She was a former slave who traveled across the country to speak about the evils of slavery, promoting an end to slavery

Inventor of the spinning jenny

11th President of the United States; member of the Democratic Party; responsible for acquiring the Oregon Territory and defeating Mexico in the U.S. Mexican War

5th President of the United States; responsible for creating foreign policy prohibiting further European colonization in the Americas

General-in-Chief of the Union Army during the Civil War; 18th President of the United States; member of the Republican Party; imposed the Ku Klux Act on areas where citizens' rights were being violated

Inventor of the steamboat

He was an Anti-Federalist who supported states' rights; declared "Give Me Liberty, Give Me Death" during the American Revolution

Author of the Declaration of Independence; Secretary of State to President Washington; leader of the Democratic-Republican Party; 3rd President of the United States;

These women rights leaders led the Seneca Falls Convention, in which they sought for equal rights and the right to vote

She was an abolitionist author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

He was an Anti-Federalist who demanded a bill of rights be added to the constitution to protect individual rights

He "discovered" the New World in 1492