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42 Cards in this Set
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founded pennsylvania
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William Penn
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president during Civil War, assassinated, abolished slavery
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Abraham Lincoln
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freed slave, son of a white man, abolitionist, women's suffragist
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Frederick Douglas
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John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson's VP, 7th VP in US, resigned to be in senate
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John Calhoun
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3rd President of US, wrote Declaration of Independence, Louisiana Purchase, founder of Democratic Republicans
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Thomas Jefferson
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Advocate for the mentally ill, created mental asylums
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Dorothea Dix
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Founder of Whig party, Speaker of House 3 times, spread American System, ran for President 5 times, corrupt bargain
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Henry Clay
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general who fought America during the American Mexican War
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Santa Anna
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Democratic Presidential candidate for 1876 election
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Samuel Tilden
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4th President of US, wrote Constitution and Bill of Rights
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James Madison
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Author of the Liberator, abolitionist, founder of American Anti-Slavery Society
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William Lloyd Garrison
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wrote sinners in the hands of an angry god, part of the first great awakening
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Jonathan Edwards
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6th President of the US, corrupt bargain, American System, Monroe Doctrine
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John Quincy Adams
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Led Mormon religion to Utah for refuge
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Brigham Young
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9th President of US, first to die in office and shortest term held (30 days)
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William Henry Harrison
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Supreme Court justice
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John Marshall
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7th President of the US, famous for Battle of NO
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Andrew Jackson
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transcendentalist, abolitionist, wrote civil disobedience
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Henry David Thoreau
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2nd President of US, 1st VP
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John Adams
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"Father of Texas"
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Stephen Austin
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started education reform
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Horace Mann
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PResident of 2nd Bank of US
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Nicholas Biddle
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Abolitionist, underground railroad
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Harriet Tubman
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Wrote the Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Nathaniel Bacon
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19th President of US, general for union in Civil War
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Rutherford Hayes
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radical republican, influential in the house
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Thaddeus Stevens
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invented cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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president of CSA
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Jefferson Davis
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Democratic candidate against Lincoln
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Stephen Douglas
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1st President of US
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George Washington
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founded Georgia
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James Oglethorpe
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Led revolt in Harper's Ferry and Pottawatomie Massacre
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John Brown
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1st secretary of treasury, killed by Aaron Burr, leader of Federalist party
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Alexander Hamilton
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general in Civil War, started total war in south
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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writer, known for The Last of the Mohicans
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James Fennimore cooper
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photographer, documented Civil War
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Matthew Brady
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led huge rebellion freeing slaves and killing white people
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Nat Turner
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planned huge rebellion but was found out and executed
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Denmark Vessey
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Native American leader of the Shawnee, died in War of 1812
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Tecumseh
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banished from Puritan society and forced to live in radical Rhode Island
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Anne Hutchinson
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led Puritans to Mass in the Mass Bay Company
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John Winthrop
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