Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony after escaping persecution
Pilgrims/Puritans
Leader of the Sons of Liberty; responsible for leading boycotts in Boston and leading the Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams
This group of immigrants settled in the Midwest searching for fertile farmland
Swedish immigrants
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
Founder of Pennsylvania; founded it as a safe haven for Quakers
William Penn
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
Involved with the Federalists during the Constitutional Convention; member of the Democratic-Republican Party; 4th President of the United States
James Madison
6th President of the United States; involved in the "corrupt bargain" of the election of 1824
John Quincy Adams
Confederate sympathizer and white supremacist who assassinated President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
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
Inventor responsible for introducing textile mills to Massachusetts
Francis Cabot Lowell
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
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
He was a former slave who wrote and published The North Star and wrote and spoke about ending slavery
Frederick Douglass
Inventor of the spinning jenny
Samuel Slater
This reformer sought to improve conditions for prisoners, providing better care and opportunities to improve in society
Eliza Farnham
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
He was an Anti-Federalist who demanded a bill of rights be added to the constitution to protect individual rights
George Mason
This group of immigrants moved to the West seeking gold, helping build the railroads and the Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese immigrants
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
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
Commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
Founder of Georgia for former convicts and debtors; responsible for settling north of Spanish Florida
James Oglethorpe
She was the "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, helping hundreds of slaves escape to the North and Canada
Harriet Tubman
Union general responsible for the "March to the Sea," in which the city of Atlanta, Georgia was destroyed
William T. Sherman
19th President of the United States; member of the Republican Party; ended Reconstruction due to the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army; 1st President of the United States
George Washington
He "discovered" the New World in 1492
Christopher Columbus
Founder of Connecticut, author of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
He was an Anti-Federalist who supported states' rights; declared "Give Me Liberty, Give Me Death" during the American Revolution
Patrick Henry
Inventor of the steamboat
Robert Fulton
They were the leaders of the Federalists, aimed at supporting ratification of the new constitution during the Ratification Debate
Hamilton, Madison, Jay
She was a former slave who traveled across the country to speak about the evils of slavery, promoting an end to slavery
Sojourner Truth
American inventor responsible for the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
Lawyer during the Boston Massacre Trial; helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris; 2nd President of the United States
John Adams
This reformer sought to promote public education for all children
Horace Mann
Founders of Rhode Island, after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for believing in religious tolerance
Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson
She was an abolitionist author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania as a safe haven to escape religious persecution
Quakers
This reformer sought to improve mental health facilities and provide more help for persons with disabilities
Dorothea Dix
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
5th President of the United States; responsible for creating foreign policy prohibiting further European colonization in the Americas
James Monroe
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
Abolitionist who wrote and published the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
French military leader who helped discipline the Continental Army at Valley Forge
Marquis de Lafayette
This group of immigrants was responsible for helping build the Erie Canal
Irish immigrants
The king of England during the American Revolution
King George III
This group of immigrants fled political oppression and settled in the Midwest
German immigrants
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