Colonial America
Revolutionary & Federalists
Early Nation
Reformers
Civil War & Reconstruction
100
Assisted Virginia settlers in learning tobacco cultivation
Who are the Powhatan?
100
Led the Continental army against Hessians on Christmas Day after crossing the Delaware River.
Who is George Washington?
100
Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
Advocate for public education, teacher training, and high schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
100
Respected southern general who turned down Lincoln for leadership of Union army.
Who is Robert E Lee?
200
Led his people in disastrous war against New England settlers when they continued to move onto native lands.
Who is King Phillip?
200
They wrote the Federalist Papers
Who is James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamiton?
200
Native nation that went to the Supreme Court, won the case, but lost their lands anyway.
Who are the Cherokee?
200
Supporter of not placing the mentally ill in prison but in asylums where they received treatment.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
200
Waged total warfare on Georgia in his March to the Sea.
Who is General William Sherman?
300
He passed the Alien and Sedition Acts to limit immigration and criticism of the president.
Who is John Adams?
300
Moved to California when gold was discovered there by the thousands.
Who are the 49ers?
300
Author of Civil Disobedience and Walden's Pond along with being a leading Transcendentalist.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
300
Gained victory at Vicksburg and gained command of Union army accepting Lee's surrender at Appomattox
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
400
Supported former indentured servants who were frontier farmers when Virginia government failed to protect them from Indian attacks.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
400
Lost the last battle of the Revolution at Yorktown.
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
400
Led the nullificaiton crisis in South Carolina as an advocate for states rights and a protestor against tariffs when he was Vice-President of the nation.
Who is John C Calhoun?
400
Suggested women should vote at Seneca Falls
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
400
They wanted to punish the south for the war and were outraged by the Black Codes and the southern effort to return southern leaders before the war to Congress leading to Radical Reconstruction.
Who are Radical Republicans?
500
Executed due to mass hysteria and unfair trials for actions they could not have committed.
Who are Salem Witches?
500
He warned of monarchy and foreign economic alliances with Europe in "Common Sense"
Who is Thomas Paine?
500
President who led US in war against Mexico and a firm believer in Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K Polk?
500
Led a slave revolt in 1830's after having visions and dreams. He was caught and executed.
Who is Nat Turner?
500
Members of the organization that provided social services to former slaves and an education.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
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