| A | B |
| Roger Williams | English colonist who bought land from the Narragansetts in 1636 for a colony which became Rhode Island |
| Canonicus | Native American ruler of the Narragansett who sold land to Roger Williams for the colony of Rhode Island |
| John Adams | Signer from Massachusetts of the Declaration of Independence and second President of the United States |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Scottish immigrant who invented the telephone |
| Albert Einstein | German immigrant who became one of the world's most important scientists |
| Andrew Carnegie | Business leader who developed the steel industry in Pennsylvania |
| Madeleine Albright | Immigrant from eastern Europe who became the first female United States Secretary of State |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist who began publishing a newspaper called The Liberator |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave who became an Abolitionist newspaper editor and who spoke in favor of women's right to vote |
| Sojourner Truth | African American woman who addressed Abolitionist meetings and told about her early life as a slave |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Women's rights leader who helped write the "Declaration of Sentiments" at the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Lucretia Mott | Women's rights leader who worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony |
| Susan B. Anthony | Leader in the Women's rights movement who helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention |