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Chapter 9
Key people
Question | Answer |
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Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) |
Aaron Burr | Vise president under T. Jefferson 1801-1805 |
John Marshall | Secretary of state for John Adams administration |
Meiwether Lewis and William Clark | They headed the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back(1804 - 1806) |
Sacagawea | was a Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition |
Zebulon Pike | an American soldier and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. His Pike expedition, often compared to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, mapped much of the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase. |
Alexander Hamilton | first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher. |
James Madison and Dolley Madison | James was the 4th president of USA and Dolley was his wife. She was First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She also occasionally acted |
Tecumseh | a powerful Shawnee chief, who belived that a strong alliance stop white movement in to native land. |
General William Henry Harrison | an American military leader, politician, the ninth President of the United States, and the first President to die in office. The oldest President elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, Harrison had served 32 days in the office. |
Francis Scott Key | an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". |
Andrew Jackson | seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) |
Napoleon Bonaparte | French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the history of Europe. He was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic and Emperor of the French and King of Italy |