Brief biographies from American history, for the fifth and sixth grades
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1. Front matter2. BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY3. PREFACE4. PUBLISHERS’ NOTE5. Leif the Lucky6. Marco Polo A Famous Traveler7. Christopher Columbus The Great Admiral8. Ferdinand De Soto The Discoverer of the Mississippi River9. John Cabot The Discoverer of the Continent of North America10. Sir Francis Drake A Famous English Adventurer11. Sir Walter Raleigh The Father of American Colonization12. Captain John Smith13. Pocahontas An Indian Princess14. Miles Standish A Pilgrim Leader15. John Winthrop A Puritan Governor16. Roger Williams An Advocate of Religious Liberty17. Henry Hudson18. Peter Minuit19. Peter Stuyvesant The Last Dutch Governor of New York20. Samuel de Champlain The Father of New France21. Robert de la Salle The Explorer of the Mississippi River22. Lords Baltimore of Baltimore23. William Penn A Famous Quaker24. James Edward Oglethorpe The Founder of Georgia25. Philip An Indian King26. Nathaniel Bacon The Leader of the Great Rebellion27. Benjamin Franklin A Great Typical American28. Montcalm and Wolfe29. Patrick Henry An Eloquent Orator30. Samuel Adams A Massachusetts Patriot31. George Washington The Leader of the Revolution32. Philip Schuyler33. Nathanael Greene34. John Paul Jones Our First Naval Hero35. Thomas Jefferson The Author of the Declaration of Independence36. Alexander Hamilton The Founder of the Federalist Party37. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky38. Oliver Hazard Perry and Thomas Macdonough Two Naval Commanders in the War of 181239. Marquis de Lafayette A French Patriot40. Some American Improvements and Inventions41. Andrew Jackson The Man of the People42. Henry Clay The Great Peacemaker43. Daniel Webster A Famous Orator44. Abraham Lincoln The War President45. Ulysses Simpson Grant46. Robert E. Lee The Leader of the Confederate Armies47. David G. Farragut Our First Admiral48. Clara Barton The President of the American Red Cross Society49. George B. Dewey50. Andrew Carnegie The Steel King