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38 Cards in this Set
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Chicago gangster whose illegal activities brought in millions of dollars a month during prohibition
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Al Capone
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wrote stories about people who were unable to find happiness in postwar society
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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revolutionized industry production with the assembly line
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Henry Ford
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wanted to make homeland in Africa
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Marcus Garvey
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flew from New York to Paris non-stop
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Charles Lindbergh
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biologist who got arrested for teaching evolution
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John Scopes
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Italian immagrant accused of murder
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Batolomeo Vanzetti
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head of the war industry board
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Berdard Baruch
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Italian who divided up the Ottoman Empire
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George Clemenceau
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radical labor kicker convicted of sedition
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William Haywood
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choosen by president Wilson to lead the Food Amdministration
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Herbert Hoover
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didnt accept peace treaty with other nations
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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General for Pancho Villa
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JOhn J Pershing
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helpded congress decide to build Panama Canal
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Phillippe Bunau
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ruler of Mexico for 35 years and friend to the US
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Porfino Diaz
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built a railroad in Costa Rica
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Minor Cooper Keither
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business tycoon who wanted to build a canal in Nicaragua
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Corneleius Vanderbilt
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rebel leader who opposed HUerta, a mexican ruler
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Pancho Villa
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a southern journalist that planed to start slavery in Nicaragua
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William Walker
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Phillipino rebel leader
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Emilo Aguinaldo
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commander of the US Pacif squadron who attacked the Spanish on Manilla Bay and taking over the Phillopines
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George Dewey
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first US foreign minister to China
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Anson BUrlingame
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Secretary of State who helped China
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John HAy
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opened trade with Japan
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Matthew C. Perry
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a german immagrant with a distinguished career in the us government discouraging foreign rule in other countries
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Carl Schurz
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Spanish military leader against Cubans
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Valeriano Weyler
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secretary of the Interior for Rooseveltt
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Richard Balligner
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soeaker of the House of Rep. who blocked progressives
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Joshep Cannon
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black Harvard professor
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W.E.B DuBouis
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leading conservationist and chief forester. Tried to teach lumber companies how to conserve
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Gifford Pinchot
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wrote about child labor
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John Spargo
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best known Afican American in the 1800's
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Booker T. Washington
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chief of the Bureu of Chemistry in the Department of agriculture, who was against food perservatives
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HArvey W. Wiley
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helped for the Nation Womens Sufferage Association
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Susan B. Anothony
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"fighting bob" colorful progressivist
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Robert LaFollette
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a womans christian temperance leader. Famous for her raids at saloons
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Carrie Nation
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became director of The New York State Factory Invesitgation Commision
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Frances Perkins
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wrote about unhealthy packaging plants
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Upton Sinclair
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