Everybody Who Is Everybody

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William Penn

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Founder of Pennsylvania

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George Washington

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First U.S. President and Revolutionary War leader

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Thomas Jefferson

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Author of the Declaration of Independence

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John Locke

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English Philosopher

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Benjamin Franklin

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Colonial inventor, printer, writer, statesman, contributed to the Declaration of Independence.

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Haym Salomon

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Member of the New York Sons of Liberty

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Marquis De Lafayette

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French noblemen and volunteer for the American Army. Given command as a general instrumental in defeating the British at the battle of Yorktown

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Thomas Paine

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Author of "Common Sense"

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Wentworth Cheswell

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Fought at the battle of Saratoga, became the first African American elected to public office.

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James Armistead

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Enslaved African American spy working with General Lafayette. Helped

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Abigail Adams

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Ran the family farm while husband John Adams worked to write the Declaration of Independence and negotiate the Treaty of Paris

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Mercy Otis Warren

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Wrote essays opposing the Constitution as giving too much power to the federal government and now including a guarantee of rights

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Bernardo de Galvez

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Spanish governor of Florida, assisted the Americans in the south and west with supplies, and led armies against the British forces in Pensacola and Louisiana

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Samuel Adams

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Leader of colonial protest (Sons of Liberty) against British taxation in Boston.

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James Madison

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Father of the Constitution, 4th U.S. President

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Alexander hamilton

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Called for the Constitutional Convention, co-author of many federalists papers, first secretary of treasury

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Charles De Montesquieu

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French writer who influenced the Constitution, called for the powers of government to be separate and balanced.

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George Mason

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Anti-Federalist, attended the Constitutional Convention but refused to sign the final document because it did not include a Bill of Rights

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John Marshall

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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a Federalist, upheld and strengthened the authority of the federal judiciary, establishing the established principle of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison, 1803

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William Blackstone

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English judge, first to compile English common law into written form, major influence on Chief Justice John Marshall

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Andrew Jackson

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Hero of the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, founder of the Democratic Party elected President of the U.S. in 1828, Trail of Tears,

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James Monroe

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5th U.S. President, Issued Monroe Doctrine

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Leader for women's rights, particularly women's suffrage

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John C. Calhoun

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"Crazy Calhoun" spokesman from South Carolina who promoted states' rights

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Susan B. Anthony

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Leader for women's rights, arrested in 1872 for attempting to vote in the Presidential election

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Fredrick Douglass

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Leading African American abolitionist, escaped slave, speaker, writer, and publisher of the North Star

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John Quincy Adams

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John Adam's son, Secretary of State for Monroe who wrote the Monroe Doctrine, 6th President of the U.S., served as Representative from Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress after his presidency-opposing slavery and the spread of slavery.

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Henry Clay

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The Great Compromiser from Kentucky and represented the interests of the West. Clay tried to keep peace between the North and the South. Responsible for the Missouri Compromise

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Daniel Webster

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Massachusetts Senator who represented the views of many Northerners in support of strong central government and other federal issues

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th U.S. President and President during the American Civil War

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Robert E. Lee

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Leading General for the Confederate States of America, Surrendered to Gran to end the Civil War

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Leading General for the U.S. Army during the Civil War, victor at the Battle of Vicksburg, accepted final surrender of Lee at Appomattox to end the Civil War

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Stonewall Jackson

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Important Confederate General, critical in early Confederate victories under Lee's command, symbol of Confederate heroism, died form injuries form his own sentries at Chancellorsville in 1863

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William Carney

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African American soldier during the Civil War: member of the Massachusetts 54th colored infantry awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallantry in the assault on Fort Wagner, SC on June 22, 1865.

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Philip Bazaar

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Hispanic immigrant from Chile, sailor on board the U.S.S. Santiago de Cuba awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the assault on Fort Fisher, NC on January 15, 1865