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pioneer |
person who settled on a part of a country and prepared it for others |
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backwoodsman |
person who lived in forests far away from towns |
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plantation |
large farm |
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Juan Ponce de Leon |
Spanish explorer who looked for the "fountain of youth" |
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Hernando de Soto |
Spanish explorer who was the first European to see the Mississippi River |
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Robert La Salle |
French explorer who founded present day Louisiana |
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Thomas Jefferson |
President who doubled the size of United States by purchasing Louisiana Territory from France |
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James Madison |
President who was called "Father of the Constitution" |
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Monticello |
Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia |
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Jamestown, Virginia |
first successful British colony in Noth America |
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Roanoke Island |
colony in present-day North Carolina called the "Lost Colony" |
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St. Augustine, Florida |
first permanent European settlement in the United States |
