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Daniel Boone: Frontiersman who blazed the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap and led settlers into Kentucky and Tennessee

William Bradford: Second governor of Plymouth, served 30 years; wrote History of Plymouth Plantation

Henry Clay: Leading War Hawk representing Kentucky

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Served as a Unitarian minister for 6 years and developed his own religion called transcendentalism

Patrick Henry: Famous patriot known for the declaration “Give me liberty or give me death”

Herman Melville: Wrote of life on the sea and adventurous whaling expeditions; his most famous work is Moby Dick

Santa Ana: Military dictator of Mexico who warred against the people of Texas; conquered the Alamo; defeated by Houston’s army

Samuel Clemens: Steamboat pilot and author; better known as Mark Twain

Ben Franklin: Famous colonial statesman, printer, and scientist; founded the Philadelphia Academy

Daniel Webster: Massachusetts’s senator who strove to preserve the Union; great orator and intellect

Noah Webster: Author of the Blue-Backed Speller and the first dictionary of the American language

Ponce de Leon: First Spaniard to land on the mainland of North America

William Becknell: Frontier trader known as the “Father of the Santa Fe Trail”

Lott Carey: young black slave found Christ in 1807; bought freedom in 1813 and founded the African Missionary Society of Richmond

Zachary Taylor: Defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War; known as “Old Rough and Ready:

James Cook: in the British navy discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778

Matthew Perry: Commander of the American fleet who opened Japan to foreign trade

“Jeb” Stuart: “eye of the army” Confederate army;

James Fenimore Cooper: Wrote exciting stories about frontier life; most notably The Leatherstocking Tales; sometimes called America’s first novelist

Townshend Harris: First ambassador to Japan who opened Japan to Christian missionaries

John McLoughlin: Scotsman, who
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