Who Da Man??

100 people in 100 days

#21-30

Benjamin Franklin Scientist & inventor

Present at the writing of Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, & the Constitution

First Postmaster in

America

John Smith

soldier

Became leader of Jamestown

Started the “no work, no eat” policy

Clara Barton

Founder of the American Red Cross

“Angel of the Battlefield”

Nurse during the Civil War

Eli Whitney

Inventor & mechanical engineer

Invented the Cotton Gin

Idea of interchangeable parts

John Carver

1st Governor of Plymouth

Signed the Mayflower Compact

Hernan Cortes

Spanish Conquistador

Conquered the Aztecs

Ulysseus S. Grant Union General

during the Civil War

Accepted surrender of Lee at Appomattox Courthouse

18th President of the US (served 2 terms)

Dorothea Dix

Teacher, nurse, & reformer

Led prison reform and mental health reform

“Superintendent of Army Nurses” for the Union Army

Squanto

Showed Plymouth colonist how to grow corn

Helped to negotiate a treaty between the Wampanoag and the Europeans

Mary Ingles

Taken captive by the Shawnee Indians during the French & Indian War

Held at Big Bone Lick to make salt for the Shawnee