George Washington

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  • Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia

  • Official Surveyor for Culpeper County, Virginia

  • Carried British ulltimatum to the French in the Ohio River Valley

  • surrendered Fort Necessity in the French and Indian War

  • Ambushed by the French and Indians

  • Married Martha Dandridge Custis

  • Elected Delegate to the First Continental Congress

  • Elected Delegate to the Second Continental Congress

  • Elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army

  • The Declaration of Independence is signed by the Continental Congress

  • Victory at Yorktown

  • Elected President of the Constitutional Convention

  • Elected First President of the United States

  • North Carolina Becomes a State

  • Signed the first act of Congress concerning the admiration of oaths

  • approved plans for the U.S. capital

  • Rhode Island becomes a state

  • Vermont became a state

  • The Bill fo Rights became a law

  • Kentucky became a state

  • Re-elected president to the United States

  • The cotton gin was invented- increase of slave labor

  • issued the Neutrality Proclamation to keep the US out of war between France and Great Britain

  • signed the unpopular Jay Treaty to maintain trade with Great Britain

  • Tennessee becomes a state

  • Commissioned Lietenant General and Commander in Chief of the new United States Army

  • Died at Mount Vernon at the Age of 67