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Flashcards by Emily Parsons, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emily Parsons
over 2 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Christopher Columbus | "discovered" the Americas in 1492 |
| Hernan Cortez | conquered the Aztecs |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | advocated for better treatment of the natives |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Built up the failed Roanoke Colony |
| William Bradford | first and most influential governor of Plymouth |
| John Winthrop | Massachusetts Bay Colony governor |
| Nathaniel Bacon | led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial government |
| George Whitefield | spread the Great Awakening |
| Powhatan | Indian leader who ruled tribes in the James River area |
| Charles Townshend | British chancellor who taxed the colonies |
| Thomas Paine | supported revolution in America by writing "Common Sense" |
| John Marshall | laid the foundations for the Supreme Court's role as interpreter of the Constitution |
| Tecumseh | NA chief who wanted to create an autonomous state |
| Henry Clay | forged the Compromise of 1850 |
| Robert Fulton | first commercially successful steamboat |
| Dorothea Dix | founded/ expanded more than 30 hospitals for the mentally ill |
| William Lloyd Garrison | owned "the Liberator" |
| Frederick Douglass | prominent activist, author, and public speaker |
| David Wilmot | advocated for the banning of slavery in territory acquired from the Mexican-American war |
| John Brown | Abolitionist |
| Dred Scott | Dred Scott case upheld slavery, denied the legality of black citizenship, and declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional |
| Boss Tweed | Tammany Hall political machine |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Railroad monopoly |
| Andrew Carnegie | Steel monopoly and wrote "the Gospel of Wealth" |
| John D. Rockefeller | Oil monopoly |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | "women can never be equal until they have economic freedom" |
| William Jennings Bryan | supported free silver |
| Rudyard Kipling | "White Man's Burden" |
| Betty Friedan | "The Feminine Mystique" |
| Saddam Hussein | led Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war and the Persian Gulf war |
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