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- crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean
- Best known missionary to the Native Americans
- Prompted by the Sugar Act to publish "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved"
- Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the Townshend Acts, creating a series of taxes over imported paper, paints led, glass and tea, and created the board of customs
- Wrote the History of Plymouth Plantation, the first American history book
- Failed government responses to Native American attacks led Nathaniel Bacon to lead a rebellion called?
- Embarked on a three year voyage that made him the first Englishman to sail around the world, claimed California as Nova Albion
- Published book called "key into the language of america" which helped evangelize
- abolished the common store system at Jamestown
- Blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap
- first English child born in the present day US
- led an expedition that discovered the St. Lawrence River
- A viking adventurer from Scandinavia who landed in North America
- Convened in Philadelphia and John Hancock was elected president
- How the Land Ordinance of 1785 divided the Northwest Territory
- Created to discourage the importation of certain products and thereby to aid the development of American manufacturing, this was proposed by Alexander Hamilton
- introduced the movable type printing press in Europe around 1440 and printed the Bible
- began the Reformation by nailing his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany
- Established to oversee the collection of the Townshend Act taxes
- Patriot Society organized by Samuel Adams and other leaders