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

2. 16th president of the US
Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address
1st president to be assassinated – by John Wilkes Booth

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

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

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

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

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

8. 4th president of the US
Father of the Constitution
President during war of 1812 when the White House was burned

9. Spanish explorer & conquistador
Conquered Peru and the Incan Empire

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. Mississippi Congressman
President of the Confederate States during the Civil War

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

18. Italian merchant traveler
Explored China
Wrote a book which inspired Columbus

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

20. 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

21. 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.”

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

23. 1st Governor of Plymouth
Signed the Mayflower Compact

24. Explored Louisiana Purchase with Meriwether Lewis
Brother of George Rogers Clark

25. Married John Rolfe
Daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Indians

26. Helped save Jamestown
Brought tobacco to America
Married Pocahontas

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

28. 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

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

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

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

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

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

34. 3rd President of the US
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Commissioned the Lewis & Clark expedition in the Louisiana Territory

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

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

37. frontiersman
Discovered trail through the Cumberland Gap in KY
Founded Boonesborough

38. Spanish Conquistador
Conquered the Aztecs

39. 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)

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

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

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

43. 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

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

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

46. Sailed to America in 1492
Made 4 voyages to America for Spain

47. Explorer, soldier, & writer
Known as “Sea Dog”
(English Pirate)
Convinced Queen to settle Roanoke

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

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

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

51. 1st Vice President; 2nd President
Patriot; Lawyer; defended British soldiers after Boston Massacre
President during the
XYZ Affair (dispute with
France)