Early Republic People

Sent on an expedition by Jefferson to gather information on the United States' new land and map a route to the Pacific. They kept very careful maps and records of this new land acquired from the Louisiana Purchase.

• John Adams
• Lewis and Clark
• John Marshall
• Eli Whitney

"Father of the Constitution," Federalist leader, and fourth President of the United States.

• Gabriel Pross
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• Tecumseh

American jurist and politician who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1801-1835) and helped establish the practice of judicial review

• John Adams
• Lewis and Clark
• John Marshall
• Eli Whitney

a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813)

• Gabriel Pross
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• Tecumseh

3rd President of the United States

• Sacagawea
• Gabriel Pross
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

• John Marshall
• Eli Whitney
• Sacagawea
• Gabriel Pross

America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press "ought not to be restrained."

• John Adams
• Lewis and Clark
• John Marshall
• Eli Whitney

Planned a slave revolt in Virginia in 1800 that failed before it could get underway; Persecuted and executed

• Sacagawea
• Gabriel Pross
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

A Shoshone woman whose language skills and knowledge of geography helped Lewis and Clark

• John Marshall
• Eli Whitney
• Sacagawea
• Gabriel Pross

Why did President Thomas Jefferson approve the negotiations that led to the Louisiana Purchase?

• he wanted to settle boundary disputes with Great Britain

• He wanted to take control of Mississippi river

• He wanted to obtain land to limit Russian colonization

• he wanted to take control of the Appalachian Mountains