Founding+Fathers

=Founding Fathers Wiki=

Create a wiki that can be used to by a high school student to study the Founding Fathers of our nation. Your goal is to **explain their significance and their contribution to the formation of our nation**. Focus on these two ideas rather than on a detailed biography. Each student needs to contribute **six times** in a meaningful way to this wiki. Cite your sources.

Benjamin Rush
was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitarian and a Christian Universalist,as well as the founder of Dickison College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush -Brandon A

John Hancock
October 8, 1793) was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock -Brandon A

JOHN JAY
John Jay was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95).

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay -Brandon A

THOMAS JEFFERSON
was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginiaand then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781)

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson -Brandon A

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN  was one of the founding fathers of the united states. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin -Brandon A
 * Benjamin Franklin **

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician [] . lucii.merino

GEORGE WASHINGTON
- was born on February 22 (February 11, according to the Old Style calendar), 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Washington was an American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83) and, subsequently, the first president of the United States (1789–97). He died on December 14, 1799 in Mount Vernon, Virginia. @http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-9524786  -Brandon A He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later as the new republic's first President. He also presided over the convention that drafted the Constitution.Washington.D.C. the capital of the United States, is named for him, as is the States of Washington on the nation's Pacific Coast. more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington by Edgar ARANA

THOMAS JEFFERSON
He was elected Constitutional Congress representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781). Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris. In May 1785, he became the united states minister to france. Jefferson was the first United States Secretary of State (1790–1793) serving under President George Washington. With his close friend James Madison he organized the democrate republican Party, and subsequently resigned from Washington's cabinet. Elected Vice President in 1796, when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists,Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts. more info go to @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

Benjamin Franklin
“He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775, where he played a crucial role in the rebellion against Gr. Britain, including service to Jefferson in editing the Declaration of Independence. Franklin, who was by this time independently wealthy and retired from publishing, continued to serve an important role in government both local and national. He was the United States first Postmaster General, Minister to the French Court, Treaty agent and signer to the peace with Gr. Britain.” @http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/franklin.htm -Daniel Cuevas @http://www.biography.com/people/benjamin-franklin-9301234 jenevie bernal **WATCH VIDEO!!!** was one of the founding father on the united states. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist,politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor,satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin lucii.m

John Hancock
John Hancock was the first to sign the declaration of independence and has the most famous signature in history. Raymond Minnick

In May 1775, John Hancock was elected president of the Continental Congress, which was meeting in Philadelphia. The next month, the Congress chose George Washington (1732-1799) as commander of the Continental Army. (According to some accounts, Hancock had eyed the role for himself.) During the eight years of war that followed, Hancock used his wealth and influence to help fund the army and revolutionary cause. (JENEVIE BERNAL) @http://www.biography.com/people/john-hancock-9327271

John Jay
"Jay was undoubtedly the most influential proponent of constitutional reform who was denied an opportunity to attend the Philadelphia convention. Adams later said that Jay was "of more importance than any of the rest, indeed of almost as much weight as all the rest." Adams himself and Jefferson, two of the other principal absentee Founders, were serving abroad at the time and unavailable, but Jay who was on hand and ready and willing was ignored." @http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/exhibitions/constitution/essay.html Raymond minnick

Thomas Jefferson
“Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president, was a leading figure in America's early development. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), Jefferson served in the Virginia legislature and the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia. He later served as U.S. minister to France and U.S. secretary of state, and was vice president under John Adams (1735-1826). Jefferson, who thought the national government should have a limited role in citizens' lives, was elected president in 1800. During his two terms in office (1801-1809), the U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory and Lewis and Clark explored the vast new acquisition. Although Jefferson promoted individual liberty, he was also a slaveowner. After leaving office, he retired to his Virginia plantation, Monticello, and helped found the University of Virginia.” @http://www.history.com/topics/thomas-jefferson

-Daniel Cuevas @http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-jefferson-9353715 JENEVIE BERNAL **WATCH VIDEO!!!**

James Madison
"Over 200 years after the founding of the federal republic, James Madison remains the most important political thinker in American history. The prime framer of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Madison was also a brilliant expositor of the new republican government and its underlying principles. His eloquent and insightful writing on freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the press, the rights of minorities under majority rule, the role of the states in the federal system, and the separation of powers are central to American political thought and speak to the controversies of the present day." @http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=133 -Daniel Cuevas

John Peter Muhlenberg
Toward the end of 1775, Muhlenberg was authorized to raise and command as its coloneel the 8th Virginia reqiment of the continental army. After George Washington personally asked him to accept this task, he agreed. However, his brother Fredrick Augustus Mulenberg, who was also a minister, did not approve of him going into the army until the British burned down his own church in front of him. Then he joined the military himself. -luis

Benjamin Rush
“In 1786, Benjamin Rush produced a plan of education that he hoped would meet the needs of democracy. He believed, along with Adams, Madison, and others, that the only security of a republic lay in a proper education. Hence Rush wrote the monumental essay entitled "Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic.".” @http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/rush.html -Daniel Cuevas

Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.


"During the war, Jonathan Jr. served as Paymaster General for the northern department of the Continental Army, as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury, and as military secretary to General George Washington from 1781 to 1783. He was a representative in the first Congress elected under the new Constitution in 1789 and the second Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He then served in the U.S. Senate but resigned to return to Connecticut to become lieutenant governor in 1796." @http://www.lebanontownhall.org/trumbullheartbeat.htm -Daniel Cuevas

George Washington
"George Washington was among the first of America’s statesmen to recognize the flaws in the government under the Continental Congress and the Articles of Confederation. His experience in the Revolutionary War had convinced him that excessive concerns for states’ rights and state sovereignty would be fatal to an effective national government. The inability of the Continental or Confederation government to feed, accommodate, supply, or pay the army was more than enough to convince him that a stronger central government was essential to maintain such an extended nation." http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/early-republic/essays/george-washington-and-constitution -Daniel Cuevas @http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-9524786 JENEVIE **WATCH VIDEO**