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Jamestown
• John Smith, John Rolfe, Pocahontas, • First permanent English settlement. • “Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion; which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.” - John Smith -
Declaration of Independence
• Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Hancock • English declared their independence from Great Britian. • "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Declaration -
Constitution
•George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, George Clymer, Henry Knox, Rufus King •The government we live under today • "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America" -Preamble -
Louisiana Purchase
• Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte • Doubled the size of the US. • "Every eye in the U.S. is now fixed on this affair of Louisiana. Perhaps nothing since the revolutionary war has produced more uneasy sensations through the body of the nation." - Thomas Jefferson -
Civil War
• Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman • Ended slavery in the U.S. • "Without slavery, the rebellion could never have existed. Without slavery, it could not continue." - Abraham Lincoln
