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Author of political pamphlets during 1770s and 1780s; wrote Common Sense in 1776.

Thomas Jefferson

Third President of the United States, 1801-1809; main author of the Declaration of Independence; a firm believer in the people and decentralized power; reduced the federal government.

George Washington

First President of the United States, 1789-1797; led American forces in the War for Independence; set several federal precedents, including the two-term maximum for presidential office.

English textile worker who brought the Industrial Revolution to the United States by duplicating British textile machinery from memory.

Inventor; developed the cotton gin in 1793, which rapidly increased cotton production in the South and led to a greater demand for slave labor.

Frederick Douglass

African American abolitionist leader who spoke eloquently for abolition in the United States and Britain before the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

Sixteenth president of the United States, 1861-1865; known for his effective leadership during the Civil War and his Emancipation Proclamation declaring the end of slavery in Confederate-held territory.

An area of land settled by immigrants who continue to be ruled by their parent country.

French and Indian War

War from 1754 to 1763 between France (with allied Indian nations) and Britain and its colonists, for control of eastern North America.

Revolutionary War

American colonists' war of Independence from Britain, fought from 1775 to 1783.

Battles of Lexington and Concord

First battles of the Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775.

Battle of Saratoga

Revolutionary War Battle in 1777 in New York, a turning point in the war.

War between the United States and Great Britain.

Treaty of Ghent

Agreement, signed in 1814, that ended the War of 1812.

Industrial Revolution

Effort, beginning in Britain in the late 1700s, to increase production by using machines powered by sources other than humans or animals.