US History Unit 1 People
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Stratoherc on September 20, 2012
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Prof Carlisle
US History 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 - Founded school of navigation in Portugal- Place to share knowledge | Prince Henry the Navigator |
| - Captured Spanish treasure fleet (ships with a year's worth of gold heading back to Spain) - 2nd to circumnavigate globe | Sir Francis Drake |
| - Jamestown colonist - Member of council of 7 - Survivalist - Did 2 things to help Jamestown survive -- No work/no food rule -- Made peace w/Powhatan Indians (Pocahontas) | John Smith |
| - Turned Jamestown into a successful colony - Brought tobacco as a crop - Married Pocahontas to bring peace | John Rolfe |
| - Puritans | Plymouth |
| - Indian who helped Plymouth colonists | Squanto |
| - Broke away from Mass Bay Colony to form Connecticut - Did not believe that only church people could serve in govt | Thomas Hooker |
| - Broke away from Mass Bay Colony to form Rhode Island - Believed you should buy land from the Indians | Roger Williams |
| - Proprietor of Pennsylvania colony - Member of Quakers ("Society of Friends") - King gave him this colony in honor of Penn's father's accomplishments | William Penn |
| - Proprietor of Maryland | George Calvert |
| - Proprietor of Georgia | James Oglethorp |
| - All three ended in a tie - Quit fighting because ran out of manpower (all of fighting age had died) | King William's War Queen Anne's War King George's War |
| - governor of VA who sent George Washington to Ft Dusquesne to tell French to leave | Gov Dinwiddie |
| - Proposed Plan of Union | Ben Franklin |
| - sent by King to fight French at Ft Duquesne | Edward Braddock |
| - Prime Minister of England (1757) - Responsible for turning around the French & Indian war - Lost | William Pitt |
| - Led 6000 man force against French - Captures Ft Duquesne & names it Ft Pitt (present day Pittsburg) | John Forbes |
| - British commander at Battle of Quebec - Died during battle - British win | James Wolfe |
| - French commander at the Battle of Quebec - Placed his army on a bluff with a year worth of supplies - lost...died during battle | Louis Montcalm |
| - Wrote "Considerations" - colonists who said...parliament can tax to regulate trade but not to make internal taxes | Daniel Dulany |
| - Leader of Sons of Liberty | Sam Adams |
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