First Semester Final (people) Flashcards
Judson
“Father of american missions”
Burr
Jeffersons Vice President
Finney
best known evangelist in Great Awakening
Brainerd
best known missionary to Indians
Dix
treated mentally ill
Emerson
Developed transcendentalism
Marion
“Swamp fox”
Stowe
wrote “uncle tom’s cabin”
Thoreau
wrote walden
Watt
built first practical steam engine
Deere
invented steel plow
Virginia dare
First english child born in present day united states
White
Established Roanoke
Mathew Perry
Negotiated treaty with japan
Noah Webster
Wrote the blue backed speller
Cartwright
Best circuit rider
Pizarro
Conquered the incas of peru
Salle
Claimed entire mssissippi valley
F.B Morse
invented the telegraph
Pinckney
Negotiated a treaty with Spain
Whitman
Wrote “leaves of grass”
William Harrison
Won battle of Tippecanoe
Scott
Attacked Veracruz
Lincoln
Republican presidential candidate in 1860
Bowie
Commander of the Alamo
Napoleon
Sold louisiana to united states
Ingerson
“Great Agnostic”
Anthony
Womens rights suffrage
Hamilton
“Secretary of treasury”
Franklin
Proposed Albany plan
Cartier
Discovered st. Lawrence River
Daniel Webster
Greatest orator
De soto
Discovered Mississippi River
Ethan Allen
Leader of “green mountains”
Key
Wrote Star-Spangled Banner
Washington
General during revolutionary war
Henry VIII (8th)
Broke England’s ties with Catholic Church
Madison
“Father of constitution”
Smith
Discovered south pass
Freemont
First republican candidate
Jones
“I have not yet begun to fight”
Wycliffe
Translated bible into english
Montcalm
General during French and Indian war
Turner
Caused a slave rebellion
Oliver Perry
“We have met the enemy and they are ours”
Lee
General of US, captured john brown
Morris
Obtained loan from France
Slater
Owned california gold mill
Jefferson
First Secretary of State
Braddock
General of French and Indian war
Garrison
Promoted freeing of slaves
Wolf
British General