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  “Angel of the Battlefield”  Nurse during the Civil War  Founder of the American Red Cross

Eli Whitney  Inventor & mechanical engineer  Invented the Cotton Gin  Idea of interchangeable parts

John Carver  1 st 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  18 th 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  she escaped and found her way back to her husband