American History
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darthflipper on October 23, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Christopher Columbus | Discovered America in 1492 Spanish Explorer |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Discovered that America was not the Indies and had America named after him Italian explorer, financer, navigator and cartographer |
| John Cabot | Discovered North America Italian Navigator |
| Jacques Cartier | Claimed Canada for France French explorer |
| Henry Hudson | Discovered the Hudson River English Sea Exploer, Navigator |
| Captain John Smith | Large role in establishing James town, the first permanent English settlement |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Popularised tobacco in England English Aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, explorer |
| William Penn | Founder of Pennsylvania English Real estate entrepreneur, philosipher |
| Daniel Boone | Created the Wilderness road in 1775 American Pioneer, explorer, frontiersman |
| Samuel de Champlain | Founded New France and Quebec city on July 3, 1608 French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, chronicler |
| Benjamin Franklin | One of the Founding fathers of the US American Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, Satirist, civic activist, diplomat |
| Paul Revere | Alerted Militia of approacing british forces before the battle of lexington and Concord 1775 American Silversmith, patriot |
| Thomas Jefferson | The author of the Declaration of Inderpendence in 1776 and was also the third president of the US 1801 American President |
| George Washington | 1st President and was the dominant military and political leader of the US 1775 American President, Commander-in-chief of the continental army |
| John Hancock | Had a large stylish signature on the Declaration of Inderpendence, funded much of the "sons of liberty" American merchant, statesman, prominent patriot of the American Revolution |
| Thomas Paine | Founding father of the US, Made the book common sense which convinced the US to break away 1776 English Author, pamphleteer, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary |
| Marques de Lafayette | Major General of the continental army, supported the American army with lots of money French Aristocrat, military officer |
| George the third | King of Great Britain and Ireland 1760-1820 English King |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the Cotton Gin American Inventor, teacher |
| Dred Scott | Sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in a hope to strengthen the Abolitionists cause but instead helped the slavers cause 1857 Africa Slave |
| William Lloyd Garrison | American Abolitionist who wrote the newspaper "the Liberator", promoted immediate emancipation of slaves |
| Pocahontas | Virginia Indian Chiefs daughter that saved Jamestown, married an English man and promoted movement to US Powhatan tribe No job |
| Harriet Tubman | A black conductor on the underground railway who freed over 300 families and "never lost a passenger" Africa Slave, conductor |
| Lewis and Clark | First transcontinental expedition to the pacific coast by the US 1804-1806 American explorers? biologists? |
| Samuel Adams | Leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, Founding father of the US American Statesman, political philosopher, |
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