Shawnee Indian who created a pan-Indian confederacy in the Great Lakes area.
Who is Tecumseh?
100
This Northerner, who had never seen a plantation, wrote the book that caused Abraham Lincoln to call it “the book that made this great war.”
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
Members of the House of Representatives selected this person, even though he did not win the popular vote, to be president in 1824.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
100
The brilliant southern general who named his command the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
He was the most prominent transcendentalist.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
200
The alleged 24-year-old slave leader of a slave uprising plot in Virginia during the turbulent 1800 election year.
Who is Gabriel?
200
Lewis and Clark did not have to worry about Indian groups perceiving them as hostile with this person accompanying them.
Who is Sacajawea?
200
His first presidential administration spanned the period known as the “Era of Good Feelings.”
Who is James Monroe?
200
President Lincoln reacted to criticism of this military commander by commenting, “I can’t spare this man. He fights.”
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
American colonization organizer who accepted large land grants from Mexico in Texas and proceeded to recruit Southerners who brought cotton and slaves with them to this region.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
300
In 1829, this freeborn black man living in Boston published his Appeal…to the Coloured Citizens of the World, an invitation to slaves to rise up in bloody rebellion.
Who is David Walker?
300
Powerful touring lecturer against slavery in the 1830s.
Who is Angelina Grimké?
300
This well-known war hero campaigned as a common man born in a log cabin, despite the fact that he was not.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
300
This military leader executed a scorched-earth policy in Georgia.
Who is William T. Sherman?
300
The leading preacher of the Second Great Awakening encouraged his listeners to “vote in the Lord Jesus Christ as the governor of the universe.”
Who is Charles G. Finney?
400
The name of the Shawnee who urged Indians everywhere to return to tradition after his near-death experience.
Who is Tenskwatawa?
400
This volunteer nurse was well known for her efforts to reform insane asylums as well as for being the superintendent of nurses for the Union.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
400
This Democratic “doughface” from Pennsylvania unsuccessfully instructed Congress to admit Kansas as the sixteenth slave state.
Who is James Buchanan?
400
This American general commanded troops in impressive victories at Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans.
Who is "Old Hickory”?
400
Michigan Democratic presidential candidate in 1848 who originate the concept of popular sovereignty as a way to solve the dilemma of slavery expansion in the United States.
Who is Lewis Cass?
500
By the time of his death in 1861, this former slave had become a cotton planter, with sixty-three slaves and an 800-acre plantation.
Who is William Ellison?
500
Also known as the “Publick Universal Friend,” she wore male attire and preached openly in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.
Who is Jemima Wilkinson?
500
Known as a moderate, he enraged many when he sought to annex Cuba as a slaveholding state after assuming the presidency.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
500
The Union general who graduated second in his class from West Point, of whom Lincoln said, if he “does not want to use the army I would like to borrow it.”
Who is George B. McClelland?
500
President of the Second Bank of the United States he called in his loans when Jackson tried to kill the bank by withdrawing all federal money from it in 1833.