who could be a good person to profile on from the 1800s?

Answer 1

Harriet Tubman

Answer 2

Grant, he was the general of the union. The union was the north of the us, they wanted no slaves. Grant was a good person. During fort summer ( the first battle of the civil war, he made the south give up. He never gave up and was the general for the whole war. I am sure that almost everyone put Harriet Tubman. It's a good choose, but if Grant haven't won the war, the slaves won't have not been free

Answer 3

Ludwig van Beethoven


Beethoven was a pianist and composer of music. He had always had some hearing difficulties, but eventually became completely deaf around 1819. He could not just give up his love for music. Instead of playing music, Beethoven put his energy into writing music. Today, he is one of the best known composers of classical music.

OR

Albert Einstein


Einstein attended school in Germany in the 1800's. He was not very successful in his classes. He did poorly in history, geography, and languages. However, he was really good at the violin. He also showed an interest in mathematics and science. He went on to study physics and mathematics for four years. He is best known for the theory of relativity and the mass-energy relation of E=mc².

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Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Frederick Douglas, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Queen Victoria.

Answer 5

Sacagawea (c. 1787 – unknown) --
was a Shoshone woman who accompanied the Corps of Discovery with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their exploration of the Western United States, traveling thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806. She was nicknamed Janey by some members of the expedition.

Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906)--
was a prominent, independent and well-educated American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to secure women's suffrage in the United States. She traveled thousands of miles throughout the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches per year on women's rights for some 45 years. Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, New York, in her house on Madison St. on March 13, 1906, and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Answer 6

Here's a selection, with reasons why:

Sojourner Truth--in her lifetime, she fought for civil rights and women's rights

Thomas Alva Edison--a very prolific inventor whose main inventions changed the way we live

Walt Whitman--his style of poetry and subject matter were very controversial for the time

Joseph Smith--founded a religion (Latter Day Saints)

Queen Victoria--her reign encompassed a majority of the 1800s, and she and her husband instituted changes that are still with us today.

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 8

Robert E. Lee, general of the Confederate Army in the Civil War

Answer 9

William Topaz McGonagall.
McGonagall was an actor and a poet, the worst poet in the English language, or indeed in any language.

McGonagall was a weaver in Dundee, when at the age of fifty-two discovered a talent that was to change his life. He wrote ‘The most startling incident in my life was the time I discovered myself to be a poet, which was in the year 1877’. His first poem was An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan, a work that portrayed all the hallmarks of the McGonagall style. An extract reads as follows:

‘The first time I heard him speak,
‘Twas in the Kinnaird Hall
Lecturing on the Garibaldi movement,
As loud as he could bawl.

My blessing on his noble form,
And on his lofty head,
May all good angels guard him while living,
And hereafter when he’s dead.’

Gilfillan wrote in reply “Shakespeare never wrote anything like this.” The characteristics of the McGonagall style, which never varied, were contrived and outrageous rhymes, inaptness of poetic metaphor and disregard of the trappings of scansion and verse form.

McGonagall is particularly famous for his Tay Bridge poems. In 1877, an immense railway bridge was built across the Tay and McGonagall was impelled to write a poem in its honour. The lines follow the poet’s invariable style.

‘Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery Tay
That has caused the Emperor of Brazil to leave
His home far away, incognito in his dress,
And view thee ere he pass along en route to Inverness.’

In 1879, the bridge fell down in a storm and McGonagall penned another verse on the disaster.

‘Beautiful railway bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time….
And the cry rang out all round the town,
Good heavens! The Tay Bridge has blown down.’

McGonagall also had a career as an actor but earned little from this occupation. In fact, on some occasions, he was obliged to pay the theatre for the privilege of performing. He was finally dismissed form Mr Giles’ Theatre, Dundee, when, while playing the title role in Macbeth, he thought that the actor playing McDuff was trying to upstage him and so refused to die.

McGonagall’s best-paid piece of work was his Ode to Sunlight Soap, for which he was paid two guineas. The most poignant lines of this verse run:

‘You can use it with great pleasure and ease
Without wasting any elbow grease:
And when washing the most dirty clothes
The sweat won’t be dripping from your nose…
And I tell you once again without any joke
There’s no soap can surpass Sunlight Soap.’

McGonagall was so pleased with the generous commission paid by the manufacturers, that he wrote a verse of thanks ending with the lines:

‘And in conclusion, gentlemen, I thank ye
William McGonagall, Poet, 48 Step Row, Dundee.’

In 1892, after the death of the poet laureate Tennyson, McGonagall walked from his home to Balmoral, hoping to persuade Queen Victoria to appoint him as the next laureate. Unfortunately, Her Majesty was not in residence and McGonagall was obliged to walk home in disappointment.

McGonagall is buried in Greyfriars Kirk, [1 Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh EH1 2QQ], near to Greyfriars Bobby, and not as he wished in Westminster Abbey.

Answer 10

Tecumseh - Red Cloud - Crazy Horse - Black Elk - Sitting Bull - Gall - Rain - in -the - Face - Black Hawk - Samuel Clemmons - Eli Coffin - Lew Wallace - Solomon Meredith -