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Discovered america |
Christopher Columbus |
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Rodrigo Triana |
The crew member who actually saw land 1st on Columbus' voyage |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
Credited for going around the world, he was killed in Phillipines before he could finish |
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Captured Aztec empire (around 400,000) with a crew of 500 |
Hernando Cortez |
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Francisco Pizarro |
Captured Peru (Inca empire) 2million people with 180 crew |
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Wanted to discover the city of gold |
Francisco Coronado |
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•Tried to enslave the pueblo •battle of Acoma 1599 •Established new Mexico 1609 •popés rebellion 1680 |
Juan De Oñate |
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Juan De Sepulveda |
Against the Indians in valladolid debate |
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Wanted to help the Indians in valladolid debate |
Bartholome de Las casas |
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Robert de La salle |
Claimed everything left of the mississippi |
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Robert de La salle |
Claimed everything left of the mississippi |
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Claimed everything left of the mississippi and calls it louisiana |
Robert de La salle |
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Samuel de champlain |
-New France (Quebec) -fur trade -Huron alliance |
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Dutch leader ruling new Netherland in NYC -fur trade -no loyalty from his followers |
Peter Stuyvesant |
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"You don't work, you don't eat" -lead Jamestown 1607 -burned hands and left back to england |
John smith |
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Brought tobacco plant 1612 -saved colony |
John rolfe |
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Leader of the Massachusetts Bay colony (7000 people) -city upon a hill -established theocracy -protestant work ethic "Idle hands are the Devils playground" |
John winthrop |
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Founder of Connecticut Wrote fundamental orders -1st written constitution in new world |
Thomas hooker |
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Dissenters -wanted to separate church and state -wanted to pay Indians for land -got arrested FOUNDER OF RHODE ISLAND sewer of the colonies |
Roger Williams |
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Speaks out against church -banished and killed by indians |
Anne Hutchinson |
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Giles corey |
More weight |
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Preacher/missionary who scared people to convert them "Sinners in the hands of an angry god" "Pathway to he'll is paved w/unbaptized children" |
John Edwards |
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Nice preacher/missionary -religious revival -attendance in church went up |
George whitefield |
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Set up praying towns to try and convert indians |
John Eliot |
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Started king Philips war |
Metacom / king Philips (Indian) |
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Former indentured servant who Formed a group to kill indians and March to Jamestown |
Nathaniel Bacon |
Bacon's rebellion |
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Founded Maryland as a colony for catholics |
Lord Baltimore |
All time low |
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Founded Georgia -debtors prisoner |
James Oglethorpe |
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Founded Pennsylvania -Quakers -king gave him land |
William Penn |
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Took a survey trip to Ohio River Valley and builds fort nessecity |
George Washington |
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Paxton boys |
Formed group to kill indians -west Penn |
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Pontiac |
Rebellion between settlers and indians |
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Leader of the sons of liberty |
Samuel Adam's |
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Slave who was 1st to die on Boston massacre |
Crispus attucks |
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"Give me liberty or give me death" -continental Congress |
Patrick Henry |
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Paul revere |
Og |
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Leader of continental army |
G. Washington |
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Wrote common sense |
Thomas paine |
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Wrote the declaration of independence |
T. Jefferson |
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Unalienable rights |
John locke |
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John hancock |
"We must hang together.. or we will hang sperately" |
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French guy sent over to help after Saratoga |
Lafayette |
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French guy sent over to help after Saratoga |
Lafayette |
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A stern, Prussian drillmaster that taught American soldiers during the Revolutionary War how to successfully fight the British. |
Baron von Steuben |
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A stern, Prussian drillmaster that taught American soldiers during the Revolutionary War how to successfully fight the British. |
Baron von Steuben |
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British soldier and statesman. In 1780, during the American Revolution, he was appointed British commander in the American South. He defeated Horatio Gates at Camden, S.C., then marched into Virginia and encamped at Yorktown. Trapped and besieged there, he was forced to surrender his army (1781) a defeat that effectively ended military operations in the war. |
Charles Cornwallis |
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Heroine of the American Revolution who carried water to soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth Court House and took over her husband's gun when he was overcome by heat |
Molly pitcher |
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"Remember the ladies" |
Abigail adams |
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2nd president helped write the constitution |
John adams |
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Started rebellion in which farmers couldn't pay their taxes so they revolt and attack courthouses |
Daniel shay |
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emerged as a major political figure during the debate over the Constitution, as the outspoken leader of the Federalists and one of the authors of the Federalist Papers. Later, as secretary of treasury under Washington, spearheaded the government's Federalist initiatives, most notably through the creation of the Bank of the United States. |
Alexander hamilton |
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Tried to get Frances help, proved lightning was electricity, invented bifocals |
Ben franklin |
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He was the 4th President of the US from 1809-1817. He is credited with the name "Father of the Constitution" for being the primary auther of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights |
James madison |
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Wrote the Federalist Papers in 1788. He believed in the principle of divided power, such as between federal and state governments, and checks and balances in the government. Oversaw the Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812. |
James madison |
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He was a representative of the French Republic who came to America in order to recruit Americans to help fight in the French Revolution. |
Citizen Genet |
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Chief Justice in the u.s sent to negotiate a treaty with England |
John jay |
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First secretary of war |
Henry knox |
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Arrested for going against king |
John Peter zenger |
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1st vice president |
John adams |
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created the precedent of judicial reviewruled on many early decisions that gave the federal government more power, especially the supreme court |
John Marshall |
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A French official who wanted 250,000 to be spoken to. Led to xyz affair |
Charles tallyrand |
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Wrote Virginia resolution |
James madison |
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Wrote Kentucky resolution |
Thomas Jefferson |
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French war lord, convention of 1800 |
Napolean |
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Sacajawea |
Assists Lewis and Clark on their expidition |
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President during the war of 1812 |
James madison |
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Wrote the star spangled banner, captured before battle if fort McHenry |
Francis Scott key |
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Led army to new Orleans during war of 1812. War hero |
Andrew Jackson |
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President 1816. Tariff of 1816 Panic of 1819 |
James Monroe |
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James Monroe's secretary of state |
John quincy adams |
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Era of the common man |
Jackson |
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Corrupt bargain |
John Quincy Adams Henry clay |
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Increased power of the executive branch |
Andrew Jackson |
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British guy that Surrendered at the end of the American Revolution |
Charles Cornwallis |
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Killed hamilton in a duel |
Aaron burr |
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Federalist papers |
Hamilton, Madison and John jay |
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Cartoon about separation of states and unity |
Join or die |
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