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| John Locke | philosopher who's ideas about the "social contract" and "natural rights" influenced Thomas Jefferson |
| Thomas Paine | Scotish immigrant who wrote "Common Sense" which encouraged colonists to rebel from England. |
| Thomas Jeffeson | wrote the Declaration of Independence, Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, and was the presisent who made the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Patrick Henry | Patriot who said in a speech "give me liberty or give me death" |
| George Washington | Commander of the U.S. military during the Revolutionary War, chairman of the Constitutional Convention, and first president of the U.S. |
| Benjamin Franklin | he negotiated an alliance with France during the Revolutionary War |
| James Madison | Father of the U.S. Constitution and president of the U.S. during the War of 1812. |
| George Mason | Wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights which influenced the creation of the "Bll of Rights" for the American Constitution. |
| John Adams | Second president of the United States and a Federalist leader. |
| Alexander Hamilton | Leader of the Federalist party. He was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. |
| Chief Justice John Marshall | First Chief Justice |
| Lewis and Clark | Led the expedition of the lands of the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Sacajawea | Indian guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition, |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts |
| Andrew Jackson | his election ushered in the era of the "Common Man". Introduced the "spoils system", and caused the "Panic of 1832" when he closed the Bank of the U.S. |
| Henry Clay | Senator who was the principal architect of the Missouri Compromise. Was a strong advocate for state's rights. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist who published "The Liberator" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | abolitionist who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Nat Turner | Virginia slave who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County. |
| Gabriel Prossor | Virginia slave who led a slave rebellion outside of Richmond |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican who's election to the presidency in 1860 led the South to secede from the Union. |
| Stephen Douglas | Debated Lincoln. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A leader in the women's suffrage movement. She and Susan B. Anthony wrote a "declaration of rights" for women at the Seneca Falls Convention. |
| Susan B. Anthony | She worked for women's suffrage and helped Elizabeth Cady Stanton write a Declaration of Rights at the Seneca Falls Convention. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general who Robert E. Lee surrendered to at Appomattox Courthouse, |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate General who surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, and who urged Southerners to accept defeat and rejoin the union at the end of the Civil War. |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave who was an abolitionist who also urged Lincoln to allow former slaves to fight on the side of the Union. |
| Andrew Johnson | He succeeded Lincoln when he was assassinated. He was impeached by the Radical Republicans of Congress because he believed the south should be allowed to rejoin the nation without harsh sanctions. One vote saved him from being removed from office. |
| Thomas Edison | invented the lightbulb |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| Wright Brothers | invented the airplane |
| Henry Ford | invented the car and the assembly line |
| Andrew Carnegie | steel baron |
| J.P. Morgan | bank baron (captain) |
| John D. Rockefeller | oil baron (captain) |
| Cornelius Vanderbuilt | railroad baron (captain) |
