paper money in the united states

Money(U.S. paper currency)

7 denominations of US paper currency

No living person is allowed to have their picture on U.S. currency

It is a great honor to have your picture engraved on U.S. currency.

The people whose pictures are on

money are heroes of our country.

We should know who they are.

Please take out a piece of paper

Put your name and the date on the top

Number a list from 1 to 5

Benjamin Franklin

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Write Benjamin Franklin on the first line.

Please write down 5 things you already know about the man Benjamin Franklin.

(You may talk to a neighbor for help.)

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Benjamin Franklin was NOT a President

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Benjamin Franklin lived before and during the Revolutionary War time

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He was the 15th child in his family.

How many children in his family were younger than him?

Benjamin Franklin had 16 brothers and sisters.

He was the 15th child in his family.

How many children in his family were younger than him?

(He had 2 younger sisters)

Benjamin Franklin had 16 brothers and sisters.

When Benjamin Franklin was a boy, he worked for his brother in a print shop.

At 17, he left his hometown of Boston and sailed to Philadelphia.

Philadelphia

He worked as a printer, a bookkeeper, managed a small shop, and ran a newspaper.

He loved to learn.

Benjamin Franklin discovered that

lightning was electricity.

Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod.

Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals.

Benjamin Franklin charted and named the “Gulf Stream”, a term we still use today for the river of warm water that flows in the Atlantic Ocean.

100 years later, pioneers were still hauling Franklin stoves across the prairie.

Benjamin Franklin invented the Franklin stove.

Benjamin Franklin was Benjamin Franklin was America’s firstAmerica’s first diplomatdiplomat..

(A diplomat goes to other countries and talks to their leaders for us.)

George Washington asked Benjamin Franklin to go to France as a diplomat to ask them for help when we fought the Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Franklin was successful.

The French came and helped us win the

Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Franklin was a:

Printer

Scientist

Inventor

Diplomat

Statesman

Author

Publisher

It is a GREAT honor to have your picture engraved on money.

Benjamin Franklin is honored on the $100 bill

Benjamin Franklin was the oldest man to sign the Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin was the oldest man to sign the Declaration of Independence

70 years old!

56 men signed

the Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklinwas one of them

What building were they in?

Independence Hall is on the back of the $100 bill

Where is Independence Hall?

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania

Independence Hall is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Benjamin Franklin

Write the name Benjamin Franklin on the top line.

Please turn your paper over.

Please add a lettered list from a. to e. like this:

a.

b.

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d.

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In letters a. to e. please write down 5 things you know about the man Benjamin Franklin.


Ulysses S. Grant

Add the name Ulysses S. Grant to your list

Benjamin Franklin1.2.3.4.5.

Ulysses S. Grant

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Add a numbered list, 1 through 5

On the front of your paper…

Please write down 5 things you already know about the man Ulysses S. Grant.


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Ulysses S. Grant WAS a President (the 18th)

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Ulysses S. Grant lived around the time of the Civil War.

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Ulysses S. Grant became President a little after the Civil War.

Ulysses was born in a log cabin in Ohio.

He had 2 younger brothers and 3 younger sisters.

He was the oldest of 6 children.

His father was a tanner.

A tanner takes animal skin and changes it into leather.

(It’s a smelly job.)

(His youngest sister was born that same year.)

At 17 Ulysses left his home in Ohio to go to West Point, the US Army college in New York state.

West Point is a college for people who want to be Army officers.

YOU could go to West Point!

From a young age, Ulysses was a skilled horseman.

At West Point, he held the record for the horse high jump—a record that stood for 25 years!

From the age of 17, Ulysses S. Grant

was a military officer.

Grant was an junior officer in the Mexican-American War (the war for the independence of Texas)

From the age of 17, Ulysses S. Grant

was a military officer.

Mexican-American War (the war for the independence of Texas)

and in the American Civil War (as the leader of the Union Army)

Ulysses S. Grant was

39

years old when he was a General in the Civil War

The American Civil War was brutal

Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee

Union General Grant defeated Confederate General Robert E. Lee in 1865.

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President

1869-1877After the Civil War, Grant became President…

1869: In Missouri, Jesse James, with his brother, Frank, begin to rob banks


1869-1877

It was the time of bank robbers…

Cowboys drive cattle down the Chisholm Trail in Texas in the 1870s


1869-1877It was the time of cattle drives…


1869-1877

Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869

It was the time of trains…


1869-1877

1876: George Armstrong Custer was killed near the Little Big Horn River in Montana by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians lead by Crazy Horse

It was the time of the Indian wars…

1877: Chief Joseph surrenders in Montana


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1877: Crazy Horse surrenders in Nebraska

1871: Cochise surrenders in Arizona


1869-1877It was the time of settling the West…


1869-1877It was the time of the Wild West—cowboys, buffalo, and stage coaches.


1869-1877As President Grant…

cared about the environment.

He established the first national park, Yellowstone National Park.



cared about the workers.

He established Christmas as a national holiday.



cared about the ex-slaves.

He sent Army soldiers to fight the KKK and signed legislation authorizing the 15th amendment—the right for all men to vote.

Ulysses S. Grant is honored on the $50 bill


1869-1877Something important was completed in Washington, D.C. when Grant was President…

U.S. Capitol, 1857

U.S. Capitol1860

U.S. Capitol1861

U.S. Capitol1871

U.S. Capitol completed while Ulysses S. Grant was President

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President1869-1877

Where is the U.S. Capitol building?

Washington, DC

The U.S. Capitol building is in Washington, DC

Benjamin Franklin

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Ulysses S. Grant

On the back of your paper

Add the name Ulysses S. Grant

Please add the letters a. to e. to your list like this:

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

In letters a. to e. please write down 5 things you know about the man Ulysses S. Grant.


Andrew Jackson

Add the name Andrew Jackson to your list

Ulysses S. Grant1.2.3.4.5.Andrew Jackson

On the front of your paper

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Please write down 5 things you already know about the man Andrew Jackson.


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Andrew Jackson WAS a President (the 7th)

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Andrew Jackson was a boy during the Revolutionary War and served during the War of 1812.

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Andrew Jackson was President from 1829 to 1837.

Andrew Jackson was born in a log cabin.

Andrew Jackson, the Seventh President of the United States, in 1780 when a boy of 13 enlisted in the cause of his country and was taken prisoner by the British. Being ordered by an officer to clean his boots, he indignantly refused, and received a sword cut for his temerity.

Andrew Jackson was the only President that was previously a

Prisoner of War

He carried scars on his left hand and face for the rest of his life.

Jackson was an orphan.

His mother died when he was 14.

Andrew Jackson’s father died before he was born.

Andrew Jackson was a General and a hero in the War of 1812.

(The United States fought the British in 1812-1814—just like we had done in the Revolutionary War.)

U.S. citizens thought of Andrew Jackson as a “common man” who started with nothing and made a success of himself.

When elected, Andrew Jackson lived in Nashville, Tennessee.He was the first President from “Out West”

Tennessee was “frontier” when Andrew Jackson lived there.

People who lived in Tennessee were considered to be “rough and tough”.

Davey Crockett, a Tennessee friend of Andrew Jackson

The President gets to live in the White House while he is President.

Jackson invited the entire country to the White House for a partywhen he became President.

Over 14,000 people showed up.

They tore the place up!

What is wrong with those people from the wild frontier?

Even today, that White House incident is associated with Andrew Jackson.

Andrew Jackson is honored on the $20 bill

Where is the White House building?

Washington, DC

(The President lives in the White House.)

The White House building is in Washington, DC

Ulysses S. Grant

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Andrew Jackson


Add the name Andrew Jackson


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d.

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In letters a. to e. please write down 5 things you know about the man

Andrew Jackson.


Alexander Hamilton

Add the name Alexander Hamilton to your list

Andrew Jackson1.2.3.4.5.Alexander Hamilton


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Please write down 5 things you already know about the man Alexander Hamilton.


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Alexander Hamilton was NOT a President

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Alexander Hamilton lived during the Revolutionary War time.

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Alexander Hamilton was not born on the North American continent.

He was born on the little island of Nevis.

His father abandoned his mother and Alex when he was 10.

Three years later, his mother died.

Alexander Hamilton was alone, an orphan really,

on a Caribbean island at the age of 13.

It was 1768; America hadn’t even started yet.

Young Hamilton became a bookkeeper for ships trading sugar to the United States

In 1772, at the age of 17, Hamilton was sent from Nevis to the United States to attend college.

Hamilton joined the U.S. Army during the Revolutionary War.

He worked with an artillery unit.

During the War, Hamilton became the assistant to General Washington, who would become his friend and mentor.

After the Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton became a banker in New York City.

To this day, Alexander Hamilton’s statue stands in New York City’s Central Park.

Before the Revolutionary War, each state made their own money.

After the Revolutionary War, some patriots wanted to create a single currency for the entire United States.

Alexander Hamilton

John Adams

George Washington

After the Revolutionary War, some patriots wanted to create a single currency for the entire United States.

Some patriots didn’t—they liked states that were more independent from each other.

Alexander Hamilton

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

George Washington

George Washington, the 1st President, needed someone to be in charge of the new country’s banking system…

Washington chose his friend and assistant during the war—Alexander Hamilton.

Alexander Hamilton became the first Secretary of the Treasury.

He persuaded the states to give up separate state money and use a common dollar.

Alexander Hamilton became the first Secretary of the Treasury and set up the…

Where is the U.S. treasury building?

Washington, DC

The U.S. Treasury building is in Washington, DC

Alexander Hamilton is honored on the $10 bill

Andrew Jackson

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Alexander Hamilton


Add the name Alexander Hamilton


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Alexander Hamilton.


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Were any of these men NOT born on the North American continent?

Question 1 of 6

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Were any of these men military officers?

Question 2 of 6

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Which of these men fought in a war with Mexico?

Question 3 of 6

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Did any of these men work as a bookkeeper?

Question 4 of 6

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Who was a President from the “wild frontier”?

Question 5 of 6

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Were any of these men a friend of George Washington?

Question 6 of 6

The $10 bill

Who?


What is on the BACK?

The $50 bill

Who?


What is on the BACK?

The $100 bill

Who?


But what is on the BACK?

The $20 bill

Who?


But what is on the BACK?

Abraham Lincoln

Add the name Abraham Lincoln to your list

Alexander Hamilton1.2.3.4.5.Abraham Lincoln


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Please write down 5 things you already know about the man Abraham Lincoln.


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Abraham Lincoln WAS a President (the 16th)

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Abraham Lincoln lived before and during the Civil War.

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What other person we’ve learned about also lived before and during the Civil War?

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Abraham Lincoln lived before and during the Civil War.

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What other person we’ve learned about also lived before and during the Civil War?

Ulysses S. Grant lived before and during the Civil War too.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky in 1809.


What other Presidents were born in log cabins?


What other Presidents were born in log cabins?

Andrew Jackson and US Grant were born in log cabins too.

Abraham Lincoln was 7 years old when his family moved to Indiana.

Abraham Lincoln was 9 years old when his mother died.

His father remarried the next year.

Abraham Lincoln was raised by his step-mother.

He had an older sister (who died when Abraham was 19), a step-brother, and two step-sisters.

Lincoln moved to Illinois and spent a short time as a military officer in the Illinois state militia.

What’s a “militia”?

Later (while Andrew Jackson was President) Lincoln became a state politician in Illinois.

While a state politician, Lincoln became a lawyer.

Union Confederate Territories

Lincoln was President during the Civil War

1861-1865

The American Civil War was brutal, my friends

Brutal

Lincoln sometimes visited the soldiers…

and met with the Generals.

His most important General during the Civil War was Ulysses S. Grant

His most important General during the Civil War was Ulysses S. Grant

who later became President himself

As a team, they kept our country together.

At the end of the Civil War, we were one country again.

Lincoln and the Union Army stopped slavery in the United States

Where is the Lincoln Memorial?

Washington, DC

The Lincoln Memorial is in Washington, DC

Abraham Lincoln is honored on the $5 bill

Alexander Hamilton

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Abraham Lincoln


Add the name Abraham Lincoln


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Abraham Lincoln.


Thomas Jefferson

Add the name Thomas Jefferson to your list

Abraham Lincoln1.2.3.4.5.Thomas Jefferson


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Please write down 5 things you already know about the man Thomas Jefferson.


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Thomas Jefferson WAS a President (the 3rd)

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Thomas Jefferson lived around the

time of the Revolutionary War

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He was President just after 1800

Thomas Jefferson was born to wealthy parents on a plantation in Virginia.

His father died when he was 14 years old.

Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd of 10 children.

He loved to learn new things and improve existing products.

Thomas Jefferson was very smart.

Thomas Jefferson entertained guests by playing the violin.

(This is NOT Thomas Jefferson)

Why are there no photographs of Thomas Jefferson?

He brought the first swivel chair to America.

He studied crop rotation

He studied architecture

He improved the dumbwaiter

He invented new methods of

archaeology

He wrote several books.

(You can still buy copies of his books today.)

He was a lawyer and the governor of Virginia.

He spoke French and was our diplomat to France.

Who was our diplomat to France before Jefferson?

Before Jefferson, our diplomat to France was Benjamin Franklin.

Thomas Jefferson was a

scientist

author

philosopher

visionary

statesmandiplomat

musician

lawyer

Thomas Jefferson looked

a lot different than his $2 bill

portrait.

In 1803, as President, Thomas Jefferson bought all this land from the French.

Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark out to explore it.

Thomas Jefferson is honored on the $2 bill

56 men signed

the Declaration of Independence

Their average age was…

44 years old

4 of them were in their 20s

http://www.americanrevolution.org/deckey.html

Thomas Jeffersonwas 33 years old

Not only did Thomas Jefferson sign the Declaration of Independence, he wrote it!

back of the $2

Where did this scene take place?

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania

Independence Hall

Independence Hall is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The back of a $2 is taken from a famous painting.

Where is this physical painting today?

The physical painting is in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building.

(The “rotunda” is the big open space directly under the dome.)

U.S. Capitol rotunda

Abraham Lincoln

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Thomas Jefferson


Add the name Thomas Jefferson


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Thomas Jefferson.


George Washington

Add the name George Washington to your list

Thomas Jefferson1.2.3.4.5.George Washington



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Please write down 5 things you already know about the man George Washington.


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George Washington WAS a President (the 1st)

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George Washington lived before and during the Revolutionary War.

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(One of his younger sisters died as a baby.)

George Washington had two older half-brothers (his father’s first wife had died), three younger brothers and two younger sisters.

George Washington’s father died when he was 11 years old.

At 17, Washington worked as a surveyor for a relative of his older half-brother.

Washington lived in Virginia and joined the Virginia militia as a British officer.

What’s a “militia”?

What other President that we’ve seen was

from Virginia?

(Thomas Jefferson was also from

Virginia.)

What other President that we’ve seen was

from Virginia?

Washington fought as a British officer in the French and Indian War.

(The people in the English colonies fought against the French and their Indian allies.)

The British (with Washington) won the war.The French ended up in Canada.

(We know what happened to the Indians.)

Later, George Washington was the leader of the American Army during the Revolutionary War.

(They called it the “Continental Army” back then.)

George Washington, 1st President

1789-1797

He then became our 1st President.

George Washington is honored on the $1 bill.

The Great Seal of the United States

The back of the $1 bill has the Great Seal of the United States on it…

Can you find 5 groups of 13 things on the back of the Great Seal?

13 stars

13 stripes

13 leaves

13 olives

13 arrows

13 stars

13 stripes

13 olives

13 arrows

13 leaves

Notice 13 things on the front of the Great Seal?

George Washington is honored on the $1 bill.

Thomas Jefferson

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George Washington


Add the name George Washington


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George Washington.


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Were any of these men NOT Presidents?

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Did any of these men know each other?

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1st President

These 3 worked for George Washington

1st President


1st Postmaster General(in charge of the U.S. Mail)

1st Secretary of Treasury(in charge of the banking)

1st President



1st Secretary of Treasury(in charge of the banking)

1st Secretary of State(in charge of relations

with other countries)

1st President



These 2 worked together during the Civil War.

Commander of Union Army during Civil War

Presidentduring Civil War

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Did any of these men lose a parent when they were children?

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Were any of these men born in a log cabin?

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Were any of these men born in Virginia?

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Were any of these men military officers?

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