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Unit 6 People

For each definition, identify the person being described. Except for Native Americans, people have full names. All names need to be spelled and capitalized correctly. After most definitions is a number in parenthesis. This represents the number of vocabulary terms from the Vocabulary and Events section of the unit guide that must be listed for each person. The terms must relate to the person and can be used more than once.

1. ______American general who defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans in Jan. 1815. Sent by President Monroe to stop Seminole raids from Florida into the U.S., entered Florida and claimed it for the U.S. in 1817 (2)

2. ______Lawyer who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while watching the British attack on Ft. McHenry in August 1814

3. ______Jefferson Secretary of State, elected President in 1808 and reelected in 1812, president during the War of 1812 (3)

4. ______Federalist president elected in 1796, but lost his reelection bid in 1800 (1)

5. ______Appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1801 and served until 1835, decided the case of Marbury v Madison in 1803 (3)

6. ______Sent by Jefferson to explore that new Louisiana Purchase, they left in 1804 and returned in 1806, they made maps of

______the area, established relations with Native Americans, and brought samples of plants and animals back to Jefferson (2)

7. ______Leader of France who got Louisiana back from Spain and then turned around and sold it to the US (1)

8. ______Shoshone woman who joined the Corps of Discovery in 1805 and served as a guide and interpreter for the expedition (2)

9. ______Shawnee chief who tried to united the Native Americans of the Ohio Valley against the U.S., lost at the Battle of Tippecanoe, and died in the defeat at the Battle of Thames (1)

10. ______Elected President in 1800 and reelected in 1804, purchased Louisiana, sent Lewis and Clark, conflicted with John Marshall, and fought the Barbary pirates (7)

11. ______Representative from South Carolina, supported improvements in transportation, declared in 1817 “Let us bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.” (2)

12. ______Representative from Kentucky who proposed the American System in 1815 and the Missouri Compromise in 1820 (4)

13. ______Combined spinning and weaving into one factory built in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1813, started the factory city that bears his name and employed young farm girls as labor (3)

14. ______Supreme Court Chief Justice who further strengthened the power of the federal government and the Court in the cases of McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819 and Gibbons v. Ogden in 1824 (1)

15. ______Elected president in 1816 and 1820, his time in office was known as the “Era of Good Feeling”, acquired Florida, signed the compromise that admitted Maine and Missouri as states, and issued a statement of American foreign policy that bears his name (4)

16. ______Englishman who came to America in 1789 with smuggled British technology, opened his first spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790 (2)

17. ______Led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 that killed 55 whites, was captured and hanged, this rebellion led to harsher laws against African Americans in the South

18. ______His invention of interchangeable parts in 1801 led to mass production that changed life in the North, and invention of the cotton gin in 1793 changed the social, economic, and political structure of the South (3)