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Responsible for the raid on Harpers Ferry, wished for slaves to rebel against their slave owners; he was executed for killing five white slave owners

John Brown

Abolitionist who wrote and published the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison

He was a former slave who wrote and published The North Star and wrote and spoke about ending slavery

Frederick Douglass

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

Sojourner Truth

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

She was the "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, helping hundreds of slaves escape to the North and Canada

Harriet Tubman

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

This reformer sought to promote public education for all children

Horace Mann

This reformer sought to improve conditions for prisoners, providing better care and opportunities to improve in society

Eliza Farnham

This reformer sought to improve mental health facilities and provide more help for persons with disabilities

Dorothea Dix

This group of immigrants fled political oppression and settled in the Midwest

German immigrants

This group of immigrants settled in the Midwest searching for fertile farmland

Swedish immigrants

This group of immigrants moved to the West seeking gold, helping build the railroads and the Transcontinental Railroad

Chinese immigrants

This group of immigrants was responsible for helping build the Erie Canal

Irish immigrants

Inventor responsible for introducing textile mills to Massachusetts

Francis Cabot Lowell

Inventor of the spinning jenny

Samuel Slater

Inventor of the steamboat

Robert Fulton

American inventor responsible for the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

Eli Whitney

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

George Mason

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

Patrick Henry

They were the leaders of the Federalists, aimed at supporting ratification of the new constitution during the Ratification Debate

Hamilton, Madison, Jay

French military leader who helped discipline the Continental Army at Valley Forge

Marquis de Lafayette

Leader of the Sons of Liberty; responsible for leading boycotts in Boston and leading the Boston Tea Party

Samuel Adams

American inventor and politician, responsible for the Albany Plan of Union to unite the colonies against France during the French and Indian War

Benjamin Franklin

The king of England during the American Revolution

King George III

Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania as a safe haven to escape religious persecution

Quakers

Founder of Pennsylvania; founded it as a safe haven for Quakers

William Penn

Founders of Rhode Island, after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for believing in religious tolerance

Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson

Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony after escaping persecution

Pilgrims/Puritans

Founder of Georgia for former convicts and debtors; responsible for settling north of Spanish Florida

James Oglethorpe

Founder of Connecticut, author of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Thomas Hooker

He "discovered" the New World in 1492

Christopher Columbus

Union general responsible for the "March to the Sea," in which the city of Atlanta, Georgia was destroyed

William T. Sherman

Senator from Kentucky; "the Great Compromiser" responsible for the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850; former Speaker of the House who assisted in electing John Quincy Adams

Henry Clay

Confederate sympathizer and white supremacist who assassinated President Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

Commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War

Robert E. Lee

President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

19th President of the United States; member of the Republican Party; ended Reconstruction due to the Compromise of 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes

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

Ulysses S. Grant

17th President of the United States; Southern Democrat; took office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; opposed Radical Reconstruction plans; first president to be impeached due to violating the Tenure of Office Act in 1868

Andrew Johnson

16th President of the United States; president during the Civil War; member of the Republican Party; responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

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

James K. Polk

Popular due to being a general during the War of 1812 and relating to the "common man" in the United States; 7th President of the United States; responsible for using force against South Carolina and removing Cherokee from their land

Andrew Jackson

6th President of the United States; involved in the "corrupt bargain" of the election of 1824

John Quincy Adams

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

James Monroe

Involved with the Federalists during the Constitutional Convention; member of the Democratic-Republican Party; 4th President of the United States

James Madison

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

Thomas Jefferson

Lawyer during the Boston Massacre Trial; helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris; 2nd President of the United States

John Adams

Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army; 1st President of the United States

George Washington