Us History Midterm

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Anne Hutchinson

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American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643), started Rhode Island

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William Penn

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Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718), "Penn's Woodland"

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Nathaniel Bacon

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Planter who led a rebellion in 1676 against the governor of the Virginia Colony, Bacon's Rebellion

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Jonathan Edwards

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wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" during the great awakening

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James Oglethorpe

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Governor of Georgia, fought in the War of Jenkin's Ear against the Spanish

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John Trumball

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a Revolutionary War veteran who painted the scenes and spirits of the war, from Connecticut

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Charles Wilson Peale

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Colonial painter, painted Philadelphia statehouse in 1778

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Ben Franklin

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Created "Join or Die" flag, wanted the America's to unify during the French-Indian War

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John Peter Zenger

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Colonial printer whose case helped begin freedom of the press

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H.W. Longfellow

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Popular American poet, wrote courtship of Miles Standish, Evangeline, based on American traditions

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Coureurs de Bois

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Typically french fur traders, "runners of the trees"

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General Braddock

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Commanded British forces in the French-Indian War, Gen. Washington took over his forces when he was killed by the Mohawks

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La Salle

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Chartered the Mississippi and claimed it for France

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Thomas Paine

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Writer of "Common Sense", hired by Ben Franklin

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Admiral de Grasse

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French naval commander from Bermuda who overtook Cornwallis, ended the American Revolution

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Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman

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Sued her master to give her freedom after hearing the "Rights of Man", won

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Abigail Adams

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Wife of John Adams, fought for equality and women's rights

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Daniel Shays

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Led Shay's Rebellion in 1786

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James Bayard

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Made deciding vote in Election of 1800, a federalist, but votes for Jefferson (Rep.)

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Aaron Burr

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Ran with Jefferson, 1st term, joined Federalists in plotting succession of New England and NY, discovered by Hamilton, killed Hamilton in a duel

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Dey of Algiers

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Led the Barbary Pirates

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Toussant L'Ourverture

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Led the slave revolt in Santo Domingo, led France to want to sell Louisiana

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Robert Livingston

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Foreign minister to France under Jefferson, negotiated Louisiana Purchase

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Lewis and Clark

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Sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase, 2.5 years, sailed on the Missouri and Columbia Rivers

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Pocahontas

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a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown, led Lewis and Clark

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Powhatan

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Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia, Pocahontas' father

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Robespierre

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Led French in naval war (Quasi) against the US 1797-1799

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Robert Fulton

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American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)

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Frances Flora Bond Palmer

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Artist during the 1860s

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Dewitt Clinton

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United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828)

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Cyrus Field

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American businessman who laid the first telegraph wire across the Atlantic. This cut down the time it took for a message to be sent from Europe to American and vice-versa.

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Mark Twain

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Wrote "Roughing It" and other books about American frontier and the Mississippi River

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Samuel Morse

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United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)

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John Jacob Astor

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America's first millionaire, Pacific Fur Company

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Peter Cartwright

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Best known Methodist camp-meeting preacher

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Charles Grandison Finney

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Greatest Revival preacher in New York

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William Miller

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A Baptist preacher that started Adventism

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Joseph Smith

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religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844)

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Horace Mann

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United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)

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Emma Willard

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in 1821 founded Troy Female Seminary in New York which was a model for girls' schools everywhere

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Dorthea Dix

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dedicated to improving conditions for the mentally ill. led movement to build new mental hospitals and improve existing ones

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Neal S. Dow

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against alochol, "father of prohibition"

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Susan B. Anthony

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Key leader of woman suffrage movement

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Grimke Sisters

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Sisters who pushed for the abolition of slavery and equal rights

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Robert Owen

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Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858), founded New Harmony

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John Humphrey Noyes

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founder of Oneida Community

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Louis Agassiz

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French-Swiss immigrant, studied at Harvard, Biologist

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John J Audobon

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French-born naturalist and author of the beautifully illustrated Birds of America

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Thomas Cole

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Founder of the Hudson River school, famous for his landscape paintings

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James Fennimore Cooper

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first American novelist to be internationally recognized, wrote Last of the Mohicans

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Miles Standish

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English colonist in America, English army captain at Plymouth who helped defend the Pilgrim colony.

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George Whitefield

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Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights."

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Michael de Crevecoeur

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French author who came to America with the French Army

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Samuel Adams

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American Revolutionary leader and patriot, an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)

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Benedict Arnold

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United States general and traitor in the American Revolution, in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801)

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John Laurens

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Found Hamilton a wife in South Carolina.

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Henry Knox

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George Washington's Secretary of War

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John Jay

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First chief justice of the Supreme Court

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John Marshall

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As chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835)

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Henry Clay

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United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

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John C. Calhoun

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South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights, limited government, and nullification