Famous Americans

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Famous Americans
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Politicians

• Thomas Paine-Wrote Common Sense which called for
  independence from Britain

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Alexander Hamilton

• Federalist
• Sec. of Treasury-Bank of U.S.

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John Marshall

• Chief Justice of Supreme Court decisions helped
  increase power of federal govt
• established judicial review

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Douglas MacArthur

• Led U.S. occupation of Japan after WWII
• Led UN troops during Korean War
• dismissed by Pres. Truman for disagreeing with
  him

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Joseph McCarthy

• Senator who led anti-communist movement
• claimed there were communists in State Dept. and
  U.S. Army

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Thurgood Marshall

• Head lawyer for NAACP during Brown v. Board of Ed
• first African-American Supreme Court justice

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Sandra Day OConnor

• 1st female Supreme Court Justice

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Businessmen

• Henry Ford
• automobile manufacturer
• used assembly line and interchangeable parts
• made Model T affordable

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John Rockefeller

• industrialist who had monopoly in oil industry
  Standard Oil Company
• philanthropist

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Andrew Carnegie

• industrialist who had monopoly in steel industry
  Carnegie Steel
• philanthropist
• defended Social Darwinism

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Bill Gates

• Businessman
• software developer Microsoft
• philanthropist

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Reformers

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Abolitionist
• published anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator

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Frederick Douglas

• Abolitionist
• former slave
• published The North Star
• also spoke for womens rights

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Harriet Tubman

• Abolitionist
• helped slaves escape by the Underground Railroad

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Booker T Washington

• African American educator and scientist
• founded Tuskegee Institute
• felt Blacks should earn equality through
  education and hard work

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WEB Du Bois

• African American civil rights leader
• founder of NAACP
• opposed Booker T Washingtons viewpoint
• influenced Harlem Renaissance by stressing pride
  in heritage

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Jane Addams

• Founder of Hull House in Chicago settlement
  house for immigrants
• supported womens rights
• won Nobel Peace Prize

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Jacob Riis

• Muckraker
• exposed poor conditions of slums and tenements
• wrote How the Other Half Lives

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Dorothea Dix

• social reformer
• worked for improved treatment of mentally ill

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Suffragette
• organized the Seneca Falls Convention
• president of the National Woman Suffrage
  Association

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Susan B Anthony

• Suffragette
• Leader of womens rights movement

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Samuel Gompers

• Labor leader
• organizer of the American Federation of Labor
  skilled labor union

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Rosa Parks

• Activist
• refusal to give up bus seat lead to 1955
  Montgomery Bus Boycott- beginning of civil rights
  movement

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Martin Luther King Jr.

• Civil Rights leader
• use of civil disobedience and non-violence
• founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• I Have a Dream speech
• won Nobel Peace Prize
• assassinated in 1968

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Malcolm X

• Leader of Black Power movement
• advocated black separatism and use of violence if
  necessary
• assassinated in 1965

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Cesar Chavez

• Latino labor leader
• migrant farm worker
• formed United Farm Workers Union
• organized grape boycott

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Rachel Carson

• Biologist wrote book Silent Spring attacking use
  of pesticides
• stimulated environmental movement

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Betty Friedan

• Womens rights activist
• wrote Feminine Mystique (1963) which encouraged
  women to work outside the home
• founded National Organization of Women (1966)

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Jesse Jackson

• African American civil rights activist
• ran for president
• served as diplomat to negotiate with foreign
  leaders

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Writers and Artists

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin which increased moral
  opposition to slavery

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Upton Sinclair

• Muckraker
• journalist
• wrote The Jungle which led to Meat Inspection
  Act of 1906 and Pure Food and Drug Act

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Langston Hughes

• African American author and poet
• leading figure during Harlem Renaissance

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Duke Ellington

• Jazz and Blues artist during Harlem Renaissance
• help popularize American music worldwide

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Miscellaneous

• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Italian immigrants anarchists
• executed for armed robbery and murder during the
  Red Scare of the 1920s
• cleared in 1977

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Eleanor Roosevelt

• First lady
• political activist for rights of African
  Americans and women
• helped create UN Declaration on Human Rights and
  UN commission on Human Rights

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Jackie Robinson

• Professional baseball player
• first African American to play for major league
  baseball Brooklyn Dodgers