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William Henry Harrison
General turned politician for the Whig Party won the Presidency but died 31 days into office.
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the cotton gin whose invention made slavery profitable again.
Nat Turner
Leader of the deadliest slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 that frightened whites.
Oliver Hazard Perry
American naval officer who defeated the British on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812.
Nathanael Greene
Colonial army officer assigned the task of defending the American South against Cornwallis
De Witt Clinton
New York governor who pushed for the Erie Canal system, nicknamed "Clinton's Big Ditch"
John Quincy Adams
Secretary of State responsible for acquiring Florida and writing the Monroe Doctrine
Nicholas Biddle
President of the Second Bank of the United States who argued with Andrew Jackson.
Charles Cornwallis
British general charged with invading the American South during the Revolutionary War
Francis Scott Key
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a tribute to the American victory at Fort McHenry
Tecumseh
Native leader of the uprising in Indiana in the War of 1812 defeated by Harrison.
Denmark Vesey
Freed black man charged with planning the largest slave insurrection in South Carolina history in 1822.
James Wolfe
British general who won the Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War
Andrew Jackson
General turned politician who won the Battle of New Orleans and became President
John Tyler
The first Vice President to become the President of the United States due to a death.
Noah Webster
Created the first dictionary of the American English language
Horace Mann
Advocate for free public schooling and abolition of slavery in the 1830s and 40s.
James Fenimore Cooper
Author of novels that featured the American frontier, including Last of the Mohicans
Henry David Thorean: Transcendentalist essayist and naturalist who wrote Walden
Meriwether Lewis
Leader of the expedition to explore the acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase.
John Dickinson
Founding father who voted against the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Articles Of Confederation.
John Calhoun
South Carolina politician who was the biggest advocate for slavery and state rights during the Antebellum Era.
Herman Melville
Author of Moby Dick and other novels about New England sea life and the ocean.
Davy Crockett
American frontiersman and political form Tennessee who died at the Alamo
George Whitefield
Popular preacher in the Great Awakening in both England and the US who promoted methodism and evangelical beliefs.
Sojourner Truth
Former slave who protested the institution in speeches, such as “Ain’t I a Woman?”
James Monroe
President during the "Era of Good Feelings" responsible for the Missouri Compromise
Albert Gallatin
Jefferson's Secretary of the Treasury most responsible for the Embargo Act of 1807
Henry Clay
Kentucky politician, statesman and Presidential candidate known as the Great Compromiser
Daniel Webster
Massachusetts politician and statesman known as the greatest orator of the Antebellum
