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Final Exam People
People Review- Ch. 1-5
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History
10th Grade
12/10/2012

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Mansa Musa
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most famous ruler of Mali
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Christopher Columbus
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Italian mariner who sailed for Spain
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Ferdinand Magellan
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succeeded in circling the entire globe
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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directed Portuguese efforts to sail across the Atlantic Ocean
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Bartolomeu Dias
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first to travel around the southern tip of Africa
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Vasco da Gama
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Portuguese explorer who reached India
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Hernan Cortes
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captured the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan
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Roger Williams
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the founder of Porvidence
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Samuel de Champlain
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the founder of Quebec
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Lord Baltimore
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the governor of the Maryland Colony
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John Smith
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emerged as a leader in Jamestown, Virginia
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James Oglethorpe
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leader of the Georgia colony
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Powhatan
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chief of the Native Americans near Jamestown
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John Winthrop
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founded Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Anne Hutchinson
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exiled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
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William Penn
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wealthy Englishman who helped Quakers from Pennsylvania
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Phyllis Wheatley
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first African American to publish poetry
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Ben Franklin
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inventor and scientist; negotiated the Treaty of Paris and an alliance with France
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George Washington
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Virginian who led British troops in an attack on Fort ; commander of American forces in American Revolution
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John Adams
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prominent Massachusetts lawyer who was surprised by the colonist's reaction to the taxes
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Patrick Henry
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Virginia representative who argued for more radical opposition to Parliament
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Thomas Paine
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an immigrant from England who wrote Common Sense
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Thomas Jefferson
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drafted the Declaration of Independence
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William Howe
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British commander who led the Battle of Bunker Hill
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Charles Cornwallis
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British leader at the Battle of Princeton
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Marquis de Lafayette
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French aristocrat who provided military expertise to the Continental Army
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Alexander Hamilton
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a man who disliked democracy; favored the British style of elitist government
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James Madison
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proposed the Virginia Plan; wanted a strong central government
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John Dickinson
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leader of Congress when we formed the loose confederation of 13 states under the Articles of Confederation
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