Vocab List 10- US History

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Frederick Douglass

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US abolitionist, escaped slavery, writer of North Star

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Harriet Tubman

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Conductor of the Underground Railroad

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Thomas Edison

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Invented the light bulb, Wizard of Menlo Park

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Author of The Great Gatsby

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New Deal

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1930s, FDR, create jobs during Great Depression, Relief, Recovery, Reform

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Harlem Renaissance

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Literary and artistic movement, African-American culture

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Great Depression

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1929, easy credit, overproduction, bank failures, stock market crash

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Court Packing

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FDR's plan, add 6 more judges to Supreme Court

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Copperheads

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Northern Democrats, opposed Civil War, sympathized with South

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Communism

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Government controls everything