English physician and philosopher
 Enlightment thinker
 Major Works:
a. (1689) A letter Concerning Toleration
b. (1689) Two Treaties of Government
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First post- colonial Governor of Virginia
form from 1776-1779
 American Revolution
 Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions
 “Treason Speech” in Saint Johns Church
in Richmond Virginia
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3rd president of the United States (18011809)
 Principle author of the Declaration of
Independence
 Monticello
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French and Indian war (Seven Years
War)
 1st President of the United States
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Great inventor
 Invented the lightening rod, furnace
stove, odometer, and bifocals, etc….
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Major leader in the American revolution
 Protested against the Stamp Act of 1765
 Founder of Sons of Liberty
 Against the Townshend Acts
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Political philosopher 1797-1801
 Politician
 President during the French and British
war
 Passed the Sedition and Alien Acts
 Vice President under George
Washington (2 year term)
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French solider
 A captain of artiuery in a regiment
stationed at Metz
 1757-1834 Castle of Chavagnae in
Auvergne
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American politician and political
philosopher who served as the fourth
president of the United States
 (1809-1817) “Founding Fathers of the
United States”
 “Father of the Constitution”
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First secretary of the treasury
 Born on the West Indian island of Nevis
probably in 1755
 March 1777-> Lieutenant colonel in the
Continental Army (served Washington for
4 years)
 Lead a regiment of New York troops at
the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781
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American statesman and jurist who
shaped American constitutional law and
made the Supreme court a center of
power
 Chief Justice of the United States
February 4, 1861->1835
 United States House of Representatives
March 4 ,1799->June 7, 1800
 Federalist Party
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First overland expedition undertaken by
the United States to the Pacific coast
and back
 Team was ____ and ____ assisted by
Sacajawea and Charbonneall
 Louisiana Purchase
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Westboro, Massachusetts on December
8, 1765-Janunary 8, 1825
 Cotton gin: automated the separation of
the cottonseed from the short-staple
cotton fiber.
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American abolitionist, journalist and
social reformer
 Abolitionist Newspaper, The Liberator>American Anti-slavery Society >immediate emancipation
 Voice of the woman's suffrage
movement
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American abolitionist and author
 Wrote a novel named Uncle Tom’s
Cabin in 1852
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16th president of the United States from
March 1861 until his assassination in April
1865.
 American Civil War (ending of slavery)
 Republican president
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Was a major general during the
American Civil War.
 He organized the famous Army of the
Potomac and served briefly (November
1861 to March 1862) as the general-inchief of the Union Army.
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Was an American soldier, businessman,
educator and author.
 He served as a General in the Union
Army during the American Civil War
(1861–65), for which he received
recognition for his outstanding
command.
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Was general-in-chief of the Union Army
from 1864 to 1869 during the American
Civil War.
 18th President of the United States from
1869 to 1877.
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Was an American politician who served
as President of the Confederate States of
America for its entire history, 1861 to
1865, during the American Civil War.
Was a career United States Army officer,
an engineer, and among the most
celebrated generals in American history.
 He was the son of Major General "Light
Horse Harry" (1756–1818), Governor of
Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill
Carter (1773–1829).
 He was also related to Meriwether Lewis
(1774–1809).
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Was a Confederate general during the
American Civil War, and probably the
most well-known Confederate
commander after General Robert E. Lee.
 His military career includes the Valley
Campaign of 1862 and his service as a
corps commander in the Army of
Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee.
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Was an American abolitionist, and folk
hero who advocated and practiced
armed insurrection as a means to end all
slavery.
 He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in
1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his
name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers
Ferry in 1859.
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Was an American abolitionist, women's
suffragist, editor, orator, author,
statesman and reformer.
 Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The
Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the
most prominent figures in African
American and United States history.
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Was the 17th President of the United
States (1865–1869).
 Following the assassination of President
Lincoln, he presided over the immediate
aftermath of the American Civil War.
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Was an American composer and lyricist
widely considered one of the greatest
songwriters in history.
Was an American composer and pianist.
 Gershwin's compositions spanned both
popular and classical genres, and his
most popular melodies are universally
familiar.
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Was an American lyricist who
collaborated with his younger brother,
composer George Gershwin, to create
some of the most memorable songs of
the 20th century.
Was an Italian physicist, particularly
remembered for his work on the
development of the first nuclear reactor,
and for his contributions to the
development of quantum theory,
nuclear and particle physics, and
statistical mechanics.
 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in
1938 for his work on induced
radioactivity.
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Was a theoretical physicist who is widely
regarded as one of the most influential
scientists of all time, and the "greatest
physicist ever", according to a 1999 poll
of leading physicists
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Was an English engineer and inventor.
Bessemer's name is chiefly known in
connection with the Bessemer process
for the manufacture of steel.
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Was an American inventor, scientist and
businessman who developed many
devices that greatly influenced life
around the world, including the
phonograph, the motion picture
camera, and a long-lasting, practical
electric light bulb.
Was the American founder of the Ford
Motor Company and father of modern
assembly lines used in mass production.
 His introduction of the Model T
automobile revolutionized transportation
and American industry.
 He was a prolific inventor and was
awarded 161 U.S. patents.
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Was an American socialite, heir,
businessman, and a member of the
prominent United States ______ family.
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Were two Americans who are generally
credited with inventing and building the
world's first successful airplane and
making the first controlled, powered and
sustained heavier-than-air human flight,
on December 17, 1903.
In 1876, at the age of 29, he invented his
telephone.
 In 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone
Company
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Was a Scottish industrialist, businessman,
entrepreneur and a major philanthropist.
Was an American industrialist.
 He revolutionized the petroleum industry
and defined the structure of modern
philanthropy.
 In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil
Company and aggressively ran it until he
officially retired in 1897.
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Was an American financier, banker and art
collector who dominated corporate finance
and industrial consolidation during his time.
In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison
General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric
Company to form General Electric.
After financing the creation of the Federal
Steel Company he merged the Carnegie Steel
Company and several other steel and iron
businesses to form the United States Steel
Corporation in 1901.
Was an American labor union leader and a
key figure in American labor history.
 Gompers founded the American
Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as
the AFL's president from 1886-1894 and from
1895 until his death in 1924.
 He promoted harmony among the
different craft unions that comprised the
AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles.
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