US History EOC - People
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| 7764418 | Thomas Jefferson | Third president; believed in a strict interpretation of the constitution | |
| 7764419 | Alexander Hamilton | Secretary of the Treasury; believed in a loose interpretation of the constitution | |
| 7764421 | Lewis and Clark | Explorers sent by Jefferson to the Louisiana Purchase | |
| 7764422 | James Madison | President during the War of 1812 | |
| 7764423 | James Monroe | President who acquired Florida and passed the Missouri Compromise and Monroe Doctrine | |
| 7764424 | Eli Whitney | Inventor of the cotton gin | |
| 7764425 | Henry Clay | Worked on the Missouri Compromise, the American System, and the Compromise of 1850 | |
| 7764426 | John Calhoun | VP under Jackson; strong believer in states' rights | |
| 7764427 | Andrew Jackson | President whose term was marked by difficulty with Indian removal | |
| 7764428 | William Henry Harrison | General during the War of 1812 and future president of the US | |
| 7764429 | Stephen Austin | One of the leaders of the Texas Revolution and its subsequent annexation | |
| 7764430 | Sam Houston | Led the forces that defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto | |
| 7764431 | John Tyler | President who annexed Texas, among other things | |
| 7764432 | James Polk | President who believed in Manifest Destiny; acquired the Oregon Territory | |
| 7764433 | Joseph Smith | Mormon leader | |
| 7764434 | Samuel Morse | Inventor of the telegraph and Morse code | |
| 7764435 | Cyrus McCormic | Inventor of the mechanical reaper | |
| 7764436 | William Garrison | Abolitionist and editor of The Liborator | |
| 7764437 | Dorthea Dix | Worked reforming assylums | |
| 7764438 | Horace Mann | Education reformer | |
| 7764439 | Frederick Douglass | Freed slave who became and abolitionist | |
| 7764440 | John Brown | Radical militant reformer | |
| 7764441 | Dred Scott | Slave that unsuccessfully sued for his freedom | |
| 7764442 | Abraham Lincoln | President during the Civil War | |
| 7764444 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy | |
| 7764445 | Robert E. Lee | Confederate general | |
| 7764446 | Ulysses S. Grant | Union general; future president | |
| 7764447 | Stonewall Jackson | Successful Confederate general | |
| 7764448 | Clara Barton | Civil War battlefield nurse; started the Red Cross | |
| 7764449 | John Wilkes Booth | Killed Lincoln | |
| 7764450 | Andrew Johnson | Became President after Lincoln was killed; wanted the president to control Reconstruction | |
| 7764451 | Rutherford B. Hayes | President that ended Reconstruction with the Compromise of 1877 | |
| 7764452 | Andrew Carnegie | Robber baron who made his money with steel | |
| 7764453 | J. P. Morgan | Helped form General Electric | |
| 7764454 | John Rockefeller | Robber baron who made his money with oil | |
| 7764455 | Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone | |
| 7764456 | Thomas Edison | Invented the light bulb, among other things | |
| 7764457 | Henry Ford | Creator the Ford Motor Company and the Model T | |
| 7764458 | Wright Brothers | Invented the modern aircraft | |
| 7764459 | William Hearst | Owned more than 30 different newspaper companies | |
| 7764460 | Susan B. Anthony | Worked for both civil rights and women's suffrage | |
| 7764461 | Jane Addams | Founder of the settlement house movement | |
| 7764462 | John Kellogg | Nutritionist who invented corn flakes | |
| 7764463 | Teddy Roosevelt | President and leader of the Progressive movement | |
| 7764464 | Upton Sinclair | Author of The Jungle | |
| 7764465 | Woodrow Wilson | President during World War One | |
| 7764466 | Booker T. Washington | One of the founders of the Tuskegee Institute | |
| 7764467 | Mathew Perry | Instigated foreign relations between America and Japan | |
| 7764468 | William Seward | Secretary of State; bought Alaska for America | |
| 7764469 | Joseph Pulitzer | Started yellow journalism and founded the journalistic prize named after him | |
| 7764470 | Samuel Clemons | Real name of Mark Twain | |
| 7764471 | Charles Lindbergh | First to fly non stop across the Atlantic Ocean | |
| 7764472 | Herbert Hoover | President that worsened the Great Depression | |
| 7764473 | Franklin Roosevelt | President during the Depression and WWII | |
| 7764474 | Dwight Eisenhower | Leader of the Allied forces in Europe and future president | |
| 7764475 | Harry Truman | President that ended WWII by dropping the atomic bomb | |
| 7764476 | Douglas MacArthur | Leader of the American forces in Asia | |
| 7797388 | Stephen Douglas | Senator from Illinois, author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine, argues in favor of popular sovereignty | |
| 7802258 | 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. | |
| 7802259 | John Jay | United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829) |