The document provides a summary of important people and events in United States history from the late 18th century to the mid-19th century. It covers the early presidents and political developments, westward expansion, inventions, reform movements such as abolition and women's rights, immigration trends, and events of the Civil War era. Key figures mentioned include presidents Washington to Lincoln, inventors Whitney and Fulton, abolitionists Douglass and Tubman, and Civil War generals Lee and Grant.
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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