Key People

1. Key People By: Courtney Campbell

2. August 29, 1632-October 28, 1704 • English physician and philosopher • Enlightment thinker • Major Works: • (1689) A letter Concerning Toleration • (1689) Two Treaties of Government

3. John Locke

4. May 29,1736-June 6, 1799 • First post- colonial Governor of Virginia form from 1776-1779 • American Revolution • Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions • “Treason Speech” in Saint Johns Church in Richmond Virginia

5. Patrick Henry

6. April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826 • 3rd president of the United States (1801-1809) • Principle author of the Declaration of Independence • Monticello

7. Thomas Jefferson

8. February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799 • French and Indian war (Seven Years War) • 1st President of the United States

9. George Washington

10. January 17, 1706 • Great inventor • Invented the lightening rod, furnace stove, odometer, and bifocals, etc….

11. Ben Franklin

12. September 17, 1722-October 2, 1803 • Major leader in the American revolution • Protested against the Stamp Act of 1765 • Founder of Sons of Liberty • Against the Townshend Acts

13. Sam Adams

14. Political philosopher 1797-1801 • Politician • President during the French and British war • Passed the Sedition and Alien Acts • Vice President under George Washington (2 year term)

15. John Adams

16. September 6, 1757-May 20, 1834 • French solider • A captain of artiuery in a regiment stationed at Metz • 1757-1834 Castle of Chavagnae in Auvergne

17. Marquis de Lafayette

18. March 16, 1751-June 28, 1836 • American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth president of the United States • (1809-1817) “Founding Fathers of the United States” • “Father of the Constitution”

19. James Madison

20. Died in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804 • First secretary of the treasury • Born on the West Indian island of Nevis probably in 1755 • March 1777-> Lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army (served Washington for 4 years) • Lead a regiment of New York troops at the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781

21. Alexander Hamilton

22. September 24, 1755-July 6, 1835 • American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme court a center of power • Chief Justice of the United States February 4, 1861->1835 • United States House of Representatives March 4 ,1799->June 7, 1800 • Federalist Party

23. John Marshall

24. Expedition 1804-1806 • First overland expedition undertaken by the United States to the Pacific coast and back • Team was ____ and ____ assisted by Sacajawea and Charbonneall • Louisiana Purchase

25. Lewis and Clark

26. Inventor of the cotton gin • Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765-Janunary 8, 1825 • Cotton gin: automated the separation of the cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber.

27. Eli Whitney

28. December 13, 1805-May 24, 1879 • American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer • Abolitionist Newspaper, The Liberator->American Anti-slavery Society ->immediate emancipation • Voice of the woman's suffrage movement

29. William Lloyd Garrison

30. June 14, 1811-July1, 1896 • American abolitionist and author • Wrote a novel named Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852

31. Harriet Beecher Stowe

32. February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865 • 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. • American Civil War (ending of slavery) • Republican president

33. Abraham Lincoln

34. December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885 • Was a major general during the American Civil War. • He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army.

35. George McClellan

36. February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891 • Was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. • He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command.

37. William Tecumseh Sherman

38. April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885 • Was general-in-chief of the Union Army from 1864 to 1869 during the American Civil War. • 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877.

39. Ulysses S. Grant

40. June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889 • Was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War.

41. Jefferson Davis

42. January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870 • Was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history. • He was the son of Major General "Light Horse Harry" (1756–1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829). • He was also related to Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809).

43. Robert E. Lee

44. January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863 • Was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. • His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee.

45. Stonewall Jackson

46. May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859 • Was an American abolitionist, and folk hero who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. • He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.

47. John Brown

48. Born circa 1818  – February 20, 1895 • Was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. • Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African American and United States history.

49. Frederick Douglas

50. December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875 • Was the 17th President of the United States (1865–1869). • Following the assassination of President Lincoln, he presided over the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War.