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Historical Roles in Democracy

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin brought the US colonies together. After he did this US Constitution began.
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    Thomas Jefferson help build a powerful government by creating the Democratic Party.
  • Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix
    Dorothea played a huge part during the Civil War, she helped raised money for the Army, created hospitals for the soldiers and even collected groups of nurses.
  • Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass
    Fredrick Douglas fought fro equal rights of all people, he then published a newspaper that spoke for all the African Americans that wanted help and be apart of the Civil War.
  • Mary McLeod Bethune

    Mary McLeod Bethune
    Mary worked for President Roosevelt and was a voice for the African American voters
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    President Roosevelt gave the opportunity for equal employment to people of any race or religious belief.