ABeka History 11 - Chapter 7 - People
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- John Dickinson
- led the committee which drafted the Articles of Confederation and proposed them to Congress in 1776
- Daniel Shays
- a former military officer who led a rebellion of farmers and debtors in western Massachusetts in 1786
- Alexander Hamilton
- a delegate of New York who attended the Annapolis Convention and the Constitutional Convention
- James Madison
- a delegate of Virginia who attended the Annapolis Convention and the Constitutional Convention; remembered as the Father of the Constitution
- George Washington
- former commander of the colonial army; presided over the Constitutional Convention; first President of the United States
- Jonathan Dayton
- the youngest delegate to the Constitutional Convention
- Edmund Randolph
- proposed the Virginia Plan to the Convention
- William Paterson
- presented the New Jersey Plan to the Convention
- Noah Webster
- the great American educator who wrote "History of the United States."
- Isaac Backus
- a Baptist leader who became the most influential figure in the long battle for religious freedom in Massachusetts
- John Leland
- the most influential leader of the Virginia Baptists
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Frenchman who came to America in 1831; one of the greatest political thinkers of the Modern Age; published "Democracy in America in 1833."
- Benjamin Franklin
- great American statesman who attended the Constitutional Convention