Boone APUSH Final

Very many terms.

Hernando de Soto

First European to see the Mississippi River and the 'Valley of the Vapors.'

Fr. Junipero Serra

Franciscan priest, established missions in California.

Amerigo Vespucci

America named after him.

Virginia Dare

First English child born in the New World.

Roanoke

A settlement founded by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Jamestown

First permanent English colony in North America.

John Smith

Issued the order, 'he who does not work, shall not eat.'

John Rolfe

First to successfully cultivate tobacco as a cash crop in the New World.

Cecilius Calvert

Responsible for the settling of Maryland.

Tobacco

Poor man's crop.

Sugar

Rich man's crop.

Pilgrim

They wanted to break away from the Church of England.

Puritans

They wanted to purify the Church of England from within.

Squanto

Helped the Pilgrims through the first winter; a Native American taken prisoner by the Spanish and escaped to England.

William Penn

The crown owed his father a debt; he settled for land for the Quakers.

Gen. James Oglethorpe

Responsible for the settling of Georgia.

Mayflower Compact

This document established a 'civil body politic.'

LaSalle

Claimed all the land in the Mississippi River Valley for France.

Theodore Frelinghuysen

He started the Great Awakening in New Jersey.

George Whitefield

His last sermon in Boston drew 23,000 people.

Jonathan Edwards

The greatest theologian that North America has ever produced.

Cotton Mather

Leading supporter of spectral evidence.

Increase Mather

Outspoken opponent of spectral evidence; preferred 10 guilty go free than 1 innocent be hanged.

Ben Franklin

Published Poor Richard’s Almanac.

William Still

Considered the Father of the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

Known as Moses because of all the slaves she delivered to freedom.

George III

King of England during the Revolutionary War.

Sam Adams

Person who organized the Committees of Correspondence.

John Hancock

Had a sloop called Liberty; signed the Declaration of Independence.

Patrick Henry

The 'Voice of the Revolution,' gave the Stamp Act speech.

John Adams

Defended the soldiers accused of murder during the Boston Massacre.

Lord North

British Prime Minister in 1775 (the entire Revolution).

Ben Franklin

Offered to pay the damages of the Boston Tea Party out of his pocket.

Paul Revere

Silversmith, created a propaganda piece after the Boston Massacre.

Benedict Arnold

American hero, turned traitor.

Thomas Paine

Wrote Common Sense and The Crisis; 'These are times that try men’s souls.'

Thomas Jefferson

Wrote the Declaration of Independence.

George Washington

Elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

Ordinance of 1785

Divided western lands into 36 sections of 640 acres each.

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Process in which a territory could become a state; outlawed slavery in its territory.

James Madison

Known as the Father of the Constitution.

George Washington

Chairman of the Constitutional Convention.

Alexander Hamilton

'Saved' the Interstate Commerce Convention by calling a meeting in Philadelphia.

Benjamin Franklin

Oldest person at the Constitutional Convention, said it wasn’t perfect but it was the best that could be done.

George Washington

Elections of 1789 and 1792

George Washington.

Election of 1792

John Adams.

Election of 1796

George Washington

First president under the Constitution.

John Adams

First vice president under the Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton

First Secretary of the Treasury; known as the Father of the National Debt.

Thomas Jefferson

First Secretary of State; vice president under John Adams.

Henry Knox

First Secretary of War.

John Jay

First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

John Marshall

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for 34 years, known as the 'last Federalist.'

Aaron Burr

Thomas Jefferson’s running mate in 1796; killed Alexander Hamilton.

Thomas Jefferson.

Election of 1800

Thomas Jefferson.

Election of 1804

James Madison.

Election of 1808

James Madison.

Election of 1812

John Adams

2nd US president, passed the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Alexander Hamilton

Elitist Federalist, killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.

Thomas Jefferson

Won the election of 1804.

William Clark

Brother of a Revolutionary War Hero, led the Corps of Discovery.

Merriwether Lewis

Jefferson’s personal secretary, led exploration of new land.

Sacajawea

Shoshone woman who served as a guide for Lewis and Clark.

Tecumseh

Led a confederation of Native Americans; killed at the Battle of Thames.

Tenskwatawa

Known as 'The Prophet.'

William Henry Harrison

Hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Andrew Jackson

Hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

James Monroe.

Election of 1816

James Monroe.

Election of 1820

John Quincy Adams.

Election of 1824

Election of 1828

Andrew Jackson.

Election of 1832

Andrew Jackson.

Martin Van Buren.

Election of 1836

Andrew Jackson

Last Revolutionary War veteran to be president.

Henry Clay

Speaker of the House, ran for president in 1824 and 1832.

John C Calhoun

Second, and last, incumbent vice president to serve a new president.

Election of 1852

Franklin Pierce.

James Buchanan.

Election of 1856

Abraham Lincoln.

Election of 1860

Henry Clay

Proposed the Compromise of 1850.

John C Calhoun

Opposed the Compromise of 1850.

Franklin Pierce

Only president from New Hampshire.

Stephen Douglas

Northern Democratic candidate in 1860; architect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Abraham Lincoln

Republican candidate in 1860.

James Buchanan

Only president to remain a bachelor.

John Brown

Attacked pro-slavery people at Pottawatomie Creek.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin'.

Josiah Henson

Person whose life 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' may have been based upon.

Abraham Lincoln.

Election of 1864

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States.

Alexander Stephens

Vice President of the Confederacy.

U.S. Grant

Union general, nicknamed 'unconditional surrender' and 'the butcher'.

George McClellan

Union general too cautious and spent much time training.

Robert E Lee

Commanding general of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Gettysburg

Bloodiest battle of the Civil War, Lincoln gave his address here.

Vicksburg

Known as the Gibraltar of the South; fell July 4, 1863.

George Meade

Replaced Hooker, commanding general at Gettysburg.

Thomas Jackson

Known as 'Stone Wall Jackson,' killed at Chancellorsville.