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Charles Carroll
He was present when the signing of the final Declaration of Independence happened. Then resigned from the Continental Congress to serve in the Maryland State Assembly. In 1777, Carroll became a Maryland state senator, in 1789 he was elected U.S. senator, Then retired from politics to concentrate on business matters: managing his vast real estate holdings, expanding his interests in the westward canal system and later helping to establish the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. -
John Trumbull Sr.
He was the only man who served as governor in both an English colony and an American state, and he was the only governor at the start of the American Revolutionary War to take up the Patriot cause. He sided with the Patriots -
John Witherspoon
Was a Scottish-American presbyterian minister and one of the founding Fathers of the US. He served in the congress.
when the war was over, Witherspoon served in the New Jersey legislature. Then he became blind because of injuries to his eyes, however he taught an American president (James Madison) and a vice president (Aaron Burr), as well as 39 congressmen, 21 senators, 12 governors, nine Cabinet members and three Supreme Court justices. -
John Peter Muhlenberg
He was a American clergyman, army soldier the revolutionary war, and political figure in the newly independent United States. He was authorized to be a commander for the Continental Army. After the war, in 1784, he became the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a letter from the American colonies to Great Britain. It stated reasons why they wanted their independence from Britain. Thomas was the only one who did the work and the rest barely did work. -
John Hancock
He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, governor of Massachusetts. Hancock inherited his uncle's lucrative shipping business. Hancock used his wealth and influence to aid the movement for American independence. Also, he was president of the Second Continental Congress. From 1780 to 1785, he was the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. -
Benjamin Rush
He was a signer of the D of I. He was also a civic leader in Philadelphia; he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator. He became the Surgeon General of the Continental Army and a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania. (Prominent in education and medical).Didn't like slavery, wanted free schools, better education for women. -
Benjamin Rush
He was a signer of the D of I. He was also a civic leader in Philadelphia; he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator. He became the Surgeon General of the Continental Army and a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania. (Prominent in education and medical).Didn't like slavery, wanted free schools, better education for women. -
US constiution
it's the supreme law. It's to form 7 things; a 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. -
John Jay
He was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, negotiator and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, second Governor of New York, and the first Chief Justice of the United States. John served in the Continental Congress, wrote some of The Federalist Papers and became the first chief justice of the United States -
Bill of Rights
The bill of Rights is the 10 amendments of the United States. James Madison was the one who wrote it. It listed specific things the government couldn't do. -
Fifth Amendment
It's the 5th amendment out of 10. it is also apart of the Bill of Rights. It means you shall not be held to answer for a capital or any infamous crime. -
E pluribus unum
It's a motto for the US meaning one out of many. It appears on the great seal. Adopted by the Act of congress. -
Alex deTocqueville&his 5 principles
He was a French sociologist and political theorist. He traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and then went back with observations that he named in “Democracy in America” (1835). In it, he said there were 5 values that would contribute to the US's success. -
Eminent Domain
It's the right of a government to take away private property for public use, with payment. It's a compulsory purchase, resumption, resumption/compulsory acquisition, or expropriation is the power of a state, provincial, or national government to take private property for public use. -
In God we trust
It's a motto of the US and the state of Florida. It's because we know the importance of God. It was made as the nation's motto in 1956 as a replacement or alternative to the unofficial motto of E pluribus unum.
