Contributors to Democracy

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Serves on a committee of five who draft the Declaration of Independence
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson's Decleration of Indpendence is approved and signed
  • Federick Douglass

    Federick Douglass

    lecturer for the Anti-Slavery society.
  • Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix

    fought for the rights of the mentally ill, deaf and blind
  • Mary McLeod Bethune

    Mary McLeod Bethune

    Became President of the National Association of Colored Women
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Creates New Deal to provide jobs and immediate relief from the Great Depression

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