Key People in American History
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- Wife of President John Adams and mother of John Quincey Adams
- Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
- Important leader in American Revolution (1722-1803)
- Samuel Adams
- Founder of first African American church in US
- Richard Allen (1760-1831)
- Leader of movement to give women the right to vote
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
- Leader during American Revolution-switched sides and became a traitor
- Benedict Arnold (1741-1801)
- American hero and martyt of the Boston Massacre
- Crispus Attucks (1723?-1770)
- Naturalist, famous for his paintings of American birds
- John James Audubon (1785-1851)
- Virginia planter and leader of Bacon's Rebellion
- Nathaniel Bacon (1647-1676)
- Frontiersman who found trail through the Cumberland Gap
- Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
- Southerner who assassinated Pres. Lincoln after Civil War
- John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865)
- Mohawk Indian chief who fought with Americans in American Revolution
- Joseph Brant (1742-1807)
- polotician who supported a states' rights view in early republic
- John Breckinridge (1821-1875)
- Militant abolitionist who led raid at Harpers Ferry
- John Brown (1800-1859)
- Union general in Civil War; fought battle of Antietam
- Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881)