Midterm Personalities Flashcards
Father of the Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slater
President (1829/1837) AKA Old Hickory (strong/military man)
Andrew Jackson
“From Kentucky, AKA “The Barbecue Orator”, was campaigning for John Adams
Henry Clay
Vilified by his opponents as an elitist, a bookish academic, and even a monarchist.
John Quincy Adams
Jackson’s vice president who had just served as vice president under Adams but had broken with Adams’s policies.
John C. Calhoun
One of the shrewdest politicians of the day who served as Secretary of State
Martin Van Buren
A Leader of the Sauk and Fox Indians who had fought in alliance with Tecumseh in the War of 1812.
Black Hawk
Backed by several thousand Cherokees, petitioned the U.S.
Congress to ignore the bogus treaty, to no avail.
Chief John Ross
A central leader of the Second Great Awakening was a lawyer turned minister
Charles Grandison Finney
A Boston printer who published An Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World, which condemned racism, invoked the egalitarian language of the Declaration of Independence, and hinted at racial violence if whites did not change their prejudiced ways.
David Walker
The founder and editor of The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Illinois abolitionist editor who was killed by a rioting crowd attempting to destroy his printing press.
Elijah Lovejoy
Invented the steam boat “Clement”
Robert Fulton
Opposed Van Buren and won the election
William Henry Harrison
Invented the mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormick
Made the “singing plow”
John Deere
Demonstrated the potential of his telegraph by transmitting an electronic message between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.
Samuel F.B. Morse
Organized the move to the Great Salt Lake, state of deserter founded, technically in Mexican territory.
Brigham Young
Coined the term “manifest destiny”
John L. O’Sullivan
An upstate New York farm boy who said that he was visited by an angel who led him to golden tablets buried near his home.
Joseph Smith Jr.
Secures the treaty and the Anglo American relations improve afterwards.
President James K. Polk
Became president in April 1841 when William Henry Harrison
died one month after taking office, understood that Texas was a dangerous issue.
John Tyler
Discovered gold in the American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
James Marshall
Described white behavior toward Indians during the gold rush as “one of the last human hunts of civilization, and the basest and most brutal of them all.”
Hubert Howe Bancroft
The charismatic leader of Oneida, believed that American
society’s commitment to private property made people greedy and selfish.
John Humphrey Noyes
An essayist, poet, and lecturer — proclaimed that the power of the solitary individual was nearly limitless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Urged Americans to stop discriminating against able and enterprising women
Paula Wright Davis
