Famous People Review

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Famous People Review
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•  Born in Spain
•   In the early 1530s, while on Francisco
  Pizarro's expedition, he helped conquer Peru.
• The first European to reach the Mississippi river

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Hernando de Soto
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•  Born in France
• Claimed the Mississippi River and all the land
  around it, including Tennessee, for France

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Robert de LaSalle
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•  Set out from Spain in 1519 to discover a
  western sea route to the Spice Islands.
•  Became the first European to cross the Pacific
  Ocean
• First to circumnavigate the globe

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      Ferdinand Magellan
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• Italian
• Made several voyages to South America and the
  Caribbean
•  Demonstrated that the New World was not Asia
  but a previously unknown fourth continent

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  Amerigo Vespucci
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•  Born in Italy
• Tried to find a new route to Asia
• Columbian Exchange

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Christopher Columbus
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• The first European to sail up what is now the
  Hudson River in New York
• Sought the Northwest Passage across America to
  the Far East
• Has more water named for him than anyone else

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Henry Hudson
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•  First European to travel inland in North
  America
• Claimed Canada for France

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Jacques Cartier
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•  Real name was Cecilius Calvert
•  Made Maryland a refuge for Catholics

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Lord Baltimore
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•  Founded the first permanent English colony in
  America Jamestown in Virginia
• Established trade agreements with the neighboring
  Powhatans

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John Smith
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• Wanted more religious freedom
•  Banished from Massachusetts
• Founded a new colony called Rhode Island where
  people could worship freely

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Roger Williams
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• Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• A puritan

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John Winthrop
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• Governor of Plymouth
•  Taught by Squanto to plant crops
• Agreed with Massasoit to live in peace

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William Bradford
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•  Founded the colony of Georgia
• Wanted Georgia to be a place where poor people
  and people who owed money could live

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James Oglethorpe
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•  Major figure in the American Revolution
•  Said, Give me liberty or give me death
• Delegate to the Continental Congress

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Patrick Henry
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•  First secretary of the treasury
• Died in a duel with Thomas Jeffersons vice
  president Aaron Burr

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Alexander Hamilton
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•  Drafted the Declaration of Independence
•  3rd president of the U.S.
• Responsible for the Louisiana Purchase

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Thomas Jefferson
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•  Leader of the Continental Army during the
  American Revolution
• 1st president of the U.S.

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George Washington
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•  Helped draft the Declaration of Independence
  and Constitution
•  Organized the first library and volunteer fire
  dept.
•   Negotiated the Treaty of Paris
• Wrote Poor Richards Almanac and experimented
  with electricity

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Benjamin Franklin
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•  Wrote Common Sense an essay about separating
  the US from England
• Helped paved the way for the Declaration of
  Independence

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Thomas Paine
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•  1st Vice President of the US
•  2nd President of the US
•   His son, John Quincy was the 6th President of
  the US

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John Adams
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•  Helped organize the resistance to the Stamp Act
•  Helped organize the Boston Tea Party
•  Second cousin to John Adams

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Samuel Adams
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•  Helped Sam Adams protest against England
•   First to sign the Declaration of Independence
• 1st Governor of Massachusetts

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John Hancock
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•  Father of the Constitution
• 4th President of the US

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James Madison
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•  Architect and urban designer
• Designed the basic plan of Washington D.C.

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Pierre LEnfant
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•   was the first territorial governor of TN
• Later became one of the first two U.S. senators
  from Tennessee

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   William Blount
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•  TNs first governor in 1796
•  Was a soldier, frontiersman, and politician
• One of the founding fathers of Tennessee

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John Sevier
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•  Led an expedition to survey the land West of
  the Mississippi, known as Louisiana Territory
•   Group called the Corps of Discovery
•   Received help and guidance from Sacagawea, a
  Shoshone Indian

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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•  A Shoshone interpreter best known for being the
  only woman on the Lewis and Clark expedition into
  the American West

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Sacagawea
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•  9th president of the US
• First president to die in office

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William Henry Harrison
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• Wrote the lyrics to the United States' national
  anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner

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Francis Scott Key
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•  Wife of President James Madison
• Boosted her husbands popularity as President

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Dolly Madison
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•  Brought Texas into the United States
•  Secured the independence of Texas from Mexico
•  Governor of Tennessee

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Sam Houston
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•  Chief of the Cherokee Nation longer than anyone
  else
• Advised them through the Indian Removal Act and
  the American Civil War

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John Ross
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•  Known as the Father of the American
  Revolution
• Also known as the Father of the American
  Factory System
•   Brought British textile technology to America
• Designed the first textile mills in America

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Samuel Slater
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•   American Inventor
• Invented the cotton gin

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Eli Whitney
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•  Abolitionist
• founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a
  utopian community to prepare slaves for
  emancipation

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Francis Wright
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•  Abolitionist
•  Publisher of the first newspaper devoted to
  abolish slavery

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Elihu Embree
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•  African American slave who led a slave
  rebellion in Virginia
• He was convicted and sentenced to death by
  hanging

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Nat Turner
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•  An African-American social reformer, orator,
  writer, and statesman
•  After escaping from slavery, he became a leader
  of the abolitionist movement

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Frederick Douglass
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•  A prominent American abolitionist, journalist,
  suffragist, and social reformer
•  He is best known as the editor of the
  abolitionist newspaper The Liberator

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William Garrison