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Santa Anna |
elected president of Mexico in 1833; suspended Mexicos republican constuction in 1834 |
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Dred Scott |
slave, says the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional |
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William T. Sherman |
union Civil War General, takes over the army of the west, responsible for the march to the sea |
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Samuel Slater |
father of american idustry; skilled british mechanic who knew how to build textile machines |
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Joseph Smith |
founder of the mormon church of latter day saints in NY |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
founder of the women's rights movements organized Sececa Falls Convention |
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Thaddeus Stevens |
one of the most racial republicans in congress |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Zachary Taylor |
president who tried to balance antislavery and proslavery |
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Tecumseh |
Indian Chief who tried to reunite the tribes of the Northwest territory against the American Troops |
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Henry David Thoreau |
transcendentalist writer famous book (Walden) and the essay Civil Disobedience |
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Sojourner Truth |
abolitionist movement speaker real name Elizabeth Bonner, spoke against slavery |
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Nat Turner |
led the greatest slave rebellion in 1831 |
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John Tyler |
becomes president when Harrison died |
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Harriet Tubman |
created the underground railroad |
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Martin van Buren |
one of Jackson's strongest allies in this official cabinet |
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Eli Whitney |
created the cotton gin, interchangable parts with arms industry, gunsmith |
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Brigham Young |
leader ofthe Mormons after Joseph Smith deid |
