SIGNIFICANT INDIVIDUALS IN U.S. HISTORY
General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. 1st U.S. President from 1789-1797 Presided over the U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 George Washington 1732-1799
Author of the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776. Secretary of State in George Washington's cabinet. 3rd U.S. President 1801- 1809. 1803 Louisiana Purchase more than doubled the size of the United States. Purchased from France for 15 million dollars. It came out to a few cents and acre. Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
16th President of the United States 1861-1865. He was president during the Civil War. Gettysburg Address was his Second Inaugural Address. Emancipation Proclamation 1863 declared that all slaves in states currently in rebellion were free Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
Jane Addams Opposed Child Labor Campaigned for women’s right to Vote. (suffrage) Began a Settlement House (Community Center). Co-founder of Hull House. A Settlement House. Jane Addams