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| 8359244638 | John Smith | Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter. | 0 | |
| 8359244639 | John Winthrop | As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, he (1588-1649) was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world. | 1 | |
| 8359244640 | William Penn | An English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania in 1682, after receiving a charter from King Charles II the year before. He launched the colony as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance. | 2 | |
| 8359244641 | Anne Hutchinson | Puritan dissenter banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony who fled to Rhode Island in 1638; Antinomianism | 3 | |
| 8359244642 | Jonathan Edwards | American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America- First Great Awakening (1703-1758) | 4 | |
| 8359244643 | Benjamin Franklin | Printer, author, inventor, diplomat, statesman, and Founding Father. One of the few Americans who was highly respected in Europe, primarily due to his discoveries in the field of electricity. | 5 | |
| 8359244644 | Daniel Shays | this man, along with a band of Massachusetts farmers, rose up during the summer of 1786 and demanded restitution and tax relief. His rebellion escalated in January 1787 when the mob undertook a seizure of the state arsenal. | 6 | |
| 8359244645 | Thomas Paine | Patriot and writer whose pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776, convinced many Americans that it was time to declare independence from Britain. | 7 | |
| 8359244646 | George Washington | Virginian, patriot, general, and president. Lived at Mount Vernon. Led the Revolutionary Army in the fight for independence. First President of the United States. | 8 | |
| 8359244647 | Samuel Adams | Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence | 9 | |
| 8359244648 | John Adams | America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press "ought not to be restrained." | 10 | |
| 8359244649 | Alexander Hamilton | 1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He advocated creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt. | 11 | |
| 8359244650 | John Calhoun | South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights, limited government, and nullification | 12 | |
| 8359244651 | Tecumseh | a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement | 13 | |
| 8359244653 | Lewis, Clark & Sacagawea | 3 leaders of famous expedition to the Pacific Coast after the Louisiana Purchase gave the US more western territory | 14 | |
| 8359244654 | Thomas Jefferson | He was a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States. | 15 | |
| 8359244655 | Eli Whitney | an American inventor who developed the cotton gin. Also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged | 16 | |
| 8359244657 | James Monroe | 5th President of the U.S. 1817-1825 acquired Florida from Spain; declared Monroe Doctrine to keep foreign powers out. | 17 | |
| 8359244658 | John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State, He served as sixth president under Monroe. In 1819, he drew up the Adams-Onis Treaty in which Spain gave the United States Florida in exchange for the United States dropping its claims to Texas. The Monroe Doctrine was mostly Adams' work. | 18 | |
| 8359244659 | Andrew Jackson | The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers. | 19 | |
| 8359244660 | Nat Turner | Slave from VA that led group of slaves to kill their slaves holders and families. He was caught and executed on Nov.11, 1831. Slave states responded with stricter control on slave population. | 20 | |
| 8359244661 | Fredrick Douglass | Born into slavery. He escaped from slavery and eventually became renowned for eloquent lectures and writings for the causes of abolition and liberty. | 21 | |
| 8359244662 | William Lloyd Garrison | Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. | 22 | |
| 8359244663 | Susan B. Anthony | social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery. She helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation | 23 | |
| 8359244664 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A prominent advocate of women's rights, Stanton organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott | 24 | |
| 8359244665 | Henry David Thoreau | American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War. | 25 | |
| 8359244666 | James Polk | 11th President of the United States from Tennessee; committed to westward expansion; led the country during the Mexican War; U.S. annexed Texas and took over Oregon during his administration | 26 | |
| 8359244667 | Dred Scott | American slave who sued for his freedom for keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under the Missouri Compromise. Court decision led to declaration of Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional | 27 | |
| 8359244668 | John Brown | abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) | 28 | |
| 8359244669 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | 29 | |
| 8359244670 | Harriet Tubman | United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North | 30 | |
| 8359244671 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) | 31 | |
| 8359244672 | Ulysses Grant | an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. | 32 | |
| 8359244673 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | 33 | |
| 8359244674 | Rutherford Hayes | 19th President, his election resulted in the Compromise of 1877, ended reconstruction by removing federal troops, | 34 | |
| 8359244676 | Andrew Johnson | 17th president of the United States, came to office after Lincoln's assassination and opposed Radical Republicans; he was impeached | 35 | |
| 8359244677 | Chief Joesph | Chief of the Nez Perce Indians; 1871- unsuccessful rebellion to Canada against whites; | 36 | |
| 8359244678 | George Custer | Discovered gold in Black Hills of South Dakota, his seventh cavalry division was decimated by the Sioux at the battle of Little Big Horn | 37 | |
| 8359244679 | Sitting Bull | American Indian medicine man, chief, and political leader of his tribe at the time of the Custer massacre during the Sioux War | 38 | |
| 8359244680 | Fredrick Jackson Turner | American historian in the early 20th century. He is best known for The Significance of the Frontier in American History. | 39 | |
| 8359244682 | Nathaniel Bacon | 1676. Led Rebellion of angry former indentured servants, mostly from West VA resented East planters. They were very poor, had little land, and were squatting in the west of the colony. They were angered by the lack of protection from Indian attacks. | 40 | |
| 8359244684 | John Marshall | Chief Justice of Supreme Court from 1800 - 1835. Created Judicial Review. Generally ruled in favor of federal power & against state power. Had a loose interpretation of the Constitution. |  | 41 |
| 8359244685 | Thomas Jefferson | ..., Virginian, architect, author, governor, and president. Lived at Monticello. Wrote the Declaration of Independence. Second governor of Virgina. Third president of the United States. Designed the buildings of the University of Virginia. |  | 42 |
| 8359244686 | John Adams | America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press "ought not to be restrained." | 43 | |
| 8359244687 | Thomas Paine | American Revolutionary leader and author of Common Sense (born in England) who supported the American colonist's fight for independence and supported the French Revolution (1737-1809) |  | 44 |
| 8359244690 | Henry Clay | American lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky. He is important because he was the founder and leader of the Whig Party and a leading advocate of programs for modernizing the economy, like tariffs to eliminate international competition, a national bank, and internal improvements to promote canals, ports, and railroads. | 45 | |
| 8359244691 | John Quincy Adams | 6th president. In 1819, he drew up the Adams-Onis Treaty in which Spain gave the United States Florida in exchange for the United States dropping its claims to Texas. The Monroe Doctrine was mostly Adams' work, when he was Secretary of State under President Monroe. |  | 46 |
| 8416586227 | Hernan Cortes | A conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire in 1521. | 47 | |
| 8416597628 | Sir Walter Raleigh | Louder od Roanoke Colony, an unsuccessful English attempt at colonization in the 1580s. | 48 | |
| 8416615453 | John Rolfe | A leader at Jamestown who is believed to have brought the first tobacco seeds to Virginia. He married Pocahontas. | 49 | |
| 8416625277 | Chief Powhatan | Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy, the native civilization in Virginia at the time of Jamestown's settlement and father of Pocahontas. | 50 | |
| 8416646637 | George Calvert, Lord Baltimore | The founder of Maryland, he wanted the state to be a refuge of Catholics. | 51 | |
| 8416656924 | King Phillip (Metacom) | A Wampanoag Indian who led a war against American colonists in the 1670s. | 52 | |
| 8416669481 | John Locke | English Enlightenment philosopher who said all men have the rights to life, liberty, and property. | 53 | |
| 8416689225 | George Whitefield | British minister whose tour of the American colonies in 1739-1740 helped spark the first Great Awakening. | 54 | |
| 8416710203 | Pontiac | A Ottawa Chief who led a rebellion against the British in the Ohio Valley after the French and Indian War. | 55 | |
| 8416723370 | John Jay | Diplomat and statesman who helped negotiate the Peace of Paris, co-wrote the Federalist papers, and served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | 56 | |
| 8416743202 | Citizen Genet | French Diplomat who tried to rally Americans to help the cause of the French Revolution, drawing Washington's disapproval. | 57 | |
| 8416758414 | Aaron Burr | Jefferson's vice president who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. | 58 | |
| 8416773004 | Gabriel Prosser | Slave who led a rebellion in Richmond in 1800. | 59 | |
| 8416779544 | Denmark Vesey | Free black men who led a slave revolt in Charleston in 1822. | 60 | |
| 8416788868 | Sojourner Truth | Escaped slave, abolitionist, and feminist who gave the "Aint I A Women" speech at the Seneca Falls Convention. | 61 | |
| 8416809766 | Angelina Grimke | Southern-born abolitionist who defied social norms by speaking against slavery in public. | 62 | |
| 8416824651 | Sam Houston | Military leader of Texas in their War for Independence from Mexico, he later became the first president of the Republic of Texas. | 63 | |
| 8416848081 | Stephen Douglas | Northern Democrat famous for his debated against Lincoln, he was also the main proponent o the idea of popular sovereignty and the author of Kansas-Nebraska Act | 64 | |
| 8416872386 | Willian T. Sherman | Union General whose March to the Sea terrified the Southern population at the end of the Civil War | 65 | |
| 8416885427 | Robert E. Lee | Confederate General who led the South in a string of victories in Virginia at the start of Civil War; he eventually surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House | 66 | |
| 8416907627 | Thaddeus Stevens | Pennsylvania representative who was the leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives during the Reconstruction. | 67 |
