1. SIGNIFICANT INDIVIDUALS IN U.S. HISTORY

2. General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
1st U.S. President from
Presided over the U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787
George Washington

3. Author of the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776.
Secretary of State in George Washington's cabinet.
3rd U.S. President
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

4. 16th President of the United States 1861-1865.
He was president during the Civil War.
Gettysburg Address was his Second Inaugural Address.
Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves in states currently in rebellion were free
Abraham Lincoln

5. 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