who was Nathan Bedford Forrest?
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"Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877), was a Confederate general and perhaps the American Civil War's most highly regarded cavalry and partisan ranger (guerrilla leader)."
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#1 is Abraham Lincoln. He proclaimed the Tthanksgiving be a national Hoilday. His most famous work was signing the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862\n\n#2 would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt.He was a victim of Polio yet he still influenced the American people tremendouly. He made a good dicision to declare war on Japan and he was the only president to serve 4 terms\n\n#3 George Washington. He was a great leader and general in the Revolutionary War.He was aslo a prime mover in the steps leading to the constitutional Convention
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The Shawnee and Mark Twain national forrests.
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Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was a railroad executive, an industrialist, and a politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg\nBurnside was noted for his unusual facial hair, joining strips of hair in front of his ears to his mustache, but with chin clean-shaven; the word burnsides was coined to describe this style. The syllables were later reversed to give sideburns.
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Please use google.com and search.\nMark Twain and Samuel Langhorne Clemens are the same person, so therefore search for each individually.
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John C. Frémont PathMAKER of the West\n\nPlease take time to select the best answer.
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John Moses Browning. He was a gunmaker.
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. (December 19, 1899–November 11, 1984) was a Baptist minister, an early civil rights leader and an advocate for social justice. He was also the father of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who was born in 1929. The elder King led the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and his personal example helped inspire Martin Luther King Jr. to enter the ministry. King Sr. was also a significant leader of the civil rights movement, becoming the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter in Atlanta and of the Civic and Political League, and encouraging his son to become active in the movement. After King Jr.'s death, his father continued to be active in public life, and played a role in Jimmy Carter's presidential victory in 1976.
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Hiram Revels\nSenator from Mississippi; first African American senator
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Thurgood Marshall\n\nI wanted to edit, since i saw someone gave you misinformation.  Here is a link to prove:
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HENRY LEWIS BENNING (April 2, 1814-July 10, 1875), jurist, statesman, soldier, was born on a plantation in Columbia County, Georgia, the son of Pleasant Moon and Matilda Meriwether White Benning, the third of eleven children. He attended Franklin College (University of Georgia), where he graduated with first honors at the age of twenty. Upon his graduation he moved to Columbus and there made his home for the rest of his life. At twenty-one he was admitted to the bar, and two years later was appointed solicitor-general for his judicial circuit. He afterward served a term in the General Assembly. On September 12, 1839, he married Mary Howard Jones of Columbus, by whom he had ten children, of whom five daughters survived him. His only son died of wounds received in the Civil War. Able, logical, industrious, and of the highest integrity, he had not a few of the qualities of Calhoun. He was convinced that to free the negroes would create such social chaos in the South as to make civilization impossible and life for the whites unendurable. He believed emancipation, and the subsequent enfranchisement of the slaves, inevitable if the South remained in the Union. He therefore became an ardent secessionist. But while he felt secession necessary he considered it by no means the solution to the problem. He feared some of the northermost slave states might, from economic reasons, develop a sentiment against the institution, and he would protect the lower South from the chaos of emancipation by the formation of a "consolidated" Southern Republic, with strong centralized powers, so that slavery could be put "under the control of those most interested in it." (letter to Howell Cobb, Toombs, Stephens and Cobb Correspondence," American Historical Association Annual Report, 1911, II, 171). In the crisis of 1850 he was for immediate withdrawal from the Union, and became an enthusiastic supporter of the movement to hold a Southern Conference at Nashville. In the election held in Georgia to name delegatges to this conference he was successful, but most of the other secessionist candidates were overwhelmingly defeated, and the small number of votes cast showed that the vast majority of the people were not aroused. Indeed, the fact that Georgia, generally regarded as a pivotal state, had thus decisively repudiated the "Southern-rights" movement, foredoomed the convention to failure. But Benning was persistent and resourceful. Ostensibly, in an effort at compromise, he introduced at Nashville a resolution to the effect that nothing less than the Missouri line could be accepted by the South as a settlement of the territorial problem. He believed the South could be persuaded to demand this as an ultimatum; that the North would promptly reject it; and that secession would then be the only alternative. The resolution was duly passed, but the result was not what he had hoped it would be. Meeting in December, the Georgia Convention, instead of ratifying the action of Nashville, accepted Clay's compromise measure, "being impelled thereto" (in the language of the resolution) "by an earnest desire to save the American Union." In 1851 Benning accepted the nomination of the Southern Rights Democrats as one of their candidates for Congress and, although he ran ahead of his party, was defeated in the Constitutional Union "landslide" of that year. In 1853 he was elected by the General Assembly as an associate justice of the Georgia supreme court, where he delivered, in the case of Padelford vs. Savannah (14 Georgia,438) an exhaustive opinion in support of the principle that a state supreme court is not bound by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on constitutional questions. The two courts he held to be "coordinate and co-equal." This remarkable decision, comprising eighty pages, is perhaps the most vigorous and elaborate exposition of the doctrine of "strict con
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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, America's first Republican president.\n\n\nFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. \n\nNow we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. \n\nBut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, shall not perish from the earth.
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Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. He eventually commanded all Confederate armies as general-in-chief. Like Hannibal earlier and Rommel later, his victories against superior forces in an ultimately losing cause won him enduring fame. After the war, he urged sectional reconciliation, and spent his final years as a devoted college president. Lee remains an iconic figure of the Confederacy in the Southern states to this day.
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I assume you mean Frederick Douglass?\n\nFrederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. \n\nA brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in 1845. Two years later he bagan publishing an antislavery paper called the North Star.\n\nDouglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.
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Marcus Garvey was an important figure in America for Black-Americans in the 1920s.  Here are some of his accomplishments:\n\n1.  He started the Negro Improvement Association\n2.  He started the Rastafarian religion in Jaimaca\n3.  He was behind the "Back to Africa" movement in which he encouraged blacks to book passage on his Black Star liner to travel to their native Africa and flee racist America.  (Malcolm Little (X)'s father was a big supporter of Marcus Garvey)  Of course Marcus didn't go HIMSELF back to Africa, he just wanted all the OTHER black folks to go there.  He was too comfortable here with his Coca-Cola, and automobiles, and air-conditioned home.  He claimed America was terribly racist but HE didn't want to leave.\n\nHe was a big of a scam artist and not very genuine in his intentions or motives.  He made HIMSELF the president of an African nation and never bothered to tell the existing leadership that they had been replaced.  He is a pretty funny character.
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My opinion: Abe Lincoln. He helped to keep a divided nation together under some of the most adverse conditions and situations that any president has ever had to contend with- and not only on a national level but on a personal level as well. All that while having to sleep in an awkward angular position in a too-small bed, with a crazy woman by his side and Monica Lewinsky nowhere in sight! A true American hero if you ask me. :)