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History final 2
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alexander Hamilton | Treasury Whiskey Rebellion plan called for the government to repay both federal and state debts |
| Thomas Jefferson | Secretary of state Vice president 1797 |
| John Adams | he was the Federalists nominee for president He became president in 1797 and Thomas Jefferson became vice |
| John Quincy Adams | he was a candidate for president in 1824 who eventually became president, he served the Secretary of State and helped end the war of 1812 |
| Martin Van Buren | part of Jackson's kitchen cabinet, president during the worst economic crisis, the panic of 1837 |
| Andrew Jackson | candidate for president in 1824 and he supported the West, most people knew him for his military victories in 1812 |
| Eli Whitney | faded the cotton gin, a device to make cleaning cotton faster and easier |
| Abraham Lincoln | he ran for Senate in 1858, he was totally opposed to slavery, he became the 16th president |
| John Brown | radical abolitionist to lead and he slavery campaign, he planned to raid a federal arsenal |
| Jefferson Davis | he was the first president of the Confederacy |
| General Robert E Lee | Lincoln asked him to come and the Union Army he refused, he became the leader of the Confederate Army |
| General George McClellan | commander of the unit army of the East, known as the Army of the Potomac, he transformed inexperienced troops into an army of train soldiers prepared for battle |
| General Ulysses S Grant | the attack in captured fort henry in fort donelson tennessee, union general |
| General William T. Sherman | General hired by grants to capture Atlanta, Georgia and then march to the atlantic coast , he had orders to destroy everything in the south |
| Dorthea Dix | Famoud for her work reforming prisons and mental hospitals. She was a union nurse |
| Sojourner Truth | African American anti-slavery leader.she worked in Union Hospital in camp for free the slaves |
| Sally Tompkins | set up a hospital in Richmond Virginia, Confederate nurse |
| Clara Barton | Union nurse who started the Red Cross |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincolns vice president until he became president after Lincolns assassination. He also created a reconstruction plan |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | presidential candidate chosen from Ohio. He privately agreed to end reconstruction |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | civil rights activist who wanted a peaceful protest instead of violence. one of the many civil rights leaders |
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