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