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32 Cards in this Set
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Balboa
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Crossed the Isthmus of Panama
First to see the Pacific Ocean |
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Hernando de Soto
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Conquered Florida killing members of many tribes living there
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Prince Henry
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Established a center for navigation
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Olaudah Equiano
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Wrote an autobiography about his voyage on the Middle Passage
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Coronado
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7 Cities of Gold
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Isabella and Ferdinand
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Funded Columbus's exploration
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Thomas Paine
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Wrote Common Sense and The Crisis
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John Locke
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"Natural Rights"
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Eli Whitney
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Invented the Cotton gin
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Lewis and Clark
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Mapped the Louisianna Territory
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Sequoya
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Writing system
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Brigham Young
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Led mormons to Great Salt Lake territory
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John Deere
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invented the steel plow
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Built American textile manufacturing industry
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Sojourner Truth
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Promoted Womans Rights
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John Wilkes Booth
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Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
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Dred Scott
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Tried to sue for freedom
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Denmark Vesey
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Called for an uprising of slaves
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Joseph Smith
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founded the mormon faith
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Harriet Tubman
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Underground Railroad
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Clara Barton
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Red Cross
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederacy
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Magellan
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Portuguese - found westward route to Asia
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Cabeza de Vaca
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Traveled through Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico
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Pizarro
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killed an Incan ruler
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Ulysses S. Grant
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War GeneralCortes
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Leif Erikkson
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North American settlement
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George Washington
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Commander of the Continental army
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Cortes
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Established Mexico City
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Patrick Henry
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Refused to attend the Constitutional
Convention |
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John Brown
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Planned to raid against slavery
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Andrew Jackson
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First president impeached
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