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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Great Compromise | created two houses of Congress. One based on population, the other gave equal representation to each state. |
| Sam Adams | was a member of the Sons of Liberty who started the Committee of Correspondence to stir public support for American independence. |
| Ben Franklin | was an inventor, statesman, diplomat, signer of the Declaration of Independence and delegate to Constitutional Convention. |
| King George III | was the King of England who disbanded the colonial legislatures, taxed the colonies, and refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies. |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence; became the 3rd President of the United States and purchased the Louisiana territory, doubling the size of the United States. |
| Thomas Paine | wrote pamphlets like Common Sense and The Crisis to encourage American independence and resolve. |
| George Washington | was the leader of the Continental Army who became the first President of the United States. |
| Andrew Jackson | was the leader of the original Democratic Party and a “President of the people”. He was also responsible for the Trail of Tears, which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River. |
| John C. Calhoun | was a South Carolina Congressman and Senator who spoke for the South before and during the Civil War. |
| Henry Clay | was a powerful Kentucky Congressman and Senator who proposed the American System and the Compromise of 1850. |
| Daniel Webster | was a Massachusetts Congressman and Senator who spoke for the North and the preservation of the Union. |
| Jefferson Davis | was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | was the General of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the North. |
| Robert E. Lee | was the General of the Confederate Army. |
| Abraham Lincoln | was the 16th President of the United States who successfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days after the Civil War ended. |
| Alexander Hamilton | was a leader of the Federalists, first Treasurer of the United States, creator of the Bank of the U.S., and killed in a duel by the Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr. |
| Patrick Henry | was a passionate patriot who became famous for his fiery speeches in favor of American independence. His most famous quote included the words, “Give me liberty or give me death |
| James Madison | is considered to be the “Father of the Constitution”. |
| Frederick Douglass | was a former slave who became the best-known black abolitionist in the country. |
| James Monroe | was the author of the Monroe Doctrine, which shut down the western hemisphere to European expansion or interference. |
| Harriet Tubman | was an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Underground Railroad and helped over 300 slaves to freedom in the North. |
| 83. Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized the Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women’s Rights Movement in the United States. |
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