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 John Jay
served in the Continental Congress, but
did not favor separation from Great
Britain. He subsequently helped negotiate
the treaty that ended the Revolution,
co-authored The Federalist Papers,
and served as the first Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court. |
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 George
Washington: A Chronology of His Life and
Career George Washington lived an
exciting life in exciting times. As a
boy, he explored the wilderness. When he
grew older, he helped the British fight
the French and Indians. Many times he was
nearly killed. As a general, he suffered
hardships with his troops in the cold
winters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
and Morristown, New Jersey. He lost many
battles, but led the American army to
final victory at Yorktown, Virginia.
After he became President, he
successfully solved many problems in
turning the plans of the Constitution
into a working government. |
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 William
Harris Crawford served in
the U.S. Senate, as Secretary of War, and
as Secretary of the Treasury. He was a
presidential candidate in 1816 and 1824,
with the latter election having to be
decided by the U.S. House of
Representatives. |
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 John
Charles Frémont led two
major expeditions into the West and Far
West which resulted in maps of areas
never before mapped. He also took part in
the "Bear Flag Revolt" in
California, ran for President in 1856,
and served as a Major General in the
Civil War. |
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 The
Emancipation Proclamation
didn't actually free a single slave, but
it do much to strengthen the North and
weaken the South by making slavery a
central issue of the Civil War. |
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