Presidents
Commanded the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; His farewell address warned of foreign alliances and political parties
George Washington
Declared war on Japan after the attack at Pearl Harbor; created the New Deal in an attempt to get the US out of the Great Depression
Franklin D Roosevelt
Founded Georgia. He was against slavery.
James Oglethorpe
Secretary of Massachussetts; Huge reformer of education -- wanted better schools, longer terms, and more money for teachers.
Horace Mann
Slave from VA that led a group of slaves to kill their slave holders and families. He was caught and executed.
Nat Turner
Made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII; supported the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Harry S Truman
Signed the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
Leader of the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
William Bradford
Helped improve the treatment of criminals and the mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
A militant abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by over taking the armory at Harper's Ferry and equipping the slaves with weapons. He was unsuccessful and was hanged.
John Brown
President when women gained suffrage; Tried but failed to convince the Senate to support US membership in the League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
President during the War of 1812; Known as the Father of the Constitution
James Madison
First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Wanted it to be a "City on a Hill"
John Winthrop
Quakers from SC; their family's plantation owned slaves, but these sisters worked toward abolition and women's rights
Farmer in the backcountry of VA. Resented Gov Berkeley for refusing to allow farmers to fight off American Indians. Led a rebellion, burned Jamestown and drove Berkeley out of town
Nathaniel Bacon
Carried out the D-Day invasion of northern France against Germany in WWII; Established the Interstate Highway System; Enforced integration at Little Rock High School
Dwight D Eisenhower
Drafted the Declaration of Independence; Purchased the Louisiana Territory from France which more than doubled the size of the US
Thomas Jefferson
Banished for religious dissent; founded Rhode Island on the ideals of no taxes, free religion
Roger Williams
Leader of the Hudson River School
Thomas Cole
Led a rebellion because farmers were unable to pay loans and banks were foreclosing on their farms in Massachussetts
Daniel Shays
Created the unsuccessful Hawley-Smoot Tariff to try and help the economy during the Great Depression; A Bonus Army of WWI veterans confronted him in an attempt to get their government payout for the war
Herbert Hoover
Wanted to silence his opponents so he issued the Alien and Sedition Acts, which made it more difficult for foreigners to come into the US and made it illegal to criticize the government
John Adams
Created a new way of preaching that was theatrical in 1738. He was a "New Light" preacher.
John Whitefield
Wrote Walden; wrote the essay Civil Disobedience; transcendentalist that advocated for self-reliance and isolationism
Henry David Thoreau
Eugene Debs