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Final Review:US History People

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Puritans   Settled in New England for religious freedom; not tolerant of other religious denominations.  
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Thomas Jefferson   Writer of the Declaration of Independence; leader of the Democrat-Republicans; wrote Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom.  
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Ronald Regan   President who is given credit for the end of the Cold War; told Soviet leader to “Tear down this wall” in Berlin, Germany; built up massive amounts of nuclear weapons.  
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Richard M. Nixon   Only U.S. president to resign from Office; Watergate Affair; “I am not a crook.”  
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George Washington   Leader of the Continental Army; Chairman of the Constitutional Convention; first President of the United States.  
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John Locke   Enlightenment philosopher who influenced Jefferson; natural rights of life, liberty, property; social contract; people have the right to rebel if their rights are not being protected by the government  
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Joseph McCarthy   During the Cold War this man accused many government officials and citizens of being communists based on little evidence; put them on trial.  
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Martin Luther King, Jr.   “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington in 1963; Leader of the Civil Rights Movement.  
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James Madison   “Father of the Constitution;” wrote most of the Bill of Rights; authored the Virginia Plan; President of the United States.  
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Andrew Jackson   Responsible for The Trail of Tears; helped encourage voting for the common man; his actions caused the Panic of 1837.  
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Harry S. Truman   President who decided to use the atomic bomb in Japan; during the Cold War said the U.S. should follow a policy of containment to stop communism.  
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John F. Kennedy   Cold War president; assassinated in Texas in 1963; responsible for U.S. military buildup in Vietnam; “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”  
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Abraham Lincoln   His election caused the Civil War; first Republican Party president; issued the Emancipation proclamation; was assassinated.  
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Ulysses S. Grant   Leader of the Union (Northern) Army during the Civil War; later President of the United States.  
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Woodrow Wilson   World War I; 14 Points; League of Nations; President of the United States.  
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Franklin D. Roosevelt   “New Deal” to end the Depression; “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”; Elected as President of the United States four times.  
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Robert E. Lee   Leader of the Confederate (Southern) Army; surrendered at Appomattox Court House  
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Frederick Douglas   Escaped slave turned abolitionist; urged Lincoln to use black troops in the Union Army  
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Henry Ford   Invented assembly line manufacturing when producing his Model T Fords.  
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Sandra Day O'Connor   First female Supreme Court Justice.  
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