PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO KNOW

PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO KNOW

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I was president of the US during Civil War

Lincoln

I became president when Lincoln was assassinated.

Andrew Johnson- he was impeached!

I achieved prominence as a leader for African Americans.

I urged my people to get an education and learn a trade.Equality would come With economic Success.

Booker T. Washington

I was the leader of the steel industry during the Industrial Age.

Andrew Carnegie

What union did I lead?

American Railway Union---ARUOur union Organized the Pullman Strike.

I was accused of being a spy.

During the Cold WarI was accused- but they only convicted me ofperjury.

Alger Hiss

I sued for my freedom.

In the years before the Civil War I had lived inA free state.The Supreme Court Denied me freedom and said slavery Could NOT be limitedAnywhere.

Dred Scott

I was a former slave.

I ran North and became The leading black ABOLITIONIST.I urged Lincoln to letAfrican Americans fight in the War.After the war, I became the Ambassador to Haiti.

Frederick Douglass

I invented the electric lightbulb.

Thomas Edison

I invented the cotton gin.

Eli Whitney

I led the country through the Depression and WWII

F.D.R.Franklin DelanoRoosevelt

I implemented the assembly line in automobile production.

Henry Ford

I was the editor of The Liberator.

I demanded an immediate end toSlavery. I burned aCopy of The Constitution to Prove my point.

William Lloyd Garrison

If you’re in prison pacin’…

I wrote the Virginia DeclarationOf Rights. Madison used MYIdeas in the Bill of Rights.

Try to remember GEORGE MASON

I was the leader of the USSR

Mikhail Gorbachev

I led the Union Army and later became president.

Ulysses S.Grant

I was the founder of the AFL

American FederationOf Labor.We only accepted skilled labor as members.

Samuel Gompers

I was the first woman on the Supreme Court.

O Sandra Day O'Connor

I refused to give up my seat on a Montgomery, Al. bus.O Rosa Parks- she was a member of

the NAACP

I led the Confederate Army.

O I surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.

Robert E. Lee

I was a Rough Rider and a Progressive President

O Theodore Roosevelt

I wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

O Harriet Beecher Stowe

This book made peopleIn the North aware of theCruelty of slavery.

I walked on the moon in 1969

O Neil Armstrong

I went to China and Moscow, USSR

O I also ended American involvement in Vietnam- VIETNAMIZATION

O Richard M. Nixon

I handled the Cuban Missile Crisis

O I was assassinated in Dallas Texas in 1963

O John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I was the first president

O George WashingtonO I had been the leader of the

Continental Army in the Revolution.

I wrote the Declaration of Independence

O Thomas JeffersonO I was also the 3rd president and the

leader of the Democratic Republicans.

I wrote about natural rights

O I said that people created governments and gave them their power.

O Jefferson borrowed my ideas.

OJohn Locke

O Enlightenment philosopher

I started the NAACPO I wanted immediate equality for

African Americans.O W.E.B.DuBois

I controlled the railroad industry

O Cornelius Vanderbilt

I was a major figure in banking

OJ.P. Morgan

I controlled the oil industry

O John D. Rockefeller

I was the greatest member of the Underground railroadOHarriet Tubman

I was the first African American Supreme Court justice

Thurgood Marshall

Who was charged with passing atomic weapon secrets to USSR?

O Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

I forced an end to the Cold War

O Ronald Reagan

I came up with the 14 points

O Woodrow Wilson WWIO 14th point wasO League of Nations

I was the hero of the “Common Man”

O Andrew Jackson

SPOILS SYSTEM / VETO / Killed the BankOf US / Trail of Tears / Nullification Crisis

Federalist Chief JusticeO Marbury v. Madison----judicial reviewO Maryland v. McCulloch----states can’t

tax federal government.O JOHN MARSHALL

I escalated the war in Vietnam

O Hey, hey, __ ___ ___, how many kids did you kill today?

O Lyndon Baines Johnson

I was called the “Great Compromiser”

O I came up with the Missouri Compromise in 1820.

O I came up with the Compromise of 1850.

O HENRY CLAY

I initiated the DOLLAR Diplomacy policy

O I was also the fattest president!O William Howard TaftO Invest overseas- we willO Send troops to protectO Your businesses.

I was the commander of D-Day

O I later became president and threatened MASSIVE RETALIATION if the Russians attacked us.

O DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

I had a doctrine that proposed containment of communism.O Harry S. Truman

I also made the decision to drop atomicBombs on Japan at the end of WWII.

I was a leader of the FEDERALIST PARTY

O Along with John Adams, I wanted a strong central government.

OAlexander Hamilton

I was the “father” of the Constitution

O I added the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution to make the Anti-Federalists happy.

O The Bill of RightsO JAMES MADISON

I was 16 when I led Lewis and Clark

O Sacajawea

I arranged a treaty of alliance with France

O Ben Franklin- France entered the war after the battle of SARATOGA.

I wrote the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

O Thomas Jefferson- states cannot have an official religion- a tax supported religion.

I was the leader of Nazi Germany

O Adolf Hitler

I invaded Kuwait in 1991

O Saddam Hussein invaded his neighbor, Kuwait, to control the oil. A United Nations coalition forced him out during the Persian Gulf War.

O US will later invade his O country (Iraq) andO remove him from power.

I debated Lincoln to become senator from Illinois.

O I supported POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.O I pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

through Congress.O I was called the “little Giant.”O Stephen A. Douglas

I was the president of the Confederacy.

O Jefferson Davis had been a US Senator from Mississippi until the Southern states seceded.

We were leaders of the women’s rights movement.O Elizabeth Cady StantonO Susan B.

AnthonyO Seneca Falls Convention- 1848

I led a slave revolt.O Nat TurnerO Gabriel Prosser / Denmark Vesey

also led slave revolts.O Result? Harsher laws

I was the Secretary of State – I made the OPEN DOOR POLICY

O John HayO Free and equal trade in China

I took over CubaO Fidel Castro

I led a crusade against lynching

OIda B. Wells

I worked with Thurgood Marshall

O Oliver Hill of Virginia worked with Marshall on the team of lawyers who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954.

He died at the age of 100 in 2007

I was the first woman astronaut

O Sally Ride

I am on the Supreme Court

O Clarence Thomas- conservative appointed by George H.W. Bush.

O He is the 2nd African American to serve.

I invented the vaccine for polio

O Jonas Salk- I helped kids walk.

Father and son presidents

O George H. W. Bush George W. Bush