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20 Cards in this Set
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John Phillip Sousa |
composer and bandmaster of the U.S. Marine Band |
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Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) |
an author who helped shape American literature and thought. Wrote: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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Frederick Douglass |
A former slave who became a speaker for the abolitionist movement. |
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Winslow Homer |
illustrator who captured everyday American life on canvas. |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor and educator who invented the telephone and his experiments laid the foundation for the development of many of the sound devices we use today. |
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Sitting Bull |
Native American leader who was the chief of the entire Sioux nation and defeated General George Custer at the battle of Little Big Horn. |
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Susan B. Anthony |
A social reformer for women's suffrage, temperance and abolitionist movements. |
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William Frederick Cody |
Scout and showman who created Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. |
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Thomas Edison |
Inventor of the incandescent lightbulb, the phonograph, the electric valve, the microphone, and the mimeograph. |
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Booker T. Washington |
An educator who believed in educating African Americans in practical trades and professions. |
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Walter Reed |
a field surgeon who determined that a certain mosquito transmitted yellow fever. |
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Andrew Carnegie |
An industrialist who produced the finest steel in the world. Known for underpaying his workers, he spent the rest of his life making huge donations to benefit society. |
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J.P. Morgan |
Banker and financier who expanded his family's banking business into railroads, shipping, telephones, insurance and steel. |
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William Jennings Bryan |
Politician who gained fame as a brilliant editor, lawyer, and politician who opposed U.S. imperialism and spoke on behalf of farmers. |
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George Washington Carver |
A botanist who advised southern farmers to plant a variety of easy-to-grow, soil-enriching crops. |
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Henry Ford |
Automobile manufacturer who made it possible to build cars quickly, cheaply, and in greater quantity than ever before. |
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Upton Sinclair |
Writer and social reformer who wrote The Jungle, a novel exposing the filthy conditions in Chicago's meatpacking plants leading to the passage of teh Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. |
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Jane Addams |
A social reformer who worked to improve life for urban immigrants by creating settlement houses like Hull House which provided aid and education to needy families.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright |
Aviation pioneers who created the first motor-powered flight. |
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
a brilliant writer, speaker and educator who co-founded the NAACP. |
