The primary achievements of John Rolfe had to do with agriculture, since he was an early English settler in the colonies who was primarily responsible for making the exportation of tobacco from Virginia incredibly profitable.
Manifest destiny was the reason the US claimed Oregon country.
A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, James Weldon Johnson was a man of many talents. Not only was he a distinguished lawyer and diplomat who served as an executive secretary at NAACP for a decade, he was also a composer who wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the Black national anthem.