Who Would You Have?
People:
On your Olympic team: Jesse Owens, Cassius Clay, Jim Thorpe, Babe Didrikson, Mark Spitz, Michael Phelps, Mary Lou Retton, Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Mia Hamm
Leading your military: George Washington, Robert E Lee, Ulysses Grant, “Stonewall” Jackson, William T. Sherman, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas Macarthur, George S. Patton, Winfield Scott, Theodore Roosevelt, William Westmoreland, Norman Schwarzkopf
As president: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Chester A. Arthur, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, Zachary Taylor, James K. Polk, John Tyler, William Henry Harrison, Marin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington
On your debate team: Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, William Winthrop
Leading your civil rights movement: Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Jane Addams, Margaret Sanger, Gloria Steinem, Ida B. Wells
Leading your labor strikes: Emma Goldman, Eugene V. Debs, Samuel Gompers, Cesar Chavez, Mother Jones, John L. Lewis, Walter Reuther, A. Philip Randolph
Running your business: Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner
Inventing new ideas: Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, Alexander Graham Bell, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Morse, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, George Eastman, Charles Goodyear, Nikola Tesla, Jonas Salk, Steve Jobs, Samuel Colt, Christopher Sholes, Elisha Otis
In your Native American tribe: Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Samoset, Powhatan, Squanto, Pope, Sacagawea, Pocahontas, Red Cloud, Chief Joseph, Pontiac, Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, Black Hawk, Sequoiah, Hiawatha
Leading your explorations: Christopher Columbus, Meriwether Lewis, William Clarke, Hernando Cortes, John Cabot, Samuel de Champlain, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Vasco de Gama, Ponce de Leon
Designing the governmental blueprint of your country: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Wilson, George Washington, James Madison, John Jay, Peyton Randolph, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, John Hancock, Henry Laurens, Alexander Hamilton, Richard Henry Lee
Writing your books: James Fenimore Cooper, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Washington Irving, Jack London, Herman Melville, Margaret Mitchell, Edgar Allan Poe, J.D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman
Performing on your Americana musical album: Stephen Foster, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Kate Smith, John Philip Sousa, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington
Committing a crime: Jesse James, Al Capone, Charles Manson, Jim Jones, Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid, John Dillinger
Leading your religious revival: Billy Graham, Billy Sunday, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Dwight L. Moody, Aimee Semple McPherson, Norman Vincent Peale, Henry Ward Beecher, Cotton Mather
Planting your early colonies: William Bradford, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Thomas Hooker, John Wheelwright, Peter Stuyvesant, William Penn, John Smith, Cecil Calvert, James Oglethorpe, Peter Minuit, Sir Walter Raleigh
On the Supreme Court: John Jay, John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes, Earl Warren, Louis Brandeis, William Brennan, Roger Taney, William Howard Taft, Sandra Day O’Connor, Thurgood Marshall
Serving in Congress: Daniel Webster, Charlie Wilson, John Hancock, John Calhoun, Henry Clay, Robert LaFollette, Robert Taft, John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Stephen Douglas, James T. Rapier, Shirley Chisholm, John Kerry
Creating your artwork: Norman Rockwell, Bob Ross, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Benjamin West, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frederick Remington, Grandma Moses, Grant Wood, James Whistler
As your chief diplomat: Benjamin Franklin, Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Shirley Temple, Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, John Foster Dulles, James Monroe, Charles Pinckney, Ralph Bunche
Building your buildings: Frank Lloyd Wright, I. M. Pei, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Buckminster Fuller, Richard Morris Hunt
Settling your frontier: Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, “Grizzly” Adams, Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, John Fremont, Jim Baker, Zebulon Pike, James Bowie, Jedediah Smith, Capt. John Smith
Places:
In one of the 13 original colonies? (States)
Fighting the natives: Mistic, Deerfield, Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, Little Big Horn
Fighting your Civil War battles: Bull Run, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh
Fighting the British: Yorktown, New York, Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill), Lexington, Saratoga
Traveling with Lewis and Clark: Missouri, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana
Living in the former Confederacy: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana
Mining, and what would it be: coal in WV, copper in AZ, iron in Michigan, gold in California, silver in Nevada
Homesteading in the Great Plains: Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas
Running a state government: Columbus, Ohio; Sacramento, CA;
Touring a National Park: Yellowstone, Yosemite, Smoky Mountains, Everglades, Mt. Rushmore
Floating down a river: Mississippi, Ohio, Colorado, Missouri, Monogahela
Traveling a famous trail: Trail of tears, Appalachian Trail, Santa Fe Trail
Showing American Imperialism: Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, Hawaii
Involved in a major labor dispute: Homestead, Haymarket Square, the Great Railroad strike
Fighting America’s World War Battles: Sicily, Battle of the Bulge, Normandy
In the Old Northwest Territory: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
Fishing the Great Lakes: Huron, Erie, Superior, Ontario, Michigan
Hiking the Appalachians: New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia
Hiking the Rockies: Colorado, Utah, Montana
Marking a Civil Rights Movement: Atlanta, Birmingham, Washington, D.C.
In New York City: Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Top of the Rock, Central Park
In Washington, D.C.: Capitol Building, White House, Supreme Court, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial
East of the Mississippi, not in NYC or DC: Boston Harbor, Plymouth Harbor, Jamestown
West of the Mississippi: Alamo, Sacramento, Great Salt Lake