Final Part 3 Flashcards
(22 cards)
First president of Texas republic
Sam Houston
Pirate who helped Jackson win the battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafitte
Spanish leader of Mexico during the war for Texas independence
Santa Anna
Elected president in 1860- republican- south states succeeded
Abraham Lincoln
Shortest lived president in the United States
Zachary Taylor
Telegraph
Samuel Morse
The lamp light Bulb and motion picture
Thomas Edison
Steamboat
Robert Fulton
Father of factory system
Samuel Slater
Cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Steam engine
James Watt
Telephone
Alexander Bell
Queen of Hawaii that was pushed out by American navy
Liliuokalani
Women rights
Susan Anthony
Tried to get better conditions for mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
The great compromiser
Henry Clay
Liberator; abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison
300 slaves to freedom; underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
Preacher who led a revolt against proslavery people in Virginia
Nat Turner
Still guns and went to Kansas and killed people; abolitionist; started “Bleeding Kansas”
John Brown
Slave that went north and sued for his freedom- lost case because he wasn’t a citizen
Dred Scott
Uncle Tom’s cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe