| A | B |
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| Christopher Newport | led "Susan Constant," "Godspeed," and "Discovery" to Virginia in 1607 |
| Captain John Smith | made the rule of the colony "He that will not work, shall not eat." |
| Pocahontas | saved John Smith's life and married John Rolfe |
| Indentured Servants | agreed to work for a planter or a farmer before gaining freedom |
| Opechanocanough | brother of Chief Powhatan |
| Nathaniel Bacon | ignored Governor Berkeley's orders to keep peace with the Indians and led a rebellion that set fire to Jamestown |
| Pioneers | first people to move to a frontier by clearing the land |
| George Wythe | college professor of Thomas Jefferson and spoke out against the Stamp Act |
| Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Independence and lived in Monticello |
| George Rogers Clark | led the frontier fighters across icy rivers and captured three important British forts |
| patriots | colonists who supported the American Revolution |
| loyalists | colonists who sided with Britain and opposed independence |
| George Mason | father of the Virginia Declaration of Rights |
| James Madison | father of the Constitution |
| George Washington | father of the country and lived in Mount Vernon |
| James Monroe | was sent to France by President Jefferson to buy the Louisiana Territory |
| Lewis and Clark | first American explorers to cross the continent and reach the Pacific Ocean |
| Nat Turner | fought for enslaved African Americans's freedom by leading an attack |
| John Brown | abolitionist who seized Harpers Ferry's armory |
| George Washington | Commander of American Revolutionary Army |
