 | Term | Definition |
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William Bradford |
1st gov of Plymouth. |
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John Smith |
leader @ Jamestown. |
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John Winthrop |
leader @ Mass Bay Colony. |
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Roger Williams |
leader @ Rhode Island. RI=haven for all. |
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James Oglethorp |
leader @ GA. GA=haven for debtor's. |
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William Penn |
leader @ PA. PA=Quaker & all haven. |
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Benjamin Franklin |
created Albany Plan. Join or Die! |
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John Locke |
Enlightenment in GB. his ideas=basis for DofI. |
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Sam Adams |
instigator. involved in Boston Tea Party. signed DofI. |
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John Hancock |
instigator. involved in Bost Tea Party. smuggled goods into Am during Townshend Act. |
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Nathaniel Bacon |
Bacon's Rebellion @ VA. planters/ |
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Phyllis Wheatley |
1st female black poet. |
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Mary Dyer |
discussed sermons. hanged in mass bay colony. |
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John Peter Zenger |
libel-wrote in newspaper about a gov. |
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Thomas Paine |
wrote "Common Sense". |
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Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president. brilliant writer. wrote DofI. wore pj's. (never married-i wonder why.) |
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George Washington |
1st president. served in AmRev. crossed DelRiv. |
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James Madison |
4th president. Mr Madison's War- war of 1812 |
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Alexander Hamilton |
GW's sec of treasury. 5 plan's for US economy. |
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Henry Knox |
GW's sec of war. |
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James Monroe |
5th president. |
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John Quincy Adams |
6th president. |
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John Jay |
1st SCCJ. Jay Treaty=crap. |
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John Marshall |
best SCCJ. est Judicial Review & other important precedents. |
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William Henry Harrison |
9th president. Battle of Tippencanoe. bad pres. |
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Tecumseh |
wanted a confederacy of Indians W of the Appalachains. |
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Andrew Jackson |
7th president. Spoils System, Kitchen Cabinet. crashed BUS w/ Nick Biddle. |
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John C. Calhoun |
VP of GW&TJ. SC Expositions. |
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Sequoyah |
appealed to SCCJ-didn't want Cherokees to go to OK. |
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Stephen Austin |
brought Old 300 to TX. |
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Davy Crockett |
died in Alamo. |
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Sam Houston |
president of Lone Star Repub. |
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Santa Anna |
leader of Mex. exiled. deal w/ US to get into Mex-double crossed. |
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Zachary Taylor |
12th president. |
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Dred Scott |
slave. went to court to be freed. lost.. but got freedom. died of TB. |
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John Brown |
abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves,*killed 5 pro-slavery people.. was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory |
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Secret 6 |
abolitionists who funded John Brown's slave revolt. |
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James Buchanan |
15th president. |
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Abraham Lincoln |
16th president. opposed slavery-thought whites superior. Emancipation Proclamation (didn't free slaves). |
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Roger Taney |
SCCJ, presided over Dred Scott case. *slaves & descendents have no rights as citizens. |
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Jefferson Davis |
1st & only president of CSA. |
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Robert E. Lee |
General of CSA. w/ Union until VA seceded. |
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Thomas Stonewall Jackson |
CSA General. killed by friendly fire. |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
18th president. Union general. learned @ West Pointe. *Unconditional Surrender* (really bad pres). |
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Henry Clay |
"Mr. Compromiser": MO Comp, Comp of 1850, KS-NB Act, Sec of St, Am Sys, Speaker of HofR, corrupt bargain. |
