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Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

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William Penn

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Religious group that settled in New England;strict; no toleration

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Puritans

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British Philosopher;natural rights; (life,liberty, and property)

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John Lock

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Proposed the first national bank of the US

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Hamilton

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author of the declaration of independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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president that put down the whiskey rebellion

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Washington

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signed the alien and sedition acts into law

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John Adams

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father of the constitution and helped write the federalist papers.

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james madison

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president that supported the Cherokee removal/trail of tears

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Andrew Jackson

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President that purchased the Louisiana territory from France

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Thomas Jefferson

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President that issued the Monroe doctrine

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James monroe

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created political alliance “the america system”

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Henry Clay

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Famous slave who ran the underground railroad.

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Harriet Tubman

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Famous former slave that wrote an autobiography

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Fredrick Douglas

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White abolitionist, wrote “The Liberator”

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William Loyd Garrison

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White women that wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Harriet B. Stowe

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white terrorist that raided harpers ferry

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John Brown

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Two Famous Women that organized the seneca falls convention:advocates for womens rights/abolition

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Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton

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Senator from Pennsylvania that proposed the idea of free soil

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David Wilmont

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famous slave that sued for his freedom in the supreme court

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dred scott

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US president that wrote the emancipation proclemation

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Lincoln

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Entrepreneur, horizontal integration, oil tycoon

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Rockefeller

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Entrepreneur, vertical integration, steel tycoon

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Carnegie

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Positive way to describe big business men

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Captains of industry

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Negative way to describe big business men

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Robber Barons

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Northern Republicans that moved south after the civil war

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carpet baggers

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southern supporters of reconstruction

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Scalawags

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believed in gradual acceptance for black people

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Booker T. Washington

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Believed in immediate acceptance for black people

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W.E. Dubois

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terrorist group that intimidated black voters

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KKK

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Introduced the moving Assembly line in 1913

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henry ford

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delivered the cross of gold speech

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William Jennings Bryan

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Ran the “front porch campaign”

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William McKinley

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Wrote the jungle

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Upton Sinclair

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feminist that engaged in marches and hunger strikes

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Alice Paul

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Introduced settlement houses; Hull house in Chicago

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Jane Addams

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US president; trust buster, big stick diplomacy

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Teddy Roosevelt

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US president; Dollar diplomacy

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William Taft

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wrote the fourteen points; moral diplomacy

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Woodrow Wilson

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Assassinated;ignited WW1;Archduke

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Franz Ferdinand

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Made jazz music popular, trumpet player

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Louis Armstrong

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president, New Deal, WW2

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Franklin Roosevelt

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Known as the Big Three, WW2

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Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill

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Wrote the Feminine mystique

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Betty Friedan

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Attorney general; deported “communists” 1920s

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Palmer

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Republican senator; said government was infiltrated with communists; big lie (1950s)

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Joseph McCarthy

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Civil Rights leader in the south; Gave i have a dream speech

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MLK

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Civil rights leader in the north; violent, wanted racial separation

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Malcolm X

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