Final :0

Charles Townshend

Taxed colonists on products such as lead, paint, tea

Paul Revere

Patriot known for warning our troops that the British were coming

Baron von Steupin

Prussian officer was a maestro of training our troops for battle at Valley Forge

Thomas Gage

British General who took his troops from Lexington to Concord

Crispus Atticks

First patriot killed at the Boston Massacre

Samuel Adams

Sons of Liberty founder

Thomas Jefferson

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

Abagail Adams

Lobbied for equal rights under the law of women in early days of the country

Horatio Gates

Led patriot victory at Saratoga

Nathanael Greene

General in charge of patriot southern campaign in Revolutionary War

John Jay

First chief justice in US Supreme Court

Alexander Hamilton

Primary author of Federalist Papers

James Madison

Author of the US Constitution

John Adams

Alien and Sedition Acts passed during his presidency

Aaron Burr

Thomas Jefferson’s original VP

Mad Anthony Wayne

Defeated confederacy of Native Americans at The Battle of Fallen Timbers

Henry Harrison

Defeated The Prophet at Battle of Tippecanoe

Tecumseh

Shawnee War Chief who revived confederacy of Native Americans

Francis Scott Key

Wrote Star Spangled Banner

John Marshall

Chief Justice during Marbury v Madison

Andrew Jackson

Hero at the Battle of New Orleans

James Monroe

Declared America no longer subject to colonization

John Quincy Adams

Abolitionist president that was the 6th President of US

Sacagawea

Showed the way for Lewis and Clark

Napoleon Bonaparte

Bought Louisiana purchase from this French guy

Alexis de Tocqueville

Wrote Democracy in America

Benjamin Rush

Wrote Thoughts on Female Education

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Known as Father of Transcendentalism

Thoreau

Writings near a pond influenced Ghandi and MLK

Margaret Fuller

Wrote Women in the Nineteenth Century

Copernicus

Greek philosopher influenced lyceum movement

Emma Willard

First advocate for higher education for women

Washington Irving

Wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Cyrus McCormick

Invented the wheat reaper

Eli Whitney

Invented the cotton gin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Walt Whitman

Wrote Leaves of Green

Albert Brisbane

Wrote The Social Destiny of Men

Mother Ann Lee

Founder of the Shaker movement

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wrote The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville

Wrote Moby Dick

Luther Donnell

Decatur Countian that helped fugitive slaves Caroline and her 4 children escape to Canada

William Lloyd Garrison

Wrote The Liberator

Franklin Pierce

14th President

James Buchanan

Only bachelor president

Henry Clay

Known as The Great Compromiser in the House of Representatives prior to the Civil War

Nat Turner

Slave who led revolt

Lucretia Mott

Founded the Female Anti-Slave Society

Davie Crockett

From Tennessee, killed at the Alamo

Dorothea Dix

Advocate for prison reform + creation of insane asylums for mental illnesses

Zachary Taylor

Known as Old Rough and Ready

James K Polk

Known for slogan 54 40 or Flight

Horace Greeley

Worked for New York Tribune, coined phrases such as Bleeding Kansas and Go West Young Man

John Smith

Founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Brigham Young

Led the Mormons to Utah

Stephen Douglas

Defeated Abe Lincoln in 1858 election for Illinois US Senator

Mary Todd Lynch

Abe Lincoln’s wife

Dred Scott

Slave that sued for his freedom, his case went all the way to the Supreme Court

John Brown

Arrested at Harpers Ferry

Hannibal Hamlet

Abe Lincoln’s first VP

Abraham Lincoln

Said With Malice Towards None, Charity for All

Roger B Taney

Third Chief Justice of the US

Beauregard

Winning general at the First Battle of Bull Run

McDowell

Losing general at the First Battle of Bull Run

McClennan

He renamed the Easterm Union Army the Army of the Potomac

Ulysseys S Grant

Led Union Victory at Vicksburg

Pickett

His charge ended in defeat July 3 1863

Robert E Lee

Winning general at Chancellorsville

Meade

Union general in charge at Gettysburg

Sherman

Led the March to the Sea

Seward

Secretary of State from 1861-1869, had idea to purchased Alaska

Morgan

Led an attack of Confederates into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio

Stonewall Jackson

Nickname given at the First Battle of Bull Run

John Wilkes Booth

Killed Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

17th President

Martin Delaney

First black officer in US army

Hiram Revels

Elected to US Senate in Mississippi in 1870

Rutherford B Hayes

Elected President in 1876

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Leading member of the American Women Suffrage Association, “solitude of self” phrase said by her

Joseph Glidden

Invented Barbed Wire

WEB Du Bois

Wrote Black Reconstruction in America, proposed the Talented Tenth

Forrest

First leader of the KKK

Fillmore

Became president after Zachary Taylor died

Buffalo Bill Cody

Organized successful Wild West Show

Martha Hughes

First women to serve in state senate

Chief Joseph

Nez Perce Tribe

Chief Black Kettle

Cheyenne Tribe

Red Cloud

Oglala Sioux Tribe

Sitting Bull

Lakota Sioux Tribe

Giranamo

Chiricahua Apache Tribe

Charles Eastman

Native American name was Ohiyesa

Custer

Defeated at the Battle of Little Big Horn

Dowe

This senator created legislation that gave Native Americans Individual Landholdings

George Washington

Defeated the Hessians at Trenton

John Hancock

Has the largest signiture on the Declaration of Independence

Sotter

This guys mill had gold :o

Edward Everett

Gave a two hour speech at Gettysburg

John D Rockefeller

Known as King of Petroleum, Owner of Standard Oil, pioneered horizontal integration

JP Morgan

Created US Steel

John Wanamaker

Pioneered the Department Store