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| 7342830848 | Oliver Hazard Perry | United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. said "we have met the enemy and they are ours," which became the slogan of the American cause and gave it new life | 0 | |
| 7342830849 | Thomas MacDonough | Naval officer who forced the invading British army near Plattsburgh to retreat on September 11, 1814; he saved the upper New York from conquest. | 1 | |
| 7342830850 | William Henry Harrison | General who fight against the Native Americans in the Indiana Territory, Governor of the Indiana Territory, and ninth President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after. . | 2 | |
| 7342830851 | Francis Scott Key | A lawyer and poet of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Key wrote the words to " The Star-Spangled Banner" while watching the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, Maryland, in the War of 1812. | 3 | |
| 7342830852 | Andrew Jackson | General in the War of 1812, he defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans. He was elected president the seventh President. He was called "Old Hickory." | 4 | |
| 7342830853 | Washington Irving | A nineteenth-century American author. " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are two of his best-known works. | 5 | |
| 7342830854 | James Monroe | He was the fifth President of the United States. Issued a doctrine proclaiming that the Americas should be closed to future European colonization and free from European interference in sovereign countries' affairs. It further stated the United States' intention to stay neutral in European wars | 6 | |
| 7342830855 | James Fenimore Cooper | An American author of the early nineteenth century, known for his works set on the American frontier, such as the series The Leatherstocking Tales and The Last of the Mohicans. | 7 | |
| 7342830856 | John C. Calhoun | H served as a senator, secretary of war, secretary of state and vice president. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery. | 8 | |
| 7342830857 | John Quincy Adams | He served as a US representative, secretary of state, and sixth president The Monroe Doctrine was mostly his work. | 9 | |
| 7342830858 | Daniel Webster | A senator from Massachusetts and considered the most powerful speaker of his time. | 10 | |
| 7342987021 | Henry Clay | He served as a US representative, senator, and secretary of state. He is known as The Great Compromiser. | 11 |
