People to Recognize and Recall
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- Christopher Columbus
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explorer landed in
Caribbean Island looking
for a route to Asia - John Smith
- grew corn from Indians, founder of Jamestown
- Thomas Hooker
- founded Conneticut
- Roger Williams
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founded Rhode Island for religious freedom and believed people should
not be persecuted because
of religion - Anne Hutchinson
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also founded Rhode Island
and said God spoke to her - William Penn
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founded Pennsylvania
Quakers.....
diverse population - James Oglethorpe
- founded Georgia
- John Peter Zenger
- freedom of press and speech
- King George III
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King of England seen as
a tyrant by colonists - Ben Franklin
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came up with Albany Plan
of Union - Patrick Henry
- said, "give me liberty or give me death"; Patriot
- Crispus Attucks
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1st African American
killed in the
Revolutionary War - Samuel Adams
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leader of the Sons of
Liberty - Marquis de Lafayette
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emissary; French nobleman
who helped Washington in
the war - Benedict Arnold
- traitor; 1st on American side, then sided with the British
- Thomas Paine
- Patriot who wrote Common Sense
- Richard Henry Lee
- proposed complete independence (Declaration of Independence)
- John Locke
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Enlightement thinker who believed in natural rights govern at birth like life, liberty, and property...thought
people could overthrow government if these
rights were taken
away - Thomas Jefferson
- author of Declaration of Independence
- King Louis XVI
- King of France
- General Rochambeau
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French commander that
helped American win the battle of Yorktown by
having French ships set
up a blockade to surround
the British - Phillis Wheatly
- African slave noted for poetry; supported independence during Revolutionary War
- Baron von Stuben
- German who trained the Continental Army during winter at Valley Forge
- General Cornwallis
- British commander in the South
- George Washington
- commander of the Continental Army; 1st President of the United States