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Important People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sam Adams | member of the Sons of Liberty who started the Committee of Correspondence to stir public support for American independence |
| Ben Franklin | was an inventor, statesman, diplomat, signer of the Declaration of Independence and delegate to Constitutional Convention |
| King George III | the King of England who disbanded the colonial legislatures, taxed the colonies, and refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies. |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence; became the 3rd President of the United States and purchased the Louisiana territory, doubling the size of the United States. |
| Thomas Paine | wrote pamphlets like Common Sense and The Crisis to encourage American independence and resolve. |
| George Washington | was the leader of the Continental Army who became the first President of the United States |
| Andrew Jackson | the leader of the original Democratic Party and a “President of the people”. He was also responsible for the Trail of Tears, which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River |
| John C. Calhoun | was a South Carolina Congressman and Senator who spoke for the South before and during the Civil War |
| Henry Clay | powerful Kentucky Congressman and Senator who proposed the American System and the Compromise of 1850 - The Great Compromiser |
| Daniel Webster | was a Massachusetts Congressman and Senator who spoke for the North and the preservation of the Union. Believed Federal power over State power |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy during the Civil War |
| Ulysses S. Grant | General of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the North |
| Robert E. Lee | General of the Confederate Army |
| Abraham Lincoln | the 16th President of the United States who successfully put the Union back together only to be assassinated 5 days after the Civil War ended |
| Alexander Hamilton | leader of the Federalists, first Treasurer of the United States, creator of the Bank of the U.S., and killed in a duel by the Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr |
| Patrick Henry | a passionate patriot who became famous for his fiery speeches in favor of American independence. His most famous quote included the words, “Give me liberty or give me death!” |
| James Madison | considered to be the “Father of the Constitution”. |
| Frederick Douglass | a former slave who became the best-known black abolitionist in the country. Founder of the North Star, a antislavery paper |
| James Monroe | the author of the Monroe Doctrine, which shut down the western hemisphere to European expansion or interference |
| Harriet Tubman | an escaped slave who became a Conductor on the Underground Railroad and helped over 300 slaves to freedom in the North |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized the Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women’s Rights Movement in the United States |
| Dorthea Dix | reformer who fought to improve the care of the mentally ill |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | great fiction writer of American literature |
| John Paul Jones | naval hero during the American Revolution. father of the US Navy |
| William Penn | founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers |
| Henry Davis Thoreau | a transcendentalist author who believed in civil disobedience |
| Sojourner Truth | former slave, leading abolitionist and defender of women’s Rights |
| Nat Turner | slave who led a famous and bloody slave rebellion |
| Walt Whitman | Author, poet, and journalist |
| John Peter Zenger | accused of libel, helped establish idea of freedom of press |
| George Mason | "father of the Bill of Rights," founding father, and patriot |
| Charles de Montesquieu | Enlightenment thinker who believed in separation of Powere |
| Susan B. Anthony | worked for the abolitionist movement, temperance, and most importantly Women's suffrage. |
| William Blackstone | created a textbook for lawyers |
| Thomas Hooker | Founder of Connecticut. Helped the adoption of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. The father of American democracy |
| John Locke | Believed that people create government and have the right to revolt against it |
| John Marshall | Former Chief Justice - McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, and Marbury v. Madison |
| Philip Bazaar | Chilean immigrant who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Served in the Navy during the Civil War. |
| William Carney | Former slave escaped and joined the 54th Massachusetts regiment. 1st African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Famous figure of the Civil War for the south. |
| Mercy Otis Warren | Author who convinced many to become Patriots, became a Antifederalist. |
| Abigail Adams | urged her Husband John Adams to remember the ladies when in came to creating a new government. Source of information about the revolutionary war. Advocate for public education. |
| John Adams | Lawyer for British soldiers during revolutionary war. Helped write the Declaration of Independence. Appointed may federalist including John Marshall to chief justice. |
| James Armistead | African American spy during the American Revolution |
| Crispus Attucks | African American who was the first of five shot during the Boston Massacre. |
| John James Audubon | Painter, Artist, and Conservationist. His illustrations and life story help describe the spirit of young America. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French officer who helped the Americans during the Revolution. |
| Bernardo de Galvez | Spanish nobility who aided the Americans during the Revolutionary war and became the governor of the LA Territory. |
| Haym Salomon | Polish-born Jewish immigrant who helped financing the American Revolution. |
| Wentworth Cheswell | Founding father, patriot, and grandson of the first African American land owner. |
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