People and Names Flashcards

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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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12
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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

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Abraham Lincoln

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

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Frederick Jackson Turner
Turner Thesis | US = typical pioneer character
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Woodrow Wilson
14 Points | post-war peace agreements proposal
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Al Capone
Bootlegger (smuggling alcohol) | famous gangster Chicago
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Herbert Hoover
President during Great Depression | Hoovervilles
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Franklin Roosevelt
democratic President after Great Depression media presidency New Deal Reforms very popular, 3x reelected > after deacth amendement to constituation: only 1x reelected
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Jim Crow
racist theater character representing white ideas of black culture
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Booker T. Washington
Gradualism of black emancipation | Tuskegee Institute for black training
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William DuBois
historian, sociologist demanding full equality immediately "Washington = Uncle Tom"
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Ida Wells-Barnett
investigative journalist | activist lynching, women's rights
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Warren Harding
President US | "Return to Normalcy" policy after WW1
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Marcus Garvey
Black nationalist ideas race pride Garvey Movement
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James H. Meredith
first black student at University of Mississippi
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Rosa Parks
Civil Rights activist refused to give up her seat to white > arrested, Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Martin Luther King
``` Civil Rights activist Montgomery Bus Boycott I have a dream March on Washington CLC = Christian Leadership Conference SNCC = The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee ```
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Malcom X
Civil Rights activist | leader Black Muslims
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Eldridge Cleaver
Civil Rights activists | leader Black Panthers
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L. Douglas Wilder
1. elected black governor Virginia
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Thurgood Marshall
1. black Supreme Court
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Rodney King
drunk driving > police force brutal > Riots
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O.J. Simpson
famous football star accused of murder ex-wife + lover freed: victory over white legal system
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Barack Obama
1. black President US Black Lives Matter Movement Police brutality against blacks
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Donald Trump
current President US Racism links Blacks with violence