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.