Flashcards: People of US History
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JeffBrewton on February 4, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Samuel Adams | Organized opposition to the Stamp Act and protests by the Sons of Liberty |
| Benjamin Franklin | Spent most of the war in France, convincing the French to help the Americans. Also a gifted scientist. |
| King George III | During his reign, Britain increased its territory in North America and India, but he was determined to assert the power of the monarchy |
| Thomas Jefferson | The principal author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote the influential Common Sense, a pamphlet which attacked the monarchy and supported independence |
| Abraham Lincoln | U.S. president during the Civil War who took steps to end slavery |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of the Union army |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Robert E. Lee | General-in-chief of the Confederate armies |
| George Washington | Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army; Chairman of the Constitutional Convention; 1st President of the US |
| Alexander Hamilton | Supported a strong national government and ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As secretary of the treasury, he established a mint and supported development of a national bank |
| James Madison | Considered the "Father of the Constitution," he supported a strong central government and wrote many of the Federalist papers |
| Patrick Henry | Supported independence but did not participate in the Constitutional Convention and opposed ratification because he worried that the Constitution would limit the rights of the states |
| George Mason | An antifederalist that opposed ratification of the Constitution until a Bill of Rights was added. |
| Andrew Jackson | A powerful president with a belief in a centralized government, he was the symbol of the common man's rise to positions of importance |
| John C. Calhoun | A politician from South Carolina who favored states' rights. Led opposition to protective tariffs |
| Henry Clay | Sponsored several compromises to balance free and slave states in order to smooth sectional conflict in the U.S. |
| Daniel Webster | Senator from Massachusetts who was committed to preserving the union of the states |
| Frederick Douglass | A leading African-American abolitionist who had been born a slave. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Spent her life seeking equal rights for women, including the right to vote. With Lucretia Mott, she organized the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | An American abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which showed the cruelty of slavery |
| Horace Mann | Worked to reform the school system so that students could increase their opportunities. He established a state-wide school system. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | 19 year old French nobleman that comes to America and volunteers to fight for the colonists. |
| William Penn | Established the colony of Pennsylvania for the Quakers. They believed that everyone was equal and granted religious freedom. |
| Henry David Thoreau | He believed that people should not follow laws that they believed were unjust, and that they should practice civil disobedience, which is peacefully refusing to obey the law |
| James Monroe | 5th President of the United States, issued the Monroe Doctrine |
| John Paul Jones | Naval Commander for the Patriots during the American Revolution. Defeated the Serapis in the most famous naval battle of the war. |
| John Marshall | Was Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court for over 30 years |