| A | B |
|---|
| Christopher Columbus | 1492 explorer for Spain; "found" America |
| Franklin D Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President; author of the New Deal |
| Alexander Graham Bell | inventor of the telephone |
| Jefferson Davis | Confederate president |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | abolitionist writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| John F. Kennedy | U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Bay of Pigs invasion |
| John D. Rockefeller | oil tycoon; founder of Standard Oil Company |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president; President of the U.S. during the Civil War; wrote the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Patrick Henry | a Patriot leader from VA during the Revolutionary period; "Give me liberty or Give me death" speech |
| Martin Luther King, Jr | Civil rights leader; March on Washington 1963; "I have a dream" speech |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin; innovated interchangeable parts |
| Robert E Lee | Confederate military leader; his Army of Northern VA surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, ending the Civil War |
| Andrew Jackson | U.S. President who represents the rise of the common man; used the "spoils system"; vetoed the Bank of the U.S., causing the Panic of 1837 |
| James Monroe | 5th president of the U.S.; established the Monroe Doctrine |
| Booker T Washington | believed that African Americans would achieve equality and economic success through vocational training and education |
| Woodrow Wilson | U.S. President during WWI; wrote the Fourteen Points (plan for world peace) |
| Henry Ford | revolutionized the assembly line for automobiles |
| Andrew Carnegie | industrial leader in steel |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. military commander in the Pacific theater during World War II |
| William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist publisher of The Liberator |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president of the U.S.; wrote the Declaration of Independence; responsible for the Louisiana Purchase |
| James Madison | 4th president of the U.S.; wrote the Bill of Rights; known as the "Father of the Constitution" |
| Harriet Tubman | former slave; abolitionist conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| William Penn | founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, and Delaware, safe havens for Quakers |
