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aliyasomani Plus on March 20, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) | Leader of movement to give women the right to vote |
| Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) | Leader during American Revolution, he switched sides and became traitor |
| Crispus Attucks (1723?-1770) | American hero and martyr of the Boston Massacre |
| Daniel Boone (1734-1820) | Frontiersman who found trail through the Cumberland Gap |
| John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) | Southerner who assassinated President Lincoln after the Civil War |
| John Brown (1800-1859) | Militant abolitionist who led raid at Harpers Ferry |
| John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) | Vice-president of U.S.; created doctrine of nullification |
| William Clark (1770-1838) | Explorer of Lewis and Clark expedition |
| Henry Clay (1777-1852) | Politician known as "The Great Compromiser" |
| Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) | Italian explorer of the New World |
| James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) | First major U.S. novelist, wrote stories about the frontier |
| Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) | British general defeated in the battle of Yorktown during Am. Rev. |
| Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) | President of Confederate States of America during Civil War |
| Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) | Reformer who fought to improve the care of the mentally ill |
| Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861) | Politician who participated in the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1860 |
| Frederick Douglass (1818?-1895) | Former slave and important abolitionist |
| Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) | Theologian and Puritan who sparked The Great Awakening |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | Writer and poet; popularized idea of transcendentalism |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) | Author, publisher, inventor, and diplomat |
| Robert Fulton (1765-1815) | Ran first commercial steamboat |
| William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) | Printer of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator |
| George III (1738-1820) | British king during the American Revolution |
| Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) | Author of many of the Federalist Papers; first Secretary of the Treasury |
| John Hancock (1737-1793) | Important leader of American Revolution; first signer of Deeclaration of Independence |
| Patrick Henry (1736-1799) | Important person in American Revolution; said "Give me liberty or give me death" |
| Sam Houston (1793-1863) | Important leader of Texas Revolution |
| Ann Hutchinson (1591-1643) | Banished from Massachusetts colony; one of the founders of Rhode Island |
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