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There are 116 entries matching this subcategory. They are listed below in alphabetical order.

Abolitionists: Abolitionists were people who sought to end the institution of slavery. . . .
African Americans: Numerous African Americans have resided in Ohio. Today, African-American Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Albanian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Albanian ancestors. Today, Albanian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Algonquian Indians: The Algonquian Indians are a variety of groups of Native Americans who all speak languages closely related to one another. The Algonquian language group is one of the largest in native America. . . .
American Indians: American Indian is a term applied to a person descended from the original inhabitants of the land that is now the continental United States of America. . . .
Appalachian Migrants: As a result of worker shortages during World War I and World War II, a number of Ohio manufacturers began to recruit workers from Appalachia, especially from Kentucky and West Virginia. . . .
Austrian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Austrian ancestors. Today, Austrian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Baby Boomers: "Baby boomers" is a nickname for people born between 1946 and 1964. . . .
Balkan Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Balkan ancestors. . . .
Barn Gang: During the early 1900s, Colonel Edward Deeds established the Barn Gang in Dayton, Ohio. Interested parties, including Charles F. Kettering, met on Deeds's property to discuss scientific and technological issues. . . .
Bentonville Anti-Horse Thief Society: During the nineteenth century, Ohioans relied on horses for transportation and for farming. Horse thieves were relatively common. To help protect their animals, in March 1853, residents of Bentonville, Ohio formed the Bentonville Anti-Horse Thief Society. . . .
Byelorussian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Byelorussian ancestors. Today, Byelorussian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Campbellites: Campbellites were religious followers of ministers Thomas Campbell and his son Alexander Campbell in the early nineteenth century. . . .
Canadian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from both French and English Canadian ancestors. Today, Canadian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Carpatho-Russian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Carpatho-Russian ancestors. . . .
Chinese Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Chinese ancestors. Today, Chinese Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Chippewa Indians: The Chippewa Indians, also known as the Ojibwa, lived mainly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Ontario, Canada. . . .
Civil War Artillery Units: During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio provided the United States government with three types of military units: artillery units, cavalry units, and infantry units. . . .
Civil War Cavalry Units: During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio provided the United States government with three types of military units: artillery units, cavalry units, and infantry units. . . .
Civil War Infantry Units: During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio provided the United States government with three types of military units: artillery units, cavalry units, and infantry units. Ohio supplied the federal government with more than 260 regiments of men, not counting several companies that formed the basis of regiments in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Massachusetts. . . .
Conscientious Objectors: Throughout American history, there have always been Americans who refused to serve in the military during wartime. These Americans are commonly known as conscientious objectors. . . .
Copperheads: Copperheads or Peace Democrats were people who opposed the North's attempts to reunite the nation during the American Civil War. . . .
Coxey's Army: In 1894, Massilon, Ohio resident, Jacob S. Coxey, formed group known as "Coxey's Army" that marched on Washington, D.C. to protest the federal government's failure to assist the American populace during the Panic of 1893. . . .
Croatian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Croatian ancestors. Today, Croatian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Czech Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Czech ancestors. Today, Czech Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Danish Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Danish ancestors. Today, Danish Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Delaware Indians: The Delaware Indians, also called the Lenape, originally lived along the Delaware River in New Jersey. They speak a form of the Algonquian language and are thus related to the Miami Indians, Ottawa Indians, and Shawnee Indians. . . .
Dutch Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Dutch ancestors. . . .
Edward, Hannah, and Susan (Fugitive Slaves): Edward, Hannah, and Susan were three slaves who became embroiled in a court case in Cincinnati, Ohio. . . .
Eel River Indians: The Eel River Indians were a tribe living primarily in northwestern Indiana during the late 1700s and the early 1800s. . . .
English Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from English ancestors. Today, English Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Estonian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Estonian ancestors. Today, Estonian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Fighting McCooks: During the American Civil War, fifteen members of the McCook family from Ohio fought for the Union, earning them the nickname, "The Fighting McCooks." . . .
Finnish Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Finnish ancestors. . . .
Flappers: Flapper was the name for young women who dressed provocatively and supposedly were much more open with their sexuality during the 1920s. People of the time usually described flappers as having bobbed hairstyles and wearing thick make-up. . . .
French Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from French ancestors. Today, French Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Frontier Women: Women faced many challenges on the Ohio frontier. The first white women arrived in the Ohio Country around the time of the American Revolution, as wives of missionaries and soldiers. . . .
German and Italian World War II Prisoners of War: During World War II, the United States military housed both German and Italian prisoners of war in Ohio. . . .
German Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from German ancestors. Today, German Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Greek Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Greek ancestors. Today, Greek Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Hispanic Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are Hispanic or Latino. Today, these Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Hundred Days' Men: In the spring of 1864, John Brough, the governor of Ohio, proposed that the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin enlist men to help defend their respective states during the American Civil War. Ohio would enlist thirty thousand new soldiers. . . .
Hungarian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Hungarian ancestors. Today, Hungarian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Irish Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Irish ancestors. Today, Irish Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Iroquois Indians: The Iroquois Indians originally lived along the Genesee River, the Mohawk River, and in the Finger Lakes region south of Lake Ontario in New York State. Around 1600, five tribes, the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas, banded together to form a confederacy. . . .
Isolationists: Isolationists are Americans who are opposed to United States involvement in foreign affairs. People with these sentiments have existed since the founding of the nation. . . .
Italian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Italian ancestors. Today, Italian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Japanese Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Japanese ancestors. Today, Japanese Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Jewish Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Jewish ancestors. Today, Jewish Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Kaskaskia Indians: The Kaskaskia Indians lived mainly in Illinois and eastern Missouri when Europeans began to settle in North America. They were closely related to the Miami Indians. . . .
Korean Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Korean ancestors. Today, Korean Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Latino Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are Hispanic or Latino. Today, these Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Latvian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Latvian ancestors. Today, Latvian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Lemko Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Carpatho-Russian ancestors, including Lemko Ohioans. . . .
Lithuanian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Lithuanian ancestors. Today, Lithuanian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Macedonian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Macedonian ancestors. Today, Macedonian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Medicine Men: American Indian men and women who acted as doctors or healers consisted of two groups. The first type was the shaman or medicine man (or woman), who, as mediators, sought cures through spiritual means. The second type included herbalists, who relied on more practical and traditional methods of treatment. . . .
Miami Indians: The Miami Indians originally lived in Indiana, Illinois, and southern Michigan at the time of European arrival. The Miamis moved into the Maumee Valley around 1700, and they soon became one of the most powerful Indian tribes in Ohio. . . .
Millerites: Millerites were disciples of William Miller. Miller, a farmer from New York, claimed to have discovered when Jesus Christ would return to Earth as stated in the Bible. . . .
Mills Brothers: The Mills Brothers was an African-American vocal group that formed during the 1920s. . . .
Mingo Indians: The Mingo Indians were a small group of Native Americans related to the Iroquois Indians. They are sometimes called the Ohio Seneca Indians. By 1750, the Mingos had left the Iroquois homeland in the state of New York and migrated to the Ohio Country. . . .
Montenegrin Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Montenegrin ancestors. . . .
Morgan's Raiders: Morgan's Raiders were Confederate cavalrymen under the command of General John Hunt Morgan. . . .
Muckrakers: Muckrakers were a group of writers during the Progressive era who tried to expose the problems that existed in American society.. . . .
Munsee Indians: The Munsee Indians were part of the Delaware Indians, although they lived separately from the Delaware nation for most of their existence. . . .
Native Americans: Native American is a term applied to a person descended from the original inhabitants of the land that is now the continental United States of America. . . .
Norwegian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Norwegian ancestors. Today, Norwegian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Ohio Gang: In 1920, Ohioan Warren Gamaliel Harding won election as president of the United States. As president, for the most part, Harding proved to be a poor manager of the federal government. He delegated authority to his cabinet officials. These men became known as the "Ohio gang," because they supposedly were a gang of thieves from Ohio. . . .
Ojibwa Indians: The Ojibwa Indians, also known as the Chippewa Indians, lived mainly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Ontario, Canada at the time of European contact. They were part of the Algonquian Indians. . . .
Ottawa Indians: The Ottawa Indians originally lived along the Ottawa River in eastern Ontario and western Quebec at the time of European arrival in the early 1600s. They moved into northern Ohio around 1740. . . .
Pacifists: Pacifists are people who are opposed to war for moral or religious reasons. . . .
Peace Democrats: Copperheads or Peace Democrats were people who opposed the North's attempts to reunite the nation during the American Civil War. . . .
Piankashaw Indians: The Piankashaw Indians were members of the Miami Indians, although they lived apart from the Miami nation. . . .
Polish Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Polish ancestors. Today, Polish Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Potawatomi Indians: The Potawatomi Indians lived mainly in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Ontario, Canada at the time of European contact in the early 1600s. They were part of the Algonquian Indians. . . .
Progressives: For the most part, Progressives were white, middle-class Americans who practiced a Protestant faith. They also tended to be members of the Republican Party. . . .
Radical Republicans: The Republican Party began in 1854 as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This legislation split Whig Party members along regional lines. Former Northern Whigs united with members of the Free Soil Party and the American Party to create the Republican Party. . . .
Rascal Flatts: Rascal Flatts is a trio of country music artists. Two of its members, Gary LeVox and Jay DeMarcus, are second cousins from Columbus, Ohio. . . .
Real Estate Speculators: Real estate speculators, people who sought to purchase land cheaply and then resell it for a profit, were among the first European settlers of what would become Ohio. . . .
Rhodes' Raiders: "Rhodes' Raiders" were a group of Ohio's most prominent political and business leaders that Ohio Governor James Rhodes recruited to actively encourage new business development in the state. . . .
Romanian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Romanian ancestors. Today, Romanian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Rosie the Riveter: During World War II, millions of American women assisted the war effort by working in various industries. Before the war's outbreak, twelve million American women found employment in factories. The number of women working in such positions during the conflict soared to nineteen million women. . . .
Runaway Slaves: Before the American Civil War, a large number of runaway slaves passed through Ohio. One of the major reasons runaway slaves came to Ohio was the Underground Railroad. . . .
Rusin Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Carpatho-Russian ancestors, including Rusin Ohioans. . . .
Russian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Russian ancestors. Today, Russian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Ruthenian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Carpatho-Russian ancestors, including Ruthenian Ohioans. . . .
Sauk Indians: The Sauk Indians lived in Michigan and Wisconsin. The Sauks were part of the Algonquian Indians. . . .
Scabs: "Scabs" is a derogatory name for union members who refuse to go out on strike or workers who are hired by businesses to replace striking workers. . . .
Scandinavian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Scandinavian ancestors. Scandinavians include people from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. . . .
School Boards: School boards first formed in Ohio in 1825, when the Ohio government established public education in the state. . . .
Seneca Indians: The Seneca Indian people living in Ohio during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were related to the Seneca Indian tribe of New York. The Seneca in New York were one of the most powerful members of the Iroquois confederacy. . . .
Serbian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Serbian ancestors. Today, Serbian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Shawnee Indians: The Shawnee Indians were living in the Ohio Valley as early as the late 1600s. The Iroquois Indians were unwilling to share these rich hunting grounds and drove the Shawnees away. . . .
Slavic Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Slavic ancestors. Today, Slavic Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Slovak Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Slovak ancestors. Today, Slovak Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Slovene Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Slovene ancestors. Today, Slovene Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Snowbirds: Snowbirds are people who live in northern portions of the United States but spend the winters in the South. . . .
Socialists: During the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, socialism attracted many Americans. Socialists called for an economic system that removed greed from the people. . . .
Somali Ohioans: Beginning in the 1990s, thousands of Somalis began to immigrate to the United States of America. Many of these people settled in Central Ohio, enhancing Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Squatters: Squatters were people who illegally moved onto unoccupied land along the frontier and claimed that land as their own. . . .
Swedish Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Swedish ancestors. Today, Swedish Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Tecumseh's Confederation: During the early 1800s, Tecumseh, a leader of the Shawnee Indians, attempted to unite Native American tribes west of the Appalachian Mountains into a confederation. . . .
The Ohio State University Football Team-2002 National Champions: In 2002, The Ohio State University Football Team went undefeated. Over the course of the season, the team experienced numerous close games but, under the leadership of head coach Jim Tressel and quarterback Craig Krenzel, always emerged victorious. . . .
The Ohio State University's Women's Synchronized Swimming Team: The Ohio State University's Women's Synchronized Swimming Team is one of the premier teams in college synchronized swimming. Since synchronized swimming became an official National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) sport in 1977, the Buckeyes have won twenty-four championships. . . .
Tribe of Dan: During the American Civil War, fifteen members of the McCook family fought for the Union. Although scholars disagree on the exact number of McCooks who fought in the Civil War, . . .
Tribe of John: During the American Civil War, fifteen members of the McCook family fought for the Union. . . .
Ukrainian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Ukrainian ancestors. Today, Ukrainian Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Vietnam War Protestors: Thousands of Americans opposed United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Some of these people actively participated in protests. . . .
Warner Brothers: The Warner Brothers were exhibitors, distributors and producers of motion pictures. . . .
Wea Indians: The Wea Indians were members of the Miami Indians, although they lived apart from the Miami nation. . . .
Welsh Ohioans: Like numerous other nationalities, ethnic Welsh people viewed Ohio as a land of opportunity during the 1800s. . . .
Women: Women faced many challenges in early Ohio. The first white women arrived in the Ohio Country around the time of the American Revolution, as wives of missionaries and soldiers. The first white child born in Ohio was Johanna Maria Heckewelder, daughter of missionaries sent by the Moravian Church to convert the Delaware Indians. . . .
Wyandot Indians: The Wyandot Indians originally lived in southern Ontario. They were also called Hurons. But they called themselves "wendat" which in time became "Wyandot" or "Wyandotte." . . .
Yellow Press: The yellow press was the name given to reporters who sensationalized their news stories during the late 1800s and the early 1900s. . . .
Yugoslavian Ohioans: Numerous Ohioans are descended from Yugoslavian ancestors. Today, Yugoslav Ohioans continue to enhance Ohio's cultural and social landscape. . . .
Zoarites: A group of separatists, eventually known as Zoarites, established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County. . . .