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
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