US History EOC, important people Flashcards
Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn
Religious group that settled in New England;strict; no toleration
Puritans
British Philosopher;natural rights; (life,liberty, and property)
John Lock
Proposed the first national bank of the US
Hamilton
author of the declaration of independence
Thomas Jefferson
president that put down the whiskey rebellion
Washington
signed the alien and sedition acts into law
John Adams
father of the constitution and helped write the federalist papers.
james madison
president that supported the Cherokee removal/trail of tears
Andrew Jackson
President that purchased the Louisiana territory from France
Thomas Jefferson
President that issued the Monroe doctrine
James monroe
created political alliance “the america system”
Henry Clay
Famous slave who ran the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Famous former slave that wrote an autobiography
Fredrick Douglas
White abolitionist, wrote “The Liberator”
William Loyd Garrison
White women that wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet B. Stowe
white terrorist that raided harpers ferry
John Brown
Two Famous Women that organized the seneca falls convention:advocates for womens rights/abolition
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton
Senator from Pennsylvania that proposed the idea of free soil
David Wilmont
famous slave that sued for his freedom in the supreme court
dred scott
US president that wrote the emancipation proclemation
Lincoln
Entrepreneur, horizontal integration, oil tycoon
Rockefeller
Entrepreneur, vertical integration, steel tycoon
Carnegie
Positive way to describe big business men
Captains of industry
Negative way to describe big business men
Robber Barons
Northern Republicans that moved south after the civil war
carpet baggers
southern supporters of reconstruction
Scalawags
believed in gradual acceptance for black people
Booker T. Washington
Believed in immediate acceptance for black people
W.E. Dubois
terrorist group that intimidated black voters
KKK
Introduced the moving Assembly line in 1913
henry ford
delivered the cross of gold speech
William Jennings Bryan
Ran the “front porch campaign”
William McKinley
Wrote the jungle
Upton Sinclair
feminist that engaged in marches and hunger strikes
Alice Paul
Introduced settlement houses; Hull house in Chicago
Jane Addams
US president; trust buster, big stick diplomacy
Teddy Roosevelt
US president; Dollar diplomacy
William Taft
wrote the fourteen points; moral diplomacy
Woodrow Wilson
Assassinated;ignited WW1;Archduke
Franz Ferdinand
Made jazz music popular, trumpet player
Louis Armstrong
president, New Deal, WW2
Franklin Roosevelt
Known as the Big Three, WW2
Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill
Wrote the Feminine mystique
Betty Friedan
Attorney general; deported “communists” 1920s
Palmer
Republican senator; said government was infiltrated with communists; big lie (1950s)
Joseph McCarthy
Civil Rights leader in the south; Gave i have a dream speech
MLK
Civil rights leader in the north; violent, wanted racial separation
Malcolm X
