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John Hancock
Was an American Merchant, Statesman, and Prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.Also served as president of the Second Continental Congress and first and third governor of Massachusetts -
Benjamin Rush
Was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.He was a civic leader in Philadelphia where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and the founder of Dickinson College -
John Witherspoon
Was a Scottish American Presbyterian Minister and Founding Father of The United States.He was also a delegate of New Jersey and a signer of the Declaration of Independence -
John Jay
Was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, and a Founding Father.Also a negotiator and signer of The Treaty of Paris, Second Governor of New York, and First Chief Justice of the United States -
Charles Carroll
A wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of Independence from Great Britain.He was also a founding father and served as a Senator of Maryland and was the last founding father to die. -
Declaration of Independence
Created and signed on July 4th, 1776.Written by Thomas Jefferson.Has four main section which discusses the problems without this and the problems that will be solved with it. -
E Pluribus Unum
The Motto of the US.Latin for "Out of many, one."Adopted by an Act of congress in 1782. -
John Trumbull Sr.
The only man to serve as a governor in an English Colony and an American State.He was the only governor at the start of The American Revolutionary War to take up the patriotic cause. -
Fifth Amendment
An amendment that keeps the government from charging for the same thing twice.You cannot be charged for the same thing twice that is double jeopardy -
US Constitution
We the People.All legislative powers shall consist a Senate and House of Representatives.No state shall create a treaty or alliance.Executive power shall be held by the president. -
Eminent Domain
The governments ability to take private property for public use with compensation of payment. -
Bill of Rights
Gave us our most important ten amendments.This gives many of the rights we have to today like freedom of speech and right to speedy trial. -
John Peter Mulenburg
An American Clergyman and Continental army soldier during the American Revolution.He was a very political figure in the newly Independent United States. -
"In God We Trust"
The official motto of the United States and of the state of Florida -
Alex de Tocqueville
Was a French Sociologist and Political Theorist and he came to the United States to study it's prisons.He was best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution.
