Semester Final (people part 2) Flashcards
Tocqueville
Published “Democracy in America”
Grasse
Commander of the French fleet
Balboa
Discovered the Pacific Ocean
Blackstone
Wrote commentaries on the laws of England
Champlain
“Father of New France”
Cortez
Conquered the Aztecs
Crocket
Senator who died at the Alamo
Clinton
Built Erie Canal
Asbury
Started circuit riding
George III (3rd)
King of England during war of independence
Whitefield
Most powerful voice of Great Awakening
Clay
Proposed american system
James Lowell
Poet & diplomat
Brown
Free soiler
Cabot
Discovered new found land
Jasper
Ministered to wounded soldiers
Edwards
“Sinners in the hands of an angry God”
Maury
“Pathfinder of the seas”
Montezuma
Leader of the Aztecs
Hale
“I only regret that I have one life to give for my country”
Allen
Founded the AME church
Fulton
Built first steamboat
Taney
Chief Justice of Dred Scott Case
Adams
“Sons of Liberty”