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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inspired by John Locke's ideas of citizens having power over their government. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution | George Washington |
| Considered the Father of the Navy; was a privateer | John Paul Jones |
| Spanish Naval Commander that defeated the British at New Orleans | Bernardo de Galvez |
| Organized the Boston Tea Party as an act of civil disobedience | Samuel Adams |
| French noble who supported the Americans in the Revolutionary War. | Marquis de Lafayette |
| wrote Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| African American who made a midnight run to warn that the British were coming | Wentworth Cheswell |
| famous for writing anti-British Revolutionary poetry and books | Mercy Otis Warren |
| "Give me liberty of give me death" | Patrick Henry |
| He negotiated the alliance with France and the Treaty of Paris 1783 | Benjamin Franklin |
| Leader of Great Britain during the American Revolution | King George III |
| rode to Lexington and Concord warning that the British were coming. | Paul Revere |
| American patriot and early supporter of women's rights | Abigail Adams |
| 1st American (African American) casualty of the American Revolution | Crispus Attucks |
| served in the Continental Army as a spy | James Armistead |
| African American shot and killed at the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| refused the Olive Branch Petition which led to the American Revolution | King George III |
| fought the British at sea and won with his ship called the Bonhamme Richard | John Paul Jones |
| a lawyer who argued self defense for the soldiers at the Boston Massacre | John Adams |
| wrote a pamphlet encouraging American independence from Britain | Thomas Paine |
| inventor, statesman, diplomat and signer of the Declaration of Independence | Benjamin Franklin |
| founder of the Sons of Liberty | Samuel Adams |
| Boston silversmith who created the engraving of the Boston Massacre | Paul Revere |
| was at Valley Forge and was friends with George Washington | Marquis de Lafayette |
| American patriot and wife of John Adams | Abigail Adams |
| Primary author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| main writer of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | Thomas Hooker |
| philosopher who said all humans have fundamental rights of Life, Liberty and Property | John Locke |
| founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers | William Penn |
| started one of the first political parties called The Federalists | Alexander Hamilton |
| the 2 men who started the political party called the Democratic-Republicans | Thomas Jefferson/James Madison |
| First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court | John Marshall |
| President during Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson |
| President during XYZ Affair/ Alien and Sedition Act | John Adams |
| President during War with Mexico over Texas (Mexican-American War) | James K Polk |
| President during Indian Removal Act/ Trail of Tears | Andrew Jackson |
| President during the Civil War/issued the Emancipation Proclamation | Abraham Lincoln |
| President during The War of 1812 | James Madison |
| President who issued the Monroe Doctrine | James Monroe |
| President during the Tariff of Abominations/ Nullification Crisis | Andrew Jackson |
| Who did Jackson think stole the Election of 1824 | John Quincy Adams |
| 18th President/ was the Supreme Union General during the Civil War | Ulysses S Grant |
| Supreme Confederate General during the Civil War | Robert E Lee |
| President of the Confederate States of America (Civil War) | Jefferson Davis |
| President of the U.S. during the Civil War/ won the election causing the South to secede | Abraham Lincoln |
| Confederate General that stood like a "Stone Wall" during the Battle of Bull Run | Stone Wall Jackson |
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