Individual Actions that brought change to the government and society of the United States of America (1776-1820)
By kmartine1049
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Individual Actions of significant change to American government and society
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Samuel Adams
Samule Adams was one of those to sign the Declaration of Independence. His action, along with many others toward the independence from Britain contributed largely to the future of the U.S. government. He was definately an important politician of the era. Mr. Adams was a member of the first Continental Congress which assembled in Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1774; and continued a member of that body until the year 1781. During this period, no delegate acted a more conspicuous part. -
Mary Draper (Alvis)
Mary Draper was an American who is best known for the help she gave the Continental Army during the revolution. Her story is told in Elizabeth F. Ellet's The Women of the American Revolution (1848). -
John Jay
John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the American Supreme Court. He helped draft a constitution for New York & served as the state's chief justice until 1779. He was President of the Continental Congress in 1778-79. Jay did not favor independence from Britain. His absence from the signing of the Declaration of Independence was noted by Thomas Jefferson. However, once the revolution was undertaken Jay was an ardent supporter of the new nation. New York's College of Police Science was official -
John Hancock
John Hancock played an important part in the continental congress of 1776 as the president of such. In October, 1774 he was elected to the presidential chair of the provincial congress of Massachusetts. In 1780, with the writing of the constitution, he was the governor of the commonwealth, to which office he was annually elected, until the year 1785, when he resigned. After an interval of two years, he was re-elected to the same office, in which he was continued to the time of his death, -
Margaret Catherine Moore
Kate Barry was an excellent horsewoman, and was very familiar with wilderness and Indian trails. In 1781, Kate acted as a voluntary scout for Daniel Morgan, and she gathered patriot bands to send on to him. Her husband was a soldier under the command of General Pickens in the victorious Battle of Cowpens. For her efforts to increase the number of American patriots at the Battle of Cowpens, Kate Barry earned her reputation as a Heroine. -
General George Washington
He was one of the most infulential of all. He was a General during the revolution and could be considered responisble for the success of many battles and partly of the entire general dirrection of the war. "After the arrival of the French army in 1780 he concentrated on coordinating allied efforts and in 1781 launched, in cooperation with the comte de Rochambeau and the comte d'Estaing, the brilliantly planned and executed Yorktown Campaign against Charles Cornwallis, securing (Oct. 19, 1781)" -
Thomas Paine
During the Revolution he wrote the pamphlet Common Sense which immediately made him a revolutionary propagandist. The French Revolution inspired him to write one influential book called the Rights of Man (1791-1792). -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere is most famous for being part of the "midnight ride" in which they anounced the start of the revolution. He also however, "concerned that the United States had to import sheet copper from England, opened the first copper rolling mill in North America in 1801. He provided copper sheeting for the hull of the U.S.S. Constitution and the dome of the new Massachusetts State House in 1803." -
Abigail Smith Adams
Abigail, as wife of the Vice President and then as First Lady, became a trusted and influential political advisor to John. Her support and encouragement of her husband in his career was apparent, as she was wife to one president and mother to another. Her ideas were also influential to the U.S. culture: she opposed slavery, believed in equal education for boys and girls, and practiced the duty of the fortunate is to help those who are less. -
Thomas Jefferson
He was the 3rd president of the United States (1801-1809). He was the authour of the Declaration of Independence making him very important to the future of the country.
