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People and Names Flashcards

1
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Squanto

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interpreter puritans - Natives

Thanksgiving Plymouth Plantation

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Pocahontas

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political marriage John Rolfe
saved John Smith
Jamestown
first mixed race child

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Christopher Columbus

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“discovered” America 1492

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John Smith

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Captain

Founder and leader of Jamestown

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John Rolfe

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Co-founder Jamestown
tobacco
political marriage Pocahontas

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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leader or English merchants settling on Roanoke Island

“The Lost Colony”

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William Bradford

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  1. Governor Plymouth
    Puritan
    Mayflower Compact
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John Calvin

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Calvinism = everything is controlled by God

cannot be changed by men

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Samuel Sewall

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famous judge, politican in Massachussets
Salem Witchcraft Trials
“Diary”

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John Winthrop

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Founder and Governor Massachussets Bay Colony

Puritan

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William Penn

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Founder and Governor Pennsylvania
Quaker
“Letter to the Free Society of Traders”

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Benjamin Fraklin

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Founding Father US

Utilitarian Writer

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Patrick Henry

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“Give me liberty or give me death”

1. Continental Congress

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Baron von Steuben

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prussian military officer

training of American troops for WoI

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Paul Revere

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famous night ride

forwarned minutemen for British attack

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George Washington

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  1. President US
    Commander-in-Chief WoI
    Bunker Hill Battle
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Thomas Jefferson

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Draft of Declaration of I
Louisiana Purchase
President US

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18
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Founding Fathers of US?

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George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
James Madison

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Nat Turner

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slave rebellion

revolt in Virginia

20
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Harriet Tubman

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Underground Railroad user + helper

black abolitionist

21
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Frederick Douglass

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black abolitionst

22
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William Llyod Garrison

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white abolitionist

Magazine “The Liberator”

23
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Theodore Parker

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white abolitionist

unitarian preacher Boston

24
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Abraham Lincoln

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President US
new: Republican Party (liberal)
Unionist
no slavery –> Civil War

25
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Frederick Jackson Turner

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Turner Thesis

US = typical pioneer character

26
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Woodrow Wilson

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14 Points

post-war peace agreements proposal

27
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Al Capone

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Bootlegger (smuggling alcohol)

famous gangster Chicago

28
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Herbert Hoover

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President during Great Depression

Hoovervilles

29
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Franklin Roosevelt

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democratic President after Great Depression
media presidency
New Deal Reforms
very popular, 3x reelected
> after deacth amendement to constituation: only 1x reelected

30
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Jim Crow

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racist theater character representing white ideas of black culture

31
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Booker T. Washington

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Gradualism of black emancipation

Tuskegee Institute for black training

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William DuBois

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historian, sociologist
demanding full equality immediately
“Washington = Uncle Tom”

33
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Ida Wells-Barnett

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investigative journalist

activist lynching, women’s rights

34
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Warren Harding

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President US

“Return to Normalcy” policy after WW1

35
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Marcus Garvey

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Black nationalist ideas
race pride
Garvey Movement

36
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James H. Meredith

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first black student at University of Mississippi

37
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Rosa Parks

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Civil Rights activist
refused to give up her seat to white
> arrested, Montgomery Bus Boycott

38
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Martin Luther King

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Civil Rights activist
Montgomery Bus Boycott
I have a dream
March on Washington
CLC = Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC = The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
39
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Malcom X

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Civil Rights activist

leader Black Muslims

40
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Eldridge Cleaver

A

Civil Rights activists

leader Black Panthers

41
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L. Douglas Wilder

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  1. elected black governor Virginia
42
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Thurgood Marshall

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  1. black Supreme Court
43
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Rodney King

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drunk driving
> police force brutal
> Riots

44
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O.J. Simpson

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famous football star
accused of murder ex-wife + lover
freed: victory over white legal system

45
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Barack Obama

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  1. black President US
    Black Lives Matter Movement
    Police brutality against blacks
46
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Donald Trump

A

current President US
Racism
links Blacks with violence

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