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 DavisHe 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. LeeHe 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 MarshallHe 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.