History people Comp 2023

George Washington

Father of Our Country; General during the American Revolution

Thomas Hooker

Founder of Connecticut

John Rolfe

Saved Jamestown financially by cultivating tobacco.

Oliver Hazard Perry

"I have met the enemy and they are ours" Won the battle of Lake Eerie

Patrick Henry

"Give me liberty of give me death"

Thomas Jefferson

Author of the Declaration of Independence

James Madison

"Father of the Constitution"

Andrew Jackson

"Old Hickory"

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

DeWitt Clinton

Created the Eerie Canal

John Adams

First Vice President

Benjamin Franklin

Published Poor Richard's Alamanac

John Winthrop

"City Upon a Hill"

Lewis and Clark

Explored the Louisiana Territory

Joe Biden

What is the name of the President of the United States now?

John Roberts

Current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Ulysses S. Grant

"Unconditional Surrender"

John O'Sullivan

Coined term Manifest Destiny

Thaddeus Stevens

Radical Republican

Preston Brooks

Beat Charles Sumner

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Thomas Paine

Wrote Common Sense

John Smith

Turned Jamestown around with martial law

James Monroe

President during the era of good feelings

Abe Lincoln

Issued Emancipation Proclamation; Gettysburg Address

George McClellan

Drill Drill Drill

Ambrose Burnside

Bridge at the Battle of Antietam is named after him

Robert E Lee

Leader of the Confederate Army

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederacy

Walter Raleigh

tried to create failed Roanoke colony

John Peter Zenger

Trial established freedom of the press

Peter Minuit

purchased the island of Manhattan

Edmund Burke

Salutary Neglect

John Locke

"Life, Liberty and Property"

Alexander Hamilton

Created the U.S. economy

Aaron Burr

shot Alexander Hamilton

Pocahontas

saved John Smith

Winfield Scott

"Old Fuss and Feathers"; developed Anaconda Plan

John Wilkes Booth

Shot Abe Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

first President to be put on trial for impeachment

Dred Scott

Slave who sued for his freedom unsuccessfully

John Marshall

Supreme Court Justice who established judicial review

William Marbury

sued for a writ of mandamus to receive his judicial appointment

Francis Scott Key

wrote Star Spangled Banner

Nathan Hale

First American spy

Henry Clay

will this guy ever be elected President?; the Great Compromiser

William Lloyd Garrison

"The Liberator"

John C. Calhoun

Resigned the vice presidency over the nullification issue

William Henry Harrison

Won the battle of Tippiecanoe

Susan B. Anthony

Women's rights leader

John Brown

Led the raid at Harper's Ferry to start a slave rebellion; failed

Charles Sumner

"Crimes against Kansas" speech

James Buchanan

only bachelor president; lame duck president

Henry Knox

Secretary of War for George Washington

Christopher Columbus

Sailed on the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria

Sacagewa

Native American guide for Lewis and Clark

John Quincy Adams

helped to purchase Florida; part of the Corrupt Bargain

Roger Williams

Founded Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson

banished from various colonies for her beliefs

Daniel Shays

His rebellion proved the need to revise the Articles of Confederation

William Patterson

Proposed the New Jersey Plan at the Constitutional Convention

George III

King during the American Revolution

Samuel Adams, John Hancock

Founders of the Sons of Liberty

Ethan Allen

Head of the Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution

Benedict Arnold

Traitor

William Howe

British General during the American Revolution; won the Battle of Long Island

John Burgoyne

British General who lost the Battle of Saratoga during the American Revolution

Baron Von Stueben

Prussian general who trained the U.S. troops at Valley Forge

John Paul Jones

"I have not yet begun to fight"

James Lawrence

"Don't give up the ship"

Thomas Sumter

"Gamecock"

Francis Marion

"Swamp Fox"

Marquis de Lafayette

French commander who assisted the U.S. during the American Revolution

Charles Cornwallis

Surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown; sort of

P.G.T Beauregard

Confederate Commander who took Fort Sumter from the Union

Thomas Jackson

"Stonewall"

David Farragut

"Damn the Torpedeos"

Joe Hooker

Union Commander who lost at Chancellorsville

Squanto

Native American who aided the Pilgrims

Amerigo Vespucci

America is named after him

William Pitt

British Prime Minister during the French and Indian War

Pontiac

Native American who led a rebellion in the Ohio Territory

George Whitefield

Famous Preacher during the Great Awakening

Johnathan Edwards

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Edward Braddock

Died at the Battle of Great Meadows during the French and Indian WAR

Sir Francis Drake

"Sea Dog"

Martin Van Buren

President during the Trail of Tears

Molly Pitcher

Brought water to the soldiers during the American Revolution

George Meade

"Won" the Battle of Gettysburg

George Pickett

He led the fateful charge for the confederacy during the Battle of Gettysburg

William Tecumseh Sherman

Burned Atlanta to the ground during the Civil War

Stephen Decatur

Famous navy man during the Barbary Wars

York

Enslaved person on the Lewis and Clark expedition

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Founder of Ku Klux Klan

Rutherford B. Hayes

Became President after the Compromise of 1877

Jim Crow

Laws that allowed for segregation

William Bradford

Leader of the Pilgrims

James II

New York is named after him

William Penn

Quaker who founded a colony that was very tolerant

James Ogelthorpe

Founded Georgia