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John SmithTime Period: Early 1600s

Location: Jamestown, VA

Major Items:• No work, no food policy• Credited with saving the

Jamestown Colony

John RolfeTime Period: Early 1600s

Location: Jamestown, VA

Major Items:• Developed a new strain of

tobacco that flourished in VA; made the colony profitable

John WinthropTime Period: 1630s

Location: MA Bay Colony

Major Items:• Governor• Gave the famous “Model of

Christian Charity” sermon• Compared the colony to a

“City upon a hill”

Anne HutchinsonTime Period: 1630s-40s

Location: MA – RI – NY

Major Items:• Challenged the authority of

the Puritan church• Put on trial; banished

Roger Williams

Time Period: 1630s-40s

Location: Providence, RI

Major Items:• Argued for the separation of

church & state and fair dealings with Native Americans

• Put on trial; banished• Founded the Baptist Church

in America

Metacom (King Philip)


Location: New England

Major Items:• Chief of the Wampanoag Indians• Led the Native Americans against

the colonists in King Philip’s War (1675-1678)

Jonathan Edwards



Major Items:• First Great Awakening • Gave the famous “Sinners in

the Hands of an Angry God” sermon (1741)• Regarded as an example of

“fire & brimstone” preaching

George Whitefield



Major Items:• First Great Awakening • Regarded as the best known

preacher in North America

Benjamin Franklin


Location: Philadelphia

Major Items:• Proposed the Albany Plan

of Union (1754)• Delegate to the Second

Continental Congress (1775-1776)

• Ambassador to France (1776-1785)

• Delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787)

George Washington

Time Period: 1789-1797

Location: Virginia

Major Items:• Commander of the

Continental Army• President

• Hamilton’s Financial Plan• Whiskey Rebellion (1791)• Jay Treaty (1795)• Treaty of Greenville (1795)• Pinckney Treaty (1795)• Farewell Address (1796)

Alexander Hamilton


Location: New York

Political Party: Federalist

Major Items:• Constitutional Convention• Federalist Papers (1787-88)• Secretary of the Treasury

• First Bank of the United States• Excise tax

• Helped to defeat Aaron Burr• Election of 1800• New York Governor (1804)

John Adams


Location: Massachusetts


Major Items:• X, Y, Z Affair (1797)• Quasi-War (1798-1800)• Alien & Sedition Acts (1798)• Midnight Judges (1801)

Thomas Jefferson


Location: Virginia

Political Party: Democrat-Republican

Major Items:• Declaration of Independence (1776)• KY & VA Resolutions (1798-99)• President

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)• Louisiana Purchase (1803)• Lewis & Clark Expedition (1804-05)• 12th Amendment (1804)• Chesapeake-Leopard Affair (1807)• Embargo Act (1807)• Nonintercourse Act (1809)

John Marshall

Time Period: Early 1800s


Accomplishments:• Chief Justice of the Supreme

Court• Worked to increase the power

of the national government• Marbury v. Madison• Fletcher v. Peck• McCulloch v. Maryland

James Madison


Location: Virginia

Political Party: Democratic-Republican

Major Items:• Father of the Constitution• Federalist Papers (1787-88)• Bill of Rights (1791)• KY & VA Resolutions (1798-99)• President

• Macon’s Bill #2 (1810)• War of 1812

Tecumseh

Time Period: Early 1800s

Location: Old Northwest

Major Items:• Attempted to organize Native

Americans in their fight against the US• Lost to William Henry Harrison

at the Battle of Tippecanoe• Died at the Battle of the

Thames (War of 1812)

James Monroe


Location: Virginia

Political Parties:• Democratic-Republican

Major Items:• “Era of Good Feelings”• Panic of 1819• Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)• Missouri Compromise (1820)• Monroe Doctrine (1823)

Henry ClayTime Period: 1812-1850

Location: Kentucky (West)

Political Parties: • Democratic-Republican• National Republican• Whig

Major Items:• Great Triumvirate• War Hawk (War of 1812)• American System• Missouri Compromise (1820)• “Corrupt Bargain” (1824)• Tariff of 1833• Compromise of 1850

John C. Calhoun


Location: South Carolina

Political Parties:• Democratic-Republican• Democrat

Major Items:• Great Triumvirate• War Hawk (War of 1812)• Nullification Crisis (1832)• “Positive Good” Doctrine

(1837)

Daniel Webster



Political Parties:• Federalist• Whig

Major Items:• Great Triumvirate• Webster-Hayne Debate (1830)• Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)• “Seventh of March” Speech (1850)

Andrew Jackson


Location: Tennessee

Political Parties:• Democrat

Major Items:• Cabinet Crisis• Spoils System• Indian Removal Act (1830)• Nullification Crisis (1832)• Bank War (1832)

Samuel Slater


Location: RI and MA

Major Items:• “Father of the American Factory

System”

Eli Whitney



Major Items:• Invented the cotton gin;

strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the American South

• Popularized the used of interchangeable parts in the production of muskets

Robert Fulton


Location: Pennsylvania

Major Items:• Developed the first

commercially successful steamboat

Samuel F. B. Morse



Major Items:• Contributed to the invention of

the telegraph system• Co-inventor of Morse code

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Major Items:• Leader of the Transcendentalist

Movement• Author of Nature, The American

Scholar, and Self-Reliance• Developed ideas about individuality

and freedom

Henry David Thoreau



Major Items:• Leader of the Transcendentalist

Movement• Author of Walden and Civil

Disobedience• Argued for individual resistance

to an unjust government

• Abolitionist who argued against the Fugitive Slave Law and defended John Brown

Charles Finney


Location: Ohio

Major Items:• Leader of the Second Great

Awakening• Abolitionist

Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Location: New York

Major Items:• Leader of the early women’s

rights movement• Author of the Declaration of

Sentiments• Modeled after the Declaration of

Independence• Presented at the Seneca Falls

Convention (1848)

• Co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (1869)

Susan B. Anthony



Major Items:• Leader of the early women’s

rights movement• Co-founded the National

Woman Suffrage Association (1869)

• Arrested for voting (1872)

Nat Turner

Time Period: 1831

Location: Virginia

Major Items:• Led the deadliest slave

rebellion in American history• Resulted in new laws

prohibiting the education of slaves and restricting the rights of free blacks

William Lloyd Garrison



Major Items:• Editor of the abolitionist

newspaper, The Liberator• Founder of the American Anti-

Slavery Society• Called for the immediate

emancipation of all slaves in the US

Frederick Douglass



Major Items:• Escaped slave who became a

leader of the abolitionist movement

James K. Polk


Location: Tennessee

Political Party:• Democrat

Major Items:• Oregon Treaty (1846)• Mexican War (1846-1848)• Wilmot Proviso (1846)

Stephen A. Douglas


Location: Illinois


Major Items:• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

(1858)• Freeport Doctrine (1858)

John Brown


Location: Kansas & (West) Virginia

Major Items:• Pottawatomie Massacre (1856)• Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)

Abraham Lincoln


Location: Illinois

Political Parties:• Republican• National Union

Major Items:• Civil War (1861-1865)• Homestead Act (1862)• Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)• Gettysburg Address (1863)• Pacific Railway Act (1863)• Assassination (1865)

Andrew Johnson


Location: Tennessee

Political Parties:• Republican

Major Items:• 13th Amendment (1865)• Freedman’s Bureau• Reconstruction Acts (1867) –

Vetoed, Overridden• Black Codes• 14th Amendment (1868)• Impeachment Trial (1868)• KKK

Thaddeus Stevens


Location: Pennsylvania

Political Party:• Radical Republican

Major Items:• Most powerful member of the

US House of Representatives during the Civil War

• Drafted the Fourteenth Amendment & Reconstruction Acts (1867)

• Proposed the resolution for Johnson’s impeachment (1868)

Charles Sumner



Political Party:• Radical Republican

Major Items:• Nearly killed by SC Senator

Preston Brooks (1856)• Worked with Representative

Thaddeus Stevens to block Johnson’s Reconstruction plans

Crazy Horse


Location: Dakota Territory

Major Items:• Sioux Leader• Defeated George A. Custer at

the Battle of Little Bighorn (1877)

• Commemorated by a monument in the Black Hills, SD

Chief Joseph

Time Period: 1877

Location: Oregon Country

Major Items:• Nez Perce Leader• Renowned as a humanitarian

and peacemaker

Sitting Bull


Location: Dakota Territory

Major Items:• Sioux Leader• Helped to defeat George A.

Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1877)

• Toured with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show (1884)

• Killed just before the Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)

Geronimo


Location: Southwest

Major Items:• Apache Leader• Led Native American resistance

against the United States and Mexico

Gilded Age Presidents

Rutherford B. Hayes (R)• Great Railroad Strike (1877)

James A. Garfield (R)• Half-Breeds v. Salwarts

Chester A. Arthur (R)• Pendleton Act (1883)

Grover Cleveland (D)• Haymarket Square Riot

(1886)• Interstate Commerce Act

(1887)• Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

Benjamin Harrison (R)• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

(1890)• McKinley Tariff (1890)• Homestead Strike (1892)

Grover Cleveland (D)• Panic of 1893• Pullman Strike (1894)• Coxey’s Army (1894)

Thomas Nast


Major Items:• Considered to be the “Father of

the American Cartoon”• Worked for Harper’s Weekly• Instrumental in the downfall of

Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall (1870-1871)

William McKinley


Location: Ohio

Political Parties:• Republican

Major Items:• New Imperialism• Spanish-American War (1898)• Open Door Policy (1899)• Boxer Rebellion (1900)• Assassination (1901)

William Jennings Bryan

Time Period: 1890s-1915

Location: Illinois

Political Parties:• Populist; Democrat

Major Items:• Ran for president in 1896,

1900, & 1908• Promoted free silver, anti-

imperialism, & trust-busting• Famous for his “Cross of Gold

Speech”

• Argued against teaching evolution in the Scopes Trial (1925)

William Randolph Heart


Major Items:• Newspaper publisher –

The New York Journal• Associated with the creation of

yellow journalism leading up to the Spanish American War

Cornelius Vanderbilt


Major Items:• US shipping and railroad tycoon

Andrew Carnegie


Major Items:• Founder of Carnegie Steel

Company• Author of The Gospel of Wealth

in which he described the role of philanthropy

John D. Rockefeller


Major Items:• Founder of the Standard Oil

Company

J.P. Morgan


Major Items:• American financier and banker• Supplied the US Treasury with

gold during the Panic of 1893• Worked to resolve the Panic of

1907

Eugene V. Debs


Political Party: Socialist

Major Items:• Organized the Pullman Strike

(1894)• Founding member of the

Industrial Workers of the World (1905)

• Ran for president in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, & 1920

• Denounced World War I & was convicted under the Espionage Act (1918)

Samuel Gompers


Major Items:• Founded the American Federation

of Labor (1886)• Supported World War I &

attempted to avoid strikes

Jacob Riis


Major Items:• Muckraker• Photographed the slums of New

York City• Published How the Other Half Lives

(1888)

Ida B. Wells


Major Items:• Muckraker• Documented lynching in the

United States

Upton Sinclair


Major Items:• Muckraker• Wrote The Jungle

• Exposed the conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry

• Led to the Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act (1906)

Jane Addams


Major Items:• Progressive Era reformer• Leader of the Settlement House

Movement• Founded Hull House in Chicago

(1889)• Provided services such as daycare,

education, and healthcare to improve the lives of the urban poor

Carrie Chapman Catt


Major Items:• Women’s suffrage leader• Founder of the League of

Women Voters

Booker T. Washington


Major Items:• Leader in the U.S. African

American community• Wrote Up from Slavery• President of the Tuskegee

Institute • Supporter of the Atlanta

Compromise• Called African Americans to

submit to white rule in exchange for the guarantee of education and due process of law

W.E.B. DuBois



American community• Wrote The Souls of Black

Folk• Co-founder of the NAACP• Leader of the Niagara

Movement• Opposed the Atlanta

Compromise• Insisted on full civil rights and

increased political participation

Marcus Garvey



American community• Supporter of the Back-to-Africa

Movement

Theodore Roosevelt


Location: New York

Political Parties:• Republican; Progressive (Bull-Moose)

Major Items:• Coal Strike (1902)• Newlands Reclamation Act (1902)• Panama Canal (1903-1914) – Gunboat

Diplomacy• Roosevelt Corollary (1904)• Portsmouth Treaty (1905) – Nobel

Peace Prize• Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)• Meat Inspection Act (1906)• Hepburn Act (1906)• Gentlemen’s Agreement (1908)

William Howard Taft


Location: Ohio

Political Party:• Republican

Major Items:• Dollar Diplomacy• Anti-Trust Lawsuits• Paine-Aldrich Tariff (1909)• Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy

(1910)

Woodrow Wilson


Location: New Jersey


Major Items:• New Freedom – Triple Wall of Privilege• Moral Diplomacy• Underwood Tariff (1913)• Federal Reserve System (1913)• Federal Trade Commission (1914)• Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)• Lusitania (1915)• Fourteen Points (1917)• World War I (1917-1918)• Treaty of Versailles – Lodge Reservations• Red Scare (1919-1920)• Red Summer (1919)

Henry Cabot Lodge




Major Items:• U.S. Senator• Supported American Imperialism • Argued for immigration

restrictions – 100% Americanism• Opposed the Treaty of Versailles

- Lodge Reservations (1919)

1920s Presidents

Warren Harding (R)• Teapot Dome Scandal (1922-

1932)

Calvin Coolidge (R) • National Origins Act (1924)• Dawes Plan (1924)• Scopes Trial (1925)• Sacco & Vanzetti Executions

(1927)• Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)

Herbert Hoover (R)• Stock Market Crash (1929)• Great Depression• Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)

• Bonus Army (1932)• Stimson Doctrine (1932)

Sacco & Vanzetti

Time Period: 1920sMajor Items:

• Italian immigrants and suspected anarchists• Convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery

• Executed in 1927• Considered by many to be representative of a fear and prejudice of the period

Henry Ford

Time Period: 1900s-1920sMajor Items:

• Founder of the Ford Motor Company• Helped to develop the

assembly line technique of mass production

• Manufactured the first automobile most Americans could afford to buy

Franklin D. Roosevelt


Location: New York


Major Items:• New Deal – Relief, Recovery,

Reform• Neutrality Acts• Arsenal of Democracy Speech

(1940)• Four Freedoms Speech (1941)• Lend Lease Act (1941)• Atlantic Charter (1941)• World War II (1941-1945)• Executive Order 9066 – Japanese

Internment (1942)• Tehran Conference (1943)• Yalta Conference (1945)

George Marshall


• American military leader• Army Chief of Staff and

military advisor to Roosevelt during World War II

• Namesake of the Marshall Plan to help rebuild Europe after the war

Douglas MacArthur


• American military leader• Led the Philippines Campaign

in World War II (1941-1942)• Oversaw the occupation of

Japan (1945-1951)• Led the UN command in the

Korean War until he was removed for his public criticism of Truman’s policies (1951)

Harry S. Truman


Location: Missouri


Major Items:• Atomic Bomb (1945)• Taft-Hartley Act 1947)• Truman Doctrine (1947)• Marshall Plan (1947)• Desegregation of the Armed

Forced (1948)• Berlin Crisis (1948-49)• NATO (1949)• Korean War (1950-53)

Dwight D. Eisenhower


Location: Kansas


Major Items:• Brown v. Board of Education

(1954)• Federal Highway Act (1955)• Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)• Suez Crisis (1956)• Sputnik (1957)• Little Rock Nine (1957)• Eisenhower Doctrine (1958)• U-2 Incident (1960)• Greensboro Sit-Ins (1960)

Joseph McCarthy



Major Items:• Claimed that there

were large numbers of Communist & Soviet spies in the U.S. government• Led to the Army-

McCarthy Hearings (1954)

Earl Warren


Accomplishments:• Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court• Worked to increase the

power of the Supreme Court• Brown v. Board of Education

(1954)• Engel v. Vitale (1962)• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)• Reynolds v. Sims (1964)• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

John F. Kennedy




Major Items:• New Frontier• Alliance for Progress (1961)• Peace Corps (1961)• Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)• Berlin Wall (1961)• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

(1963)• Assassination (1963)

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Major Items:• Leader of the Civil Rights

Movement• Helped found the Southern

Christian Leadership Conference

• Key figure in the following:• Montgomery Bus Boycott

(1955)• March on Washington (1963)• Selma to Montgomery March

(1965)

Malcolm X



American community• Leader of the Nation of

Islam• Advocated for complete

separation of African Americans from whites by any means necessary

• Softened his views after splitting from the group and traveling to Mecca

Lyndon B. JohnsonTime Period: 1963-1969

Location: Texas


Major Items:• Great Society – War on

Poverty, Medicare, Medicaid

• Civil Rights Act of 1964• Voting Rights Act of 1965• Long Hot Summer (1967)• Tet Offensive (1968)

Richard M. NixonTime Period: 1969-1974

Location: California


Major Items:• Imperial Presidency• Nixon Doctrine –

Vietnamization (1969-1973)• Moon Landing (1969)• Environmental Protection

Agency (1970)• Visit to China (1972)• Visit to Russia (1972)• SALT I (1972)• Wounded Knee (1973)• Watergate Scandal (1972-

1974)

Henry KissingerTime Period: 1960s-presentMajor Items:

• National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations• Pioneered the policy of

détente with the USSR• Orchestrated the opening

of relations with China• Negotiated the Paris

Peace Accords

Gerald FordTime Period: 1974-1977

Location: Michigan


Major Items:• Stagflation• Nixon Pardon (1974)• Mayaguez Incident (1975)• Helsinki Conference (1975)

Jimmy CarterTime Period: 1977-1981

Location: Georgia


Major Items:• Stagflation• Camp David Accords

(1978)• Iran Hostage Crisis

(1979-1980)

Rachel CarsonTime Period: 1960s-1970s

Major Items:• Leader of the U.S.

environmental movement

• Author of Silent Spring (1962)• Led to a nationwide ban

on DDT and other pesticides

Betty Friedan


Major Items:• Leader in the American

women’s movement• Author of The Feminine

Mystique (1963)• President of the National

Organization for Women (NOW)

Gloria Steinem

Time Period: 1960s-present

Major Items:• Leader in the American

women’s movement• Co-founder of Ms. magazine

Ronald ReaganTime Period: 1981-1989Location: CaliforniaPolitical Party:

• Republican

Major Items:• Reaganomics – Supply-Side

Economics• Assassination Attempt (1981)• Invasions of Beirut & Grenada

(1983), Nicaragua (1984)• Reagan Doctrine• Strategic Defense Initiative –

Star Wars (1984)• War on Drugs (1986)• Libya Bombing (1986)• Iran-Contra Affair (1986-1987)• INF Treaty (1987)

George H.W. BushTime Period: 1989-1993Location: TexasPolitical Party:

• Republican

Major Items:• Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)• Revolutions in Europe (1989)• Americans with Disabilities

Act (1990)• Savings and Loan Scandal

(1990)• Invasion of Panama (1990)• Gulf War (1991)• Fall of the Soviet Union

(1991)

Bill ClintonTime Period: 1993-2001

Location: Arkansas


Major Items:• Family and Medical Leave Act (1993)• Brady Bill (1993)• Oslo Accords (1993)• Battle of Mogadishu – Black Hawk Down

(1993)• “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (1993)• North America Free Trade Agreement -

NAFTA (1994)• General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade –

GATT (1994)• Dayton Accords (1995)• Welfare Reform (1996)• Defense of Marriage Act (1996)• Balanced Budget Agreement (1997)• Impeachment Trial (1998)`

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