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Aaron Burr
American Vice President and politician (1756–1836)
Abigail Adams
First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801
Agüeybaná II
Taíno tribal leader and military chief
Ahuitzotl
Ruler of Tenochtitlan
Alexander Hamilton
American founding father and statesman
Alexandre Pétion
1st President of the Republic of Haiti
Atahualpa
Ruler of the Inca Empire
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and a Founding Father of the United States
Cuauhtémoc
Final tlatoani of the Aztec Empire in Tenochtitlán
Cuitláhuac
10Th Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan
Cunhambebe
Chieftain of the Tupinambá tribe
Dolley Madison
First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817
George Mason
American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
George Washington
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1789 to 1797
Gouverneur Morris
American Founding Father and politician
Henri Christophe
King of Haiti
Hiawatha
Native American leader and cofounder of the Iroquois League
Huayna Capac
Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire
James Madison
4th president of the United States
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Leader of Haitian Revolution and first ruler of independent Haiti (1758-1806)
John Adams
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801
John Graves Simcoe
British army officer
John Hancock
American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793)
John Jay
American politician, diplomat, and Founding Father
John Winthrop
English leader of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1587–1649)
Joseph Brant
Mohawk leader (1742-1807)
La Malinche
Nahua aide to Hernan Cortez
Martha Washington
First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797
Moctezuma I
Fifth Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan
Moctezuma II
Tlahtoāni of the Aztec Empire until 1520
Pachacuti
Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire
Patrick Henry
18th-century American attorney, planter, orator, and politician
Pocahontas
Native American woman (c. 1596 – 1617)
Powhatan (Native American leader)
Leader of the Powhatan
Robert Morris (financier)
Anglo-American merchant and politician (1734–1806)
Samuel Adams
American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts, and Founding Father of the United States
Tecumseh
Shawnee leader of Native American confederacy
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809
Tisquesusa
Zipa
Toussaint Louverture
Haitian general and revolutionary (1744–1803)
Túpac Amaru
Monarch of the Inca state in Peru
Túpac Amaru II
Leader of a large Andean uprising against the Spanish in Peru (1738-1781)
Victor Hugues
French colonial governor
William Bradford (governor)
17th-century English separatist leader
William Penn
Colonial American writer and religious thinker (1644–1718)