Who Da Man??

100 people in 100 days

#41-50

Nathan Hale

Patriot

Hanged as a spy by the British

Famous for his last words, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Henry Hudson

English sailor that explored for both the Netherlands and England

Discovered a bay which is named for him & a river: Hudson River & Hudson Bay

Crew rebelled and set him, his son, & a few sailors adrift in a small boat – never seen again

Harriett Tubman

Former slave

Saved hundreds of slaves as a “conductor” along the Underground Railroad

Served the Union Army as a cook, nurse, and eventually as a spy

Johannes Guttenberg Developed the

method of printing from moveable type

Invented the Printing Press

German blacksmith, goldsmith and printer

Massasoit

Wampanoag Chief

Befriended William Bradford at Plymouth

Signed peace treaty with the Pilgrims

Meriweather Lewis Thomas Jefferson’s

private secretary

Explored Louisiana Purchase with William Clark

Was given money, 1,600 acres and named governor of the Louisiana Territory

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Civil War General for the Confederate Army

Was accidently shot in the arm by friendly fire & died from complications after having his arm amputated

John Locke

English philosopher and physician

Writer of social contracts and believed in the natural rights of man

Forced to leave England after a failed assassination plot of the King (eventually returned after the King fled)

John Adams

1st Vice President

2nd President

One of our Founding Fathers & a delegate of the Continental Congress

William Penn

English Quaker

Founder and governor of the colony of Pennsylvania