APUSH People #3

William Henry Harrison

General turned politician for the Whig Party won the Presidency but died 31 days into office.

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the cotton gin whose invention made slavery profitable again.

Nat Turner

Leader of the deadliest slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 that frightened whites.

Oliver Hazard Perry

American naval officer who defeated the British on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812.

Nathanael Greene

Colonial army officer assigned the task of defending the American South against Cornwallis

De Witt Clinton

New York governor who pushed for the Erie Canal system, nicknamed "Clinton's Big Ditch"

John Quincy Adams

Secretary of State responsible for acquiring Florida and writing the Monroe Doctrine

Nicholas Biddle

President of the Second Bank of the United States who argued with Andrew Jackson.

Charles Cornwallis

British general charged with invading the American South during the Revolutionary War

Francis Scott Key

Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a tribute to the American victory at Fort McHenry

Tecumseh

Native leader of the uprising in Indiana in the War of 1812 defeated by Harrison.

Denmark Vesey

Freed black man charged with planning the largest slave insurrection in South Carolina history in 1822.

James Wolfe

British general who won the Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War

Andrew Jackson

General turned politician who won the Battle of New Orleans and became President

John Tyler

The first Vice President to become the President of the United States due to a death.

Noah Webster

Created the first dictionary of the American English language

Horace Mann

Advocate for free public schooling and abolition of slavery in the 1830s and 40s.

James Fenimore Cooper

Author of novels that featured the American frontier, including Last of the Mohicans

Henry David Thorean: Transcendentalist essayist and naturalist who wrote Walden

Meriwether Lewis

Leader of the expedition to explore the acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase.

John Dickinson

Founding father who voted against the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Articles Of Confederation.

John Calhoun

South Carolina politician who was the biggest advocate for slavery and state rights during the Antebellum Era.

Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick and other novels about New England sea life and the ocean.

Davy Crockett

American frontiersman and political form Tennessee who died at the Alamo

George Whitefield

Popular preacher in the Great Awakening in both England and the US who promoted methodism and evangelical beliefs.

Sojourner Truth

Former slave who protested the institution in speeches, such as “Ain’t I a Woman?”

James Monroe

President during the "Era of Good Feelings" responsible for the Missouri Compromise

Albert Gallatin

Jefferson's Secretary of the Treasury most responsible for the Embargo Act of 1807

Henry Clay

Kentucky politician, statesman and Presidential candidate known as the Great Compromiser

Daniel Webster

Massachusetts politician and statesman known as the greatest orator of the Antebellum