Midterm Personalities

Question 1

Father of the Industrial Revolution

Answer 1

Samuel Slater

Question 2

President (1829/1837) AKA Old Hickory (strong/military man)

Answer 2

Andrew Jackson

Question 3

“From Kentucky, AKA “The Barbecue Orator”, was campaigning for John Adams

Answer 3

Henry Clay

Question 4

Vilified by his opponents as an elitist, a bookish academic, and even a monarchist.

Answer 4

John Quincy Adams

Question 5

Jackson’s vice president who had just served as vice president under Adams but had broken with Adams’s policies.

Answer 5

John C. Calhoun

Question 6

One of the shrewdest politicians of the day who served as Secretary of State

Answer 6

Martin Van Buren

Question 7

A Leader of the Sauk and Fox Indians who had fought in alliance with Tecumseh in the War of 1812.

Answer 7

Black Hawk

Question 8

Backed by several thousand Cherokees, petitioned the U.S.

Congress to ignore the bogus treaty, to no avail.

Answer 8

Chief John Ross

Question 9

A central leader of the Second Great Awakening was a lawyer turned minister

Answer 9

Charles Grandison Finney

Question 10

A Boston printer who published An Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World, which condemned racism, invoked the egalitarian language of the Declaration of Independence, and hinted at racial violence if whites did not change their prejudiced ways.

Answer 10

David Walker

Question 11

The founder and editor of The Liberator

Answer 11

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 12

Illinois abolitionist editor who was killed by a rioting crowd attempting to destroy his printing press.

Answer 12

Elijah Lovejoy

Question 13

Invented the steam boat “Clement”

Answer 13

Robert Fulton

Question 14

Opposed Van Buren and won the election

Answer 14

William Henry Harrison

Question 15

Invented the mechanical reaper

Answer 15

Cyrus McCormick

Question 16

Made the “singing plow”

Answer 16

John Deere

Question 17

Demonstrated the potential of his telegraph by transmitting an electronic message between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.

Answer 17

Samuel F.B. Morse

Question 18

Organized the move to the Great Salt Lake, state of deserter founded, technically in Mexican territory.

Answer 18

Brigham Young

Question 19

Coined the term “manifest destiny”

Answer 19

John L. O’Sullivan

Question 20

An upstate New York farm boy who said that he was visited by an angel who led him to golden tablets buried near his home.

Answer 20

Joseph Smith Jr.

Question 21

Secures the treaty and the Anglo American relations improve afterwards.

Answer 21

President James K. Polk

Question 22

Became president in April 1841 when William Henry Harrison

died one month after taking office, understood that Texas was a dangerous issue.

Answer 22

John Tyler

Question 23

Discovered gold in the American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

Answer 23

James Marshall

Question 24

Described white behavior toward Indians during the gold rush as “one of the last human hunts of civilization, and the basest and most brutal of them all.”

Answer 24

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Question 25

The charismatic leader of Oneida, believed that American

society’s commitment to private property made people greedy and selfish.

Answer 25

John Humphrey Noyes

Question 26

An essayist, poet, and lecturer — proclaimed that the power of the solitary individual was nearly limitless.

Answer 26

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 27

Urged Americans to stop discriminating against able and enterprising women

Answer 27

Paula Wright Davis