key terms Flashcards
, Abigail Adams
A confidante of her husband the second president. Advocated for Education and abolishment of slavery
, Charles Francis Adams
Grandson of John Adams. U.S. diplomat who played an important role in keeping Britain neutral during the U.S. Civil War. The editor of the Boston Whig. The Whigs should have a forthright position against the extension of slavery
, John Adams
was an early advocate of American independence, a figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author Massachusetts constitution (1780), Treaty of Paris signed (1783), the first American ambassador to the Court of St. James (1785–88), first vice president (1789–97) and second president, (federalist)
, John Quincy Adams
John Adams son, 6th president, helped with Monroe Doctrine and helped Maddison with the Treaty of Ghent
, Fisher Ames
Federalist politician, wrote essays, arch opponent of Jeffersonian democracy. wrote in favor of peace with Britain in the jay treaty
, Benjamin Austin
Massachusetts state senator in 1787, 1789–94, and 1796 (what is with Massachusetts??), Republican, advocate of a simplified legal system
, Benjamin Franklin Bache
-made Philadelphia—–Aurora——-, a newspaper that supported Jeffersonian philosophy.
- republican
-made Ol Ben Frank a Grand Pappy
- annoyed—-George W—–AND Adams
- got arrested and died because of the—–Sedition Act——-
, Gamaliel Bailey
was a journalist and a leader of the ——abolition movement—–prior to the American Civil War.
editor of The National Era, which featured Uncle Toms Cabin
, Benjamin Banneker
-African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer, and almanac author.
- Scorpio
- Free man and landowner
- helped establish Washington D.C
, Phillip Barbour
-has a high school named after him (don’t ask me why)
- associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1836–41)
- states’ rights and strict construction of the U.S. Constitution.
- president of the Virginia constitutional convention after monroe
, William T. Barry
- chief justice of the newly formed state court of appeals
- President Andrew Jackson offered Barry the post of first postmaster general.
- from 1829 to 1835, charges of corruption, allegations forced the President to ask for Barry’s resignation in 1835.
-very suspicious looking
, Lyman Beecher
-Presbyterian minister
- Beecher was a leader of the second and more conservative phase of the Second Great Awakening
- Three Marragies and 13 children??????
-Some of the children were cool tho
- he opposed rationalism, Catholicism, and the liquor traffic
, John Bell
Democrat until 1841. He broke with Pres. Andrew Jackson in 1834 and supported Hugh Lawson White for president in 1836. After White’s defeat Bell became a Whig and, in March 1841, made secretary of war in Pres. William Henry Harrison’s Cabinet. He resigned in opposition to Pres. John Tyler’s break with the Whigs
Salve holder but opposed expansion of slavery, Union supporter, and Tennessee senator
-ALMOST PRESIDENT during civil war
, Thomas Hart Benton
-Senator
-lawyer and political leader during the first half of the 1800s.
-his five terms as a U.S. senator,
- strong supporter of the use of hard money and westward expansion.
-shot a man in the arm so had to leave Tennessee in shame
-helped out Jackson
- “My personal sentiments, then, are against the institution of slavery, and against its introduction into places in which it does not exist. If there was no slavery in Missouri today, I should oppose its coming in.”
, John M. Berrien
-“American Cicero,” and Chief Justice John Marshall dubbed him “the honey-tongued Georgia youth.”
-state senator (Georgia)
-then member of the senate
-Attorney General within President Andrew Jackson’s cabinet. He was affiliated with the Whig party
(in that order)
, Nicholas Biddle
-leader/president of B.U.S. before it ended
-fought with Jackson a lot over it
- in cohorts with Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
- in the National Republican Party
- !!!!!!Pennsylvania!!!!! State Senate
-Jackson vetoed his charter :(
, James G. Birney
Abolitionist leader and politician, founder of the Liberty Party, and advocate for ending slavery through legal means.
, Francis Preston Blair
Newspaper editor and close adviser to Andrew Jackson, helping establish the Democratic Party’s Globe publication.
, Napoleon Bonaparte
French military leader who sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. in 1803, doubling the nation’s size.
, Aaron Burr
Vice president under Thomas Jefferson, infamous for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel and his alleged treasonous schemes in the West.
, John C. Calhoun
Prominent South Carolinian politician and advocate for states’ rights, nullification, and slavery; served as vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
, William Carroll
Governor of Tennessee and War of 1812 military leader, known for his reforms in the state’s legal system.
- besties with ol’ Jackson
, Samuel Chase
U.S. Supreme Court justice whose impeachment trial helped define judicial independence.
, Lewis Cass
Politician and diplomat known for promoting “popular sovereignty” to determine the legality of slavery in U.S. territories.
Ran for president in 1848 but was defeated by Zachary Taylor, partly due to the rise of the Free Soil Party.
, Henry Clay
Politician known as the “Great Compromiser” for his efforts to defuse sectional tensions through compromises such as the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850.
-Called “Harry of the West” and was known for his charisma and penchant for gambling.
- him and Jackson were not simpatico
, DeWitt Clinton
Governor of New York and key proponent of the Erie Canal, a transformative project for U.S. trade and economy.
-people made fun of him cause they thought EC was dumb (it was not)
, George Clinton
fourth vice president of the United States and prominent Anti-Federalist critic of centralized government.
, William Crawford
Presidential candidate and politician who advocated for states’ rights and limited government during the “Era of Good Feelings.”
- Survived a paralyzing stroke during the 1824 presidential race and still ran.
, Stephen Douglas
- one of the many short men in us political history
- Senator who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act and debated Abraham Lincoln on the issue of slavery’s expansion.
, Frederick Douglass
Former enslaved man turned abolitionist leader, orator, and author, instrumental in the fight to end slavery in America.
- two ss cause he’s twice the man Douglas was (Oooohhhhhhhh)
William Duane,
-Once famously locked out of his own office by President Jackson for refusing to remove federal deposits.
- Editor of the Aurora newspaper, a critic of Federalist policies and influential in shaping public opinion against the Alien and Sedition Acts.
