History Final: Important People

Joseph Smith

founder of the religion Mormonism in 1830, moved west to grow the religion

Brigham Young

Joseph Smith's successor, decided to move the religion out of the US border and creates Mormon communities

Stephen F. Austin

establishes an American colony in Mexico (present-day Texas) in 1821

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

president of Mexico

Sam Houston

president of the Republic of Texas

James K. Polk

11th president of the US

Zachary Taylor

a US general and was ordered by Polk to blockade the river

Stephan Kearny

was a US colonel and was ordered to seize New Mexico and California

Winfield Scott

was a US general nicknamed Old Fuss and Feathers. He landed his army of 10,00 on an island capturing Mexico City (capital) and not losing a single battle doing it (260 miles)

Charles Grandison Finney

famous religion preacher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

lead the group that was practicing transcendentalism(living a simple life)

Henry David Thoreau

civil disobedience went to jail for not paying taxes. He didn’t pay the taxes because the US allowed slavery and also participated in the war with Mexico. Also wrote the essay Civil Disobedience

Margaret Fuller

believed in transcendentalism, prison reform, poverty relief, and the abolition of slavery. Also spoke out about equal rights for women (friend of Emerson)

Horace Mann

established teacher training programs and instituted curriculum reforms in public schools(from Massachusetts)

Dorothea Dix

reformed the prison and help make mental health hospitality (started in Massachusetts)

William Lloyd Garrison

a white radical abolitionist that was initially an editor. Later started his own paper called The Liberator papers main cause was to free slaves as fast as possible

David Walker

a free African American in the North who wanted slaves in the south to fight for their freedom was controversial due to how much he talked about violence

Fredrick Douglas

original was a slave and escaped due to being educated enough to read and write later on talk about his experience

Nat Turner

born a slave lead a violent attack on slave owners in the South(killed almost 60 slave owners during this rebellion)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

was a leader in women's rights

Lucretia Mott

was a Quaker(religion) abolitionist and women's rights activist

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

sisters who were extremely against slavery since they saw the firsthand experience of a slave plantation due to their father being a slaver owner

Mary C Vaughan

leader in the Temperance Movement(no alcohol)

Emma Willard

opened the first school for girls in New York that was academically challenging

Elizabeth Blackwell

first female doctor in the US

Isabella Baumfree

took the name Sojourner Truth and was a free slave who went around the country and told her story

Roger Williams

did not believe that you could force religion, colonists had no right to claim land, government cannot control religion, banned from MA

John Winthrop

the first governor of the “City Upon a Hill”

John Jay

Cheif Supreme Justice

Aaron Burr

politician, an against Jefferson and Adams

Sacajawea

Native American, guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark

Tecumseh

the Shawnee chief

Alexander Hamilton

secratary of the treasury(Washington), federlist, national bank, fighted for Jefferson over Burr

Thomas Jefferson

Virginia lawyer, wrote the Declaration of Independence, went to France to promote American Interest

Marquis de Lafayette

George Washington's friend, French, brought guns and gunpowder to the colonist, fought under Washington

Charles Cornwallis

British general

George Washington

22 years old and officer, an ambitious, established an outpost Fort Necessity, first president of the United States

Samuel Adams

one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty, powerful and influential political activist, had an unsuccessful business heavily in debt

John Quincy Adams

Secretary of State (nationalism)

Eli Whitney

interchangeable parts (muskets), cotton gin(separating cotton quicker)

Daniel Webster

defended the federal government power to make aws that applied to all the states in the Union

John C Calhoun

vice president, against Tariff, called it the tariff of abomination

John Deere

(1837) first steel plow

Samuel F. Morse

(1837) painter/scientist, electromagnetic telegraph, with Leonard Gale

Martin Van Buren

was a president canidate afaist William Henery Harrison

Henry Clay

proposed the American System

Andrew Jackson

(1829-1837) president of the United States of America (democratic-republican) controversial, dueling, killing a bunch of people, New Orleans due to the fact that he went against orders, general from Tennesse, commandeer of 1812 New Orleans

Roger Sherman

(1721-1793) political leader from CT

James Madison

(1751-1836) leader of Virginia

Nathaniel Bacon

29 years old, planter, hated Native Americans, raised own army to fight Native Americans, governor thought the army was illegal and pushed the governor out, died a month later

William Penn

Quaker, radical, Pennsylvania was given to family by king, quakers imigrated

Sir Edmund Andros

ruled New England, nobody liked him

Thaddeus Stevens

championed the rights of blacks for decades