Taks - Social Studies Exit Level

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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He was resonsible for the "New Deal" that helped pull Americans out of the Great Depression

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John Adams

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He was one of the first people to propose American independence and helped draft the Declaration of Independence.

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George Washington

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He was the first president of the United States.

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Neil Armstrong

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He was the first man to land on the moon in 1969.

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Alexander Graham Bell

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He was a teacher of the deaf and an inventor. The telephone is one of his many inventions.

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Harriet Tubman

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She guided slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

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Rosa Parks

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She refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her silent protest is an event remembered for sparking the Civil Rights Movement.

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Sandra Day O'Connor

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She was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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He enforced voting rights by getting rid of the literacy test that was required for African Americans to vote at the time.

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Abraham Lincoln

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He was the 16th U.S. president who was against slavery and was assassinated.

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Richard Nixon

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He was the president who was involved in the Watergate Scandal and was the only president that resigned from office.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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He was an African American civil rights activist and Nobel Prize winner who was assassinated in 1968.

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John F. Kennedy

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He was a popular president in the early 1960's who handled the Cuban Missile Crisis, encouraged awareness of cultural, historial and intellictual excellence, and was assassinated in 1963.

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Meriwhether Lewis and William Clark

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They were the first Americans to go on an overland exploration of the American West and Pacific Northwest, beginning in May 1804 and ending in September 1806.

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Thomas Jefferson

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He was the third president of the United States and the author of the Declaration of Independence.

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Benjamin Franklin

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He was an American philosopher, politician, inventor, and scientist. He is widely known for his contributions of the first American newspaper, bifocals, and electricity.

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Samuel Adams

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He was an American patriot and revolutionary idealist who was the leader of resisting British policy.

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King George III

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He ruled the United Kingdom and Great Britain while the colonists were seeking American independence.

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Thomas Paine

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He was an American political philosopher who was the author of a series of pamphlets entitled "Common Sense" that were widely read.

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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He was an American statesman who led the opposition to U.S. membership in the League of Nations after WWI.

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Theodore Roosevelt

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He was one of the strongest and most vigorous presidents in United States history. In battles between business and labor, he extended the power both of the presidency and of the federal government to protect what he saw as the public interest. He also greatly expanded United States involvement in world affairs. His domestic social and economic reforms were the first federal attempts to deal with the problems created by a modern industrial society.

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Woodrow Wilson

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He led the United States during World War I.

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Clarence Darrow

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He was an American lawyer, best known for his defense (1925) of John Scopes, a Tennessee high school teacher charged with teaching the theory of evolution.

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William Jennings Bryan

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He was a U.S. politician whose many reforms for which he worked were eventually adopted. Among the most notable of these were woman suffrage, the national income tax, popular election of U.S. senators, and prohibition.

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Henry Ford

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He was an American industrialist best known for his pioneering achievements in the automobile industry.

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Chalres A. Lindbergh

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He was the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Harry Truman

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He was a U.S. president who initiated the foreign policy of containing Communism, a policy that was the hallmark of the Cold War.

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Susan B. Anthony

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She was an outstanding American reformer, who led the struggle to gain the vote for women.

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W.E.B. DuBois

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He was a black American historian and sociologist, who conducted the initial research on the black experience in the United States. His work paved the way for the civil rights, Pan-African, and Black Power movements in the United States.

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Robert LaFollette

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He was one of the principal leaders of the U.S. Progressive movement. He instituted many reforms, including measures for the nomination of candidates by direct vote and the regulation of railroad rates.