Transcript DEAD GUYS YOU NEED TO KNOW - Galena Park Independent

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
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’s Almanac.
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.