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Ansel Adams
- photographer
- pics used as statement about importance of preserving wilderness in the west
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Samuel Adams
- Rev War leader in Boston
- organized Sons of Liberty and Massachusetts Committee Correspondence
- Boston Massacre & Tea Party
- signed Dec of I
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Jane Adams
- founded Hull House and settlement houses
- won nobel Peace Prize 1931
- help org NAACP
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Yasir Arafat
- leader of PLO
- met with Clinton and Israeli Yitzhak Rabin in 1993 in peace talks
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Klaus Barbie
- Nazi criminal
- tried after WWII for crimes against Jews
- known as "Butcher of Lyons"
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John Calhoun
- sounthern advocate of states rights
- liked nullification and slavery expansion
- VP=Adams and Jackson
- pressed for TX annex and oppose Mex War
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Willa Cather
- wrote about hardships of poineer life
- Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for One of Ours
- known for O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and Death Comes to the Archbishop
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Father Coughlin
- Catholic priest
- attacked FDR about New Deal
- lost popularity due to anti-Sematic views
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Eugene Debs
- uinion organizer
- socialist prez candidate till WWI
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Dorthea Dix
- reformed mental health care
- superintendent of Army Nurses in Civ War
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WEB DuBois
- AA civ rights leader
- co-founder of NAACP & Niagara Movement
- Harlem Ranaissance leader
- published "The Crisis"
- disagreed w/Washinton & Garvey about civ rights
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John Dulles
- sec of State under Eisenhower
- brinkmanship=bring US to brink of war
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Adolf Eichmann
- Nazi war criminal
- captured after WWII
- tried and killed for killing millions of Jews
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Duke Ellington
- songwriter/jazz composer
- band leader
- leading figure of Harlem Renaissance
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Medgar Evers
- AA activist and NAACP worker
- assassinated in Mississippi 1963
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Sigmund Frued
- developed psychoanalyasis
- emphasized importance of sexual freedom
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Samuel Gompers
- prez of AFL
- stressed wage and hour issues
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Alexander Hamilton
- wanted strong fed gov
- wrote "The Federlist Papers"
- supported Const radification
- 1st sec of teasury
- wanted BUS
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Ernest Hemingway
- writer
- concered about changing Am values
- Nobel Prize 1954
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Patric Henry
- Virginia Rev War leader
- came up with resolutions to oppose Stamp Act
- opposed Const=believed too much fed gov power
- leader of B of Rights movement
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Alger Hiss
- investigated by HUAC
- convicted of purjury
- prosecuted by Nixon=made Nix nat figure
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Langston Hughes
- wrote about AA life as poor and working class
- leader of Harlem Renaissance
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Henry Kissinger
- sec of State under Nixon & Ford
- involved in Vietnam, China, SU, and Mid-east foreign policy
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Sinclair Lewis
- writer who attacked mid-class beliefs
- wrote Main Street
- 1st Am Nobel Peace Prize for lit
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John Locke
people born w/certain rights=life, liberty and property
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Henry Cabot Lodge
- Massachusetts repub senator
- supported imperialism and big navy
- influenced TR
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Heuy Long
- populist from Louisina
- income and inheritance tax 2 wealthy
- $, car and college edu for every American
- challenged TR
- assassinated
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Douglas MacArthur
- general in Pacific Theather WWII
- comand forces in Jap nach WWII
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George C Marshall
- sec of State under Tman
- created idea for Marshall Plan=Euro econ help
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John Marshall
- Chief Justice US
- 1801-1835
- strengthed fed gov power in Marbury v Madison, McCulloch v Maryland, Gibbons v Ogden
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Cotton Mather
- Puritan
- concept of Puritan work ethic=hard work is own reward
- supported witch trials
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de Montesquieu
- F enlightenment thinker
- liked B repub gov system
- ideas of checks and ballances, and sep of powers
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Frank Norris
- Natuaralist writer
- worte The Octopus=struggle btwn RRs and CA wheat growers
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Robert Openheimer
led A-bomb building
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Frances Perkins
- social reformer & political leader
- sec of Labor under FDR
- 1st women in cabinet
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Ross Perot
- challenged Bush and Clinton in 1992 prez election
- ideas 4 fed budget and econ issues
- ran as 3rd party
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Matthew Perry
- led mission to open Japan to trade
- Treaty of Kanagawa=US rights to trade w/Japan
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Gifford Pinchot
- conservist
- led Division of Foresty of Dep of Ag under TR
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Joseph Pulitzer
- published "NY Journal"
- yellow journalist
- circulation w/Hearst=helped provoke SpAm war
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Rousseau
- F enlightenment thinker
- idea of gov by the people
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Margret Sanger
advocate of BC (birth control)
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Alfred E Smith
- 1st catholic to run for prez
- lost to Hoover in 1928
- favored repeal of 18th Amend
- helped org Am LibertyLeague
- opposed New Deal
- conserv Democ
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Bessie Smith
- Harlem Renaissance singer
- aka "Empress of Blues"
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Lincoln Steffens
- muckraker
- Shame of the Cities=about gov corruption
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Townsend
- opposed New Deal
- plan 2 help elderly=early social security idea
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Voltaire
- F enlightenment thinker
- like B institutions and rights
- influenced Constition framers
- not like religious intolerance
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Booker T Washinton
- AA rights leader & author
- founded Tuskegee Institute
- wrote Up from Slavery
- prove AA worthiness 4 equality
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Ida Wells-Barnett
- AA rights advocate
- crusade against lynchings
- co-founder of NAACP and Nat Assoc of Colored Wom
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Edith Wharton
- The Age of Innocence
- 1920s
- concern for new values
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John Peter Zanger
- G imm & journalist
- tried for criticizing NY gov, but found not guilty since printed the truth
- early step towards freedom of the press
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