| A | B |
|---|
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated President Lincoln |
| John Brown | led the raid on Harpers Ferry |
| John C. Calhoun | created doctrine of nullification |
| Henry Clay | architect of the American System |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Novelist who wrote about the American frontier |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave and important abolitionist |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Printer of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator |
| Alexander Hamilton | 1st Secretary of the Treasury |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate General |
| John Locke | Ideas influenced American ideas about government |
| Horace Mann | Father of American Education |
| Samuel Morse | Invented telegraph system |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote "Common Sense" |
| Sacagawea | Lewis and Clark guide |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | waged Total War on South |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | leader of women's sufferage movement |
| Harriet Tubman | organizer of Underground Railroad |
| Nat Turner | led a slave rebellion |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the Cotton Gin |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | wrote a series of books about frontier life |
| Brigham Young | led Mormons west to escape religious persecution |
