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Movers and Shakers
Papers andPamphlets Hard Times Let Freedom
Ring
This Land isMy Land, thisLand is Your
Land
Invented bifocals, a stove, insurance, and
was known for being a shrewd negotiator.
Who is
Benjamin Franklin?
Protested slavery by writing a novel about a slave’s
experiences in the South?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Co-authored several Federalist Papers and conceived the idea of the American Bank –
was shot by Jefferson’s Vice President?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Made the best of his deportation by starting new colony in Rhode
Island?
Who is
Roger Williams?
Known as The Great Compromiser who settled
disputes between North and South about the expansion of
slavery…
Who is Henry Clay?
Author of “Common Sense” and “The
American Crisis” – both arguments for
American independence
Who is Thomas Paine?
Supporters of a strong national government
wrote these to convince others to
accept the Constitution?
What are The Federalist
Papers?
Focus of William Lloyd’s Garrison’s The
Liberator…
What is abolition?
John Quincy Adams authored this famous document that warned
European nations to stay OUT of the Americas!
What is the Monroe
Doctrine?
Gave us the principle of “one man, one
vote” and planted a seed for democracy in
the colonies…
What is the
Mayflower Compact?
Canceled the Massachusetts
Legislature, closed Boston Harbor, and moved thousands of
soldiers into the Boston area…
What are the
Intolerable Acts
(aka Coercive Acts)?
Traveled by night, the North Star as a guide, had
stops along the way, led by someone known as
“Moses”…
What is the Underground
Railroad?
Hung for treason, seized arms at Harper’s Ferry, helped instigate
“Bleeding Kansas”…
Who is John Brown?
No shoes, freezing temperatures, no food in the Winter of ‘77!
What is
Valley Forge?
Split the nation in two, caused brothers to
fight each other, killed more Americans than ever before or since!
What is the
Civil War?
“We hold these truths to be self evident – that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the Creator
with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness…”
What is
The Declaration of Independence?
“Give me liberty, or give me death.”
Who is Patrick Henry?
“We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,
ensure domestic tranquility, secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity…”
What is the Preamble to the US Constitution?
The idea that people are the final authority in
government…
What is
Popular sovereignty?
“In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be
necessary for you to make, I desire that you would not
forget the ladies…do not put such unlimited power in the
hands of husbands…”
Who is Abigail Adams in a letter to her husband
John during his tenure in the Continental
Congress?
“It is our _____ _______ to overspread and to
possess the whole of the continent which
Providence has given us.”
John O’Sullivan, 1845
What is
Manifest Destiny?
The western border of the United States in
1783!
What is the Mississippi River?
The huge mountain region all western travelers had to cross
to get to Oregon and California!
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The river by which Lewis and Clark ventured west to
explore the Louisiana Purchase…
What is
The Missouri River?
A western journey that began against the
will of its travelers and cost many
thousands their lives!
What is the
Trail of Tears?
