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DEAD GUYS YOU NEED TO KNOW. SAMUEL ADAMS. Samuel Adams formed the Sons of Liberty and started the Committee of Correspondence. Thomas Jefferson. Third President of the United States who made the Louisiana Purchase. He was also an Antifederalist. George Washington.
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SAMUEL ADAMS Samuel Adams formed the Sons of Liberty and started the Committee of Correspondence.
Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States who made the Louisiana Purchase. He was also an Antifederalist.
George Washington He was the first President of the United States and the General of the American army during the Revolution.
Benjamin Franklin • He was the oldest man at the Constitutional Convention. He is known as a printer and inventor. He wrote Poor Richard’sAlmanac.
Thomas Paine • He wrote Common Sense and The Crisis.
James Madison He was the fourth President of the United States and was a Federalist. He was called the “Father of the Constitution”.
Alexander Hamilton • He was the first Secretary of the Treasury and started the first national bank. He was a Federalist.
ANDREW JACKSON Andrew Jackson was known as “Old Hickory”. He was a military leader at the Battle of New Orleans. He became President of the United States and forced the Indians on the Trail of Tears.
John C. Calhoun He was from South Carolina and raised issues which highlighted sectional conflicts. He was opposed to the Protective Tariff of 1828. “Nullification Crisis”.
Henry Clay He was known as the “Great Compromiser” and he was the first senator from Kentucky. He sponsored the Missouri Compromise.
Jefferson Davis He was a representative and senator from Mississippi and the secretary of the war. During the Civil War he was the President of the Confederacy.
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln served as sixteenth President of the United States during the Civil War. His Gettysburg Address called for national unity. He was assassinated in 1865.
Frederick Douglass He was a leading African-American abolitionist.
Robert E. Lee He was the leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War. He surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865.
Ulysses Simpson Grant He was a leader of the Union forces during the Civil War. He later became eighteenth President of the United States.
Patrick Henry He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. During the Revolution he said “Give me liberty or give me death.”
John Marshall He was justice of the Supreme Court for 35 years. He shaped federal law with Marbury v Madison which said that the court had the power to determine whether congressional legislation was constitutional.
