History: Midterm - People

John Adams

-He was one of the editors of the Declaration of Independence.

-VP for Washington and then becomes 2nd president of the U.S.

-Established his own precedent of undeclared war (France/XYZ Affair).

-Writes the Alien + Sedition Acts.

John Brown

-Radical abolitionist that led a raid.

-Raid on Harper's Fairy.

Dorothea Dix

-Led reforms in asylums.

-Shooting for state-supported asylums.

Elizabeth I

-First attempt of colonization at Roanoke.

George Grenville

-The prime minister of England after the French and Indian War.

-He establishes taxes to pay for the War.

Rutherford B. Hayes

-He ended Reconstruction.

Andrew Jackson

-A war hero for Battle of NO.

-Wins the presidency in 1828 using common man methods.

-Trail of tears, kitchen cabinet, spoils system.

Thomas Jefferson

-Wrote the Declaration of Independence.

-President during the LA Purchase.

-We fight an undeclared war with pirates.

John Locke

-British philosopher part of the Enlightenment.

-Writes about tabula rases, consent of the governed, ect.

-Revolution b/c of this.

John Marshall

-Chief justice that establishes judicial review and wants to increase the power of the Supreme Court.

James Oglethorpe

-Established Georgia.

-He is wealthy and wanted to give debtors a second chance.

James K. Polk

-President during the Mexican American War.

-"Mr. Manifest Destiny".

Roger Sherman

-Writes the Great Compromise.

John Smith

-Reorganizes Jamestown.

-Says those who do not work do not eat.

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

-Uncle Tom's Cabin.

John Tyler

-First VP to take over after the death of a president.

-Annexed Texas.

William Patterson

-Responsible for the New Jersey Plan.

John Wilks Booth

-Assassinates Lincoln.

Thomas Edison

-Invents the filament inside the light bulb.

J.P. Morgan

-King of the merger, owns electricity and steel.

-Saves the U.S. government during the economic depression.

Hebert Spenser

-Social Darwinism.

-The belief that you don't have to help the poor.

John Q. Adams

-Secretary of state for the Monroe Administration.

-We get Florida and the Monroe Doctrine because of him.

John C. Calhoun

-War hawk in War of 1812

-VP for Andrew Jackson and resigns to go home and write the South Carolina Exposition and Protest.

Stephen Douglas

-Senator from Illinois.

-Wants to build the transcontinental railroad.

-Writes Kansas-Nebraska Act.

-Proposes popular sovereignty in that territory.

William L. Garrison

-Radical abolitionist and edited The Liberator.

-immediate emancipation of the slaves and compensate the slave not the salve owners.

Alexander Hamilton

-Secretary of the Treasury.

-Creates the National Bank.

-Opposes Jefferson.

Sam Houston

-Declares the Republic of Texas and captured Santa Anna.

Stonewall Jackson

-Confederate General in the civil war.

-Associated with the Battle of Bull Run.

-Reenforces Lee.

Andrew Jonson

-President that takes over after the assassination of Lincoln.

James Madison

-Father of the U.S. Constitution and establishes the Virginia Plan.

-Is a president during the War of 1812.

George McClellan

-Union General during the civil war.

-Gets fired twice and does not want to go into battle.

Paul Revere

-He is a colonial engraver and draws the picture of the

Boston Massacre.

William Sherman

-Civil war, responsible for bringing civil war to the civilian population.

-March to the Sea

Joseph Smith

-Founded the Mormon religion.

-Was their leader until he got shot.

William B. Travis

-Defends the Alamo.

Eli Whitney

-Invents the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

John Winthrop

-Brings Puritans to the colonies.

-City on a hill: Massachusetts Bay.

Alexander Gram Bell

-Invented the telephone.

John D. Rockerfeller

-Monopoly in the oil refining industry.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

-Makes millions off of railroads.

William Bradford

-Leads the Puritans to Plymouth.

Henry Clay

-Great Compromiser.

-War Hawk.

-Writes 3 Compromises that keep us from a civil war.

Johnathan Edwards

-Puritan preacher who writes sinners in the hands of an angry God.

Ulysses S. Grant

-Union general who wins a major battle at Vicksburg.

William Henry Harrison

-First President to die in office.

Anne Hutchinson

-Massachusetts Bay, direct revolution from God.

-Gets kicked out.

-Example of Puritan Intolerance.

James I

-King

-First permanent colony in the new world: Jamestown.

Robert E Lee

-Confederate Commander during the Army of Northern Virginia.

-Had to surrender to Grant.

Hoarse Mann

-antebellum educational reformer

James Monroe

-president during the era of good feelings

William Penn

-leads the Quakers to the new world

John Rolfe

-He saves Jamestown by introducing tobacco.

John Slidell

-Sent to Mexico to negotiate for California.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

-Leader of women's suffrage.

-Writes the Declaration of Sentiments.

-Hosted the Seneca Falls Convention.

Rodger B. Taney

-Chief justice during Dred Scott vs. Sanford.

Rodger WIlliams

-Founded Rhode Island.

Bingham Young

-Brings the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake after their leader was shot.

Andrew Carnegie

-Makes millions in the steel industry.

Adam Smith

-British economists who establishes the idea of laissez faire.