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29 Cards in this Set
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Grew Up In Maryland
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Fredrick Douglas
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Most Prominent Anti-Slavery Speaker
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Fredrick Douglas
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Founded anti-slavery newspaper -the North Star
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Fredrick Douglas
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Recruiting the first African American troops -including own sons
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Fredrick Douglas
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Advisor to President Lincoln
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Fredrick Douglas
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Wrote "Stanzas of Freedom"
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James Russell Lowell
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Prominent Massachusetts family
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James Russell Lowell
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Fame for poetry and essays by age 30
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James Russell Lowell
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His wife and 3/4 children died within 6 years of each other
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James Russell Lowell
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Succeeded Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as professor of modern language at Harvard
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James Russell Lowell
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Wrote "an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
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Ambrose Bierce
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Left home at 15 to work for newspaper
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Ambrose Bierce
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Union Army -received rewards for bravery
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Ambrose Bierce
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At age 71 visiting Mexico but never returned
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Ambrose Bierce
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Gettysburg Adress
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Abraham Lincoln
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Grew up in log cabin and received no formal schooling
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Abraham Lincoln
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President, led nation through Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln
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Emancipation Proclamation 1863
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Abraham Lincoln
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Shot+killed 5 days after Robert E. lee surrendered to Grant
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Abraham Lincoln
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Wrote "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
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Anne Moody
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Saw neighboring family killed when their home was set on fire
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Anne Moody
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Saved money as teen to go to college and earned basketball scholorship
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Anne Moody
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Civil rights coordinator at Cornell University
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Anne Moody
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Wrote "Life in the Mississippi"
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Mark Twain
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Samuels Longhorne Clemens
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Mark Twain
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Born and died at appearance of Halley's Comet
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Mark Twain
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Learning how to be a steamboat pilot led to fascination with river life
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Mark Twain
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Famous for comics of human nature
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Mark Twain
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Lived in Nebraska on prairie which gave her the voice
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Willa Cather
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