History Key People Flashcards
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Roger Williams
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- Puritan leader
- Founded Providence
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John Smith
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- Well known adventurer
- Helped Jamestown survive
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Anne Hutchinson
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- Disagreed with Puritan leadership
- Founded Portsmouth Colony
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Olaudah Equiano
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- Former salve
- Wrote about his horrible experiences
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John Locke
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- Enlightenment thinker
- Wrote “Two Treaties of Government”
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Tories
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-Loyal to the British forces during the American Revolution
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Patriots
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-Loyal to American Forces during the American Revolution
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Benjamin Franklin
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- Delegate of the 2nd Continental Congress
- Ambassador to the French during the American Revolution
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Thomas Jefferson
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- Wrote most of the Declaration of Independence
- Was highly educated and intelligent
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Charles Cornwallis
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- British commander of the South
- Realized he wouldn’t win in the South because of lack of Tori support
- Surrendered to Washington at the Battle of Yorktown
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John Hancock
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- President of the 2nd Continental Congress
- The 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence
- Wealthy merchant from Boston
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Marquis de Lafayette
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- Was 19 when he came to the U.S.
- Strongly believed in the principles of the American Revolution
- Became a trusted aid to Washington
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Friedrich Von Steuben
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- Officer in the Prussia Army
- Helped train troops at Valley Forge
- Made the Continental Army an effective fighting force
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Thomas Paine
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- Wrote Common Sense
- short and basic education unsuccessful early life
- Ben Franklin convinced him to emigrate to America
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George Washington
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- Member of the House of Burgesses
- Commander of the Continental Army
