USVA SOL Important People

Question 1

American General in charge of D-Day. Later served 2 terms as president during Cold War.

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower

Question 2

Former slave. Helped convince Lincoln to use black troops in Civil War. Haitian ambassador.

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Frederick Douglass

Question 3

An anti-federalist in Virginia, he opposed the Constitution because it had no Bill of Rights

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George Mason

Question 4

Led the communist revolution in Cuba.

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Fidel Castro

Question 5

Lifted sanctions against South Africa. Diplomatic relations with Vietnam. NAFTA. Yugoslavia.

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William J. Clinton

Question 6

Advocated technical education for blacks to achieve economic opportunity, then seek equality.

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Booker T. Washington

Question 7

Elected 1980. Conservatism. Increase defense spending to pressure USSR. More power to states.

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Ronald Reagan

Question 8

Advocated immediate equality.Founded National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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W.E.B DuBois

Question 9

NAACP lawyer who successfully argued against school segregation. First black SCOTUS Justice.

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Thurgood Marshall

Question 10

Early civil rights leader. Wrote books and pushed Congress to pass federal anti-lynching laws.

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Ida B. Wells

Question 11

Industrial leader. Steel industry. Philanthropy. Gospel of Wealth.

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Andrew Carnegie

Question 12

Abolitionist who published "The Liberator." Advocated an immediate end to slavery.

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William Lloyd Garrison

Question 13

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" Supported patriots in Revolutionary War.

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Patrick Henry

Question 14

Debated Lincoln over the issue of popular sovereignty. Supported Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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Stephen Douglas

Question 15

Invented cotton gin, which helped to expand slavery in South.

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Eli Whitney

Question 16

Conflicted with Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction. First impeached president.

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Andrew Johnson

Question 17

President who made decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Post war policy of containment.

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Truman

Question 18

First American woman astronaut in space!

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Sally Ride

Question 19

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who established judicial review in Marbury v. Madison

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John Marshall

Question 20

Key figure in forming first Federalist Party. Wanted to create a national bank.

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Alexander Hamilton

Question 21

A spy who was caught and convicted. Increased the "Red Scare" fear of communist spies.

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Alger Hiss

Question 22

First woman to serve on the Supreme Court

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Sandra Day O'Conner

Question 23

Enlightenment philosopher who advocated social contract and the idea people have natural rights

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John Locke

Question 24

President when Germany reunited and when USSR split apart. Pressed for Gulf War against Iraq.

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George H.W. Bush

Question 25

Worked to increase production by using an assembly line for automobiles.

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Henry Ford

Question 26

Made accusations of communist spies in government, sometimes with little or no evidence.

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Joseph McCarthy

Question 27

NAACP lawyer that worked against school segregation in Virginia.

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Oliver Hill

Question 28

Helped raise anti-slavery feelings in the North by writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 29

Represented the working women of WWII.

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Rosie the Riveter

Question 30

Progressive president. WWI. Fourteen Points. League of Nations idea rejected by Senate.

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Woodrow Wilson

USVA SOL Important People

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