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Questão | Responda |
Christopher Columbus | "discovered" the Americas in 1492 |
Hernan Cortez | conquered the Aztecs |
Bartolome de Las Casas | advocated for better treatment of the natives |
Sir Walter Raleigh | Built up the failed Roanoke Colony |
William Bradford | first and most influential governor of Plymouth |
John Winthrop | Massachusetts Bay Colony governor |
Nathaniel Bacon | led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial government |
George Whitefield | spread the Great Awakening |
Powhatan | Indian leader who ruled tribes in the James River area |
Charles Townshend | British chancellor who taxed the colonies |
Thomas Paine | supported revolution in America by writing "Common Sense" |
John Marshall | laid the foundations for the Supreme Court's role as interpreter of the Constitution |
Tecumseh | NA chief who wanted to create an autonomous state |
Henry Clay | forged the Compromise of 1850 |
Robert Fulton | first commercially successful steamboat |
Dorothea Dix | founded/ expanded more than 30 hospitals for the mentally ill |
William Lloyd Garrison | owned "the Liberator" |
Frederick Douglass | prominent activist, author, and public speaker |
David Wilmot | advocated for the banning of slavery in territory acquired from the Mexican-American war |
John Brown | Abolitionist |
Dred Scott | Dred Scott case upheld slavery, denied the legality of black citizenship, and declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional |
Boss Tweed | Tammany Hall political machine |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | Railroad monopoly |
Andrew Carnegie | Steel monopoly and wrote "the Gospel of Wealth" |
John D. Rockefeller | Oil monopoly |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | "women can never be equal until they have economic freedom" |
William Jennings Bryan | supported free silver |
Rudyard Kipling | "White Man's Burden" |
Betty Friedan | "The Feminine Mystique" |
Saddam Hussein | led Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war and the Persian Gulf war |
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