Unit 4 Dinner party

Vocabulary flashcards identifying key historical figures, inventors, and political leaders from 19th-century American history based on the lecture notes.

Henry Clay

The Great Compromiser who created the American System.

Andrew Jackson

7th President of the United States and hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

John Quincy Adams

6th President of the United States who helped with the Monroe Doctrine.

Noah Webster

The father of American English.

Alexis de Tocqueville

French sociologist who wrote Democracy in the US.

Davy Crockett

Famous frontiersman, folk hero, and soldier.

John Chapman/ Johnny Appleseed

American pioneer and folklore legend-who traveled the western frontier planting apple orchards

Thomas Cole

Founder of the Hudson River School.

John C. Calhoun

Known as the father of states' rights.

Daniel Webster

Known as the father of federal rights.

Martin Van Buren

8th President of the United States and part of the Kitchen Cabinet.

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the cotton gin.

Robert Fulton

Inventor of the steamboat.

James Monroe

5th president During the “era of good feelings”

Dolly Maddison

Saved the portrait of George Washington

William H Harrison

9th president and hero of the battle of tippecanoe