Final Exam People #4: 1800s and 1900s Miscellaneous

1800s Miscellaneous

• Andrew Jackson: President of the United States whose presidency was called the “Age of Jackson” He founded the democratic party with Thomas Jefferson. He was a general in the Revolution. He favored the “common man” approach to presidency, and was also the first Western president. He was seen as a middle class figure. Also the first president to change prior presidential appointments. 

• Henry Clay: Politician from an Aristocratic background who became Jackson’s biggest opp. Had one of his proposals vetoed by Andrew Jackson. He hatched a whole plot against Jackson with a bank thing and then it backfired on him because Jackson’s veto actually appealed to the American people. 

• John C. Calhoun: only person to be vice president in two different presidential administrations (John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson). Ended up switching parties partway through Adams’ administration so he proposed the Tariff of Abominations to try to make Adams look bad but that plan backfired. Helps accidentally create a situation in which SC almost secedes from the Union. He is a creator of chaos.

• Henry George: Author of Progress and Poverty that tried to ask and answer the great question of the Age. George was the most famous socialist of the nineteenth century.

• Andrew Carnegie: Author of Wealth. Also founded Carnegie Steel. Distributed more than 90% of his fortune throughout his lifetime because he was a big believer in donating money. Wrote his book as a direct opposition to George. Also tried to ask and answer the great question of the age. 

• David Wilmot: proposed the Wilmot Proviso.

• Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks: Get in a fight on the Senate floor and Brooks fractures Sumner’s skull.

1900s Miscellaneous

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt: President during the Great Depression, creates the New Deal which includes the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act.

• Francis Perkins: Secretary of Labor in 1937 who proposed the Social Security Act. 

• Woodrow Wilson: President during World War I who originally opposed women’s suffrage and then eventually supported it