| A | B |
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| Abraham Lincoln | Wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address |
| Andrew Jackson | Defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Founding father and author of the Poor Richard's Almanac. |
| Charles Cornwallis | British general who surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. |
| Crispus Attucks | First martyr of the American Revolution. |
| Daniel Boone | 4Frontiersman and guide who created the Wilderness Road. |
| Davie Crockett | Died fighting at the Battle of the Alamo. |
| Dolly Madison | First Lady who saved the portrait of George Washington from the burning White House. |
| Dred Scott | African-American who unsuccessfully sued fro his freedom. |
| Dr. William Prescott | Unlike Revere, he was able to warn the people of Lexington and Concord that the British were coming. |
| Edward Braddock | British general who was killed during the French and Indian War. |
| Francis Marion | Earned the nickname Swamp Fox by using the swamps of South Carolina to mislead British forces. |
| Francis Scott Key | Wrote the Star Spangled Banner. |
| George Washington | Delivered a letter to the French commander at Fort Le Boeuf telling the French they had to leave the Ohio River Valley. |
| Henry Clay | Congressman from Kentucky who proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. |
| James Bowie | Was confined to a cot with tuburculosis during the Battle of the Alamo. |
| James K. Polk | President who acquired the territories of Texas, Oregon, and California for the United States. |
| James Longstreet | Confederate general who urged Robert E. Lee not to fight at Gettysburg. |
| James Madison | Father of the U.S. Constitution. |
| James Marshall | Discovered gold while constructing Sutter's Mill. |
| Jefferson Davis | First and only president of the Confederate States of America. |
| John Adams | Fisrt Vice-President and President during the X,Y,Z Affair. |
| John Brown | Abolitionist leader who raided an armory. |
| John Burgoyne | British general who lost at Saratoga. |
| John Smith | Helped to settle Jamestown Colony for the English. |
| John Sutter | Gold was discovered on his California property. |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated President Lincoln. |
| Joshua Chamberlain | Union Colonel who led the 20th Maine on Little Round Top. |
| King George III | British monarch in 1776. |
| Levi Strauss | Invented the first pair of blue-jeans. |
| Lewis and Clark | Led an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Lopez de Santa Anna | Dictator of Mexico who attacked the Alamo. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French military officer who helped George Washington during the Revolutionary War. |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | Defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie aboard the Brig Niagara. |
| Paul Revere | Warned colonial leaders that the British were coming. |
| Pocahontas | Native American who married Captain John Smith. |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general that ordered Pickett’s Charge. |
| Sam Houston | First and only president of the Republic of Texas. |
| Samuel Adams | Organizer of the Sons of Liberty and the Boston Tea Party. |
| Stephen Douglas | Senator from Illinois who debated Abraham Lincoln. |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general who was killed accidentally by his own men. |
| Tecumseh | Native American leader of the Shwnee who fought the U.S. in the War of 1812. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Primary author of the Declaration of Independence. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general that besieged and took control of Vicksburg, Mississippi. |
| Von Steuben | Trained the Continentals at Valley Forge. |
| William Pitt | Pittsburgh is named after the Prime Minister of Great Britain during the French & Indian War. |
| William T. Sherman | Attacked states (Georgia) in the Deep South during the Civil War. |
| William B. Travis | Commanded the Republic of Texas forces at the Alamo. |
| Zachary Taylor | Led U.S. troops to victory in the Mexican-American War. |
| Christopher Columbus | Sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. |
