Chapter 1 Important People

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  1. 4. Orator who famously declared "Give me liberty, or give me death!" to support independence.
  2. 6. Led a 1786 armed farmer uprising that highlighted weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
  3. 7. Fifth President known for the Monroe Doctrine, opposing further European colonization in the Americas.
  4. 8. Prominent Patriot leader and the first, most famous signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  5. 10. Primary author of the Declaration of Independence and third US President.
  6. 12. British general whose surrender at Yorktown effectively ended the American Revolutionary War.
  7. 13. Authored Common Sense, a highly influential pamphlet advocating American independence from Great Britain.
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  1. 1. Polymath, inventor, and diplomat who secured the crucial French alliance during the American Revolution.
  2. 2. Escaped slave who became a brilliant abolitionist orator, writer, and statesman fighting for equality.
  3. 3. First US President and Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
  4. 5. Explorer whose 1492 transatlantic voyages initiated widespread European colonization of the Americas.
  5. 9. The "Father of the Constitution," key author of the Federalist Papers, and fourth President.
  6. 11. Seventh President who expanded executive power, championed populist democracy, and enforced Native American removal.