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AMERICAN PRESIDENTS

George Washington

1st President of the
United States

John Adams

2nd President of the
United States

Thomas Jefferson

3rd President of the
United States

James Madison

4th President of the
United States

James Monroe

5th President of the
United States

Andrew Jackson

7th President of the
United States

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the
United States

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the
United States

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd President of the
United States

John F. Kennedy

35th President of the
United States

Ronald Reagan

40th President of the
United States

Barack Obama

44th President of the
United States

OTHER AMERICAN PATRIOTS

Benjamin Franklin

Patriot and Statesman

Francis Scott Key

Wrote the Star Spangled Banner

Molly Pitcher

Heroine

WORLD LEADERS

Constantine

Roman Emperor

Alexander the Great

Greek Conqueror

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister

INVENTORS

Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of the telephone

Thomas Edison

Invented the electric light bulb

Wright Brothers

First flight

Nikola Tesla

Inventor

Henry Ford

Invented the automobile

Sequoyah

Invented Cherokee writing

Gutenberg

Printing press inventor

Michael Faraday

First electric motor

EXPLORERS

Christopher Columbus

Discovered America

Meriwether Lewis

Lewis and Clark expedition

John Muir

Explorer and naturalist

Robert Peary

Arctic explorer

Edmund Hillary

Mount Everest

Kit Carson

Scout, Indian agent

WOMEN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE

Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Helen Keller

Blind and Deaf

Florence Nightingale

Founder of the Nursing Profession

Harriet Tubman

Deliverer of Slaves

Clara Barton

American Red Cross

Joan of Arc

Religious & Military Leader

Annie Oakley

Sharpshooter

Susan B. Anthony

Suffragette

Elizabeth Keckley

Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker

Anne Frank

Diarist

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady, humanitarian

Madam C.J. Walker

Entrepreneur

SCIENTISTS

George Washington Carver

Botanist and educator

Albert Einstein

Physicist and genius

Marie Curie

Physicist, scientist

Louis Pasteur

Chemist, biologist

Sir Isaac Newton

Scientist, astronomer, mathematician

Galileo

Astronomer, physicist

Lise Meitner

Physicist

Norman Borlaug

Green Revolution

Benjamin Banneker

Astronomer - Mathematician

EDUCATORS

Booker T. Washington

Leader and educator

Noah Webster

Wrote speller and dictionary

Aristotle

Greek Philosopher

Mary McLeod Bethune

Educator

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PHYSICIANS

Hippocrates

Father of Medicine

Walter Reed

Army doctor

Albert Schweitzer

doctor, humanitarian

ATHLETES

Lou Gehrig

Baseball hero

INJUSTICE

Salem Witchcraft Trials

Early American event

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS

Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Rosa Parks

Bus desegregation

Sojourner Truth

Former slave, abolitionist

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist

Gandhi

Civil rights leader in India

César Chávez

Farm workers' rights

William Wilberforce

Abolitionist

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COMPOSERS

Ludwig van Beethoven

Composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer

AUTHORS

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author - Children's Books

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Author, humorist

Ernest Hemingway

Author, novelist

Phillis Wheatley

Slave, Poet

ARTISTS

John James Audubon

Artist and Naturalist

Audubon Birds

Drawings

Gutzon Borglum

Sculptor

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