F2 Flashcards
The third president of the united states
Thomas jefferson
Chief justice of the supreme court
John Marshall
Explorer of the louisiana territory
Meriwether Lewis
President who oversaw the war of 1812
James Madison
American hero of the battle of horseshoe bend; “ the friend of the common man”
Andrew Jackson
Author of the national anthem
Francis scott key
Court decision that maintained that “ it is emphatically the province and duty of the judical
Marbury V. Madison
Landmark decision that protected congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce
Gibbon V. Ogden
Landmark court decision that denied states the power to interfere with the ability of congress to enact a national bank
McCulloch V. Maryland
Speaker of the house who formulated the missouri compromise
Henry Clay
The little Magician whose administration was marred by a depression
Martin Van Buren
He supported states right and unexpectedly became president when the president died
John Tyler
A tax on imported goods
Tariff
National funding for roads, Canals , harbors, and railroads
Internal improvements
Replacement of government officeholders with supporters of the new administration
Spoils System
Designed to end the nullification crisis by reducing the tariff rates
Compromise Tariff of 1833
Forced removal of the civilized tribes from their homeland
Trail of Tears
Invented cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Steamboat
Robert Fulton
Erie Canal
Dewitt Clinton
Telegraph
Samuel Moree
Abolitionist editor of the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Leader of a slave rebellion
Nat Turner
Eloquent former slave
Frederick Douglas
Former slave who made trips to the south to leads slaves to freedom
Harriet Tubman
Public education reformer
Horace Mann
Father of American Methodism
Francis Asbury
Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Richard Allen
Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints
Joseph Smith
Founder of salt lake city the mormon capital
Brigham Young
Dark horse president
James K. Polk
Fought Texans and Americans
Santa Anna
Slaughter of a small Texas outpost by the Mexican army
The Alamo
Mexican cession of New Mexico and California
Treaty of Hildago
First republican president
Abraham Lincoln
President of the confederate states of America
Jefferson Davis
Belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its borders
Popular soveignty
California gold rush
Forty-niner
Antislavery,probusiness
Republican
Leaving the union
Secession