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23 Cards in this Set
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She helped other slaves get to freedom by the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman
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He is the father of our country
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George Washington
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He was from England and brought ships to the New World, Susan Constance, Discovery, and Godspeed
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Christopher Newport
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He warned that the British soldiers were coming
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Paul Revere
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He was a frontiersman and died at the Alamo
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Davy Crockett
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He was the first leader of Jamestown
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Captain John Smith
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She created Hull House for the poor
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Jane Addams
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She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan and married John Rolfe
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Pocahontas
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He was the Father of the American Navy
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John Paul Jones
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He was a scientist, politician and discovered electricty
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Benjamin Franklin
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He was a pioneer and was famous for planting apple seeds across the country
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John Chapman
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She sewed the first American flag
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Betsy Ross
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She worked so that women would have the same rights as men
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Susan B. Anthony
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He was the 16th President during the Civil War, helped free the slaves
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Abraham Lincoln
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French explorer who established the first successful settlement in Quebec, "Father of Canada"
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Samuel de Champlain
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Spanish explorer who searched for the "Fountain of Youth" but found Florida instead
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Ponce de Leon
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African-American minister, civil rights leader, most famous speech, "I Have a Dream"
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Spanish explorer who discovered the "New World" in 1492
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Christopher Columbus
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French explorer who found the St. Lawrence River while searching for the "Northwest Passage"
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Jacques Cartier
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He was a scientist who found many uses for peanuts
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George Washington Carver
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He grew and traded tobacco with England, married Pocahontas
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Captain John Rolfe
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English explorer who named "Newfoundland" and gave England claim to North America
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John Cabot
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He was born a slave in Virginia later started a college called the Tuskegee Institute
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Booker T. Washington
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