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85 Cards in this Set
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Sailed around Africa |
Vasco da Gama |
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Made the first Spanish landing of mainland of N. Amer. |
Ponce de Leon |
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Sailed around the world |
Ferdinand Magellan |
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Discovered the Grand Canyon |
Francisco Coronado |
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Discovered the Miss. River |
Hernando de Soto |
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Discovered the Pacific Ocean |
Vasco de Balboa |
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Discovered the St. Lawrence river |
Jacques Cartier |
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Printed first English Bible |
Tyndale |
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"Morning Star of the Reformation" |
Whycliffe |
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Signed the Magna Carta in 1215 |
King John |
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who founded Roanoke |
Raleigh |
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First explorer in the Modern Age to step foot on the mainland of N. Amer. |
John Cabot |
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Pastor of the Plymouth Colony |
William Brewster |
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Wrote "History of Plymouth Plantation" |
William Bradford |
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Said, "I will rule without Parliament |
Charles I |
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Massachusetts' Bay Colony's first governor |
Carver |
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Founded Conneticut |
Thomas Hooker |
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Founded Rhode Island |
Roger Williams |
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The woman who helped settle Rhode Island |
Anne Hutchinson |
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Explored the Hudson and Delaware River valleys |
Henry Hudson |
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Bought Manhattan Island from the Indians |
Peter Minuit |
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Took N. Amsterdam from the Dutch |
Duke of York |
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Founded Georgia |
James Oglethorpe |
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Set important precedent for freedom of the press |
Peter Zenger |
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Who were the first to have a successful fur trade in the new world? |
French |
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What did the natives call the League of Nations |
Tree of Peace |
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A mass movement of 25,000 Puritans |
Great Migration |
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What is based on land grants by the king to individual proprietors or owners |
Proprietary Colony |
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Granted freedom of worship to those professing to follow Jesus |
Grand Model |
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The 4 largest cities in America during 1777 |
Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, Charlestown |
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Cash crops |
Tobacco, indigo, rice |
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Gave a parcel of land given to each settler or one who paid for the settlers passage to the New World |
Head Right System |
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When was Harvard founded |
1636 |
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When was the Ol' Deluder Satan Act |
1647 |
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Replaced Latin grammar schools |
Academies |
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The first printed newspaper |
Boston Newsletter |
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Prohibited all trade with the colonies and provided for the Confiscation of their ships |
Prohibitory Act |
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Wrote Common Sense |
Thomas Paine |
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Where did Washington capture 1,000 Hessian troops |
Trenton |
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Those who opposed independance |
Loyalists |
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The turning point of America's War for independence |
Saratoga |
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The British general who surrendered at Saratoga |
Gen. John Burgoyne |
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Published his Commentaries on the Laws of England |
Will. Blackstone |
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Naval hero with the ship Bonhomme Richard |
John Paul Jones |
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When was the British surrender at Yorktown |
1781 |
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"Swamp Fox" |
Francis Marion |
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"Fighting Game Cock" |
Thomas Sumter |
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"Fighting Quaker" |
Nathanael Greene |
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Led a rebellion of farmers |
Daniel Shays |
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What changed the way we vote? |
12th Ammendment |
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Wrote Kentucky's resolutions |
T. Jefferson |
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1st state to sign the Constitution |
Delaware |
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"Father of the Constitution" |
James Madison |
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Proposed the Virginia plan which called for a bicameral legislature |
Edmond Randolph |
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The only branch under the Articles of Confederation |
Legislative |
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Presented the New Jersey Plan which called for an unicameral legislature |
Will. Paterson |
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Lead baptist movement for religious freedom in the north |
Isaac Backus |
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Lead religious freedom in south |
John Leland |
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Proposed Bill of Rights |
James Madison |
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One of the greatest political leaders of the Modern Age |
Alexis de Tocqueville |
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1st attorney general |
Ed. Randolph |
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1st Secretary of the Treasury |
Alex. Hamilton |
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1st Secretary of War |
Henry Knox |
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1st postmaster general |
Samuel Osgood |
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1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
John Jay |
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Sent by the French to ask for American aid |
Citizen Genet |
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How much did the U.S. pay for Louisiana |
$15 million |
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What settled the disputed boundary between Spanish west Florida and the U.S. |
Pinckney Treaty |
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Defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers |
Gen. Anthony Wayne |
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Explored southern Louisiana and upper Miss. River |
Zebulon Pike |
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Hero of the Tripolitan War |
Stephan Decatur |
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President during the War of 1812 |
James Madison |
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Who were the War Hawks |
Henry Clay John C. Calhoun |
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Who won the Battle of Tippecanoe |
Harrison |
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Author of the American System |
Henry Clay |
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"Old Ironsides" |
Constitution |
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In which Spain seceded all of Florida to the U.S. |
Adams-Onis Treaty |
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President during the Era of Good Feelings |
Pres. Monroe |
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Made it so the entire U.S. Canadian border be demilitarized |
Rush-Bagot Treaty |
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When the Supreme Court ruled against a transportation monopoly granted by the NY state legislature |
Gibbons vs. Ogden Treaty |
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Vowed to put down a revolutionary uprising in spain |
Congress of Veronna |
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When was the favorite sons election |
1824 |
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Who won the favorite sons election |
Adams |
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Jacksons nickname |
Old Hickory |
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What election was the 1st national nominating convention |
1832 |
