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Abigail Adams: She was the wife of the second president. She attempted to get rights for the "Ladies" from her
husband who at the time was on the committee for designing the Declaration of Independence.
Adam Smith Advocated in his book The Wealth of Nations that the “invisible hand” of the free market directed or regulated economic life more effectively than government intervention.
AlexanderHamilton Helped write The Federalist Papers. He later became the 1st
Secretary of the Treasury and his 4-part financial plan got American on firm financial footing. His plan included: 1) paying the debt in full, 2) a national Bank of the U.S.,
3) protective tariffs, and 4) an excise tax on whiskey.
Andrew Jackson As the hero of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, he later waselected the seventh president of the United States by the common man. As president, he introduced the spoils system, used the veto often, and fought the Bank of the U.S
Articles of Confederation This was the first "constitution" governing the Untied States after the revolution. It was ratified in 1781 and provided for a "firm league of friendship." The legislative branch had no power to regulatecommerce or forcibly collect taxes and there was no national executive or judicial branch.
Benedict Arnold He was the American General during the Revolutionary War who prevented the British from reaching Ticonderoga thus delaying British assault on New York; later tried to help the British take West Point but was found out
Charles G. Finney Charles Grandison Finney was a leader in the Second GreatAwakening. He has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism
Committee of Correspondence A letter writing network; were a predecessor of the Continental Congress
Crispus Attucks was an American slave, merchant seaman and dockworker of Wampanoag and African descent. He was the first person shot to death by British redcoats during the Boston Massacre, in Boston, Massachusetts. 
Cyrus McCormickthe Mechanical Reaper
Eli Whitney Cotton Machine Mass production Interchangeable Parts Combined with the American Manufacturing System produced cost effective standardized products
Federalist Papers These were a series of articles written in New York newspapers as a source of propaganda for a stronger central government; written in response to the Anti-Federalists’ concerns. The articles, writtenby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, were a way for the
writers to express their belief that it is better to have a stronger central government.
Freedom petitions The first concrete steps toward emancipation of slaves in revolutionary America.
George Washington He was called the American Cincinnatus because of his willingness to surrender his sword and commission to Congress atthe war’s conclusion, for his refusal to become a monarch or president for life, and his establishing the tradition of the two-term presidency.
Homespun virtue Boycott British goods. Make things at home
James Otis James Otis, Jr. was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts, a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly, and an early advocate of the Patriot views against British injustice that ledto the American Revolution
John Adams The first one-term president who refused to pay tribute to the French in the XYZ Affair, signed the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 limiting free speech, negotiated a peace with France ending the Quasi War which infuriated Hamilton and the High Federalists, assuring he would not be re-elected..
John C. Calhoun He was part of the New Southern Congress of1811. He was a representative for South Carolina and one of the original War Hawks. He supported the Tariff Bill of 1811 because he thought the bill would lead to manufacturing in the South and cultivation of cotton. He later changed his mind, and opposed it because the bill was being used to enrich Northern manufacturers
John Deere Singing Steel Plow
John Tyler 10th president of the United...