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Who and what saved Jamestown?

• John Smith and tobacco

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Who was King of England during the American
Revolution?

• George III

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Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?

• Samuel Adams

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Who was the commander of the army and first
president?

• George Washington

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Who believed the federal government should have
more power than states? (elastic clause)

• Alexander Hamilton

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Who believed states should have more power than
federal government?

• Thomas Jefferson

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Who said Give me liberty

• Patrick Henry

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Who surrendered to Washington at Yorktown?

• Cornwallis

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Who was dictator of France and sold Louisiana to
the U.S.?

• Napoleon

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Who ran for president unopposed? (no one ran
against him)

• James Monroe

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Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable
parts for guns?

• Eli Whitney

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Who invented the steam boat?

• Robert Fulton

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Who started the American System and was was known
as the Great Compromiser?

• Henry Clay

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Explain American System.

• Better Roads
• Bank of U.S.
• Protective Tariff

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Who wrote Uncle Toms cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

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What did William Lloyd Garrison do?

• Ran anti-slavery newspaper

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What did Dorothea Dix do?

• Helped people who could not help themselves

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Who was Frederick Douglas?

• Former slave

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Who was Sojourner Truth?

• Former slave

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Who was Harriet Tubman?

• Ran Underground Railroad

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What did Horace Mann fight for?

• Free education

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for what?

• Womens rights

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Susan B. Anthony fought for what?

• Womens rights

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Margaret Sanger is known for what?

• Birth control

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Which Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is said
to have shaped it?

• John Marshall

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Who wrote The Star Spangled Banner?

• Francis Scott Key

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Who was elected by the common man?

• Andrew Jackson

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Who raided the arsenal at Harpers Ferry and was
hanged?

• John Brown

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Who was President during Civil War and believed
in no extension of slavery?

• Abraham Lincoln

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Who was commander of the Confederate Army of
Virginia?

• Robert E. Lee

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Who was President of the Confederate States of
America?

• Jefferson Davis

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Who was leader of U.S. army during Civil War and
was a weak President?

• U.S. Grant

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Who believed in Social Darwinism which means
what?

• Charles Darwin survival of the fittest

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Who had a monopoly of oil and owned Standard Oil
Company?

• John D. Rockefeller

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Who started the NAACP?

• W.E.B. DuBois

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Who started Tuskeegee Institute? (in Alabama)

• Booker T. Washington

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Who was a scientist at Tuskeegee Institute and
experimented with the peanut?

• George Washington Carver

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Who organized the Rough Riders?

• Teddy Roosevelt

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Who created the League of Nations?

• Woodrow Wilson

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Whose assassination started WWI?

• Francis Ferdinand

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Who was leader of Germany and killed Jews?

• Hitler

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Who made first nonstop flight from U.S. to Paris
in the Spirit of St. Louis?

• Charles Lindbergh

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Who was President during depression, WWII and
created TVA?

• FDR

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Who was blamed for the depression?

• Herbert Hoover

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Who was leader of Russia during WWII?

• Stalin

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Who was leader of England during WWII?

• Churchill

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Who was leader of Italy during WWII?

• Mussolini

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Who was supreme commander of Allied forces during
WWII?

• Eisenhower

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Who warned colonists that British soldiers were
headed to Lexington and Concord?

• Paul Revere

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