APUSH / key figures

Abigail Adams

• wife of John Adams

• “Remember the Ladies” while her husband was creating a new government

Jonathan Edwards

• Mississippi priest that wrote “sinners in the hands of an angry God”

Alexander Stephens

Vice President of the Confederacy

Ulysses S. Grant

• Western Theater Union general

• Gain control of Mississippi River (divide Conf)

• Battle of Shiloh

George McClellan

• Union general in Eastern Theater

• more training army than actual fight

• Peninsular Campaign (Potomac river to VA)

Clara Barton

• nurse during Civil War

• founder of American Red Cross 1881

Phillip II of Spain

• outlawed encomienda system in any new Spainish territories

Franciso Pizarro

• conquered Incas (use their civil war)

Citizen Genet

• french diplomat who violated Neutrality Acts by encouraging ppl to aid France

Robert Owen

• Utopian socialist who improved labor conditions in New Lanark, Scotland

Grimke Sisters (Sarah and Angelina)

• weathy South Carolina women who became abolitionists

David Walker

• african American abolitionist who called for immediate emancipation of slaves

• “Walker’s Appeal”

Nicolas Ovando

• impored enslaved Africans from Spain to Hispaniola

King Fernando II of Spain

• began transporting enslaved Africans to work in the mines of Spanish colonies

Pochteca

• Aztec spies that were used by the Triple Alliance

Redeemers

• Southern Democrats wanting to take over southern state governments (against Reconstruction)

The Compromise of 1877

• Democrats agreed to not dispute decision by Special Electoral Commission in exchange 4 Haye’s agreement to end Reconstruction

• end of Reconstruction

The Klan Acts

Prez Grant tries to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to arrest KKK