APUSH Unit 4 People
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