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| Francisco Coronado | Spanish explorer who claim the southwest United States for Spain |
| Samuel de Champlain | French explorer who claimed Quebec for France |
| Robert La Salle | Explorer who claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France |
| John Cabot | Explored Eastern Canada for England |
| King George III | King of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War |
| Lord Cornwallis | British general who surrendered at Yorktown |
| John Adams | President of the United States when a two party system emerged |
| George Washington | Commander of the Continental Army |
| Thomas Jefferson | Brought the Louisiana Purchase from France |
| Patrick Henry | Outspoken member of the House of Burgesses who gave the "Give me liberty or give me death |
| Benjamin Franklin | Helped gain French support for American independence |
| Phyllis Wheatley | Wrote poems and plays supporting American independence |
| Paul Revere | Patriot who made a daring ride to warn colonists of British arrival |
| Samuel Adams | Led patriots in throwing tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes. |
| George Mason | Author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights |
| James Madison | President during the War of 1812 |
| James Monroe | Warning European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere. |
| Lewis & Clark | Explored the Louisiana Purchase |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| Jo Anderson | slave and inventor of the repear |
| Cyrus McCormick | Inventor and entrepreneur of the repear |
| Robert Fulton | Entrepreneur who improved the steamboat |
| Harriet Tubman | Led hundreds of slave to freedom along the Underground Railroad |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist who wrote the Liberator |
| Fredrick Douglass | Abolitionist who wrote the North Star |
| Isabella Sojourner Truth | A former enslaved African American, was a nationally known advocate for equality and justice. |
| Susan B. Anthony | an advocate to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | played a leadership role in the women’s rights movement. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Believed the United States was one nation, not a collection of independent states |
| Jefferson Davis | Was president of the Confederate States of America |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Was general of the Union army that defeated Lee |
| Robert E. Lee | Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war and reunite as Americans when some wanted to fight on |
| Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson | Was a skilled Confederate general from Virginia |
| Clara Barton | A Civil War nurse, created the American Red Cross |
| Robert Smalls | An African American sailor and later a Union naval captain |
