American History 8th

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John Adams

Lawyer during Boston Massacre, was the 2nd president

John Quincy Adams

Son of John adams, 6th president.

Samuel Adams

Leads sons of Liberty

Susan B. Anthony

Helped woman vote

Benedict Arnold

Switched to the British side during the American revolution

Clara Barton

Started red cross

John Wilkes Booth

Killed Lincoln

John Brown

Civil war,went to kansas,got hanged

Aaron Burr

V.P kills Hamilton in a duel

John C calhoun

Senetor from south carolina was a war hawk

Andrew Carnegie

$$$ steel

Samuel de Champlain

French explorer,1st european to see the great lakes

William Clark

Led expedition to pacific

Henry Clay

Senetar, war walk in 1812, come up with compromises to stop the civil war

Christopher Columbus

explorer and found the new world

Hernan Cortez

Spanish exploer and killed Aztecs

Davy Crockett

The Frontiers man died at Alimo

Jefferson Davis

President of south in Civil War

Stephan A Douglas

Ran for president against Abe Lincoln

Fredrick Douglass

Runaway slave, started newspapers

Thomas Edison

Improved the light bulb

Benjamin Franklin

Founding Father, Got France to help in the Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant

Civil war northern general wins

Alexander Hamilton

Started the money system, was the Secretary of the Treasury, got shot.

John handcock

Signed the Declaration of Independence 1st and had the largest signature.

Rutherford B. Hayes

ended reconstruction

Patrick Henry

A famous writer in the American Revolution, also famous for saying, "Give me liberty or give me death!"

Sam Houstan

President of Texas

Andrew Jackson

War hero 1812, Stole Florida and was president.

John Jay

1st supreme court judge

Thomas Jefferson

Wrote the Declaration of Independence and bought louisianna

Andrew Johnson

Lincoln's vice president and became president after his death

Francis Scott Key

wrote the Star Spangled Banner

Robert E. Lee

Major Southern general during the civil war

Abraham Lincoln

Northern President of the U.S and ended slavery

Francis Lowell

started cloth factories

Cyrus McCormick

Invented the mechanical reaper (tractor)

James Madison

The father of the Bill of rights was the president during 1812, 4th president.

Jacques Marquette

First european to michigan

John marshall

Supreme court judge and made judicial review

James Monroe

President during the Era of Good Feelings

Thomas Pains

Wrote a book called "Common Sense," which is about the American Revolution

William Penn

Started Pennsylvania

Oliver Hazard Perry

The War of 1812 saved Put-in-Bay in Ohio.

James K. Polk

President with manifest destiny, sea to shining sea

Marco Polo

Went to china and wrote a book.

Pontiac

Native American who attacked the white settelars

John D. Rockefeller

$$$ Oil

Sacagawea

Traveled with Louis and Clark to the Pacific.

Dred Scott

Slave who sued his slave owner and lost the case.

Winfield Scott

military general in Mexican War, made the andeconda plan

William H. Seward

Was the Secretary of State, bought Alaska

William T. Sherman

Northern General during the Civil War, Civil War Fair.

Samuel Slater

memorized plans for water powered factory

John Smith

Helped save Jamestown and met Pocahontas

Jospeh Smith

Started Mormon religion

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Zachary Taylor

A military general in the Mexican War died of food poisoning

Tecumseh

War of 1812, a native american tried to get all tribes to get along.

Nat Turner

Led slave revolt and was punished drastically

Martin Van Buren

President during the 1830's depression

Gornellious Vanderoilt

$$$ railroads

George Washington

American Revolution general, 1st president of the United States

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

Roger Williams

Started Rhode Island