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26 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus |
Italian born, Played on the rivalry between Spain and Portugal to convince Ferdinand and Isabella to back his plan to reach the Far East, he discovered the new world. Sir |
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Governor John Winthrop |
Massachussets Governor he was a Puntan |
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Captain John Smith |
He brought order out of anarchy, he traded with local Indian tribes for food. 1608 smith seized control of Jamestown ruling council and established military type discipline over the colony
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John Rolfe |
He married Pocahontas, he saw the value of local tobacco grown by the Indians as a valuable export
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Ann Hutchinson |
Antinomianism she opened the door to religious anarchy
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William Penn |
The sole proprietorship of what is now Pennsylvania, penn authored the “frame of government” since penn was given a free hand to set up a government of his choice
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King Philip |
Metacomet-Indian chief Matacomet led the last mass uprising against colonial encroachments on their lands |
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George III |
Ascended the English throne in 1760 |
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Thomas Paine |
His pamphlet common sense helped define America’s revolution goal in the direction of independence.
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Thomas Jefferson |
A gifted writer, was assigned the task of drafting the Declaration of Independence
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George Washington |
Commander in chief of the continental army |
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General Cornwallis |
general who lost the American colonies. An educated aristocrat with military and political experience, Lord Cornwallis served King George III and Britain as one of the leading generals of the Revolutionary War |
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James Madison |
Began to formulate the ideas of federalism |
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Daniel Shay |
Led farmers who couldn’t pay high taxes and creditors in a rebellion
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Tecumseh |
Shawnee tribal leaders-encouraged their Indian tribesmen to resist white ways and to hold onto their Indian territorial lands.
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Sacagawea |
A Shoshoni Indian woman, served as a translator for the expedition
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Aaron Burr |
attempted manipulation of the election of 1800 created mistrust between himself as vice-president and Jefferson as president.
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Francis Scott Key |
Wrote the star spangled banner |
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George Canning |
British foreign minister
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Great novelist (scarlet letter) became the high point of the American Renaissance literary fiction |
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Herman Melville |
Great novelist (moby dick) became the high point of the American Renaissance literary fiction
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John C. Calhoun |
Vice President, secretly authored a South Carolina piece of legislation that said a state could nullify and declare a federal law unconstitutional |
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Nicholas Biddle |
became president of the national bank and restored its credibility |
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William Bradford |
Led the pilgrim expedition to settle in VA but navigation errors landed them in Plymouth Mass. |
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Citizen Edmond Genet |
authorized private owned American ships to seize British ships in the name of France-a clear violation of U.S neutrality. Once genet learned of a French Revolutionary warrant for his arrest he sought and obtained asylum in the U.S married into wealth and lived in NY. |
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Alexander Hamilton |
Alexander Hamilton was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the founder of the nation's financial system, the Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard, and the New York Post newspaper. |
