People

Question 1

Jack London

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American novelist and journalist and social activist, He was also a pioneer

Question 2

James Naismith

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Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Chaplain, sports coach and innovator. He invented basketball

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Jane Addams

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Founded Hull House, a place for the poor to get help, settlement house

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Jefferson Davis

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President of Confederacy

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John Dewey

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Education reformer

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John F. Kennedy

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An American politician who was the 35th president until assasination November 1963

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John Philips Sousa

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Wrote military march music

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Louis Sullivan

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Architect

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Mark Twain

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He wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

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St. Mother Cabrini

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Italian nun who worked with the poor in NYC

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Scott Joplin

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Wrote ragtime music

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Theodore Roosevelt

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American statesman, author, explorer, naturalist, and reformer who was the 26th president

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Warren G. Harding

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First president women could have voted for

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William McKinley

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President assassinated in Buffalo

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William Howard Taft

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President who became Supreme Court Justice

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Woodrow Wilson

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World War 1 President, 14 points, League of Nations

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Picket’s Charge

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Last desperate attempt to win at Gettysburg by South, failed

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Abraham Lincoln

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The President during Civil war, Emancipation Proclamation

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Al Smith

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First catholic to run for President, lost 1928

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Alice Paul

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Suffragists, finally able to get womens’s right to vote.

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Booker T. Washington

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Tuskegee Institute

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Emma Lazarus

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Wrote the poem on Statue of Liberty

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Frances Willard

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WCTU, anti-booze leader

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Elected to four terms, New Deal, World War 2

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Fredrick Law Olmstead Parks

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American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator

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General Sherman

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Union General, total war, siege of Atlanta, March to the Sea

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George McClellan

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Union General, ran for President against Lincoln 1864, lost

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Grover Cleveland

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Former Erie County Sheriff, only person elected-defeated-then elected again President

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Herbert Hoover

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President during Great Depression, lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932

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Charles Lindbergh

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First person to fly across Atlantic, Spirit of St. Louis