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Ku Klux Klan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

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    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 19 May 10
       
      The KKK started in 1866 to be exact by Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was the same person to stop the KKK in 1869.
  • At its peak in the mid-1920s, the organization claimed to include about 15% of the nation's eligible population,
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 19 May 10
       
      The Klan was at it's peak in the 1920's. That isn't the original Klan because it was abolished by the same person how made it.
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Thomas Mundy Peterson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 18 May 10
       
      In Perth Amboy, New Jersy, a African American man came to vot and he was the first African American to vote in the United States.
  • He was born in Metuchen, New Jersey, to parents who had been slaves owned by the Mundy family. He was a school custodian in Perth Amboy. Active in the Republican Party, he became that the city's first African-American to hold elected office, on the Middlesex County Commission.
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 18 May 10
       
      Peterson was slave owned and was a janitor and he was the first man to vote.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 18 May 10
       
      Lieutenant general in the confederate army during the civil war was Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nathan was self educated and cavalry leader during the civil war. He also was the Grand Leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest was born to a poor family in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. He was the first of blacksmith William Forrest's twelve children with wife Miriam Beck. After his father's death, Forrest became head of the family at age 17
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 18 May 10
       
      Nathan started out poor in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. He started out as a black smith he also had twelve kids with his wife Miriam Beck.
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Dragoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 26 Apr 10
       
      A dragoon is a person that carries fire arms on a horse. Its a light calvalry this stated during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • The early dragoons were organized not in squadrons or troops like the cavalry, but in companies like the foot soldier, and their officers and non-commissioned officers bore infantry ranks. Dragoon regiments employed drummers in the infantry style, rather than cavalry trumpeters, to communicate orders on the battlefield.
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 26 Apr 10
       
      The draoons they arent like "organized not in squadrons or like the cavalry." They are like foot soldiers and they dont really have ranks they have a officer.
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  • When in the 17th century Gustav II Adolf introduced dragoons into the Swedish Army, he provided them with a sabre, an axe and a matchlock musket: many of the European armies henceforth imitated this all-purpose set of weaponry.
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Benedict Arnold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

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  • Born in Connecticut, he was a merchant operating ships on the Atlantic Ocean when the war broke out in 1775. After joining the growing army outside Boston, he distinguished himself through acts of cunning and bravery
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 23 Apr 10
       
      Benedict was a traitor and started to help ther british and show them Washingtons plans.
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Robert Dinwiddie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Dinwiddie's actions as lieutenant governor are commonly cited as precipitating the French and Indian War.
  • Dinwiddie's actions as lieutenant governor are commonly cited as precipitating the French and Indian War.
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Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 14 Apr 10
       
      Thomas was the third president of the United States. He was one of the founding fathers of the US.
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 14 Apr 10
       
      Thomas was the author of the declaration of indepence.
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Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 6 views

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    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 14 Apr 10
       
      He was one of the founding fathers of the United States. Franklin was a printer and a politation and a inventer also a scientist.
  • one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier,[2] and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 23 Apr 10
       
      Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the states. He was all the above.
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Joseph Coulon de Jumonville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 23 Mar 10
       
      Joseph Coulon fought Washington before and then surrended to him then he died and that started the seven years war. This all started because George was sent to tell the french to get out of Canada(as we know today) and Joseph said no then George acted apuon it and wanted to use affirmitive action againist the french. This is how the hundred years war started or French Indian war.
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Fort Necessity National Battlefield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 22 Mar 10
       
      Is the national battel field for Washington on July 3, 1754.
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George Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 14 views

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    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 19 Mar 10
       
      George Washington severed as the first president of the United States. He was the commander of the Revolutionary War.
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 19 Mar 10
       
      Washington was the commander in chief of the french indian war. They won the war and George went away back to his home to become a farmer.
  • eorge Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731][1][2][3]– December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797[4][5][6] and as the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783.
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Martha Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 8 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 18 Mar 10
       
      Martha was married to George Washington her madin name was pernounced after her death. She is known as the first lady of the United states.
  • At the age of 18, she married Daniel Parke Custis, a rich planter two decades her senior. They lived at White House Plantation on the south shore of the Pamunkey River, a few miles upriver from Chestnut Grove. She had four children by Custis
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 18 Mar 10
       
      She married at age 18 to Daniel Parke Custis he was a rich planter and owns a plantation. Then he died and thats when she married George Washington
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Lawrence Washington (1718-1752) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • was a soldier and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia. As a founding member of the Ohio Company of Virginia, and a member of the colonial legislature representing Fairfax County,
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 17 Mar 10
       
      Lawrence was a landowner and represented Fairfax County. He was the first to nlive in Mount Vernon estate
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Edward Braddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 16 Mar 10
       
      Edward is a soilder and is commander in chief. He took action in the french indian war.
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Squanto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 16 Mar 10
       
      Squanto was the native who guided the pilgrims on there journey. This happened after their first winter
  • He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival. The Patuxet tribe was a tributary of the Wampanoag Confederacy.
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Musket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 12 Mar 10
       
      A musket is long shot gun and that its range is up to one hundred feet. It has a smooth round ball that shot out and loose gun powdered gun.
  • A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smooth bore long gun, which is intended to be fired from the shoulder. Usually, the musket is thought to be the weapon that replaced the arquebus, and was in turn replaced by the rifle.
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Seven Years' War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 12 Mar 10
       
      This war started by George Washington because he wanted to drive the French out ofthe north region of the colonies. As a result it turned out to be a world war.
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 12 Mar 10
       
      This war started in 1754 as the french indian war. 1756 is when the war started adn ended in 1763.
  • major military conflict that lasted from 1756 until the conclusion of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in 1763. It involved all of the major European powers of the period.
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 23 Apr 10
       
      This is a picture of the battle field after the war.
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Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 9 views

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      Jaylen Gibson on 11 Mar 10
       
      Blacks taken from africa are oiled and said across then traded. After that process they are forced to work for the slave owners and traded again for tabacco.
  • legal for an owner to kill a slave
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 11 Mar 10
       
      The slave owners are aloud to kill their slave sif they felt that they arent diong what is asked of them. Its mainly towards africa slaves.
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      Jaylen Gibson on 11 Mar 10
       
      All slave owners are aloud to kill their slaves due to them running away and disobeying the orders. This abuse is mainly towards the blacks.
    • Jaylen Gibson
      Jaylen Gibson on 11 Mar 10
       
      Many slave owners have africa sex slaves. Their job is to produce and work for the master and if the mother is free the child is free too.
  • of forced labour in which people are considered to be the property of others.
  • form of forced labour in which people are considered to be the property of others
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