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20 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus
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1490s, Spanish explorer who discovered the Americas
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Hernándo Cortés
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1520s, Spanish conquistadors
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Montezuma
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1520s, Aztec emperor
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John Winthrop
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1620s, Puritan leader (of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
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William Penn
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1660s, quaker, who Pennsylvania was named after
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Benjamin Franklin
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1700s, inventor, founding forefather
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Jonathan Edwards
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1740s, clergyman who preached people needed more then just going to church, they needed to feel guilty for their sins and God's love for them
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William Pitt
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1750s, politician selected to help led England's army in the French and Indian war
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King George III
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1760s, King of England during the time the colonies declared independence
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Samuel Adams
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1760s, founder of the Sons of Liberty, helped led boycotts against the British
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John Locke
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1770s, Enlightenment thinker, believed people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property
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Thomas Paine
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1770s, writer of the book "Common Sense" which attacked King George and the Monarchy
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Thomas Jefferson
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1770s, Virgina layer who wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Marquis de Lafayette
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1770s, French military leader who helped provide aid to the American army during the civil war
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Charles Cornwallis
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1780s, British general who helped capture Charles Town, South Carolina (one of the biggest British victories of the war)
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James Madison
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1780s, proposed the Virgina Plan (which called for a two-house legislature - benefited states with large populations)
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Alexander Hamilton
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1790s, Washington's secretary of the treasury, believed in a strong central government controlled by the upper class
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John Marshall
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1800s, supreme court justice, ruled over Marbury vs. Madison
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Henry Clay
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1810s, House speaker, promoted the "American System" (establish protective tariffs, rechartering the national bank, sponsor the development of transportation systems)
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John C. Calhoun
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1810s, helped promote the "American System"
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