1. Who Da Man??
100 people in 100 days
#61-70

2. John Quincy Adams 6th president of the US Son of John Adams
Writer of the Monroe Doctrine (when he was Secretary of State under President Monroe)

3. Stephen Douglas Known as the “Little Giant”
Debated Lincoln during presidential election of 1860
Wrote the bill known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act

4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Social activist, abolitionist, reformer for the women’s movement
Worked with Lucretia Mott on the Seneca Falls Convention
Formed the National Women’s Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony and became it’s first president

5. Samuel Morse American painter & inventor
Designed & developed the 1st successful electromagnetic telegraph system called “Morse Code”

6. Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese explorer who sailed for Spain
Credited with being the first to circumnavigate the earth
He was actually killed in a war in the Philippines and did not complete the journey, but 17 of his men did

7. General Charles Cornwallis
British General
Surrendered British troops at Yorktown to end the Revolutionary War
Prior to the war, he actually sided with the colonists in regards to taxes and voted for the repeal of the Stamp Act

8. Meriweather Lewis Chief Powhatan
Father of Pocahontas
Leader of more than 30 tribes
Controlled the area where Jamestown was founded

9. John Jay
One of the writers of the Federalist Papers (articles & essays promoting the ratification of the Constitution)
1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Responsible for peace treaty with Britain called “Jay’s Treaty”

10. Edward Braddock
British officer & Commander in Chief for the colonies during the French & Indian War
Washington served as his aide after his defeat at Ft Necessity
Mortally wounded in battle

11. John Sutter Immigrant from Switzerland
Built Sutter’s Fort and Sutter’s Mill in California
Credited with starting the Gold Rush after gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill by one of his workers, James Marshall