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Key People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cripus Attucks | American Hero and Martyr of the Boston Massacre |
| John Brown | Militant Abolitionist who led raid at Harper's Ferry |
| John C. Calhoun | Vice President of U.S.; created a doctrine of nullification |
| Henry Clay | Politician known as "The Great Compromise" |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Dorothea Dix | Reformer who fought to improve the care of the mentally ill |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Writer and poet; popularized the idea of transcendentalism |
| Benjamin Franklin | Author, publisher, inventor and diplomat |
| Alexander Hamilton | Author of many of the Federalist Papers; first secretary of treasury |
| Anne Hutchinson | Banished from Massachusetts colony; one of the founders of Rhode Island |