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She helped other slaves get to freedom by the Underground Railroad |
Harriet Tubman |
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He is the father of our country |
George Washington |
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He was from England and brought ships to the New World, Susan Constance, Discovery, and Godspeed |
Christopher Newport |
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He warned that the British soldiers were coming |
Paul Revere |
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He was a frontiersman and died at the Alamo |
Davy Crockett |
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He was the first leader of Jamestown |
Captain John Smith |
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She created Hull House for the poor |
Jane Addams |
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She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan and married John Rolfe |
Pocahontas |
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He was the Father of the American Navy |
John Paul Jones |
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He was a scientist, politician and discovered electricty |
Benjamin Franklin |
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He was a pioneer and was famous for planting apple seeds across the country |
John Chapman |
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She sewed the first American flag |
Betsy Ross |
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She worked so that women would have the same rights as men |
Susan B. Anthony |
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He was the 16th President during the Civil War, helped free the slaves |
Abraham Lincoln |
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French explorer who established the first successful settlement in Quebec, "Father of Canada" |
Samuel de Champlain |
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Spanish explorer who searched for the "Fountain of Youth" but found Florida instead |
Ponce de Leon |
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African-American minister, civil rights leader, most famous speech, "I Have a Dream" |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Spanish explorer who discovered the "New World" in 1492 |
Christopher Columbus |
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French explorer who found the St. Lawrence River while searching for the "Northwest Passage" |
Jacques Cartier |
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He was a scientist who found many uses for peanuts |
George Washington Carver |
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He grew and traded tobacco with England, married Pocahontas |
Captain John Rolfe |
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English explorer who named "Newfoundland" and gave England claim to North America |
John Cabot |
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He was born a slave in Virginia later started a college called the Tuskegee Institute |
Booker T. Washington |
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