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Pennsylvania People
A review of famous Pennsylvanians
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First to drill for oil in the United States at Titusville, PA. His well was widely copied. | Edwin Drake |
| Obtained French support to help the colonists defeat the British in the American Revolution. Also the oldest delegate to the Constitutional Convention. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Delivered the Gettysburg Address for the dedication ceremony of the cemetary. | Abraham Lincoln |
| founder of the colony; Quaker; maintained peace with natives; forerunner of democratic ideals such as freedom of religion and education. | William Penn |
| Writer of Standard Oil Company that criticized the oil industry and big business | Ida Tarbell |
| Involved in the first shots fired in the French and Indian War; later commander of the Continental Army during the Revolution; President; led an army to put down the Whiskey Rebellion | George Washington |
| Pennsylvania General during the Revolution; lost many men at the Paoli Massacre. | Anthony Wayne |
| Writer of Silent Spring; resulted in the banning of DDT pesticide; creation of the Environmental Protection Agency; and the start of the Environmental Movement. | Rachel Carson |
| Rags to riches story; began working as a bobbin boy and eventually started his own steel company; sold it and became one of the richest men in America; philanthropist | Andrew Carnegie |
| Ottawa leader who led a rebellion which overtook several British forts after the French and Indian War | Chief Pontiac |
| Carried pitchers of water to soldiers during the Revolution and even took control of a large gun during a battle | Molly Pitcher |
| created with creating the first American flag | Betsy Ross |
| Turned the soldiers at Valley Forge into a formidable fighting machine. | Baron von Steuben |
| Fries Rebellion, aka the Hot Water Rebellion; Led a rebellion in eastern Pennsylvania over new taxes imposed on the number of windows on a house. Sentenced to hang, he was later pardoned by the president. | John Fries |
| produced the first widely used steamboat | Robert Fulton |
| invented steel cables which led to the creation of suspension bridges able to span much longer distances; designed the Brooklyn Bridge | John Roebling |
| first and only president ever elected from the state of Pennsylvania; said the North was responsible for tensions with the South over slavery | James Buchanan |
| General of the Union Army; from PA; fired by Lincoln after a poor showing at the battle of Antietam; later runs as a Democrat against Lincoln for the presidency | George McClellan |
| General from PA; led the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg; crticized for not pursuing the Confederates after the battle (could have ended the war a lot sooner) | George Meade |
| creator of one of the top selling food brands in the country; slogan is "57 varieties". | Henry Heinz |
| first plant was built in Sunbury, PA; it was here that the first building was ever lit by electricity | Thomas Edison |
| created a chocolate empire | Milton Hershey |
| Invented air brakes used on the railroads; also developed a better electric current system called AC, or alternating current | George Westinghouse |
| Group of Irish miners murdered mine superintendents and managers. Twenty members were sentenced to death. | Molly McGuires |
| Native American who went to the Carlisle boarding school and later became a professional football player and major league baseball | Jim Thorpe |
| president of the US during the Great Depression; instituted the New Deal; later president during World War II | Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR |
| Catalogued the birds of North America, with thousands of illustrated paintings. | John Audubon |
| great Seneca chief in the late 1700s; he persuaded his tribe to accept the new American government; US government gave him a tract of land in northwestern PA which lasted until the government took back the land to build a dam in 1964. | Cornplanter |
| French & Indian War; launched an ill-fated expedition to capture Fort Duquense; ambushed by the Indians and killed | Edward Braddock |
| King of England during the American Revolution; the Declaration of Independence was written to him | King George III |
| writer of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| congressman from PA; added a proviso to a bill saying that all territory acquired from the Mexican War would not be allowed to have slaves; sparked the slavery debate in American that eventually results in the Civil War. | David Wilmot |
| radical politican and abolitionsit from PA during the Civil War; wanted to punish the South after the war and confiscate all plantations and redistribute the land to former slaves. | Thaddeus Stevens |
| only civilian killed during the Civil War | Jenny Wade |
| served as Secretary of War under President Lincoln during the Civil War | Simon Cameron |
| Bellefonte native and governor of PA during the Civil War | Andrew Curtain |
| Southern general who led a frontal assault against the Union center on the third day of the battle of Gettysburg; over 1/2 his men were casualties | George Pickett |
| founded the Gulf Oil Company in Pittsburgh | William Mellon |
| secret organization of Irish coal miners who threatened and intimated their bosses for better working conditions; leaders charged with murder and sentenced to death | Molly MacGuires |
| Major General of the Union Army during the Civil War; later President of the US | Ulysses S. Grant |
| suffragist who read the Declaration of the Rights of Women on the steps of Independence Hall in 1876 | Susan B. Anthony |
| surveyors who settled the boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania with the creation of the Mason-Dixon Line; eventually become synonmous with the separation of free and slaves states | Mason & Dixon |
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