HISTORY FINAL PEOPLE
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Samuel Slater | He is responsible for bringing the first textile mill to the United States when he disguised himself as a farmer and escaped from East Britain with the plans |
| John Calhoun | He wrote the anonymous essay arguing that as creators of the federal union, states could nullify any act of congress they found unconstitutional |
| Rufus King | As a federalist he had the unfortunate luck of running against James Monroe in the election of 1816 |
| Martin Van Buren | This man became Jackson's 2nd Vice President |
| William Henry Harrison | He used the slogan, "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" in his campaigning for president; Famous at Battle of Thames |
| Henry Clay | His system had three main features designed to increase federal involvement in the economy |
| John Quincy Adams | He prevented James Monroe from being unanimously elected by receiving one electoral vote |
| Andrew Johnson | He and his followers angrily opposed the results of the Election of 1824, hero at ft baton rouge. liked jacksonian democracy, anti aristocrat, white suremacist |
| Dewitt Clinton | NY politician who successfully worked to get funding for the creation of the Erie Canal |
| Eli Whitney | His interchangeable parts and cotton gin revolutionized industry and manufacturing |
| Henry David Thoreau | MLK Jr. & Gandhi both used the saying Civil Disobedience in their speeches, which was written by Transcendentalist writer |
| Zachary Taylor | Who was pleased when a group of Mexicans crossed the border & attacked a US patrol b/c this gave him the power to request a declaration of war from Congress? |
| David Walker | The following quote was said by this aggressive immediatist, "fellow slaves, revolt against your masters. You have enriched this country w/ your blood and tears"? |
| John Breckenridge | He carried every state of the Lower South in the 1860 election |
| James Buchanan | He concluded that no state had the right to secede but did nothing to stop them |
| John Brown | He had help from the Secret Six in this anticipated slave rebellion |
| Abraham Lincoln | He attacked the Dred Scott decision during the Illinois Senatorial Debates; president during civil war; assassinated |
| Charles Sumner | He was brutally beaten days after giving his "Crime Against Kansas" speech |
| Winfield Scott | He was the Whigs nomination for the presidency in the election of 1852 |
| John Fremont | He was the newly created Republican party's nomination for president in the 1856 election |
| John Bell | He was the choice of moderate democrats who wanted to down play sectional differences in 1860 |
| Franklin Pierce | He ran for President in the election of 1852 as a supporter of the Compromise of 1850 |
| Zachary Taylor | This President opposed the Compromise of 1850 |
| Lewis Cass | Strong supporter of Popular Sovereignty and candidate for President in 1848 |
| Millard Filmore | The Free soil party's candidate for president 1848 |
| Robert E. Lee | He was sent to put down the attack on Harper's Ferry; Confederate general at the battle of antietam |
| Roger Taney | He wrote the majority of the Dred Scott decision |
| Stephen A. Douglas | He introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act to Congress in 1858 |
| McClellan | General responsible for building a new and improved Union army, this general gained the attention of Lincoln after winning the battle that would become known was the Phillippi Races: |
| Joseph Johnston | the Confederate general severely injured at seven pines |
| Thomas Jackson | Confederate general who suffered a mortal wound at chancellorsville |
| James Stuart | nicknamed "jeb", he was a great scout for the confederate army:Loss of this famous confederate cavalry leader at Spotsylvania |
| P.G.T Beauregard | general who commanded the confederate forces at the battle of ft. sumter: |
| Robert Shaw | general in command of the 54th Massachusetts regiment: |
| David Farragut | naval officer responsible for securing New Orleans for the union: |
| Albert Johnston | Confederate general at the battle of Shiloh |
| Thomas Jefferson | President During Barbary Pirates; peaceable Coercion |
| John Pope | Union general at 2nd bull run |
| Ulysses S Grant | Union gen who led forces in the west; Called a butcher by many for aggressive fighting |
| Irvin McDowell | Union gen at 1st Bull Run |
| Tecumseh | Shawnee, former NA alliance, strong willed native american during war of 1812 |
| Simon Buckner | Confederate general who was forced to surrender to his former roommate |
| Winfield Scott | Aging commander of Union forces who was replaced by McClellan |
| Joe Hooker | Union gen at battle of Chancellorsville |
| Longstreet | Confederate General who advised Lee against the initial attack at Gettysburg |
| Joe Johnston | Who surrendered to Sherman in North Carolina April 26, 1865: |
| Pemberton | Confederate general forced to surrender to grant at Vicksburg |
| Rosecrans | Union major general in Chickaumauga |
| Ewell | Failed to adhere to Lee's decision to take cemetery ridge if practical |
| Tenskwatawa | native American prophet, alcoholic, no assimilation of native americans into white culture, dies at Tipakenoe |
| George Pickett | Led doomed cavalry charge at Gettysburg |
| Chamberlain | His 20th Maine regiment participated in the defense of a major hill on Gettysburg's 2nd day |
| Sickles | Union general who nearly cost Meade his line on 2nd day |
| John Bell Hood | Confederate General at Devil's Den |
| Henry Clay | war hawk |
| Lucy Stone | Member of the American Suffragist Association and editor of the Women's Journal magazine |
| Sojourner Truth | One of the more popular female members of both the Abolition and Women's Movement |
| Harriet Tubman | She served as a Union spy during the civil war |
| Angelina Grimke | This female reformer and her sister were members of the abolition and women's rights movement |
| Lucretia Mott | Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was excluded from the London anti-slavery. |
| Carrie A Nation | She was an aggressive temperance reformer |
| Susan B Anthony | This woman's rights reformer was more active then anyone else in the campaign for federal women's suffrage |
| Dorthea Dix | This female reformer was very concerned with the plight of mentally ill patients |
| Mother Ann | This woman was the charismatic leader of the United Society of the believers of christs 2nd coming |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Mott and this woman helped organize the Seneca Falls convention |
| Braxton Braggs | Confederate Major General at Chickamauga |
| John Buford | Union Calvary general who held his ground until Union reinforcements under General Reynolds arrived |
| William Sherman | In charge of Union forces out west after Grant assumed command of the entire Army |
| James Madison | democratic president from 1808-1816- Virginia dynasty |
| Charles Pinkney | Federalist in 1812 election |
| Dolly Madison | James Madison's biggest asset, fun, saved GW painting in the white house |
| John Calhoun | war hawk |
| Clinton | Whig 1812 election |
| Oliver Perry | Famous at Battle of Lake Erie |
| Francis Scott Key | star spangled banner |
| Charles Finney | famous revivalist ministers of 2nd great awakening |
| Richard Allen | set up first American Methodist church in Philly |
| Horace Mann | father of American education; 1st secretary of education |
| Joseph Smith | founder of Mormons |
| John Humphrey Noys | Onida community |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature and self reliance |
| Lyman Beecher | minister gave revivals how alcohol is a sin |
| Francis Willard | leader of woman's Christians temperance movement |
| Stephen Kerney | General attack Mexicans in Santa Fe |
| James K. Polk | President at Mexican war- wanted war with mexico to get land, wanted them to attack US so US can declare war |
| Stephan F. Austin | Land grants, empersarios sets up colony of Texas |
| Santa Anna | Mexican Dictator |
| Nathan Bedford Forest | founder of the KKK |
| John Sutter | owned Land in California where gold was found |
| James Marshall | found gold in California |
| Brigham Young | Led the Mormons to Salt Lake City |
| Robert Anderson | commander at FT Sumter |
| Loreta Janeta Velazquez | disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Confederate army, she became a spy when caught |
| Mary Elizabeth Bowser | Jefferson Davis' maid who was a spy |
| Benjamin Wade | Wade Davis Bill |
| Henry Davis | Wade Davis Bill |
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