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iLEAP vocab. 16-30

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Benjamin Franklin American inventor who was sent to France during the Revolution to persuade France to become a U.S. ally.
Thomas Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence was Washington's secretary of state, and third president.
George Washington General of the Continental Army and first U.S. president.
Samuel Adams started the committees of correspondence, was the leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty, urged the colonists to resist British control.
John Hancock President of the Continental Congress and the first to sign the Declaration of Independence. He signed it large enough for King George to see without his glasses.
Patrick Henry "Give my Liberty or give me death"
George Rogers Clark Fought the British in Kentucky and Indiana with 200 men. He was clever and his victories gave Americans a hold on the vast Great Lakes and Ohio River region.
Constitutional Convention Philadelphia 1787. Secret meetings to write the Constitution.
Virginia Plan Edmund Randolph's plan that proposed a three branch government with a two house legislature in which representation would be based on population.
New Jersey Plan plan that called for a one house legislature with equal representation.
Great Compromise established a two house legislature with all states having equal representation in one house and representation based on population in the second house.
Three-Fifths Compromise Constitutional Convention agreement that counted three-fifths of a states slave population for taxation and representation.
Manifest Destiny the belief that the U. S. was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Gold Rush a large number of people move to a site where gold has been found.
Gadsden Purchase last land added to US. Bought from Mexico in 1848 for $10 million for southern transcontinental railroad.
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