ABeka History 11 - Chapter 9 - People and Places
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- Thomas Jefferson
- first President to be inaugurated in Washington D.C.; asked Congress to approve the Louisiana Purchase and set out expeditions to explore it.
- Albert Gallatin
- secretary of the treasury under Jefferson; one of America's best financiers
- West Point
- located on the west bank of the Hudson River in New York; where Congress established the Congressional Library and the military academy
- John Marshall
- chief justice of the Supreme Court; set precedent of judiciary review and other important precedents for the federal judicial system
- James Madison
- President from 1809 to 1817; led the nation through the War of 1812
- William Marbury
- one of the Adam's appointees who appealed to the Supreme Court for a legal writ ordering the new secretary of state, James Madison, to deliver his commission
- Robert Livingston
- the American minister to France who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase for President Jefferson
- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
- explored the northern half of the Louisiana territory between 1804 and 1806 for President Jefferson
- Sacagawea
- a Shoshoni squaw who served as an interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition
- Zebulon Pike
- explored the southern half of the Louisiana Purchase for President Jefferson between 1806 and 1808
- Aaron Burr
- Vice President during President Jefferson's first term; killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel; involved in a conspiracy to create an empire in the American Southwest
- Stephen Decatur
- Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy; the best-known hero of the Tripolitan War
- Lord Nelson
- British Admiral who in 1805 defeated the French navy at the Battle of Trafalgar
- Henry Clay
- a young delegate of Kentucky elected to Congress in 1810
- John C. Calhoun
- a young delegate of South Carolina elected to Congress in 1810
- the Prophet
- a Shawnee medicine man who encouraged the Indians to remove all white influence from their culture
- Tecumseh
- a Shawnee chief who traveled from present-day Wisconsin to West Florida convincing tribes to join in a confederacy to drive the white settlers from their land.
- Fort Dearborn
- located on the present site of Chicago; Indians captured it and massacred the inhabitants
- William Henry Harrison
- the governor of the Indiana Territory who led U.S. troops to victory over the Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe
- Oliver Hazard Perry
- commander over a group of Americans who built their own fleet out of wood hewn from a nearby forest and attacked a superior British squadron on Lake Erie
- Dolly Madison
- wife of James Madison; served as the White House hostess for 16 years (for both Jefferson and her husband)
- Francis Scott Key
- a prominent Washington lawyer who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner," our national anthem, while watching the siege of Fort McHenry.
- Andrew Jackson
- a tough frontiersman who commanded an army of volunteers during the War of 1812; defeated the Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (Mississippi) in 1814 and defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815
- Jean Laffite
- a famous Frenchman who led a band of pirates that fought for the Americans during the War of 1812; joined Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans