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Flashcards by GarrettMurch, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by GarrettMurch
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| Question | Answer |
| John Quincy Adams | Elected president, wrote the Monroe Doctrine, involved in the corrupt bargin |
| John C. Calhoun | Wrote the Ordinance of Nullification, allowing a state to dismiss a law if they thought it was unconstitutional |
| Sequoyah | Wrote the Indian Sylabary |
| Henry Clay | Made secretary by Adams, this started the corrupt bargain because Clay helped Adams into office |
| James K. Polk | Elected president, starts the Mexican War |
| Joseph Smith | Founded the Mormon religion (crazy) |
| Brigham Young | Second leader of the Mormons, led them to Salt Lake City, Utah |
| James W. Marshall | Started the California when he found gold when digging a mill |
| Stephan A. Douglas | Made the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Dred Scott | Took a case to court claiming he was free because his owner moved to a free state. Supreme Court went against him, claiming no man could be deprived of his property, and slaves were property of their owners |
| Harriet Tubman | Conductor of the Underground Railroad |
| John Brown | Tried to start a slave rebellion by raiding Harpers Ferry |
| Robert E. Lee | Officer of the US Marine Corps who stopped Brown and his men from raiding Harpers Ferry |
| Frederick Douglas | Wrote the newspaper 'The North Star' |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Wrote the newspaper the Liberator. He wanted instant action on slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Tom | Protagonist of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Simon Legree | Antagonist of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the Union. Very Tall. Very Bearded... |
| Lewis and Clark | Travelled from east coast to west coast of America after the Louisiana Purchase |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Sacagawea | Indian woman who helped Lewis and Clark as a guide |
| Tehcumseh | Shawnee leader who fought in the Battle of Tippecanoe against the Americans |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate General, gets his nickname at Bull Run, he is killed in Chancelloersville by friendly fire |
| Robert E. Lee | General of the North Virginian Army |
| Ulysess S. Grant | Captured at Vicksburg, he was the best Union General |
| William Sherman | Led the infamous March to the Sea |
| Oliver Harzard Perry | 'We have met the enemy, and the are ours!' Stupidest quote ever... |
| David Farragant | 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead' |
| John Wilkes Booth | Lincoln's assassin |
| Francis Scott Key | Wrote the Star Spangle Banner |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th US president, fought in the War of 1812. Beat the British at the Battle of New Orleans |
| Malcolm X | Believed in rights through violent methods |
| Rosa Parks | Refused to stand for a white man on the bus and was arrested |
| WEB DuBois | Harvard doctorate, demanded equality from Washington (DC) |
| Thurgood Marshall | Helped the Little Rock Nine by withdrawing the governor's troops |
| Booker T. Washington | Set up a successful black school |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Non-violent black rights protester, one of the main influences |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Made the Women's Dec. of Independence at the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Carrie Lane Chapman Catt | Lead the women's movement, secured Women's Voting Rights in the 19th Amendment |
| Betty Friedan | Wrote the Feminine Mystique |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | First woman to practice medicine professionally |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | First Woman Supreme Court Justice |
| Woodrow Wilso | President during WWI |
| Gen. John J. Pershing | Commanding General of the American troops in WWI |
| Herb Hoover | Head of the FDA, lead America into the depression as president |
| Bernard Baruch | Head of the War Industries Board |
| FDR | American president who stopped the depression and lead America into WWII |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Supreme General of Allied Troops in Europe in WWII |
| George S. Patton | General who recaptured Paris (because the French surrendered so fast when the Germans came) |
| Douglas McArthur | General of the Armies in the Philippines, when forced to retreat he said 'I will return.' Later he came, he saw, he conquered (the asians) |
| Chester W. Nimitz | Led the forces that were meant to invade Japan |
| Harry S. Truman | Took over FDR's place as president, authorized the use of the A-Bomb on Japan |
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