Historical Figures

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Susan B. Anthony

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(1820-1906)

American leader of the suffrage movement to grant women the right to vote

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Simon Bolivar

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(1783-1830)

South and Central American general and liberator.

Liberated Venezuela, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from Spanish rule in the 19th century.

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Fidel Castro

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(1926- )

Cuban communist revolutionary and dictator

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Winston Churchill

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(1874-1965)

British Prime Minister during WW2

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Oliver Cromwell

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(1599-1658)

British general, member of Parliament, and revolutionary who ruled as Lord Protector without a king during the mid-1600s

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Jefferson Davis

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(1808-1889)

President of the Confederacy during the US Civil War

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Frederick Douglas

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(1817-1895)

Perhaps the foremost African American abolitionist

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Ghandi

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(1869-1948)

Indian leader who achieved independence for India from British through an organized campaign of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience

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William Lloyd Garrison

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(1805-1879)

Noted American abolitionist

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Ulysses S. Grant

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(1822-1885)

US president after being general of the Union forces during the US Civil War

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Che Guevara

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(1928-1967)

Famous communist revolutionary in South and Central America

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Henry VIII

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(1491-1547)

British monarch who begun the Church of England in the 16th century

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Thomas Jefferson

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(1743-1826)

US president and author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776

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JFK

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(1917-1963)

US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

Purportedly assassinated by Henry Lee Oswald

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Robert E. Lee

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(1807-1870)

The most successful general of the Confederate forces during the US Civil War

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Vladimir Lenin

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(1870-1924)

Leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

First leader of the Soviet Union.

Bolshevik and Communist

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Abraham Lincoln

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(1809-1865)

US president who governed during the US Civil War.

Issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

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Louis XIV

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(1638-1715)

Known also as the "Sun King."

His rule represents the height of the French Monarchy at Versailles.

Was an absolute monarch that claimed to rule by Divine Right

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Lousi XVI

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(1754-1793)

French monarch who ruled until the French Revolution

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Mao Tse Dung (or Zedong)

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(1893-1976)

Chinese revolutionary who established communism in mainland China

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Karl marx

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(1818-1883)

Philosopher who first articulated the economic principles of communism

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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(1769-1821)

Emperor who ruled France and much of Europe following the French Revolution.

Nearly conquered Europe but lost a key battle at Waterloo and waged an unsuccessful campaign in Russia

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Carry Nation

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(1846-1911)

Leader of the temperance movement

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Maximilien Robespierre

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(1758-1794)

French Revolutionary who ruled brutally during the early years of the French Revolution

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FDR

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(1882-1945)

US president elected to four terms of office.

President during the ew Deal and the bulk of WW2

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Adam Smith

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(1723-1790)

British economist and author.

Wrote The Wealth of Nations (1776), which outlines the basic ideas of free-market (laissez-faire) capitalism.

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Joseph Stalin

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(1879-1953)

Soviet leader during WW2 and the Cold War years that followed

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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(1815-1902)

American leader of the women's rights movement

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Booker T. Washington

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(1815-1902)

Important African American spokesperson and scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

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George Washington

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(1732-1799)

First US president and general of the American Colonies' revolutionary army