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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union to form a permanent federation of the colonies as a means to reform colonial-imperial relations, and to more effectively address shared colonial interests. -
Thomas Jefferson
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Fredrick Douglass
He boarded a train and escaped from slavery. -
Dorothea Dix
She was appointed to organize and outfit the Union Army hospitals and to oversee the vast nursing staff that the war would require. As superintendent of women nurses, she was the first woman to serve in such a high capacity in a federally appointed role. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidency, prevailing on the fourth ballot at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. In a break with precedent, Roosevelt travels to Chicago to accept the nomination in person -
Mary McLeod Bethune
She employed her diverse talents when she founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935.
