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- She helped other slaves get to freedom by the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman
- He is the father of our country
- George Washington
- He was from England and brought ships to the New World, Susan Constance, Discovery, and Godspeed
- Christopher Newport
- He warned that the British soldiers were coming
- Paul Revere
- He was a frontiersman and died at the Alamo
- Davy Crockett
- He was the first leader of Jamestown
- Captain John Smith
- She created Hull House for the poor
- Jane Addams
- She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan and married John Rolfe
- Pocahontas
- He was the Father of the American Navy
- John Paul Jones
- He was a scientist, politician and discovered electricty
- Benjamin Franklin
- He was a pioneer and was famous for planting apple seeds across the country
- John Chapman
- She sewed the first American flag
- Betsy Ross
- She worked so that women would have the same rights as men
- Susan B. Anthony
- He was the 16th President during the Civil War, helped free the slaves
- Abraham Lincoln
- French explorer who established the first successful settlement in Quebec, "Father of Canada"
- Samuel de Champlain
- Spanish explorer who searched for the "Fountain of Youth" but found Florida instead
- Ponce de Leon
- African-American minister, civil rights leader, most famous speech, "I Have a Dream"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Spanish explorer who discovered the "New World" in 1492
- Christopher Columbus
- French explorer who found the St. Lawrence River while searching for the "Northwest Passage"
- Jacques Cartier
- He was a scientist who found many uses for peanuts
- George Washington Carver
- He grew and traded tobacco with England, married Pocahontas
- Captain John Rolfe
- English explorer who named "Newfoundland" and gave England claim to North America
- John Cabot
- He was born a slave in Virginia later started a college called the Tuskegee Institute
- Booker T. Washington