Important Native Americans
Who fought and lead his tribe in the Black Hawk War, and also raided his first village when he was 15
Black Hawk
Law that the Federalist in Congress passed in order to make more courts and judges through America
Judiciary Act 1801
A war fought by the union and the confederates about slavery
the civil war
American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, philosopher and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817
James Madison
Dorothea Dix
American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses.
Who was a Native American woman who helped in the Lews and Clark exploration?
Sacagawea
Established the concept of Judicial Review and Declared the Judiciary act of 1789 unconstitutional
1803 - Marberry VS Madison
conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent
war of 1812
Henry Clay
American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives served as the seventh speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and served as the ninth U.S. secretary of state.
Emily Dickinson
American poet, Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community.
A Native American Shawnee warrior and chief, who became the primary leader of a large, multi-tribal confederacy.
Tecumseh
by Thomas Jefferson in order to pressure European countries to accept neutral trade terms with the newly formed United States. In 1808, it efficiently stopped all foreign trade from the US.
1807 - Embargo Act
A civil war with opposing Creek Factions, European empires, and the United States
Creek War
Sam Houston
Samuel Houston was an American soldier and politician. An important leader of the Texas Revolution, Houston served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate.
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist, short story writer and poet better known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.
Known as the prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. was a younger brother of Tecumseh.
Tenskwatawa
The compromise suggested by Henry Clay in with it admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave and also banned slavery in Louisiana north of the 36 30 Parallel.
1820 - Missouri Compromise
An armed conflict between the united states and Mexico from 1846-1848
Mexican-American War
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
Hunkpapa Lakota leader, killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock
Sitting Bull
Stated that all other European countries needed to cease colonization in the Americas or it would be seen as a threat by the Americans.
1823 - Monroe Doctrine
A rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico
War of Texas Independence
Thomas Jefferson
American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he had served as the second vice president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.
Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe Barton was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Nursing education was not very formalized at that time and she did not attend nursing school, so she provided self-taught nursing care