| A | B |
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| General Grant | Union General who defeated Lee. |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the confederacy |
| Fransisco Coronado | claimed S.W. desert area U.S. for spain |
| John Locke | Natural Rights of Life, Liberty, and Property |
| George Washington | The first president and commander of the cotinental army |
| King George III | British king during revolution era |
| Thomas Jefferson | Major author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense |
| John Adams | Championed cause of Independence |
| Patrick Henry | Outspoken member of house of burgesses famous for Give me Liberty or give me death speech |
| Lord Cornwalis | British general who surrendered at Yorktown |
| Alenxander Hamilton | leader of the Federalists |
| John Cabot | British explorer of eastern canada |
| Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist-underground railroad conductor |
| Susan B. Anthony | Suffragist leader |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| Benjamin Banneker | African American who helped plan Washington DC |
| Robert Smalls | A sailor and later a Union naval captain, was highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroism. |
| Clara Barton | Civil War nurse, created the American Red Cross. |
| Frederick Douglass | Was a former slave who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist |
| Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson | Was a skilled Confederate general from Virginia |
| Robert E. Lee | Was leader of the Army of Northern Virginia |
| Abraham Lincoln | Opposed the spread of slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Newspaper owern & Abolitionist who believed that slavery was wrong. |
| Robert Fulton | The steamboat was improved by him. |
| Jo Anderson (a slave) and Cyrus McCormick | They worked to invent the reaper. |
| Eli Whitney | He invented the Cotton Gin; increasing slavery |
| Lewis and Clark | They explored the Louisiana Purchase from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. |
| James Monroe | He warned European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere. |
| James Madison | The War of l812 caused European nations to gain respect for the United States. |
| Thomas Jefferson | He bought Louisiana from France (Louisiana Purchase). |
| John Adams | A two-party system emerged during his administration. |
| Alexander Hamilton | Leader of the Federalists |
| Phillis Wheatley | A former slave who wrote poems and plays |
| Paul Revere | Patriot who made a daring ride to warn colonists of British arrival |
| Benjamin Franklin | Prominent member of Continental Congress; helped frame the Declaration of Independence |
| Patrick Henry | Outspoken member of House of Burgesses; inspired colonial patriotism with “Give me liberty or give me death” speech |
| Indentured servants | They did not have money for passage to the colonies and who agreed to work without pay for the person who paid for their passage |
| Artisans | Worked as craftsmen in towns and on the plantation |
| The Portuguese | carried goods from Europe to West African empires, trading metals, cloth, and other manufactured goods for gold. |
| Robert La Salle | He claimed the Mississippi River Valley. |
| Iroquois | inhabited northeast North America, the Eastern Woodland, which is heavily forested. |
| Pueblo | inhabited the Southwest in present-day New Mexico and Arizona, |
| Sioux | inhabited the interior of the United States, called the Great Plains and characterized by dry grasslands. |
| Kwakiutl | inhabited the Pacific Northwest coast, characterized by a rainy, mild climate. |
| Inuit | inhabited present-day Alaska and northern Canada. |
| was the gateway to the west. | The Ohio River |
| The Columbia River | was explored by Lewis and Clark |
