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Self-Making & Self Help
Individual
Franklin is credited with drafting the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. He also negotiated the Treaty of Paris which ended the Independence War against Britain
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Capitalism
Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth ![Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth] In his Gospel of Wealth, he really talks about the importance of the rich giving to the poor and how the rich should be a "trustee to the poor"
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Government
John Brown
John Brown was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement in the pre-Civil War United States, he saved around 50 slaves from slavery
American Dream
Marco Rubio, American Dream
Costica, Bratagan I Know What Savage Fear Really Lies at the Heart of the American Dream
Theodore Roosevelt, We should play hard, work hard, must be clean-minded and clean-lived, and able to hold his
own under all circumstances and against all comers
Industrialization
Henry Ford introduced the assembly line that allowed good pay and cheaper production
Frederick Winslow Taylor, Introduced the saying System-Made man, Famous quote "in the past man has been first, in the future system must be first.
Transcendentalism
Thoreau
Thoreau's importance as a philosophical writer was little appreciated during his lifetime, but his two most noted works
Edgar Allen Poe
He demonstrated a brilliant command of language and technique as well as an inspired and original imagination
Freedom
Frederick Douglas, He rose to fame with the 1845 publication of his first book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,
Phillis Wheatley
First American slave, the first person of African descent, and only the third colonial American woman to have her work published
Women Rights
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-paper
Immigration
Sui Sin Far, Writing around the turn of the twentieth century, challenged entrenched social and political discrimination against Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans by publishing eloquent stories and articles about Chinese culture in North America,
Independence
Thomas Paine Common Sense, He argued for two main points independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic.
Race
Du Bois was well known as one of the foremost Black intellectuals of his era
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Booker T Washington Born and Raise up from Slavery, Wrote Five fingers
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