Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman was an African American abolitionist who used the underground railroad to assist slaves who wished to escape from their masters. Harriet was abused when she was a slave, and even got permanent seizures and headaches after being hit with a metal weight. She escaped to Philadelphia in 1849 and then returned to Maryland to rescue her family soon after.
Dred Scott
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Dred Scott was a slave who sued his master because he and his family were take into a free state. This case was so controversial that it eventually reached the Supreme Court in 1857, where he lost and continued being a slave. He was born into slavery in Southampton County, Virginia, and died from tuberculosis from a job in September 1858.
Napoleon III
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is the first president of the French Republic, as well as the emperor of the Second French Empire. He was the first president of France to be voted into his position by direct popular vote. Napoleon III gave workers social rights such as the right to strike and the right to organize, much like how unions were in the United States.
Robert E. Lee
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Robert E. Lee was the most successful military commander for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. His tactical prowess was so renowned that President Abraham Lincoln asked him to lead the Union armies during the war. He personally wanted the Union to stay intact, but he sided with his home state in the Confederacy.
Andrew Johnson
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Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, coming into office following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Ironically, he was born into poverty in Raleigh, North Carolina. One of Johnson's toughest questions to address during his time in office was how he was going to deal with the defeated Confederacy.
J.P. Morgan
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J.P. Morgan was best known as a benefactor and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. One of his most impressive feats was buying the United States Steel Company from equally wealthy Andrew Carnegie. He died in his sleep in 1913 at age 75 in Rome, Italy, bequeathing his business to his son.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Cornelius Vanderbilt was an American tycoon and businessman who invested in shipping and railroads. Through aggressive tactics and intimidation, he owned a large portion of the railroads in the United States. He was generous in his donations by giving his largest steamship to the U.S. navy during the Civil War, and he also established the Vanderbilt University.
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin is credited with developing the first theory of evolution. He was an English naturalist and geologist who hypothesized that species of organisms varied from their predecessors over thousands and even millions of years in order to better survive in their habitats. His theories were rejected for over a century because they went against mainstream teachings about God.
William McKinley
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William McKinley was he 25th president of the United States, being assassinated 6 months into his 2nd term in September 1901. McKinley was the last U.S. president to have served in the Civil War, having been a private for some time. He promoted tariffs and gold standards to rapidly stimulate America's economy.
William H. Taft
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William Taft was the 27th president of the United States, as well as the only president to have served as a chief justice in the Supreme Court. Taft easily won his election after being recommended as a candidate by popular Theodore Roosevelt. After serving his term in office differently from what Roosevelt envisioned, he was sucked into a big rivalry with Roosevelt, who was then inspired to run for president again.
Robert M. La Follette
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Robert M. LaFollette was a Republican politician in America who was a member of the House of Representatives and the Senate. He ran for president under the Progressive Party in 1924, taking only Wisconsin but a decent 17% of the popular vote. He is best known for his progressive ideals as well as being opposed to railroad trusts, bosses, World War I, and the League of Nations.
Francisco ("Pancho") Villa
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Pancho Villa is best known as a Mexican revolutionary general. At one time, he sent 100 men up to Columbus, New Mexico and killed a total of 18 Americans in 3 days. President Woodrow Wilson refused to send more weapons to him once he decided that Carranza was the best means of establishing a stable Mexican government.
Herbert C. Hoover
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Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the Unites States who was born into a Quaker family and was a professional mining engineer. He gained immense popularity by feeding people in Belgium through the U.S. Food Administration during World War I. He was also the United States secretary of commerce in the 1920s.
Al Capone
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Al Capone was a famous gangster in Chicago who worked during the period of prohibition. He was dedicated to smuggling liquor as well as prostitution from the early 1920s to 1931. Despite his notoriety, he often made donations to noble causes, making him seem like a 20th century Robin Hood.
Calvin Coolidge
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Calving Coolidge was a Republican from Vermont who was also the 30th president of the United States. As a president he was pretty popular, and he restored faith in the White House following several scandals. He was the only president to be born on Independence Day, and he had one younger sibling.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States, coming into office during the Great Depression. He was extremely popular, and because Congress mostly had Democrats, he pumped out countless numbers of reform legislation in the first 100 days of his first term in office. He contracted polio which paralyzed him from the waist down, and he died in his 4th term as president.