Flashcards: People to Remember from American History - the 1800's
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on December 9, 2011
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Here are names and descriptions of people to remember for American history during the 1800's.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Thomas Jefferson | Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States |
| Meriweather Lewis | Thomas Jefferson's friend and secretary who was commissioned by Jefferson in 1803 to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase |
| William Clark | Co-captain of the expedition to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase |
| Sacajawea | Shoshone woman who translated for Lewis and Clark |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Emperor of France who conquered most of Europe |
| Horatio Nelson | British Admiral who established Britain's naval supremacy, which lasted throughout the 1800's |
| James Madison | Fourth President of the United States (1809 - 1817). He was the principal author of the Constitution of the United States. |
| Francis Scott Key | Author of "The Star Spangled Banner" |
| Eli Whitney | American inventor who invented the cotton gin |
| Robert Fulton | American engineer and inventor who developed the first commercially successful steamboat |
| Andrew Jackson | Seventh President of the United States |
| Queen Victoria | Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901 |
| Prince Albert | Husband of Queen Victoria |
| William Wilberforce | Leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade in Britain |
| De Witt Clinton | Governor of New York who advocated building the Erie Canal |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | Inventor and painter who built the first American telegraph around 1835 |
| William Travis | Commanded the Texans who died defending the Alamo |
| Jim Bowie | Inventor of a hunting knife which was called the Bowie Knife. He died defending the Alamo. |
| Davy Crockett | Frontiersman from Tennessee and member of the U.S. House of Representatives who died fighting for Texas' independence at the Alamo |
| Sam Houston | Politician and military leader whose army won a battle against Mexican forces and gained independence for Texas |
| Florence Nightingale | English nurse during the Crimean War who helped improve nursing practices and the condition of hospitals |
| Karl Marx | Author of the Communist Manifesto |
| Charles Darwin | English biologist who developed the theory of evolution and wrote The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
| Harriet Tubman | Former slave who helped hundreds of slaves escape slavery |
| Sojourner Truth | Former slave who spoke out against slavery and for women's rights |
| Amelia Bloomer | Advocate of women's rights who became famous in 1851 for her "bloomers" |
| Levi Strauss | Founded Levi Strauss & Co, the first company to manufacture blue jeans, in 1853 in San Francisco, California |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel which changed how many Americans viewed slavery |
| Frederick Douglas | Former slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement |
| Abraham Lincoln | The sixteenth president of the United States |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States during the Civil War |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general of the Civil War and 18th President of the United States |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War |
| William T. Sherman | General in the Union Army of the Civil War who captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general of the Civil War |
| John Wilkes Booth | Actor who shot and killed President Lincoln |
| Clara Barton | Civil War nurse who established the American Red Cross |
| Louis Pasteur | French biologist and chemist who invented pasteurization and created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax |
| Joseph Lister | British surgeon who promoted the use of antiseptics to sterilize instruments used in surgery and to clean wounds |
| David Livingston | Scottish explorer of Africa |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Inventor of the telephone |
| Thomas Edison | Inventor of the incandescent electric light bulb , the phonograph, and the motion picture camera |
| General George Custer | American Civil War general who was defeated and at the Battle of Little Bighorn |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux war chief who defeated Custer's troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876 |
| Chief Joseph | Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who fought for the freedom of his people to keep their home |
| Buffalo Bill Cody | American showman who was famous for his Wild West Show |
| Annie Oakley | American sharpshooter who was featured in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show |
| Jesse James | Famous American outlaw who robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains |
| Helen Keller | American author and political activist who was deaf and blind from early childhood |