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Key People
Quick Prep Quiz 3/24/14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abigail Adams | Wife of President John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams |
| Samuel Adams | Important leader in the American Revolution |
| Richard Allen | Founder of first African-American church in U.S. |
| Susan B. Anthony | Leader of movement to give women the right to vote |
| Benedict Arnold | Leader during the American Revolution, he switched sides and became a traitor |
| Crispus Attucks | American hero and martyr of the Boston Massacre |
| John James Audubon | Naturalist, famous for his paintings of American birds |
| Nathaniel Bacon | Virginia planter and leader of Bacon's Rebellion |
| Daniel Boone | Frontiersmen who found trail through the Cumberland Gap |
| John Wilkes Booth | Southerner who assassinated Pres. Abraham Lincoln |
| Joseph Brant | Mohawk Indian chief who fought Americans in Am. Rev. |
| John Breckinridge | Politician who supported a states rights view in early republic |
| John Brown | Militant abolitionist who led raid at Harpers Ferry |
| Ambrose Burnside | Union General in Civil War, fought at battle of Antietam |
| John C. Calhoun | Vice president of U.S.; created doctrine of nullification |
| Mary Chesnut | Southern diarist who described life during the Civil War |
| William Clark | Explorer of Lewis and Clark expedition |
| Henry Clay | Politician known as "The Great Compromiser" |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer of the New World |
| James Fenimore Cooper | First major U.S. novelist, wrote stories about the frontier |
| Charles Cornwallis | British General defeated in battle of Yorktown during Am. Rev. |
| Jefferson Davis | President of Confederate States of America during Civil War |
| Dorothea Dix | Reformer who fought to improve the care of the mentally ill |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Politician who participated in Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1860 |
| Fredrick Douglas | Former slave and important abolitionist |
| Jonathon Edwards | Theologian and Puritan who sparked The Great Awakening |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Writer and poet; popularized the idea of transcendentalism |
| Olaudah Equiano | Former slave and abolitionist; wrote his autobiography |
| Benjamin Franklin | Author, publisher, inventor, and diplomat |
| Robert Fulton | Ran first commercial steamboat |
| Thomas Gage | British military governor of Massachusetts at time of Am. Rev. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Printer of the abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator |
| Horatio Gates | General during Am. Rev. who defeated British at Battle of Saratoga |
| George III | British king during Am. Rev. |
| Angelina and Sarah Grimke | Abolitionist sisters |
| Alexander Hamilton | Author of many of the Federalist Papers; first Secretary of the Treasury |
| John Hancock | Important leader of Am. Rev.; first signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature |
| Patrick Henry | Important person in Am. Rev.; said, "Give me liberty or give me death" |
| Sam Houston | Important leader of Texas Revolution |
| Ann Hutchinson | Banished from Massachusetts colony; one of founders of Rhode Island |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate general. Fought in First Battle of Bull Run |
| John Jay | First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; negotiated Jay's Treaty |
| John Paul Jones | Naval hero during Am. Rev. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French hero of Am. Rev. |
| Robert E. Lee | Famous Confederate general during the Civil War |
| Meriwether Lewis | Explorer of Lewis and Clark expedition |
| John Locke | English philosopher; his ideas influenced Am. ideas about government |
| Henry W. Longfellow | Most popular Am. poet of the 19th century |
| John Marshall | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; one of the most important in history |
| George Mason | insisted on protection of individual rights in the Constitution |
| Increase Mather | Important Puritan minister |
| Samuel Morse | Invented the telegraph system; developed Morse Code |
| Lucretia Mott | Helped found the women's rights movement |
| James Oglethorpe | Founded the colony of Georgia |
| William Penn | Quaker, founded Pennsylvania |
| George Pickett | Confederate officer; important in Battle of Gettysburg |
| Thomas Pinckney | Politician, negotiated treaty with Spanish |
| Tom Paine | Influential writer during Am. Rev. |
| Pocahontas | Helped maintain peace between early colonists and Indians |
| Paul Revere | Made famous ride during American Revolution to warn of a British attack |
| Betsy Ross | Seamstress who may have created first American flag |
| Sacagawea | Indian woman, guide on the Lewis and Clack expedition |
| Dred Scott | Salve who sued for his freedom in famous Supreme Court case |
| Winfield Scott | General in War of 1812, Mexican War, and Civil War |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general; waged total war on the South |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Leader of movement to give women the right to vote |
| Roger Taney | Supreme court chief justice; wrote Dred Scott decision |
| Tecumseh | Indian Chief who fought with British in War of 1812 |
| Henry David Thoreau | Author, believed in transcendentalism and civil rights |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | French author who described life in 19th century America |
| Sojourner Truth | Former slave; leading abolitionist and defender of women's rights |
| Harriet Tubman | Former slave; abolitionist and organized Underground Railroad |
| Nat Turner | Slave would lead famous and bloody slave rebellion |
| David Walker | Black abolitionist; wrote famous pamphlet urging slaves to rebel |
| Daniel Webster | Important politician; attacked idea of states' rights |
| Noah Webster | Created first American dictionary |
| Walt Whitman | author, poet, journalist |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the Cotton Gin |
| John Winthrop | Important Puritan; first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Brigham Young | Led Mormons to escape religious persecution |
| John Peter Zenger | Journalist; his trail helped establish idea of freedom of press |
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