People to KnowGrade 5

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Who am I? Tried to find a direct route to Asia. Explored northeast coast of North America. Gave England claim to North America. Explored eastern Canada.

Who am I? French explorer of North America. Founded Quebec, first permanent

French settlement in North America.

Who am I? Claimed southwest U.S. for Spain.

Who am I? French explorer who claimed Mississippi

River Valley for France.

Who am I? English philosopher whose ideas influenced

the revolutionary movement in America. Believed that people have natural rights to

life, liberty, and property. Believed that government is created to

protect the rights of people and has only the limited and specific powers the people consent to give it.

Who am I? Led patriots in throwing tea into Boston

Harbor to protest tea taxes.

Who am I? British General who surrendered at

Yorktown.

Who am I? Prominent member of Continental

Congress who helped frame the Declaration of Independence.

Who am I? British king during the Revolutionary era.

Who am I? Outspoken member of House of

Burgesses. Inspired colonial patriotism with “Give me

Liberty or Give Me Death” speech.

Who am I? Author of Declaration of Independence. Third U. S. President. Conflicts with Alexander Hamilton led to

emergence of two political parties. (Democratic Republicans v Federalists)

Favored weak national government and states’ rights.

Opposed a national bank. Favored small businesses and farmers.

Who am I? Journalist during Revolutionary era; author

of “Common Sense.”

Who am I? Patriot who made daring ride to warn of

British arrival “The British are coming!”

Who am I? Name given to women who took jobs in

defense plants during World War II.

Who am I? Commander of the Continental Army during

Revolutionary War. First U.S. president.

Who am I? Former slave who wrote poems and plays

supporting American independence.

Who am I? Author of the Bill of Rights, first ten amendments

to U.S. Constitution. Leader in drafting U.S. Constitution. Promoted compromise at Constitutional

Convention. Supported Virginia Plan of two-house legislature. Called “Father of the Constitution.” Fourth U. S. President. War of 1812 fought during his administration.

Who am I? Federalist leader in conflict with Democratic

Republicans represented by Thomas Jefferson.

Favored strong national government and national bank.

Who am I? Author of the Monroe Doctrine warning

European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.

Who am I? African American astronomer and surveyor

who helped complete the design for Washington, D.C.

Who am I? With Meriwether Lewis explored the

Louisiana Purchase from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.

Who am I? With William Clark explored the Louisiana

Purchase from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.

Who am I? A slave who with Cyrus McCormick

invented the reaper that helped increased the productivity of the American farmer.

Who am I? Invented the steamboat that provided faster

river transportation that connected Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries.

Who am I? With Jo Anderson, invented McCormick

reaper, which helped increase the productivity of American farmer.

Who am I? Invented the cotton gin that increased the

production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton.

Who am I? Abolitionist, temperance advocate, and

leader in women’s suffrage movement who fought for women’s right to vote.

Who am I? Former slave who escaped to the North

and became abolitionist.

Who am I? Publisher of Liberator, abolitionist

newspaper.

Who am I? Abolitionist and leader in women’s suffrage

movement.

Who am I? Abolitionist leader who believed slavery

was wrong.

Who am I? Leader of the suffrage movement who

believed that women were deprived of basic rights.

Who am I? President of U.S. during Civil War. Opposed spread of slavery. Issued Emancipation Proclamation;

determined to preserve Union. Believed U. S. was one nation, not

collection of independent states. Delivered Gettysburg Address.

Who am I? President of Confederate States of

America.

Who am I? General of Union army who defeated

Robert E. Lee ending the Civil War. Lee’s surrendered to Grant at Appomattox

Court House in 1865 ended the Civil War.

Who am I? Skilled confederate general from Virginia. He earned the nickname, “First Battle of

Bull Run.”

Who am I? Leader of Confederate forces in Civil War. Offered command of Union forces at

beginning of war but would not fight against Virginia.

Opposed secession but believed Union should not be held together by force.

Lee’s surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in 1865 ended the Civil War.

Who am I? A Civil War nurse who created the

American Red Cross.

Who am I? Africa America sailor and later a Union

naval captain who was honored for his feats of bravery and heroism.

Became a Congressman after the Civil War.

John Cabot

www.artworkoriginals.com/ EB5SCSFK.htm

Samuel de Champlain

www.mef.qc.ca/ Histoire-du-Quebec.htm

Francisco Coronado

http://www.ancestral.com/cultures/north_america/anasazi.html

Robert La Salle

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/explorers/h24-1480-e.html

John Locke

http://www.herodote.net/histoire12220.htm

Sam Adams

http://www.nndb.com/people/732/000048588/

Lord Cornwallis

http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/resources/StudentTo1877/SChapter6.htm

Benjamin Franklin

http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/people.php?taid=&id=1234567&lid=1

King George III

http://www.smfc.k12.ca.us/class/laurel/lalosh2/colonistspg4.html

Patrick Henry

www.columbia.edu/ itc/law/witt/images/lect5/

Thomas Jefferson

http://museum.nist.gov/object.asp?ObjID=24

Thomas Paine

www.historyguide.org/ intellect/lecture14a.html

Paul Revere

http://paul-revere-house.visit-boston-massachusetts.com/

“Rosie the Riveter”

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/wit/rosie.htm

George Washington

http://www.noblenet.org/year/washington.html

Phillis Wheatley

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/events/2004/slave-portraiture.html

James Madison

http://madison.thefreelibrary.com/

Alexander Hamilton

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/newspanish/InstitutoSchiller/Literatura/JuventBenjaminFranklin.html

James Monroe

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres20.html

Benjamin Banneker

http://www.famu.edu/about/admin/vppa/News/Black_History_Moments/Martin_Luther_King/Benjamin_Banneker/benjamin_banneker.html

William Clark

http://www.lewisandclark.org/pages/exp_history.phtml

Meriwether Lewis

http://www.lewisandclark.org/pages/exp_history.phtml

Jo Anderson

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Robert Fulton

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/fulton_hi.html

Cyrus McCormick

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi127.htm

Eli Whitney

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/whitney_hi.html

Susan B. Anthony

http://clio.rediris.es/udidactica/sufragismo2/inicfemusa.htm

Frederick Douglass

http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellpatke/En2206/2206index.htm

William Lloyd Garrison

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cercle-des-abolitionnistes/wllg.html

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/html/1025.html

Harriet Tubman

http://www.ucando.org/tubman.html

Isabel Sojourner Truth

http://members.aol.com/dondija/film.video2000.html

Abraham Lincoln

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/portraits/presidents/port-linc.jpg

Jefferson Davis

http://www.currierandives.info/civil-war/Jefferson-Davis.gif

Ulysses S. Grant

www.wildwestweb.net/ cwleaders/cwleaders.html

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

www.wildwestweb.net/ cwleaders/cwleaders.html

Robert E. Lee

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_surrender_1_e.html

Clara Barton

http://www.newenglandblood.org/library/clarabarton.htm

Robert Smalls

http://www.africawithin.com/bios/robert_smalls.htm

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