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History definitions
Term | Definition |
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Congress | a national legislative body |
George Washington | The first president of the united states, founding father, General of the revolutionary army that led America to victory. |
Benjamin Franklin | Founding Father, oldest signer of the declaration of independence, a scientist and part of the committee of five |
Sam Adams | leader of the sons of liberty, founding father, and part of the committee of five |
Thomas Jefferson | Main author of the declaration of independence, 3rd president of America. |
Constitution | a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed. |
Declaration of Independence | the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. |
committee of five | a team of five men who drafted and presented to the Congress what would become America's Declaration of Independence |
Robert Livingston | an American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, Founding Father of the United States and part of the committee of five |
Roger Sherman | an early American statesman and lawyer, as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to have signed all four great state papers of the United States and part of the committee of five |