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Important People 1
STAAR Prep US History Important People 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Commander of the Union Troops | Ulysses S Grant |
| Commander of the Conferderate troops | Robert E Lee |
| President of the US during the Civil War,he was later assassinated by John Wilkes Booth | Abraham Lincoln |
| President of the Confederate States of America | Jefferson Davis |
| Transcendentalist who protested the Mexican-American War by not paying his taxes. He explained his reasoning in Civil Disobedience. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Leader of the women's rights movement. She and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention. She authored the Declaration of Sentiments. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Leading African American abolitionist,he was a former slave who became a famous speaker and writer. He published a newspaper called "The North Star" | Frederick Douglass |
| "The Great Compromiser" he authored the Missouri Compromise before the Civil War. | Henry Clay |
| Senator from New York,known for his strong desire to preserve the Union. | Daniel Webster |
| VP under Andrew Jackson from S Carolina, he was a strong supporter of states' rights, his beliefs led to Nullification Crisis of 1828. | John C Calhoun |
| 7th President of the US; started the present day Democratic Party,portrayed as a "common man". His Indian Removal Act led to the Trail of Tears | Andrew Jackson |
| Invented a new type of steamboat that could move against the current or wind (Clermont) | Robert Fulton |
| Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney |
| 5th president of the US,isssued the Monroe Doctrine which became important to the US foreign policy. | James Monroe |
| Author of the Star Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key |
| Native American who helped Lewis and Clark while they explored the Louisiana Territory. | Sacajawea |
| Explorers of the Louisiana Territory | Lewis and Clark |
| 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; he helped establish the idea of judicial review that made the Supreme Court far more powerful. | John Marshall |
| "Father of the Constitution", helped write the Federalist Papers and the 4th President of the US. The War of 1812 is oftern referred to as "Mr Madison's War". | James Madison |
| Outspoken Anti-Federalist from Virginia | George Mason |
| Author of some of The Federalist Papers,founder of the Federalist Party,Secretary of Treasury under George Washington. | Alexander Hamilton |
| Proposed the Albany Plan of Union which would have united the colonies under one government,hehelped secure French aid during the American Revolution. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Patriot from Virgina; famously said,"Give me liberty or give me death!" he became an outspoken Anti-Federalist because the Constitution lacked a Bill of Rights. | Patrick Henry |
| American Naval hero who famously said,"I have not yet begun to fight!" | John Paul Jones |
| British General | General Cornwallis |
| German who helped trained the Patriots at Valley Forge. | Baron von Stuben |
| Frenchmen who believed in the Patriot cause,he aided the Patriots with the money and supplies. He became a close friend and advisor to George Washington | Marquis de Lafayette |
| Primary author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the Democratic-Republican Pary, Secretary of State under George Washington, VP under John Adams and 3rd President of the US | Thomas Jefferson |
| Commander of the Continental Army,First President of the US | George Washington |
| Wrote Common Sense and The Crisis | Thomas Paine |
| British monarch during the American Revolution | King George III |
| Founded the Sons of Liberty and Committees of Correspondence, he was the mastermind behind the Boston Tea Party. | Samuel Adams |
| Founded Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics | Lord Baltimore |
| Founded Georgia as a place for debtors | James Oglethorpe |
| Removed from Massachusetts for saying God spoke directly to her | Anne Hutchinson |
| Started Rhode Island after he was removed from Massachusetts, he believed in the separation of church and state. | Roger Williams |
| Quaker who founded Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers, Pennsylvania had a democratic form of government | William Penn |
| Made Jamestown prosperous by growing tobacco, married Pocahontas which helped relations between the settlers and the Native Americans. | John Rolfe |
| Saved Jamestown by implementing the "work or starve rule". | John Smith |
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