US History Key Figures and Supreme Court Cases: 18th-19th Century

John Marshall

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Marbury v. Madison

George Washington

President during the Whiskey Rebellion

Charles Finney

Most prominent well-known evangelist

Richard Allen

Founder of African American Methodist Church

William Marbury

Federalist judge who sued Secretary of State Madison

Alexis de Tocqueville

Wrote Democracy in America and noted religion's influence

Thomas Jefferson

Founder of political party favoring strong state governments

Alexander Hamilton

Founder of political party favoring loose interpretation/strong central government

John Adams

President during the XYZ Affair

Meriwether Lewis & William Clark (and Zebulon Pike)

Explorers after the Louisiana Purchase

Henry Knox

First Secretary of War

Alexander Hamilton

First Secretary of Treasury

Benjamin Franklin

Ambassador to France who secured alliance

Friedrich von Steuben

Drill master who trained Washington's army

John Adams

First Vice President of the US

George Washington

Commander of US troops at Battle of Yorktown

Charles Cornwallis

Commander of British troops at Yorktown

Jays Treaty

unpopular treaty with England that was negotiated by John Jay

Pinckney Treaty

Granted navigation rights on Mississippi River

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Andrew Jackson

Destroyed the national bank, enforced Indian removal, and refused to recognize supreme courts decision

Nat Turner

Led slave rebellion in Virginia

Frederick Douglass

Escaped slave who wrote autobiography

Abraham Lincoln

Congressman who proposed Spot Resolutions

John C. Calhoun

Andrew Jackson’s first vice president, opposed tariffs

James K. Polk

President who asked Congress to declare war on Mexico

Henry David Thoreau

Author of Walden’s Pond, opposed Mexican American war and refused to pay taxes

William Lloyd Garrison

Published The Liberator

Treaty of Jacinto

Ended Texas Revolution

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Ended Mexican-American War

George Washington

Warned against political parties and permanent alliances in Washington's Farewell Address

Compromise of 1850

California free state; ended slave trade in DC

Missouri Compromise

Maine free; Missouri slave

Hartford Convention (Connecticut)

Anti-war delegation met here

Manifest Destiny

Idea US was destined to expand

Underground Railroad

Secret routes for runaway slaves

Marbury v. Madison

Supreme Court decision establishing judicial review

4 major compromises (only have to list 2)

Three-Fifths Compromise, Slave Trade Compromise, Electoral College Compromise