Historical Figures Flashcards
Susan B. Anthony
(1820-1906) American leader of the suffrage movement to grant women the right to vote.
Simón Bolívar
(1783-1830) South and Central American general and liberator. Liberated Venezuela, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru from Spanish rule in the 19th century.
Fidel Castro
(1926-present) Cuban Communist revolutionary and dictator.
Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) British Prime Minister during World War II.
Oliver Cromwell
(1599-1658) British general, member of Parliament, and revolutionary who ruled as Lord Protector without a king during the mid-1600s.
Jefferson Davis
(1808-1889) President of the Confederacy during the US Civil War.
Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895) Perhaps the foremost African American abolitionist.
Mohandas K. Gandhi (Mohatma)
(1869-1948) Indian leader who achieved independence for India from the British through an organized campaign of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
William Lloyd Garrison
(1805-1879) Noted American abolitionist.
Ulysses S. Grant
(1822-1885) US president after being general of the Union forces during the US Civil War.
Che Guevara
(1928-1967) Famous communist revolutionary in South and Central America.
Henry VIII
(1491-1547) British monarch who began the Church of England in the 16th century.
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826) US president and author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963) US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Robert E. Lee
(1807-1870) The most successful general of the Confederate forces during the US Civil War.
Vladimir Lenin
(1870-1924) Leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917. First leader of the Soviet Union. Bolshevik and Communist.
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) US president who governed during the US Civil War. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Louis XIV
(1638-1715) Known also as the “Sun King.” His rule represents the height of the French monarchy at Versailles. He was an absolute monarch who claimed to rule by Divine Right.
Louis XVI
(1754-1793) French monarch who ruled until the French Revolution.
Mao Tse-Tung (or Zedong)
(1893-1976) Chinese revolutionary who established Communism in mainland China.
Karl Marx
(1818-1883) Philosopher who first articulated the economic principles of communism.
Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821) Emperor who ruled France and much of Europe following the French Revolution. Nearly conquered Europe but waged an unsuccessful campaign in Russia and two years later lost a key battle at Waterloo.
Carry Nation
(1846-1911) Leader of the temperance movement (banning alcohol).
Maximilien Robespierre
(1758-1794) French revolutionary who ruled brutally during the early years of the French Revolution.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1882-1945) US president elected to four terms of office. Present during the New Deal and the bulk of World War II.
Adam Smith
(1723-1790) British economist and author. Wrote ‘The Wealth of Nations’ (1776), which outlines the basic ideas of free-market (laissez-faire) capitalism.
Joseph Stalin
(1879-1953) Soviet leader during World War II and the Cold War years that followed.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(1815-1902) American leader of the women’s rights movement.
Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915) Important African American spokesperson and scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
George Washington
(1732-1799) First US president and general of the American Colonies’ revolutionary army.
