People

convinced colonists to join American Revolution movement

• Thomas Paine

• Eugene Debs

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

leader of the Continental Army

• George Washington

• James Madison

• Upton Sinclair

• Thomas Jefferson

diplomat in American Revolution and Sedition Act as president

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Monroe

• James Madison

American Revolution-Symbol of French help

• Marquis de Lafayette

• John Adams

• Baron von Steuben

• George Washington

Father of Constitution

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

• Ben Franklin

• James Monroe

diplomat to France in American Revolutionary War

• Ben Franklin

• Daniel Shays

• George Washington

Prussian trainer at Valley Forge

• Baron von Steuben

• George Washington

• John Adams

led a rebellion that exposed the need for a stronger central government

• Daniel Shays

• Alexander Hamilton

• James Madison

• George Washington

Indian Removal Act, Nullification Crisis, "Common Man"

• Andrew Jackson

• John Brown

• George Washington

• John Calhoun

fulfilled Manifest Destiny with the Texas annexation and Oregon treaty

• James K Polk

• Andrew Jackson

• Robert E. Lee