Transcript People to Know

People to Know
Grade 4
Advance to the next slide and click on the link to reveal the person.
Then click on the picture of the person for the next clue(s).
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Sailed across the Atlantic Ocean looking for
a sea route to the east.
Landed in a “New World.”
Called the people he found “Indians”
because he thought he was in the Indies.
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Leader of the Jamestown colony.
Captured by the Indians but life was spared.
Emphasized self-sustaining agriculture to ensure
survival of the settlement.
Traded with the Indians, exchanging tools, pots,
and guns for food and furs.
Instituted a policy of rigid discipline and insisted:
“He who does not work, will not eat.”
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Daughter of the powerful Powhatan chief,
Powhatan.
Made friends with the settlers, especially
John Smith.
Helped the settlers survive.
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Supreme ruler of most of the tribes in the
Chesapeake Bay area.
Spoke an Algonquian language.
Helped the settlers, especially after his
daughter, Pocahontas, saved Captain John
Smith’s life.
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Principal author of the Declaration of
Independence which expressed the reasons for
colonial independence from England.
Wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all
people are created equal and have rights to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Wrote the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom,
the basis for the First Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States of America.
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Born a slave.
Volunteered to fight for the American cause in the
Revolutionary War.
Spied on the British army for the Americans and
reported my findings to a French general who was
assisting George Washington.
Was granted my freedom by the Virginia
Legislature for my services during the
Revolutionary War.
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Served as commander-in-chief of the Continental
Army.
After the war was elected as the first President of
the United States of America.
Provided the strong leadership needed to help the
young country.
Served as a model of leadership for future
presidents.
Referred to as the “Father of Our Country.”
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Elected to serve as the first governor of Virginia
Inspired patriots from other colonies when he
spoke out against taxation without representation.
His words, “…give me liberty or give me death”
are considered to be the most famous words in
American history.
Famous for saying “I smell a rat!” when he turned
down an invitation to attend the Constitutional
Convention.
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Believed in the importance of having a United
States constitution.
Kept detailed notes during the Constitutional
Convention.
His skills at compromise helped the delegates
reach agreement during the difficult process of
writing the Constitution of the United States of
America.
Referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.”
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Wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights that
states that all Virginians should have certain
rights, including freedom of religion and freedom
of the press.
This document became the basis for the Bill of
Rights of the Constitution of the United States of
America.
Referred to as the “Father of the Bill of Rights.”
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Born a slave in Southampton County,
Virginia.
Led a revolt against plantation owners in
Virginia.
His revolt was one of the events that fueled
the abolitionist cause and led up to the Civil
War.
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Born a slave in Maryland.
Ran away from home because of the cruel
way my master treated me.
Set up a secret route that other escaped
slaves took north to freedom.
Route became known as the “Underground
Railroad.”
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Led a raid on the United States Armory at
Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Tried to start a slave rebellion but I was
captured and hanged.
My execution fueled the abolitionist cause
and led up to the Civil War.
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United States president during the Civil
War.
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General in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War.
Played a major role in the Confederacy
victory in the first battle of the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee called him his “right arm.”
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Commander of the Army of Northern
Virginia during the Civil War.
Defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
Surrendered to Union General Ulysses S.
Grant, bringing the Civil War to a close at
Appomattox, Virginia, in April 1865.
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Union General in the Civil War.
Captured Richmond, the capital of the
Confederacy.
Robert E. Lee surrendered to him at
Appomattox, thus ending the Civil War in
April 1865
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African American business and community
affairs activist in Richmond, Virginia.
First woman to become a bank president in
the United States.
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Tennis player born in Richmond, Virginia.
First African American winner of a major
men’s tennis singles championship.
Author and a spokesperson for social
change.
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Governor of Virginia.
First African American to be elected a state
governor in the United States.
Christopher Columbus
library.thinkquest.org/ 20176/columbus.htm
Captain John Smith
http://www.historicjamestowne.org/history/
Pocahontas
http://utopia.utexas.edu/project/portraits/?img=313
Powhatan
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/nativeamericans/chiefpowhatan.htm
Thomas Jefferson
http://museum.nist.gov/object.asp?ObjID=24
James Armistead Lafayette
http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/JAMES.HTM
George Washington
http://www.noblenet.org/year/washington.html
Patrick Henry
www.columbia.edu/ itc/law/witt/images/lect5/
James Madison
http://madison.thefreelibrary.com/
George Mason
http://www.constitution.org/cs_image.htm
Nat Turner
http://www.mwor.com/
Harriet Tubman
http://www.ucando.org/tubman.html
John Brown
http://pbsvideodb.pbs.org/resources/civilwar/primary/ph12.html
Abraham Lincoln
http://www.historyplace.com/specials/portraits/presidents/port-linc.jpg
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
www.wildwestweb.net/ cwleaders/cwleaders.html
Robert E. Lee
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_surrender_1_e.html
Ulysses S. Grant
www.wildwestweb.net/ cwleaders/cwleaders.html
Maggie Lena Walker
http://www.richmond.com/news/output.aspx?Article_ID=617840&Vertical_ID=2&tier=1&position=7
Arthur Ashe
http://www.sporting-heroes.net/tennis-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=185
L. Douglas Wilder
http://www.nndb.com/people/844/000055679/
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Governor of Virginia and later became United
States Senator.
Known for a “Pay As You Go” policy for road
improvements
Credited for modernized Virginia state
government.
Known for ordering Massive Resistance against
the integration of public schools which kept some
schools closed for several years.
Harry F. Byrd, Sr.
http://www.vml.org/VTC/VTC4004-3SP.html
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