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Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and in many ways was "the First American".

George Washington

George Washington was the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

Martha Washington

the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States

Thomas Jefferson

an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States

William Penn

an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania

Paul Revere

Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution

Daniel Boone

an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States

John Hancock

was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.

John Adams

John Adams was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States.

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Crispus Attucks

the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father

John Rolfe

He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export.

Pocahontas

Pocahontas was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.

Ethan Allen

Ethan Allen, soldier and frontiersman, leader of the Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution.

Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold was an American-born military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War.

Merriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator

William Clark

William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor.

Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer

Betsy Ross

an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with making the second official U.S. flag

John Paul Jones

a naval commander in the American Revolutionary War

William Penn

An influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era

John Smith

played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia