Key PeopleBy:

Courtney Campbell

August 29, 1632-October 28, 1704

English physician and philosopher Enlightment thinker Major Works:a. (1689) A letter Concerning Tolerationb. (1689) Two Treaties of Government

John Locke

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

Patrick Henry

April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826

3rd president of the United States (1801-1809)

Principle author of the Declaration of Independence

Monticello

Thomas Jefferson

February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799

French and Indian war (Seven Years War)

1st President of the United States

GEORGE WASHINGTON

January 17, 1706

Great inventor Invented the lightening rod, furnace

stove, odometer, and bifocals, etc….

Ben Franklin

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

Sam Adams

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)

John Adams

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

Marquis de Lafayette

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”

James Madison

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

Alexander Hamilton

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

John Marshall

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

Lewis and Clark

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.

Eli Whitney

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

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

June 14, 1811-July1, 1896

American abolitionist and author Wrote a novel named Uncle Tom’s

Cabin in 1852

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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.

GEORGE MCCLELLAN

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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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.

Ulysses S. Grant

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.

Jefferson Davis

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).

Robert E. Lee

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.

Stonewall Jackson

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.

John Brown

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.

Frederick Douglas

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.

Andrew Johson

May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989

Was an American composer and lyricist widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history.

Irving Berlin

September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937

Was an American composer and pianist.

Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are universally familiar.

George Gershwin

December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983

Was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

Ira Gershwin

29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954

Was an Italian physicist, particularly remembered for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for his work on induced radioactivity.

ENDRICO FERMI

14 March 1879–18 April 1955

Was a theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and the "greatest physicist ever", according to a 1999 poll of leading physicists

Albert Einstein

19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898

Was an English engineer and inventor. Bessemer's name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel.

Henry Bessemer

February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931

Was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Thomas Edison

July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947

Was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production.

His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry.

He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents.

Henry Ford

November 27, 1843 – September 12, 1899

Was an American socialite, heir, businessman, and a member of the prominent United States ______ family.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912

Were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

WRIGHTS BROTHERS

In 1876, at the age of 29, he invented his telephone.

In 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone Company

Alex Graham Bell

25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919

Was a Scottish industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist.

Andrew Carnegie

July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937

Was an American industrialist. He revolutionized the petroleum

industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.

In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897.

John D. Rockefeller

April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913

Was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.

In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric.

After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company he merged the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses to form the United States Steel Corporation in 1901.

ANDREW CARNEGIE

January 27, 1850[2] – December 13, 1924

Was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.

Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the AFL's president from 1886-1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924.

He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles.

J.P. Morgan