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Mount vernon
Washington didn't think all Americans were deserving of such freedoms.
He kept hundreds of enslaved people at his Virginia estate, Mount Vernon. -
He thinks of Ben Franklin and John Adams. Both men strongly opposed slavery, as did many other figures of the Revolution -
George Washington called the 'father of his country’.
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He entered public service at the young age of 17, becoming a government surveyor. -
Washington was born into a wealthy farming family in Virginia. -
French and Indian war
(a seven-year conflict between England and France). -
George Washington was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
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He joined the Virginia House of Burgesses Virginia’s legislature.
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Washington led the patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War. -
Washington joined the colonial militia, or volunteer army. -
Valley forge
In the winter, a quarter of Washington’s troops died at Valley Forge, PA from cold, starvation, and disease. -
Washington had come to believe that slavery needed to end. (But he worried that outlawing it too quickly, and too soon, would tear the country apart.) -
He led the Continental Army to its final victory against England, at the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. -
Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention, where the U.S. Constitution was written.
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Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States in 1789.
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Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution)
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two- term precedent (Laws = Establishing Washington's precedent of two terms as the maximum a person can serve)
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Farewell address
Washington delivered his Farewell Address. In it, he warned Americans that they needed to stick together, or lose the liberty they'd fought so hard for. -
George Washington death.