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Thomas Jefferson
Pocahontas
Chief Powhatan
Christopher Columbus
General Cornwallis
Nat Turner
James Armistead
Lafayette
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Thomas Jackson
Jefferson Davis
John Smith
James Madison
L. Douglas Wilder
Arthur Ashe
Maggie L. Walker
(Maggie Lena Walker)
Patrick Henry
Harry F. Byrd, Sr.
J.E.B. Stuart
George Washington
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
~ Wrote the Virginia Statute of
Religious Freedom
~ Wrote the Declaration of Independence
~ Third President of the United States
~ Lived at Monticello
~Daughter of Chief Powhatan
~ Believed the English and American Indians
(First Americans) could live in harmony
~ Pocahontas began a friendship with the
colonists that helped them survive.
~Chief of the Powhatan tribe
~Father of Pocahontas
~ Thought he landed in the West Indies
(near China)
~Named the people he found there “Indians”
~He was a spy for the Continental Army
~Won his freedom from slavery
after the war
~General of the British army during the
American Revolution
~Surrendered to George Washington at
Yorktown to end the war
~A slave who led a revolt against
plantation owners in Virginia.
~Was captured and hanged.
~Led a raid at an arsenal (or armory),
where weapons were stored,
at Harper’s Ferry.
~Wanted to start a slave rebellion
against owners.
~Was captured and hanged.
~A former slave that helped other slaves
find freedom by leading them from the
South to the North.
~These routes became known as the
Underground Railroad.
~ General in the Confederate Army.
~ Was a leader at the first
Battle of Bull Run.
~ Got his nickname Stonewall for
“standing like a stone wall” in battle.
~ Died of pneumonia after being
accidentally shot by one
of his own soldiers.
~ President of the
Confederate States of America.
~ Was found guilty of treason at the end of
the war, and spent two years in prison.
~ He was the leader of Jamestown.
~ He created the forced work program.
~ Kept detailed notes during the
Constitutional Convention.
~Known as the “Father of the Constitution”.
~ Was the fourth president of the
United States.
~ Known for his compromise skills.
~ He was first a state senator in 1969.
~ After, He was the first African American
elected governor in the United States.
~ He was the mayor of Richmond 2005-2009
~ He was the first African American
winner of a major men’s tennis tournament.
~ He was also an author and an eloquent
spokesperson for social change and civil
rights around the world.
~ She was the first African American
woman to be a bank president in the
United States.
~ She was also the first woman to
become a bank president.
~ Delivered the famous "Give me liberty or
give me death!" speech when he spoke out
about “taxation without representation”.
~ Started the “Pay As You Go” program for
road improvements and modernized Virginia
state government.
~ Also led the “Massive Resistance”
movement, which was against the integration
of Virginia’s schools.
~ A Confederate Army General from
Virginia during the Civil War
~Followed Lee’s orders to crush John
Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry
~Died in 1864 and is buried in
Hollywood Cemetery
~“The Eyes of the Confederacy”
~ He provided military leadership by serving
as commander-in-chief of the
Continental Army.
~ First President of the United States of
America.
~ President of the United States
during the Civil War.
~ His election, in 1860, was one of the
reasons the southern states seceded.
~ He signed the Emancipation Proclamation
that freed all southern slaves.
~ Leader of the Union Army.
~ General Lee surrendered to him at the
Appomattox Court House in 1865 to end the
Civil War.
~ After the Civil War, he was elected the
18th President of the United States.
~ Leader of the Confederate Army.
~ Lincoln offered him the position of head
of the Union Army, but he said no.
~ He said no because he didn’t want to fight
his friends and family.
~ Surrendered to Ulysses Grant at the
Appomattox Court House in 1865.
~ “Father of Our Country”