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Question 1: First to sign the Declaration of Independence

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John Hancock Question 2: Successful general during the American Revolution; tried to sell West Point to the British.

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Benedict Arnold Question 3: Abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859; captured by troops led by Robert

• Lee.

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John Brown Question 4: Editor of the Atlanta Constitution; advocated a New South that had a commericial industrial economy similar to the North.

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Grady

Question 5: Called the Pathfinder

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Fremont Question 6: Secretary of State under Tyler; was vice President under J. Q. Adams and Jackson; anonymously wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest

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John

• Calhoun

Question 7: A nurse in the Civil War, she founded the American Red Cross.

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Clara Barton Question 8: Nixon's vice president who resigned in 1973, pleading "no contest" to charges of income tax evasion while governor of Maryland.

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Sprio Agnew Question 9: Delivered the "Cross of Gold Speech"; three-time candidate for the presidency (1896,1900,1908); Secretary of State under Wilson

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William Jennings Bryan Question 10: Created a modern version of the "back to Africa" movement, believing that blacks would never achieve equality in countries where most people were white; founded the UNIA.

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Garvey Question 11: A young plantation owner who led a group of indentured servants in an 1676 uprising against the colonial authorities headed by Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia.The group accused Berkeley of failling to protect them from raids by Native American

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Nathaniel Bacon

Question 12: founded Hull House in Chicago; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

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Jane Addams Question 13: Two people who caused the stock market to crash in 1869 by trying to corner the Gold Market.

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Fisk and Gould Question 14: Born in the West Indies, he co-authored the Federalist Papers; was the first treasury secretary and responsible for creating the first Bank of the United States.

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Alexander Hamilton Question 15: Wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963) which sparked the modern feminist movement.

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Friedan Question 16: Published Poor Richard's Almanack; served as deputy postmaster for the colonies.

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Franklin

Question 17: Photographer of the Civil War

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Matthew Brady Question 18: Suffragist and Abolitionist, she was a leader and lecturer in the women's rights movement of the nineteenth century; with Stanton, she founded the National Woman Suffrage Organization and served as its president.

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Susan

• Anthony

Question 19: Wrote "rags to riches" books absed on the theme that honesty, hard work, and virtue will win out and be rewarded; Ragged Dick was his first novel.

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Horatio Alger Question 20: Served in the Virginia House of Burgesses; said, "Give me libery or give me death."

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Patrick Henry Question 21: First governor of California; first presidential canidate of the New Republican Pary

(1856).

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Fremont Question 22: Leader of the Green Mountain Boys and advocate of independence for Vermont during the American Revolution.

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Ethan Allen

Question 23: Founded the Christian Science religion

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Mary Baker Eddy

Question 24: Worked to win humane treatment of the insane

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Dix

Question 25: Wrote the Gospel of Wealth. Established over 2500 libraries.

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Andrew Carnegie

Question 26: Abolitionist who founded the Liberator

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Garrison