| A | B |
|---|
| Robert E. Lee | General of the Confederacy during the Civil War |
| L. Douglas Wilder | First African American governor |
| Arthur Ashe | First African American to win the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament |
| James Madison | Father of the Constitution |
| Thomas Jefferson | drafted Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom |
| George Mason | wrote Virginia's Plan or the Viginia's Constitution |
| James Monroe | Era of Good Feeling |
| Harry Byrd Sr. | led massisive resistance to desegration of Virginia' public schools |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the US |
| George Washington | Commander in chief of Continental Army |
| George Whythe | first Virginia signer of Declaration of Independence |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or Give me death" |
| General Cornwallis | surrendered at Yorktown that ended the Revolutionary War |
| Nat Turner | Virginia slave who wanted a slave rebellion in 1831 |
| John Brown | abolitionist who seized the armory in Harpers Ferry |
| Stonewall Jackson | defeated the Union Army and earned the name because he stood still |
| General J.E.B. Stuart | captain of the Confederate Cavalry, eyes and ears of army |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who came south to help during Reconstruction |
| Scalawags | white Southerners who supported the Northern views of government |
| John Paul Jones | "Father of the American Navy" |
