Key People STAAR Review 2025

I was the pioneer of the women’s rights movement and I asked my husband to " remember the ladies in the new code of laws," who am I?

• Susan B. Anthony
• Abigail Adams
• Lucretia Mott
• Sojourner Truth

Who was determined to preserve the Union by force if needed.

• Jefferson Davis

• Fredrick Douglass

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

President responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• Robert Smalls

I was the founder of the Hudson River School of artists

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Thomas Cole

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I worked for education reform.  I wanted access to free public education, less crowded classrooms and better trained teachers, who am I?

• Horace Mann
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass
• Dorothea Dix

I worked to reform the prison system and the treatment of the mentally ill, who am I?

• Horace Mann
• Dorothea Dix
• Harriet Tubman
• Henry David Thoreau

Main author of the Declaration of Independence

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Paine

Early supporter of women's rights. In a letter to her husband she asks that he, "remember the ladies."

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Susan B Anthony

• Abigail Adams

• Harriet Tubman

Hudson River School painters...

• Painted the natural, beautiful landscapes of the American West

• Only painted rivers.
• Painted portraits of famous people

• Painted abstract art

Diplomat who helped negotiate and alliance with France after the Battle of Saratoga.

• George Washigton

• Benjamin Franklin

• Paul Revere

• Patrick Henry