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Johnathan Trumbull
One of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Revolutionary state. He was the only colonial governor at the start of the Revolution to take up the rebel cause. -
John Witherspoon
Witherspoon was elected to the Continental Congress (1776–79, 1780–82) in time to vote for the Resolution for Independence (along with Rush) and soon after for the Declaration of Independence (becoming the only member of the clergy to sign the document). -
John Hancock
President of the continental congress in 1775 and the first to sign the Declaration of Independence. Hancock and Adams were hunted by British army. -
Charles Carroll
A Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. -
John Jay
Representative of NY at the continental congress,helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and was the 1st chief justice of the supreme court. -
Benjamin Rush
Rush officially went down in U.S. history as a founding father when he became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and he carried his medical knowledge with him through the war effort as surgeon general of the Middle Department of the army. -
John Peter Muhlenberg
He was an Army soldier in the Revolutionary war, Muhlenberg was elected to the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1784. He was elected Vice-President of the Council, a position comparable to that of Lieutenant Governor, on October 31, 1787, but quit under a year. -
Declaration of Independence
In 1776, soon after the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, the leaders of the war got together to write a letter to the King of England. They wanted to explain why they were fighting to be their own country. -
E Pluribus Unum
out of many, one (the motto of the US) -
U.S. Constitution
A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed -
5th Amendment
Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process, Takings. -
Bill of Rights
These 12 were approved on September 25, 1789 and sent to the states for ratification. The 10 amendments that are now known as the Bill of Rights were ratified on December 15, 1791, thus becoming a part of the Constitution. -
Alexis de tocqueville
He came to america to look at the U.S. government and politics. There are five crucial values that make U.S. successful.
Liberty- Individuals were able to pursue their own work
Egaltarism- There are no social class distinction
Individualism- Hard work/labor are keys to be successful
Populism- Involves people being able to say their own opinion
Laissez-Faire- Less government interaction & more hardwork -
Eminent Domain
the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation. -
“In God We Trust”
adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956 as an alternative or replacement to the unofficial motto of E pluribus unum
