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25 Cards in this Set
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steel entrepreneur; richest man in 1890s
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Andrew Carnegie
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supported unions and labor reform
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Eugene V. Debs
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began fight for women's suffrage in 1850s; died in 1906
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Susan B. Anthony
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supported expansion and spreading civilization to gain world power
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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admiral and naval historian-theories of sea power
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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26th president; Spanish American War; Panama Canal
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Theodore Roosevelt
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prosecutor in Scopes Trial; literal interpretation of Bible; denounced teaching evolution
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William Jennings Bryan
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defense attorney for Scopes, the teacher of evolution in Tennessee
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Clarence Darrow
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mass production; assembly line; Model T
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Henry Ford
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Progressive Party; favored breaking up monopolies
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Robert La Follette
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first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic in plane Spirit of St. Louis
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Charles Lindbergh
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painted scenes of the Southwest
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Georgia O'Keefe
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32nd president; New Deal; polio
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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US Army general in World War II; North Africa
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Omar Bradley
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WW II Allied commander; 34th president
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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World War I, World War II, Korean War-commander of US in Far East
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Douglas MacArthur
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World War I and World War II; "Marshall Plan"
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George Marshall
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led World War I forces at Battle of Argonne Forrest
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John J. Pershing
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dropped atomic bomb; vice president to FDR
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Harry S. Truman
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African America rights activist; founder of NAACP
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WEB DuBois
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First African American woman elected to Congress and first to seek presidential nomination
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Shirley Chisholm
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equal rights activist; civil disobedience and nonviolence
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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governor of Alabama during segregation; ran for president in 1972; shot and wheelchair bound
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George Wallace
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West Point graduate; World War I and II; Battle of the Bulge
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George Patton
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3rd party presidential candidate in 1990s
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H. Ross Perot
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