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| Thomas Edison | developed a useable lightbulb |
| Benjamin Franklin | statesman, author, inventor, scientist, 1st Postmaster General, a Founding Father |
| Lewis and Clark | explored the new lands acquired through the Louisiana Purchase |
| Sacagawea | a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition |
| Harriet Tubman | former slave who helped other slaves escape to the north on the Underground Railroad |
| Neil Armstrong | 1st man to walk on the moon |
| Rosa Parks | took a stand for her rights by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, which helped start the Civil Rights Movement |
| Ronald Reagan | former president of the U.S who brought an end to the Cold War and called for the destruction of the Berlin Wall |
| George Washington | Commander of the Continental armies during the American Revolution and became the first United States President |
| Thomas Jefferson | main author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States |
| Abraham Lincoln | Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, gave the Gettysburg Address speech, and was our 14th President |
| Sitting Bull | famous Lakota chief who led the Sioux nation in the fight against the American armies during the Indian wars in the 1800s |
| Alexander Graham Bell | inventor of the first telephone |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the U.S. during World War ll and who established the New Deal policy to help bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression |
| Jonas Salk | an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. |
| Charles Alderton | created Dr. Pepper in Waco, Texas |
| Henry Ford | American automobile manufacturer who created the Model T in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the automotive industry. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | supreme commander of Allied forces in Western Europe during World War II and led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day |
| John F. Kennedy | President of the U.S who said, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” |
