Va/us Hist (People)

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John Locke

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LLP
Natural Rights, Life, Liberty, Property)
Social Contract Theory-
Consent of the Governed

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Thomas Paine

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Author of Common Sense

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Patrick Henry

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"Give Me Liberty or give me death!

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Benjamin Franklin

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Negotiated a treaty of alliance with France

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George Mason

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Author of Virginia Deceleration of Rights

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James Madison

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"Father of the Constitution"
Author of Bill of Rights

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George Washington

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Commander of Continental Army
1st President
Chairman of Constitutional Convention

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Alexander Hamilton

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Federalist Party
Proposed National Bank

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John Marshall

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Supreme Court Chief Justice
Made Court Powerful Branch of Government

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Thomas Jefferson

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Bought Louisiana Territory
Authored Declaration of Independence
Authored VA Statue for Religious Freedom
Democratic Republican Party

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Lewis and Clark

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Explored Louisiana Territory

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James Monroe

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Monroe Doctrine (Europe wont interfere with America; America won't interfere with Europe)

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Eli Whitney

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Cotton Gin
Interchangeable parts

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Henry Clay

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Supported National Bank
"The Great Compromiser"

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Andrew Jackson

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Vetoed 2nd National Bank "spoils system"
hero of Battle of New Orleans

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William Lloyd Garrison

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The Liberator (Anti Slavery Newspaper)

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Nat Turner

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Slave revolt

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Gabriel Prosser

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attempted slave revolt

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Harriet Tubman

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Underground Railroad

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Jefferson Davis

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President of Confederacy

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Stephen A. Douglas

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Ran against Lincoln for Illinois Senate seat
Little Giant

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Seneca Falls Convention (women's rights)

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Frederick Douglass

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Abolitionist Former Slave

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Andrew Johnson

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Lincolon's Vice President
1st President to be impeached (Not convicted)

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Abraham Lincoln

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Pres during Civil War (1860-65)
Republican
Authored Emancipation Proclamation
Authored Gettysburg Address

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Union commander who accepted Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

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Robert E. Lee

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Confederate General (NOT PRESIDENT)
Surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court
Became President at a College after War

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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President who ended Reconstruction with Compromise of 1877

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Thomas Edison

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Invented Light Bulb

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Invented Telephone

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Wright Brothers

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Invented Air Plane

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Henry Ford

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Invented Assembly Line

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Andrew Carnegie

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Steel

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J.P. Morgan

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Finance

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John D. Rockerfeller

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Oil

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Railroads

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Ida B. Wells

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Anti-Lynching Campaign

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Booker T. Washington

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Tuskegee Institute
Vocational Education

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W.E.B. DuBois

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NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Samuel Gompers

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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR

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Eugene V. Debs

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AMERICAN RAILWAY UNION

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Susan B. Anthony

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Seneca Falls woman suffrage movement

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John Hay

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Secretary of State
Open Door Policy (China)

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William Howard Taft

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President
Dollar Diplomacy
"Trust Buster"

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Woodrow Wilson

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President
Rough Riders
World War I
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
"Make the World Safe for Democracy"

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Joseph Stalin

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Soviet Union (USSR)
Communist

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Benito Mussolini

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Italy
Fascist

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Adolf Hitler

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Germany
Nazi

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Commander of Allied Troops
D Day Invasion
President
"Massive Retaliation"

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Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

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President
Rough Riders in Spanish Americans
"big stick diplomacy"
"Square Deal"

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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President through Great Depression and WWII
New Deal
Lend Lease Act

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Harry S. Truman

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President FDR died
Truman Doctrine
Made Decision to drop Atomic Bomb on Japanese (Hiroshima Nagasaki)

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Richard Nixon

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"Vietnamization"
Visited China
Resigned because Watergate

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Fidel Castro

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Communist Leader of Cuba

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The Rosenbergs

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Executed for being Soviet Spies

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Joseph McCarthy

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Senator who searched for Communists in government
Red Scare

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John F. Kennedy

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President during Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!"

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Ronald Reagan

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President at End of Cold War
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
Massive defense spending "Star Wars"

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Soviet Leader at end of Cold War
glasnost (Openness)
perestroika (Restructuring)

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Oliver Hill

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NAACP Lawyer in VA. during Civil Rights Movement
White Flight

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Thurgood Marshall

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NAACP lawyer in Brown V. Board of Education
1st African American Supreme Court Justice

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Martin Luther King Jr

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"I have a dream" non violent resistance(peaceful protest)

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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President after Kennedy's death
Civil Rights Act
Voting Act
24th Amendment
Didn't seek Re-election because of Vietnam

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Sandra Day O'Connor

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1st Female Supreme Court Justice

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Sally Ride

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1st Female Astronaut from US

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Neil Armstrong

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1st Man on the Moon
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

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John Glenn

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Astronaut, 1st to Orbit the Moon

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Jonas Salk

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Invented Polio Vaccine