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Saved Jamestown by implenting the "work or starve" rule
John smith
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Made Jamestown prosperous by growing tobacco. Married Pocahontas which helped relations between the settlers and the Native AMericans
JOhn Rolfe
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Quaker who founded Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers. Pennsylvania had a democratic form of government
William Penn
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Started Rhode Island after he was kicked out of MAssachusetts, believed in the separation of church and state
Rodger Williams
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Founded Connecticut, aided in the adoption of the Fundamental Orders of connecticut, favored voting rights for all men reguardless of religion or property qualifications
Thomas Hooker
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Founded Georgia as a place for deptors
James Olgethorpe
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Founded Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics
Lord Baltimore
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Founded sons of liberty and Committees of correspondence. HE was a leading patriot fromMassachusetts and the mastermind behind the Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams
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Former slave killed during the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
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African American who served in the Revolutionary Was for GW, enlisted as a patriotic spy pretending to be a runaway slave to gain british war secrets
James Armistead
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British Monarch during the American Revolution, issued the Proclamation of 1763
King Geroge 3
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Wrote Common Sense to encourage colonists to break away from British and the Crisis to encourage Continental soldiers to fight, he penned the famous line, "There are the times that try men's souls."
Thomas Paine
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British attorneyand philosopher that had a great influence on the Founding fathers of the U.S. he taught that man is granted fundamental rights by god. HE is famous for writting Classic Commentaries on the Laws of England.
William Blackstone
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English Philosopher who believed in the protection of indicidual rights including life, liberty and property. HE believed that is government does not protect the people's rights, then they have a right to revolt. His work inspired and influenced Thomas Jefferson
John Locke
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French nobleman fameous for his ideas on government and law. HE wrote the Spirit of the LAw proposing 3 seperate branches of government so no one person or groups of people in government would have too much power. He inspired James Madison to defend the separation of powers and checks and balances principles in the Federalists Papers
Baron Charles de Montesquieu
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Commander of the continental Army, first president of the unites states.
George Washington
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MEmber of the continental congress, was on the committee to wirte the Declaration of independence, served as GW Vice president. 2nd president of the united states. served during the XYZ affair, palles Alien and Sedition Act, oinated John Marshall
John Adams
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Wife of John adams
Abagail adams
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primaryy author of the declaration of independence, and 3rd president
Thomas Jefferson
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Frenchmen who believed in the Patriot cause. He aided the Partiots with the money and supplies. He became a close friend and advisor to George Wasington
Marquis de Lafayette
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Jewish Immigrant who played an important finance role during the American Revolution. He was a patriot and a member of the Sons of Liberty Arrested as a spy by the British and hanged.
Haym Salomon
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German who helped trained the Patriots at Valley Forge
Baron Von Stuben
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She was a patriot whowrote plays, poems and essays supporting the idea of independence
Mercy Otis Warren
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British General, surrendered to GW at the Battle of Yorktown
General Cornwallis
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American Naval hero who famously said, "I have not yet begun to fight"
John Paul Jones
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Patriot from Virginia; famously said, "Give me liberty or gove me death" he became an outspoken anti-federalist because the constitution lacked a bill of rights, known as a great orator
Patrick Henry
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Grandson to the first African American land owner, founding father, very active in public life, influential town leader, judge, and soldier in the American Revolution
Wentworth Cheswell
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Proposed the albany plan of union which would have united the colonists under one government. He helped secure French aid during the AMerican revolution. He was a writer, printer, diploma, adn inventor. He helped negotiate the treaty of PAris that ended the American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin
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Spaniard who sided withe the Americans during the REvolutionary war. Provided weapons, gunpowder, clothing, and other supplies to help the colonial army
Bernardo de Galvez
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Author of some of the Federalist Papers, founder of the federalist party, and secretary of trasury uner GW.
alexander hamilton
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Outspoken anti-federalist from Virginia that worked against the ratification of the Constitution
George Mason
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Father of Constitution- fourth us president
JAmes Madison
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1st chief justice of the supree court; he helped establish the idea of judicial review that made the supreme court far more powerful, his famous court cases include Marbury v Madison, McCullough v Maryland, and Gibbons v Ogden
John Marshall
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Explorers of the Lousiana teritory
Lewis and Clark
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Native American who helped Lewis and Clark while they exploreed the lousiana territory
Sacajawea
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Author of the star spangled banner
Fransic scott key
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5th preisdent of the united states furing the era of good feelings. Issued the monroe Doctrine
JAmes Monroe
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6th president of the united states, helped negotiate the Adams-Onis trreaty. Won the election of 1824 known as the corrupt bargain when henry clay convinced the house of reps to vote for him and in return clay could become sec of state
John Quincy Adams
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inventor of the cotton gin
Eli whitney
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invenntede a new typ eof steamboat that could move against the current wind
Robert Fulton
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th president of the US started the present day Democratic Party, Portrayed as a common man. His indian removal act led to the Trail of Tears, Kitchen cabinet, nullification crisis, bank crisis, ignored supreme court rullingg in worcester v gerogia
Andrew Jackson
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indain tribe that belived adoptnig white culture would prevent conflicts
Cherokee Indians
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Us rep and senator from south carolina. Vp under andrew jackson. He was strong supporter of states' rights. His belief led to the nullification crisis 1828
John C. Calhoun
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Senator from Massachusetts , known for his strong desire to prevent the union and stance against nillification . he said "Liberty and Union now and forever, one and inseperable"
Daniel Webster
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The "Great Compromiser" from kentucky.
Henry Clay
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Leading African American abolitionist. He was a former slave who became a famous speaker and writer. He published a newspaper called the "north star"
Fredrick Douglass
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Leader of the Women's Rights Movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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a reformer that worked in the aboltionist and temperance movement and dedicated her life to the women's suffrage movement. She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton established the National American Women Suffrage Associaction
Susan B. Anthony
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Transcendentalist who protested the MExican--American War by not paying his taxes. He explaned reasoning in his familt essay, Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
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A group of artists that primarily painted landscapes that showed the history and beauty of america
Hudson River School Artists
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MEmber of the HUdson river school known as a naturalist specializing in painting the birds of america
JOhn JAmes Audubition
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PResident of the Condfederate States of America. Argued the succession was a "necessity" not a "choice"
Jefferson Davis
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16th president of the US during the civil war. Famously gave the GEttysburg Address and issued the Emancipation Proclamation. He was nater assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Linclon
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Commander of the Confederate troops from Virginia
Robert E. Lee
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Commander of the UNion troops. General Lee surrendered to him at Appomattox Court house ending the Civil War, later becoming the 18th US president
Ulysses S. Grant
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Methodist minister who served as a chaplain in the union army, became the first african American elected to the U.S. Senate
Hiram Rhodes Revels
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a Chilean immigrant and resident of Massachusetts, member of the U.S. Navy during the Civil War, awarded the Congressional MEdal of HOnor for his bravery during the Civil War in 1865
PHillip Bazaar
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Former slave who enlisted in the all African American 54th Massachusetts regiment during the civil war. He is the 1st African American to recieve the Congressional MEdal of honor
William Carney
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Famous Confederate General known for his courageous ability to face an opposing army like a "stonewall"
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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