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20 Cards in this Set
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Simon Bolivar |
South and central American general; liberated Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from Spanish rule in 19th century |
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Fidel Castro |
Cuban communist revolutionary/dictator |
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Oliver Cromwell |
British general; ruled as Lord protector without a king in mid 1600s |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of confederacy during civil war |
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Frederick Douglas |
African American abolitionist |
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Gandhi |
Achieved independence for India from Britain through organize non violence |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
Abolitionist |
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Ulysses S Grant |
U.S. president after being general of the union during civil war |
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Che Guevara |
Communist revolutionary in south and central America in mid-late 1900s |
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Henry VIII |
British monarch; began church of England in 16th century |
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Kennedy |
President during Cuban missile crisis and start of civil rights movement; assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald |
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Robert E Lee |
General of confederate forces in civil war |
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Vladimir Lenin |
Leader of Russian evolution of 1917; first leader of Soviet union; communist |
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Louis XIV |
"Sun king"; height of French monarchy at Versailles; claimed to rule by divine right |
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Mao Zedong |
Chinese revolutionary; established communism in mainland China |
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Carry Nation |
Leader of temperance movement (banning alcohol) |
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Adam Smith |
Wrote the wealth of nations in 1776; laissez-faire) |
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Joseph Stalin |
Soviet leader during WWII and cold war |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Women's rights leader; early 1900s |
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Booker T Washington |
African American spokesperson and scholar of late 19th and early 20th centuries |
