Who Da Man?? 100 people in 100 days #11-20

Nathaniel Bacon  Virginia Planter, born in England  Led a rebellion (Bacon’s Rebellion) against the governor of Jamestown  Burned Jamestown

Thomas Jefferson  3 rd President of the US  Author of the Declaration of Independence  Commissioned the Lewis & Clark expedition in the Louisiana Territory

Bartholomew Dias  Portuguese explorer  First to sail around the tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope

Robert E. Lee  Leading Confederate General during the Civil War  Surrendered to Grant to end the Civil War  Arlington Plantation was his home

Lucretia Mott  Women’s rights activist  Helped call together the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights  Abolitionist and religious reformer

Marco Polo  Italian merchant traveler  Explored China  Wrote a book which inspired Columbus

Pocahontas  Married John Rolfe  Daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Indians

Pocahontas dressed as an English woman

John White  English artist that drew the surroundings and people of the New World  Governor of Roanoke  Grandfather of Virginia Dare (1 st person born in the New World)

Sam Adams  Co-founder of the Sons of Liberty  Organized the Boston Tea Party  Signed the Declaration of Independence

Daniel Boone  frontiersman  Discovered trail through the Cumberland Gap in KY  Founded Boonesborough