APUSH Unit 4 People

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William Henry Harrison

"Old Tippecanoe," who was portrayed by Whig propagandists as a hard-drinking common man of the frontier

David Crocket

A frontier hero, Tennessee Congressman, and teller of tall tales who died in the Texas War for Independence

John Quincy Adams

Aloof New England statesman whose elitism made him an unpopular leader in the new era of mass democracy

Sequoyah

Cherokee leader who devised an alphabet for his people

Robert Fulton

Developer of a folly that made rivers two-way streams of transportation

Maria Monk

Escaped nun whose lurid book Awful Disclosures became an anti-Catholic best seller in the 1830s

Sam Houston

Former Tennessee governor whose victory at San Jacinto in 1836 won Texas its independence

John C. Calhoun

Former vice president, leader of South Carolina nullifiers, and bitter enemy of Andrew Jackson

Black Hawk

Illinois-Wisconsin area Sauk leader who was defeated by American regulars and militia in 1832

Samuel Slater

Immigrant mechanic who initiated American industrialization by setting up his cotton-spinning factory in 1791

Elias Howe

Inventor of a machine that revolutionized the ready-made clothing industry

Cyrus McCormick

Inventor of the mechanical reaper that transformed grain growing into a business

Henry Clay

Jackson's rival for the presidency in 1832, who failed to save the Bank of the United States

Santa Anna

Mexican general and dictator whose large army failed to defeat Texas rebels

DeWitt Clinton

New York governor who built the Erie Canal

Moses Austin

Original leader of American settlers in Texas who obtained a huge land grant from the Mexican government

Samuel F.B. Morse

Painter turned inventor who developed the first reliable system for instant communication across distance

Catharine Beecher

Prominent figure who helped turn teaching into a largely female profession

Molly Maguires

Radical, secret Irish labor union of the 1860s

Osceola

Seminole leader whose warriors killed fifteen hundred American soldiers in years of guerrilla warfare

Roger Taney

Supreme Court justice whose ruling in the Charles River Bridge case opened chartered monopolies to competition

Nicholas Biddle

Talented but high-handed bank president who fought a bitter losing battle with the president of the United States

Martin Van Buren

The "wizard of Albany," whose economically troubled presidency was served in the shadow of Jackson

Cyrus Field

Wealthy New York manufacturer who laid the first transatlantic cable in 1858

Samuel Colt

Weapons manufacturer whose popular revolver used Whitney's system of interchangeable parts

Eli Whitney

Yankee mechanical genius who revolutionized cotton production and created the system of interchangeable parts


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