James Oglethorpe - Founded Georgia, Daniel Webster - Wrote the dictionary and changed word spellings so we would be different from England!, Henry Clay - Warhawk; suggested compromises; might have taken a bribe from John Q. Adams, John C. Calhoun - VP with crazy hair and eyes that led SC in the Nullification Crisis, President James. K. Polk - Responsible for almost all of Westward Expansion, Lucretia Mott - Early abolitionist who also fought for women's rights, Thomas Paine - Wrote Common Sense in 1/1776 to encourage the American Revolution, Roger Williams - Nice puritan who founded Rhode Island after being kicked out of Massachusetts, Sons of Liberty - Led by Samuel Adams, these rebellious young men who did civil disobedience like the Boston Tea Party, 1st Continental Congress - Men who got together to try and work peace with King George in 1775, 2nd Continental Congress - Responsible for the Declaration of Independence, John Paul Jones - Started the American Navy during the Revolutionary War, George Mason - Anti-federalist who refused to sign the Constitution bc there was no bill of rights and too strong of a central government, Federalist - Political party who wanted strong central government (Jay, Madison, Hamilton), Anti-Federalist - Political party that wanted strong state governments (Jefferson, Mason, Henry), Harriet Tubman - Excaped slave who went back into the South as a conductor to lead out over 300 runaways, Frederick Douglass - Runaway slave who wrote an autobiography and gave speeches about what life was like as a slave, Hiram Rhodes Revels - 1st black Congressman, American Temperance Society - Group of women fighting to end the use of alcohol,

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