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Benjamin Franklin on the committee to write the Declaration of Independence Poor Richard's Almanac Statesman electricity bifocals	John Adams two -party system developed in his term second President of the United State .. from Massachusetts	Paul Revere Patriot Silversmith Cried the alarm "the British are coming"
Phyllis Wheatley former slave author of poems and plays supporting independence	Besty Ross made the first American Flag	Thomas Paine Journalist Common Sense
Harriet Tubman except slave from Maryland Conductor for the underground Railroad	William Lloyd Garrison anti-slavery editor Abolitionist	Frederick Douglass except slave from Maryland
Abraham Lincoln President of the US 1860 With his election the Southern States start to secede from the Union	Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America	Ulysses S. Grant Union General near end of war Richmond fall and was burned Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House
(Isabel) Sojourner Truth freed New York slave anti-slavery speaker and singer women's suffrage	George Washington Carver African American scientist teacher studied plants peanuts, sweet potatoes & soybeans	Elizabeth Cady Stanton women's suffrage (right to vote)
Susan B. Anthony women's suffrage	Helen Keller overcame her disabilities help others who were blind and deaf	Rosa Parks African American refused to give up her seat on a public bus civil right - equal right
Jackie Robinson 1st African American major league baseball player his actions helped open up opportunities for African Americans	Martin Luther King, Jr. African American minister worked for equal rights peacefully	Thurgood Marshall Lawyer 1st African American Supreme Court Justice
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