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Famous Americans �of�The Past

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Founder of the Red Cross

Clara Barton

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An Apache leader who fought to protect his tribe’s land

Geronimo

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An escaped slave and leader of the abolitionist movement

Frederick Douglas

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The 26th president known as an adventurer, explorer and naturalist.

Theodore Roosevelt

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A bison hunter and showman

Buffalo Bill

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The “first lady of civil rights” who refused to give up her seat on the bus

Rosa Parks

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Invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera

Thomas Edison

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An American Author who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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An activist of preserving the wilderness of the US

John Muir

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Invented the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

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A Native American professional athlete

Jim Thorpe

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American industrialist, and developer of the assembly line

Henry Ford

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Slavery abolitionist and conductor of Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

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A leader in the women's suffrage movement which gave women the right to vote

Susan B. Antony

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an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf/blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree

Helen Keller

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an American baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball

Jackie Robinson

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32nd president who led the US through the great depression and WWII

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Wife of FDR and active politician for women’s rights

Eleanor Roosevelt

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First person to fly across the Atlantic

Charles Lindbergh

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The first female to fly across the Atlantic ocean. She, and her plane, disappeared over the Pacific.

Amelia Earhart

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US General during WWII who died in Heidelberg and is buried in Luxembourg

General Patton

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Famous German scientist who came to America and developed the theory of relativity

Albert Einstein

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Played a major role in the Pacific during WWII

General MacArthur

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33rd president of the US. Made the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan in WWII

Harry Truman

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34th president of the US. Commander during WWII.

Dwight Eisenhower

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A photographer of the American West

Ansel Adams

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American author who wrote “The old man and the Sea”

Earnest Hemmingway

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The 37th president and only president to resign

Richard Nixon

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First pilot to have traveled faster than the speed of sound

Chuck Yeager

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A famous American Poet who wrote “The Road not Taken”

Robert Frost

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A civil rights leader assassinated in Memphis.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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An American farm worker and civil rights leader

Cesar Chavez

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An American former professional boxer

Muhammad Ali

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The 35th president. Assassinated in Dallas

John F. Kennedy

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First person to walk on the moon

Neil Armstrong

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14th President

Abraham Lincoln