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VA/US Midterm PEOPLE
| Person | Description |
|---|---|
| Puritans | Settled in New England for religious freedom; not tolerant to other religious denominations |
| Cavaliers | Rich, English nobility who settled in the south; received large land grants from the King of England; started plantations |
| Quakers | settled in Pennsylvania (part of the middle colonies); didn't believe in fighting; most famous is William Penn |
| Indentured servants | poor people who agreed to work on plantations for a period of time in exchange for passage to the colonies |
| John Locke | Enlightenment philosopher who influenced Jefferson; natural rights of life, liberty, and property; social contract; people have a right to rebel if their rights were not being protected by the government |
| Thomas Paine | writer of Common Sense; spoke out against the King of England; contributed to the breakout of the American Revolution |
| Patrick Henry | Virginian writer who wanted the colonies to rebel against England; said, "but as for me, give me liberty or give me death" |
| Thomas Jefferson | writer of the Declaration; President of the US; leader of the Democrat-Republicans; favored states' rights; wrote Virginia Statute for Religious Freedoms |
| Minutemen | Massachusetts militia who fought at the first battles of the Revolution--Lexington and Concord |
| patriots | people who supported the colonies fighting the English in the American Revolution |
| loyalists | colonists who continued to support England during the American Revolution |
| neutrals | people who didn't choose sides during the American Revolution; tried to stay uninvolved |
| Benjamin Franklin | Negotiated a Treaty of Alliance with France during the American Revolution |
| George Washington | leader of the Continental Army; chairman at the Constitutional Convention; President of the US |
| James Madison | "father of the Constitution"; wrote most of the Bill of Rights; authored the Virginia Plan; President of the US |
| George Mason | wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights; said human rights should not be violated by the government |
| Alexander Hamilton | contributed to the Federalist Papers supporting the ratification of the Constitution; leader of the Federal party; wanted a strong central government |
| John Marshall | Supreme Court Chief Justice; Marbury vs. Madison (judicial review) and McCulloch vs. Maryland |
| Lewis and Clark | hired by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase |
| Sacagawea | Indian woman who served as a tour guide for Louis and Clark |
| James Monroe | US President who said European countries must stay out of affairs of the Western Hemisphere |
| John Adams | US President; leader of the Federalist Party |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin; resulted in expansion of slavery |
| Andrew Jackson | responsible for theTrail of Tears; issued the most vetos of any prior President; vetoed the existence of the Bank of the US; his actions caused the Panic of 1837 |
| Henry Clay | wanted a Bank of the US; ran against Jackson under the National Republican Party, but lost; known as the Great Compromiser because of the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 |
| William Lloyd Garrison | white abolitionist who headed the newspaper, "The Liberator" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | abolitionist who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; help fuel anger towards slavery and contributed to the Civil War |
| Nat Turner & Gabriel Prosser | These two slaves led slave rebellions in the South; caused the South to impose harsh laws against runaway (fugitive) slaves. |
| Abraham Lincoln | His election caused the Civil War; first Republican Party President; issued the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address and "A House Divided" speech; did not want to punish the South for the war: "with malice towards know, and charity for all |
| Stephen Douglas | responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act which supported popular sovereignty (the right for the people to vote whether their state would be slave or free), ran against Lincoln in the Presidential Election |
| Dred Scott | court case about an escaped slave; favored the South and said fugitive slaves who escaped must be returned to their owners; angered many Northerners |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | these two women led the women's rights movement; organized the Seneca Falls Convention; wanted women's suffrage |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Leader of the Union (Northern) Army during the Civil War; later becomes President |
| Robert E. Lee | leader of the Confederate (Southern) army |
| Jefferson Davis | first and only President of the Confederacy during the Civil War |
| Frederick Douglass | escaped slave turned abolitionist; urged Lincoln to use black troops in the Union army |
| Andrew Johnson | became President after Lincoln's assassination; very lenient (easy) towards the South during Reconstruction |
| Henry Bessemer | discovered a cheap way to make steel; steel production is important for the Industrial Revolution to occur |
| Thomas Edison | invented the light bulb |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| Wright Brothers | invented the airplane |
| Henry Ford | invented assembly line manufacturing when producing his Model T Fords |
| Andrew Carnegie | big businessman; steel production |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | big businessman; built railroads |
| J.P. Morgan | big businessman; finance |
| John D. Rockefeller | big businessman; oil |
| Ida B. Wells | led an anti-lynching campaign |
| Booker T. Washington | said blacks should receive vocational education for economic success; said segregation was okay |
| W.E.B. DuBois | said education was meaningless without equality; created the NAACP |
| Theodore Roosevelt | "Square Deal" |
| Samuel Gompers | Man who led the American Federation of Labor |
| Eugene Debs | Man who led the American Railway Union |
| Woodrow Wilson | 14 Points (WWI) freedom of the seas, mandate system, self-determination, League of Nations |
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