underground Railroad, Black Moses

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin, geo book, dad a minister

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John C. Calhoun

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SC Senator, War Hawk, Secretary of War, defender of South

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Sen. Charles Sumner

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two day speech: “Crime Against Kansas”, called out Andy Butt, nephew Preston Brooks took offense and beat Sumner with cane

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Stephen Douglas

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The Little Giant of Illinois;
Supported MO Comp;
Sponsored KA-NB Act;
Lincoln debates;
Northern democrat-1860
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John Brown

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Antislavery fighter/leader in Kansas vs Border Ruffians;
Harper’s Ferry raid;
Executed 5 settlers in response to looting of town (Pottawotomi or whatever)

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William Henry Seward

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Extremist - lost to Lincoln for Republican candidate

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George McClellan (Union)

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Union General, Army of the Potomac, didn’t chase Lee in Maryland, relieved of duties in 1862, Democrat candidate in 1864

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Ambrose Burnside (Union)

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Union - Fought Antietam, offered command after McClellan, known for Mexican War

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Winfield Scott (Union)

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Original commander of Union forces, devised Anaconda Plan, old and overweight, criticized for plan that eventually crush Confederacy

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Ulysses S. Grant (Union)

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Mexican War under Gen Zachary Taylor;
Illinois regiment - Union;
Fort Henry and Donelson – “no terms- unconditional ;surrender”;
Shiloh – “I can’t spare this man, he fights”;
Vicksburg;
March 1864 – in charge of Union army

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Robert E. Lee (Confed)

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2nd at West Point – no demerits;
“Granny Lee”;
had to discipline a couple soldiers and some people; thought that he was too nice;
Seven Days Battle – “Uncle Robert”/”Marse” Robert;
Invasion of North (#goals)

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Thomas Jackson (Confed)

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Manassas -- “Stonewall”;
Attack at Kernstown -- Sunday --
extremely religious man and it bothered him that he had to fight on Sunday;
Chancellorsville -- spring 1864;
Wounded by guards (by own person) - 
“I have lost my right arm” -- Lee
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George Pickett

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Classmates of Jackson & McClellan;
Seven Day’s Campaign & Fredericksburg;
“Pickett’s Charge”;
“Sir, I have no division”

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James Longstreet

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Bull Run;
Valued by Joseph Johnston
“Old War Horse”/”Old Pete”;
Disagreed with Lee regarding Vicksburg and Gettysburg;
Became Republican
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Thomas Edison

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stock tickers
phonograph (record player)
light bulb
power stations
Edison General Electric Co.
Menlo Park, NJ - smart person invention party
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George Westinghouse

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car replacer - 1866;
air brakes - 1869;
signal system - 1882
- also alternating current and transformers

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John Rockefeller

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Loaned money to a farmer at age 12
Math genius
Bookkeeper
Started business at 20
Oil industry - 1863
Standard Oil - 1870
Horizontal consolidation (and vertical) - 40 companies
Donated $400 million
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Samuel Gompers

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AFL president

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Henry Bessemer

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Bessemer process of making steel

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Karl Marx

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idealist–The Communist Manifesto-

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Eugene V. Debs

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idealist–American Railway Union, Social Democratic Party, court case

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Andrew Carnegie

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Scottish immigrant - telegraph operator
Expands into other business and begins investing
Iron business (1864)
Shifts to steel in 1973 when Bessemer process happens
Bought mills during depression of 1890’s
“Gospel of Wealth” document - money is meant to help people
$350 million donations in life
Vertical consolidation

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Alfred T. Mahan

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Sea power to control world, great white fleet, canal in central america

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Joseph Pulitzer

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The World–Yellow Journalism

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George Dewey

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Philippines–destroys fleet in Battle of Manilla Bay

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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state and federal legislature, acquire Philippines, SpanAm war supporter, liked Roosevelt, not Wilson

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John Hay

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Sec. of State–Open Door Notes

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Gen. Valeriano Weyler

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reconcentration of Spanish in Cuba, separate civies from guerrilas, martial law

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William Randolph Heart

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NY Journal–Yellow Journalism

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Teddy Roosevelt

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fought Taft, Progressive

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Gavrilo Princip

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assassinated Franz Ferdinand

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Franz Josef

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Emperor of Austria

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Franz Ferdinand

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Heir to throne, assassinated

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Kaiser Wilhelm

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King of Prussia

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Alfred von Schlieffen

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Schlieffen Plan

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Arthur Zimmerman

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German foreign minister, Zimmerman Telegram

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Otto von Bismarck

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Pan-Germanism, Iron Chancellor

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George Creel

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Committee on Public Information

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John Pershing

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American general in charge of army

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Vladimir Lenin

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Communist Revolution in 1917

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Herbert Hoover

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff, raised taxes, increased taxes, increased federal spending, run on banks, hoovervilles, stock market crash

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Adolf Hitler

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bruh

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Benito Mussolini

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Italy–Black Shirts

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Joseph Stalin

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Man of Steel, 10 million killed, Purge/Great Terror

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