She was the first Mexican-American woman in Texas to become a representative and successful politician.

He was an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that his name has become a synonym in the United States for one's signature.

He was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He is generally ranked as one of the five best presidents in history.

She born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment

He was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. He was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

He was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat. The success of his steamboat changed river traffic and trade on major American rivers.

He was an American-American botanist and inventor during the early 19 hundreds. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.

He was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord.

She was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States, and is now designated as the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not used at the time.

Standing for "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants", it was a social group of wealthy and well-connected white Americans, of Protestant and predominantly British ancestry, who trace their ancestry to the American colonial period.

These were Navajo Native Americans who were used during World War II in order to communicate information to one another that the enemy could not understand.

She was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.