Notes

Bartolome de las Casas- indians should be treated the same, helped end encomienda system
John Winthrop- City on a hill speech for Massachusetts bay colony
Roger Williams/Anne Hutchinson- kicked out of massachusetts cause they challenged the norms
William Penn- Pennsylvania
Jonathan Edwards- sinners in the hands of an angry god
George Whitefield- orator nicer guy lmao
Chief Pontiac- leader of Pontiac's rebellion led to proclamtion line of 1783
Ben Franklin- co author of dec, gained support of france after saratoga
Mercy Otis Warren- writer who urged independence
Thomas Paine- it is COMMON SENSE to become independent from Britain
Marquis de la Fayette- French, helped washington in rev. war
Abigail Adams- remember the ladies, he didnt remember them
Daniel Shays- Shay's rebellion, leads to consitution cause gov is too weak
John Jay, Alex Ham, James Madi- Fed papers, gain support for constitution
George washington- farewell address
Thomas Jefferson- leader of demo-repubs, first party system,
Alexander Hamilton- leader of feds
John Marshall- strengthen fed gov over state, gibben v ogen, mcculloh v marlyland
Henry Clay- 2nd bank, infrastucture, tariffs, leader of WHIGS
Andrew Jackson- leader of democrats, elimanation of property requirements for white male adults. suffrage for males.
Eli Whitney- cotton gin interchageable parts
John C. Calhoun- slavery is a postive good racist bitch
Know-nothing party- anti-immigrant, limit immigrants influence in politics
Denmark Vesey- largest slave rebellion, but it didn't happen
Nat Turner- slave rebellion, killed a few whites
Fredrick Douglas- womens rights advocate, former slave, orator
William Lloyd Garrison- the Liberator, END TO SLAVERY NOW
John Brown- Bleeding Kansas, Harper's ferry
Harriet Tubman- sick lady, good job, u number one brave af
REFORMERS VVV
Dorothea Dix-treatment of mentally ill
Horace Mann- edu.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Seneca falls convention
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Charles G. Finney- 2nd great awakening
Brigham Young- movement of the Mormons to seek religous refuge
John O'Sullivan- manifest destiny
David Wilmot- wilmot provisio, all land gained from mexican secession be free
Abe Lincoln- free soil platform
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens- radical republicans, punish south after civil war
Hiram Revels- first african american to be elected to congress
Mark Twain- "gilded age"
Herbert Spencer- social darwinism, survival of the fittest
Rich AF vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Andrew Carnegie- steel, he stepped on a bunch of people to get rich so he wrote some book on giving back to the poor lmao "gospel of wealth"
John Rockefeller- Oil
Cornelius Vanderbelt- Railroads ALL THE MONOPOLIES AND TRUSTS
JP Morgan- finance
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Unions
Knights of labor- Terrace Powderly
-skilled and unskilled workers no matter race or sex were welcomed
American Feder. of Labor- Samuel Gompers
-SKILLEd works, high wages
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Boss Tweed- Tammany hall political machines
-provided services for poor and immigrants
Jane Addams- Hull House
-lets adapt to US culture
Ida B. Wells-wrote about lynchings in south
Booker T washington- economic opportunities for blacks
WEB DU BOIS- sought immediate equality for blacks RIGHT NOW
Williams Jennings Bryant- a populist who ran for president in 1896, "Cross of Gold Speech" no gold standard
Fredrick Jackson Turner- "closed"frontier people want to oversea explore, imperialism
Rudyard Kipling- the white man's burden
Teddy Roosevelt- fought in spanish-american war (william mckinley president at this time)
Progressive ERA vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Upton Sinclair- wrote The Jungle
Jacob Riis- wrote How the Other Half lives, pictures of poor tenement buildings
Lincoln Steffens- wrote Shame of Cities
Alice Paul -fought for women's suffrage- 19th amendment wrote equal rights amendment
John Muir- has Murir Trail in yosemite, he all about the woods and naturey shit
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Wilson- president during WW1 "he kept us out of war" but also got us into it lol basically was telling all the nations to be friends <3
Fdr- New Deal, relief, recovery, reform. degregated military
George Kennan- father of containment
George Marshall- Marshall plan which gave money to europe to rebuild after ww2
Eisenhower- farewell address "warned of military-industrial complex"
Ho Chi Minh- sought to unify Vietnam as a communist nation
Rosa Parks- Bus boycott
MLK jr.- if you dont know him ur gonna fail ur beyond help
Emmett Till- his death became a massive controversy across the united states
LBJ- great society, escalated the Vietnam war
Ronald Reagan-conservative government, tax cuts, dereg of industries, etc
Mikhail Gorbachev- lead of ussr
Clinton- Don't Ask Don't Tell banned gay people from serving in the military, overturned by obama thanks obama