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Thomas Jefferson
Third president of the United States, principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
John Marshall
Chief Justice appointed by John Adams whose court opinions helped establish the concept of "judicial review."
Napoleon Bonaparte
French military and political leader who decided to sell the Louisiana Territory to Americans, which would be a great help to them.
Lewis & Clark
Asked by Jefferson to explore the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase in the spring in 1804.
James Madison
Fourth president of the United States, known as "Father of the Constitution." He is reluctant to go to war with Britain but it eventually becomes inevitable during the War of 1812.
Tecumseh
Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy who opposed the United States during the War of 1812.
John Quincy Adams
Son of John Adams, sixth President of the United States, who sought to modernize the American economy and promote education. Not a very able politician.
Andrew Jackson
Seventh President of the United States, who dismantled the Bank of the United States as President. He was supportive of states' rights, strongly against the national bank, enforced the Indian Removal Act, and supported slavery.
John C. Calhoun
Leading American politician, political theorist, and strong nationalist. He favored protective tariffs, states' rights, limited government, nullification, and free trade, and best known for his defense of slavery.
Henry Clay
American lawyer, politician, and skilled orator representing Kentucky, who came up with the American System. Oml I love Henry Clay.
Martin Van Buren
Eighth president of the United States who was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and a key figure in building the structure for Jacksonian Democracy.
Santa Anna
Mexican political and general who greatly influenced early Mexican politics and government. He fought fire against Mexican independence from Spain.
Samuel Slater
Early English-American scientist who was known as the "Father of the Industrial Revolution," and brought British textile technology (factory system) to America.
Eli Whitney
American inventor best known for coming up with the cotton gin & interchangeable parts.
Isaac Singer
Sewing machine!!!
Samuel F.B. Morse
Invented the single-wire telegraph system, and co-inventor of the Morse Code.
John Deere
Invented the steel plow, and then became a tractor.
Cyrus McCormick
The inventor of the mechanical reaper. Probably a spice too who knows.
Robert Fulton
American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.
Cyrus Field
American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.
John Jacob Astor
German-born American businessman, merchant, and investor who was the creator of the first trust in America.
Horace Mann
American education reformist who is known as the "Father of the Common School Movement."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century.
Henry David Thoreau
American author, poet, abolitionist, and leading transcendentalist.
Lucy Stone
American orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and vocal advocate for woman's rights. She is best known for refusing to take her husband's name after marriage.
Susan B. Anthony
Prominent American civil rights leader playing an important role in the 19th century to introduce women's suffrage rights.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the women's rights movement. She is best known for her Declaration of Sentiments given at Seneca Falls in 1848.
Lucretia Mott
American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist and social reformer.
William Lloyd Garrison
Prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer who is best known for his newspaper The Liberator. He was also one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman who became leader of the abolitionist movement. Wrote the North Star.
Nat Turner
African American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in the death of 60 whites.
Sojourner Truth
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Most famous for her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.
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