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| This one term president's Mexican War land grab gave us California, Texas, and the Southwest. |
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| The founder of Mormonism, America's most famous homegrown faith. |
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| The Monroe Doctrine's real author, ho set nineteenth-century America's diplomatic course before following his father into the presidency. |
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| He tireless advocacy of universal public schooling earned him the title "the Father of American Education". |
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| He was a good general but a better symbol, embodying conciliation in defeat. |
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| The voice of the antebellum South, he was slavery's most ardent defender. |
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| The original american dropout, he had inspired seekers of authenticity for 150 years. |
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| These two went to explore, and millions followed in their wake. |
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| He didn't create American English, but his dictionary defined it. |
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| His mechanical reaper spelled the end of traditional farming, and the beginning of industrial agriculture. |
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| Was J. Smith founded, he preserved, leading Mormons to their promise land. |
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| Whether a hero, fanatic, of a madman, he provided a spark for the Civil War. |
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| She got off her sickbed and founded Christian Science,w hich promised spiritual healing to all. |
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| Forget the fire and brimstone: his subtle eloquence during the First Great Awakening made him the country's most influential theologian. |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe's clergyman father, he earned fame as an abolitionist and an evangelist. |
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| He was the most successful rebel slave; his specter would stalk the while South for a century. |
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| America's first great songwriter, he brought us "O! Susanna" and "My Old Kentucky Home". |
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| Moby Dick was a flop at the time, be he is remembered as the American Shakespeare. |
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