Key People Flashcards
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John Adams
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2
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Patrick Henry
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- He was a radical man who was against all British taxation
- He accused the king of ‘treason’
3
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George Washington
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-He was a general commanding the American militia
-He was the first president of the United States
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4
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Sam Adams
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- He was an American state man, political philosophers
- He was one of the founding fathers
- He was the 2nd cousin to the president John Adams
5
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Benjamin Franklin
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- Born in Boston
- He was a self made man and very well educated mostly from his own will to learn
- Sat as a delegate at the second continental congress
- Helped to draw up the Declaration of Independence
- Also helped to draft the Constitution
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John Locke
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- He was an English philosopher and physician
- He was seen to be very influential and the most influential of the enlightenment thinkers
- He beloved that governments were there to protect rights and that the colonies were being mistreated
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Thomas Jefferson
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- He was into Virginia and died 4th July 1826
- He was a principle author of the Declaration of Independence
- He was elected the 3rd president of the United States
