Political Heroes: American Activists Like Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, John Adams, and Thomas Paine

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1: Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist and political activist in the United States. Tubman, who was born into slavery, got away and went on to free around 70 enslaved people, which includes family members and good friends, through the Underground Railway, a network of antislavery activists and safe houses. She worked for the Union Army as an armed scout and spy throughout the American Civil War. Tubman was an activist in the women's suffrage movement in her last years.


2: Helen Adams Keller was an American author, handicap rights champ, political activist, and speaker who lived from June twenty-seventh, 1880 to June 1st, 1968. She was born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, and following a bout of health problem at the age of 19 months, she lost her sight and hearing.


3: John Adams was the 2nd president of the United States, serving from 1797 to 1801. He was an American leader, lawyer, diplomat, author, and Founding Father. He was the first vice president of the U.S.A. and a leader of the American Revolution, which caused the nation's independence from Great Britain. Adams kept a journal and communicated with certain crucial individuals in early American history, including his marriage partner and consultant Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson.


4: Thomas Paine was a political activist, theorist, political theorist, and revolutionary who was born in England. He wrote 2 of the most popular handouts at the beginning of the American Revolution, Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-- 1783) and helped motivate patriots to announce independence from Great Britain in 1776. His thoughts echoed the Knowledge's global human rights concepts.