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Joseph Smith
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Founder of mormom church grew up in upstate New York. The angel that appeared to him was Moromi. Formed the mormom church him and his brother were killed when mormom church moved to Nauvoo, Illinoise. Then Brigham Young took over mormom church.
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James Fennimore Cooper
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Wrote the last of the Mohican, American Writer. The first novelist captured feeling that wildernest was goin away. [industrial sensation]
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Asher Durand-
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Was an American painter of the Hudson River School.
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Sequoyah-
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Making written language out of Cherokee language. Wasn’t an alphabet but a syllabi and George Gist was his English name. From the Cherokee tribe
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Stephen Austin
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Brought 300 families to the united states [texas]. He was the father of Texas.
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Gen. Winfield Scott-
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Trail of Tears, sit by Andrew Jackson to round up cherokees, and set up concentration camps, and took them to oklahoma.
Mexican American War, took troops to President Pope site.
Civil War, Adaconda Plan [his baby]
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Chief John Ross-
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Lived in Georgia. First elected president of cherokee nation, written constitution, his wife died on the trail of tears, froze to death on the way.
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William McIntosh-
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Was 1/8 chief of the Creek Nation. He was from Carroll County, Georgia. Father scottish traitor, and mother was part Creek. Traided away the land that became Carroll County.
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Harriett Beecher Stowe-
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Abolitionist and wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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Sam Houston-
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Founder of Houston, Texas. He defeated santa ana at sanjacento. American troops got back at mexican troops for the Alamo and Golidle. Sam houston wanted to kill as many mexicans due to alamo and golidle
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Abraham Lincoln-
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16th president, Emancipation Proclamation, second candidate of the Reblubican Party of the Presidency. Preserved Union and ended slavery. Ran for senate in illinoise against steven a. douglas.
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Nat Turner-
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was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 56 deaths among their victims. He got hanged, and white slave owners got scared and down the slave codes.
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the confederacy
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John Brown-
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An Abolitionist, killed 8 people who were pro slavery, incident known as the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in bleeding Kansas. Led a group of blacks and whites held federal officers at bay in Harper Ferry, and because of that they hung him.
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“Stonewall” Jackson-
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Confederate General who went on a rampage in northern virginia early on in the war. Got his name from his courage in battles. Stood there like a stone wall.
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