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Charles Carroll - ANS-Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence John Hancock - ANS-President of the Second Continental Congress John Jay - ANS-Signed the Treaty of Paris to end the American Revolution John Muhlenberg - ANS-Raised a Virginia regiment during the American Revolution Benjamin Rush - ANS-Surgeon of the Continental Army; Signed the Declaration of Independence Alexis de Tocqueville - ANS-American Exceptionalism due to a classless society Jonathan Trumbell - ANS-Financed 60% of the Continental Army's needs John Witherspoon - ANS-Seconded Richard Henry Lee's resolution for independence Jane Addams - ANS-Founder of Hull House Andrew Carnegie - ANS-Wealthy industrialist who became a philanthropist Frances Willard - ANS-Founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union Sanford Dole - ANS-Chosen as President after Queen Liliʻuokalani was overthrown in Hawaii Henry Cabot Lodge - ANS-Supported imperialism; Opposed the League of Nations George Marshall - ANS-Devised strategy to defeat Germans in WWII Chester Nimitz - ANS-Naval Commander at Coral Sea and Midway George Patton - ANS-Led the North Africa campaign and the Battle of the Bulge Elanor Roosevelt - ANS-FDR's eyes and ears during his presidency FDR - ANS-New Deal and WWII President
Navajo Code Talkers - ANS-Used their native language to communicate in the Pacific The Flying Tigers - ANS-Volunteer flying unit to train Chinese Air Force The Tuskegee Airmen - ANS-First African-American airmen Roy Benavidez - ANS-Won Distinguished Service Cross and Medal of Honor John F. Kennedy - ANS-Catholic president; Administration called the "New Frontier" Joseph McCarthy - ANS-Led the Second Red Scare in the 1950s Richard Nixon - ANS-Resigned due to the Watergate scandal Harry Truman - ANS-Dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cesar Chavez - ANS-Co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America Orval Faubus - ANS-Tried to stop the integration of Central High Betty Friedan - ANS-Wrote the Feminine Mystique; Founded NOW Barry Goldwater - ANS-Lost to Johnson in a landslide in the 1964 election Dolores Huerta - ANS-Co-founder of United Farm Workers of America Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) - ANS-"I Have a Dream" Speech Lester Maddox - ANS-Georgia governor who opposed integration Thurgood Marshall - ANS-First African-American Supreme Court Justice Rosa Parks - ANS-Started the Montgomery Bust Boycott George Wallace - ANS-Alabama governor who supported segregation The Black Panthers - ANS-Radical Black Power group Bill Clinton - ANS-Impeached but found not guilty Hillary Clinton - ANS-First Lady who became a Senator and Secretary of State Bill Gates - ANS-Founder of Microsoft Billy Graham - ANS-TV Evangelist and minister to presidents
Omar Bradley - ANS-Commander of Allies at D-Day Dwight D. Eisenhower - ANS-Allied Commander in WWII in Europe; 34th President of the US Hector P. Garcia - ANS-Founder of the GI Forum to protect rights of Mexican-American veterans Douglas MacArthur - ANS-General in the Pacific in WWII; Commander of US forces in Korea Ronald Reagan - ANS-President who led to the collapse of the Soviet Union Phyllis Schlafly - ANS-Opposed feminists' movement for liberation Lionel Sosa - ANS-Owner of largest Histpanic advertising agency Sonia Sotomayor - ANS-First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice Sam Walton - ANS-Founder of Walmart and Sam's Club Oprah Winfrey - ANS-Most popular and wealthiest woman in the world Plessey v. Ferguson (1898) - ANS-"Separate but equal" facilities are legal if managed by private individuals Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County (1947) - ANS-Segregation of Mexican-American children in some California public elementary schools violated California law since no law required segregation Delgado v. Bastrop I. S. D. (1948) - ANS-Texas school districts maintaining separate schools for Anglos and Mexican students in the absence of a law requiring this segregation violated the Equal protection clause of the Constitution (14th amendment) Sweat v. Painter (1950) - ANS-UT law school must accept African-American students, since no equivalent African-American law school exsits Brown v. Board of Education (1954) - ANS-Plessey v. Ferguson overturned; "Separate but Equal" facilities are no longer legal Hernandez v. Texas (1954) - ANS-Equal protection laws are violated when a state tries a person of a particular race before a jury not containing anyone of that race White v. Regester (1973) - ANS-Districts from which members of a state legislature are chosen may vary in population by up to 10% without violating the Equal Protection Clause
Edgewood I. S. D. v. Kirby (1989) - ANS-The method used by Texas to finance public schools was unconstitutional; Legislated Robin Hood Plan Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969) - ANS-Public school students do have some 1st amendment rights in schools Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) - ANS-State law requiring all children to attend school until age 16 violated the Amish religion