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AP US History dd
AP US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Roger Williams | creator of Rhode Island, notable for his prominent religious tolerance |
| Benjamin Franklin | inventor, signer of the Declaration of Independence, peacemaker |
| John Adams | second president, driving force in the American Revolution |
| Thomas Paine | author of Common Sense |
| George Washington | General in the American Revolution, First President |
| Thomas Jefferson | Writer of the Constitution, 3rd President, responsible for Westward expansion |
| Alexander Hamilton | first secretary of Treasury, cowrote the Federalist Papers |
| John Marshall | longest serving chief justice |
| John Quincy Adams | sixth president, formulated the Monroe Doctrine |
| Andrew Jackson | Hero of the War of 1812 |
| Henry Clay | the leader who tried to resolve sectional disputes by compromise, "American System" |
| Nat Turner | slave whp posed a rebellion |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | a french political thinker and historian |
| Henry David Thoreau | a writer and transcendentalist (liked nature, against the Mexican War) anti-slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | one of the most famous radical abolitionist- published The Liberator (1831) founded the American Anti-Slavery Society |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | women's suffrage movement leader |
| Martin van Buren | eighth president |
| Stephen A Douglas | largely responsible for the Compromise of 1850, democratic nominee in 1860 |
| Abraham Lincoln | President during the Civil War, Republican, Anti-Slavery |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Robert E Lee | confederate commander |
| Ulysses Grant | The general who became commander of all the Union armies in 1864 |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president after the assassination of lincoln, president during reconstruction |
| Red Cloud | war leader of native americans |
| Sitting Bull | notable for his role in the major victory at The Battle of Little Big Horn |
| Andrew Carnegie | the Steel industry was brought to America by him |
| John D Rockefeller | organized America's oil industry |
| Samuel Gompers | founder of the American Federation of Labor |
| Eugene Debs | union leader, founder of industrial workers of the world |
| Robert M LaFollette | "fighting bob" |
| WEB Dubois | founder of NAACP and Niagara movement |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President during WWI *supported US expansion |
| Jacob Riis | muckraker, wrote How the Other Half Lives |
| William Howard Taft | presidency characterized by trust busting and strengthening the insterstate commerce commission |
| Woodrow Wilson | Leader of the Progressive movement and created the 14 Points which would be the basis for the treaty to end WWI |
| Andrew Mellon | american banker under presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover |
| Herbert Hoover | president at the time the stock market crashed; he thought prosperity would return if people took his advice about exercising voluntary action and restraint |
| Charles Lindbergh | american aviator |
| Franklin D Roosevelt | formerly the governor of New York, this man was nominated by the Democratic party, he pledged a "new deal" for the American people, the repeal of prohibition, aid for the unemployed, and cuts into government spending, served four terms as president |
| Harry Truman | He decided to drop the Atomic bomb, successor of FDR |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Supreme cmomander of the Allied forces on D-Day* he later became the 34th president |
| Martin Luther King | nonviolent civil disobedience *"I Have A Dream" |
| John F Kennedy | youngest president, known for the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and Civil Rights Movement, assassinated in Texas in 1963 |
| Lyndon B Johnson | Responsible for the Gulf of Tonkin "blank check" |
| Thurgood Marshalldfgsdfg | Civil Rights activist * First black in the Supreme Court Justice |
| Richard Nixon | first president to go behin the iron curtain when he visited china |
| Gerald Ford | became president after nixons assassination |
| Jimmy Carter | 39th president, nobel peace prize recipient, notable for SALT and Camp David Accords |
| Ronald Reagan | 40th president, president during the cold war |
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