2. Alexander Hamilton
(1789-1797)
• Beginning of the political parties
• Hamilton and Adams were Federalists.
• Believed in a loose construction of the
Constitution (if it doesn’t say you CANNOT
do it, then you can.) Like creating the
National Bank.
3. Thomas Jefferson
(1800)
• 3rd President of the US
• Purchased the Louisiana Purchase
• TJ bought LP in 1803 4 NO
4. John Marshall
• Chief Justice of Supreme Court
• Important Cases:
– Marbury V. Madison= judicial review
– McCulloch V. Maryland
– Gibbons V. Ogden
5. Lewis & Clark
• Explore the Louisiana Purchase for
Jefferson
• Map the area, and bring back samples.
6. James Madison
(1800)
• Was called the
“Father of the
Constitution”
• President during the
War of 1812 .
• After the war it was known as the “Era of
Good Feeling”
7. Dolley Madison
• Wife of President James Madison.
• During the War of 1812 rescued many
important paintings from the White House
before British troops burned it down.
8. James Monroe
• Fought in the American Rev
• 5th US President
• Introduced the Monroe Doctrine
that said no European Powers
in the Western Hemisphere.
9. Cherokee
• Native American tribe that was forced to
move from Georgia under the President
Andrew Jackson.
• The trip is known as the Trail of Tears
where 60,000 Cherokee died along the
trail.
10. John Quincy Adams
• Son of John Adams (2nd
president)
• Ran against Jackson
and won – some said
it was an unfair election
• It was rumored that
Adams promised
Henry Clay a job if he
got the vote
11. John C. Calhoun
He is kinda scary!
• Wrote that a State had the
right to NULLIFY a federal
law if it was believed to
be unconstitutional.
• He felt (and other Southerners)
that the Tariff of 1832 AKA
The Tariff of Abominations was unfair.
• South Carolina threatens to success over this
Nullification Act – but backs down when Jackson
threatens to send troops.
12. Henry Clay
• Known as “The Great Compromiser”
because of his skill of negotiation
• Speaker of the House 3x’s
• Helped to stop the
succession of South
Carolina
during the Tariff of Abominations
13. Daniel Webster
• Served as Senator & State
Rep for New England.
• Was against the idea of
states succeeding. Spoke
against John Calhoun and
supported Tariff of 1828 (Abominations)
26. Frederick Douglass
• Slave that escaped to freedom.
• Learned how to read and
write, and wrote account of
his life as a slave.
27. Harriet Tubman
• Runaway slave that created
the Underground Railroad – a
way to help free slaves and
move them to the North.
28. Sojourner Truth
• Abolitionist & Women’s Rights supporter.
• Freed slave that spoke publicly about her
life.
• Famous Speech – “A’int I A Woman”
29. Dredd Scott
• Slave that sued for his freedom.
• Case went to Supreme Court but it was
denied
• Dredd Scott V. Sandford
30. John Brown
• Abolitionist that believed that the only way
to end slavery was through force.
• John Brown tried to provide weapons to
slaves, to help cause a riot.
• Captured at Harpers Ferry. Was tried and
convicted, he was sentenced to hang.
34. Mormons
• Religious group that moved to Salt Lake
City, Utah to be able to practice their
religion freely.
• Leader of the Mormon’s was Brigham
Young.
• Traveled on the Mormon Trail.
36. Chinese Immigrants
• Came to California from way of the Pacific.
• Many Chinese immigrants worked on the
Transcontinental Railroad
37. Abraham Lincoln
• 16th President of the US
• Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
• President during the Civil War
• Assassinated a few days after the end of
the war.
38. Ulysses S. Grant
• General for the Union Army during the
Civil War
Grant
&
Lincoln
Lincoln visits
Meet
Battlefield
42. Confederate
(Rebels, Johnny Reb)
• Southern part of the US during the Civil
War.
• Called Confederate States of American
after succession.
• Soldiers called: Rebels or Johnny Reb
44. Williams Carney
• He was the first African-
American to be
recognized as having
performed an act of
bravery that warrented
the awarding of the
Congressional Medal of
Honor
Congressional
Medal of
Honor
45. Phillip Bazaar
• Fought in Navy
Congressional
during Civil War Medal of
Honor
• First Hispanic-
American to
be awarded Congressional
Medal of Honor.
Bazaar was
assigned
to the
USS Santiago
de Cuba
during the American Civil War
46. Hiram Rhodes Revels
• Fought in Civil War
• First African American
elected to Congress for
state of Mississippi.
47. John James Audubon
• American artist that drew birds, mammals,
plants and other subjects from nature.
• Birds of America – life-sized portraits of
1,065 individual birds.
• Most important work on birds
ever published.
48. Hudson River School
Artists
• The Hudson River School was a mid-19th
century American art movement embodied
by a group of landscape painters whose
aesthetic vision was influenced by
romanticism.
By Thomas Cole
Massachusetts After
A Rainstorm,
The Oxbow
