Who Da Man?? Practice # people in 100 days #1-50

 16 th president of the US  Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address  1 st president to be assassinated – by John Wilkes Booth

 Portuguese explorer  First to sail around the tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope

 Showed Plymouth colonist how to grow corn  Helped to negotiate a treaty between the Wampanoag and the Europeans

 Thomas Jefferson’s private secretary  Explored Louisiana Purchase with William Clark  Was given money, 1,600 acres and named governor of the Louisiana Territory

 Scientist & inventor  Present at the writing of Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, & the Constitution  First Postmaster in America

 Virginia Planter, born in England  Led a rebellion (Bacon’s Rebellion) against the governor of Jamestown  Burned Jamestown

 4 th president of the US  Father of the Constitution  President during war of 1812 when the White House was burned

 Spanish explorer & conquistador  Conquered Peru and the Incan Empire

 Developed the method of printing from moveable type  Invented the Printing Press  German blacksmith, goldsmith and printer

 soldier  Became leader of Jamestown  Started the “no work, no eat” policy

 Served as Secretary of Education  Presided over the establishment of the first public school  Father of American Education

 Women’s rights activist  Helped call together the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights  Abolitionist and religious reformer

 Patriot from Virginia  Lawyer and brilliant orator  Famous for speech ending in “Give me liberty or give me death.”

 Shoshone Indian  Served as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis & Clark expedition

 Mississippi Congressman  President of the Confederate States during the Civil War

 Taken captive by the Shawnee Indians during the French & Indian War  Held at Big Bone Lick to make salt for the Shawnee

 Italian merchant traveler  Explored China  Wrote a book which inspired Columbus

 Slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in 1856  Result - slaves are not citizens, but property, therefore could not sue

 Led a rebellion at the end of the Revolutionary War (called Shays Rebellion)  Pointed out weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation  Caused the writing of the Constitution

 Patriot  Hanged as a spy by the British  Famous for his last words, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

 Teacher, nurse, & reformer  Led prison reform and mental health reform  “Superintendent of Army Nurses” for the Union Army

 1 st Governor of Plymouth  Signed the Mayflower Compact

 Explored Louisiana Purchase with Meriwether Lewis  Brother of George Rogers Clark

 Married John Rolfe  Daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Indians

 Helped save Jamestown  Brought tobacco to America  Married Pocahontas

 Former slave  Fought for abolition and women’s suffrage  Famous speech – “Ain’t I a Woman?”

 From KY, Confederate General  Best known for “Morgan’s Raid” from TN through KY, OH & IN  Captured and imprisoned in OH, escaped through Boone County & aided by people of Big Bone

 Fought in the French & Indian War  Commander of the Continental Army  1 st President of the US

 Former slave  Saved hundreds of slaves as a “conductor” along the Underground Railroad  Served the Union Army as a cook, nurse, and eventually as a spy

 Wampanoag Chief  Befriended William Bradford at Plymouth  Signed peace treaty with the Pilgrims

 Founder of the American Red Cross  “Angel of the Battlefield”  Nurse during the Civil War

 fought in Revolutionary War  Vice President under Thomas Jefferson  Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel

 3 rd President of the US  Author of the Declaration of Independence  Commissioned the Lewis & Clark expedition in the Louisiana Territory

 From Kentucky, a lawyer, politician and skilled orator  Called the “Great Compromiser”  Ran for president three times and was defeated each time

 Civil War General for the Confederate Army  Was accidently shot in the arm by friendly fire & died from complications after having his arm amputated

 frontiersman  Discovered trail through the Cumberland Gap in KY  Founded Boonesborough

 Spanish Conquistador  Conquered the Aztecs

 English philosopher and physician  Writer of social contracts and believed in the natural rights of man  Forced to leave England after a failed assassination plot of the King (eventually returned after the King fled)

 Union General during the Civil War  Accepted surrender of Lee at Appomattox Courthouse  18 th President of the US (served 2 terms)

 Co-founder of the Sons of Liberty  Organized the Boston Tea Party  Signed the Declaration of Independence

 English artist that drew the surroundings and people of the New World  Governor of Roanoke  Grandfather of Virginia Dare (1 st person born in the New World)

 English sailor that explored for both the Netherlands and England  Discovered a bay which is named for him & a river: Hudson River & Hudson Bay  Crew rebelled and set him, his son, & a few sailors adrift in a small boat – never seen again

 former slave  Orator, writer, statesman, & abolitionist  produced abolitionist newspaper called “North Star”

 Editor & writer  Wrote pamphlet called “Common Sense”  Served in the Continental Army

 Sailed to America in 1492  Made 4 voyages to America for Spain

 Explorer, soldier, & writer  Convinced Queen to settle Roanoke

 Inventor & mechanical engineer  Invented the Cotton Gin  Idea of interchangeable parts

 Leading Confederate General during the Civil War  Surrendered to Grant to end the Civil War  Arlington Plantation was his home

 English Separatist  Signed the Mayflower Compact and one of the founders of Plymouth  2 ND governor of Plymouth – served 30 years

 1 st Vice President  2 nd President  One of our Founding Fathers & a delegate of the Continental Congress