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| George Washington | Commander in chief of Revolutionary forces; first president of the U. S. |
| John Adams | second president of U. S.; |
| Thomas Jefferson | third president; author of Declaration of Independence; |
| Benjamin Franklin | American diplomat; led Treaty of Paris negotiations |
| Abigail Adams | wife of John Adams; called for inclusion of women's rights in Constitution |
| Andrew Jackson | leader of "People's Democracy," called for Indian removal; President during Nullification Crisis |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | women's suffrage leader; organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 |
| Clara Barton | Civil War nurse who founded the American Red Cross |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President; wrote Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address |
| Robert E. Lee | leader of Confederate army |
| Ulysses S. Grant | defeated Confederate army; later served as President |
| Thomas Paine | wrote "Common Sense" |
| William and Mary | British monarchs who signed the Acts of Toleration and English Bill of Rights |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Square Deal President who built Panama Canal; led Roughriders in Spanish-American War; President |
| Woodrow Wilson | New Freedom President during World War I; wrote Fourteen Points Peace Plan; called for League of Nations |
| Warren G. Harding | President during Teapot Dome Scandal; called for a return to normalcy |
| William McKinley | President during Spanish-American War |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | President who ended Reconstruction |
| Marcus Garvey | 19th century black separatist leader |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | black civil rights leader who advocated change through political action |
| Booker T. Washington | black leader who advocated change through education |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave; abolitionist leader |
| Harriet Tubman | conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Samuel Adams | leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | New Deal President during Depression and World War II |
| Herbert Hoover | President when Depression began; believed in rugged individualism |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | general, hero of European World War II; President in the 1950s |
| Harry Truman | President who decided to drop the atomic bomb; leader during communist scare of late 1940s |
| Joseph McCarthy | Wisconsin senator who persecuted suspected communists |
| John F. Kennedy | New Frontier President during Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Great Society President who signed Civil Rights Act 1965; Medicare, Medicaid |
| Rosa Parks | started the Civil Rights Movement when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | leader of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Mohandas Gandhi | leader of Indian Independence movement; passive resistance |
| King George III | British king during American Revolution |
| Rachel Carson | author of "Silent Spring", book about effect of pesticides on the environment |
| Susan B. Anthony | women's suffragette responsible for passage of the 19th Amendment |
| Louis Pasteur | created a method to rid foods of harmful bacteria |
| John Locke | wrote "Two Treatises of Government"; encouraged rebellion against "bad" governments; his ideas were the basis of Declaration of Independence |
| Alexander Hamilton | leading Federalists; first Secretary of the Treasury; killed by Aaron Burr in a duel |
| Cesar Chavez | instrumental in formation of the United Farm Workers union |
| Betty Friedan | wrote "The Feminine Mystique" which was instrumental in the start of the modern women's movement |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | school teacher, member of the Division of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration under FDR |
| Robert LaFollette | Progressive Era Wisconsin senator who proposed the Wisconsin Idea, radical progressive reforms with socialist tendencies |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French army officer and hero of the American Revolution |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | U. S. senator instrumental in the defeat of Wilson's Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | wrote "The Influence of Seapower on History" which helped to launch the U. S. race for an improved navy prior to WWI |
| Clarence Darrow | American lawyer and defense attorney in the Scopes trial |
| William Jennings Bryan | U. S. senator, orator, and prosecutor in the Scopes trial |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | flew the "Spirit of St. Louis" on the first successful solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927 |
| Henry Ford | American auto manufacturer who applied the assembly line process to auto manufacturing, making automobiles affordable for most Americans |
| Barbara Jordan | first Southern black Congresswoman |
| Shirley Chisholm | first black Congresswoman, first black woman to run for President |
| Eugene V. Debs | socialist Progressive, helped found ACLU, ran for President several times |
| Upton Sinclair | Progressive author who wrote "The Jungle" about Chicago meat-packing industry; led to Pure Food and Drug Acts and Meat Inspection Act |
| John Scopes | Dayton, TN biology teacher arrested for teaching evolution |
| H. Ross Perot | TX billionaire who ran for President on third party ticket; pushed extensive eduction reform |
| George Wallace | AL governor who blocked the university door to prevent integration; "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever;" |
| John J. Pershing | hero of Spanish-American War and leader of World War I American Expeditionary Forces |
| Omar Bradley | last surviving American World War II 5-star general |
| Douglas MacArthur | American World War II general who pledged "I Shall Return" to the Philippines |
| George C. Marshall | American WWII general and Secretary of State who proposed aid to Western Europe as part of the Marshall Plan |
| George Patton | American WWII general who led the recapture of Italy |
| John Steinbeck | member of "Lost Generation" authors who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath" about the Joad family and their trek from OK to CA during the Dust Bowl |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | leader of the National American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Andrew Carnegie | American industrial billionaire philanthropist |
| Georgia O'Keefe | American Southwestern painter known for her desert landscapes and flowers |
| Jane Addams | American Progressive founder of settlement houses such as Hull House in Chicago |
| Carrie Nation | American temperance movement activist |
| Florence Nightingale | Crimean War nurse who is the mother of modern nursing |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | FDR's wife; human rights activist; UN delegate |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the "Little Woman Who Helped Start the Big War" |
| Francis Scott Key | Baltimore lawyer who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate States of America |
| John C. Calhoun | South Carolina pre-Civil War senator who helped start the Nullification Crisis; was put down by Andrew Jackson |
