As a warm-up activity in class, we had to compose a list of ten people that we would use to teach an American History class from years 1607-1980. It's about as good as I can do given that my brain's fried and I have homework... so here is my list, in random order:
1) Ben Franklin--entrepreneur, inventor, scientist, politician, philosopher and all-around ladies man
2) Mother Jones--activist in the late 1800s: defender of children, miners and anyone else who needed her firebrand nature
3) John O’Sullivan--coined the term Manifest Destiny in the Democratic Review
4) John Smith--significant role in establishing Jamestown, the first British colony in the New World
5) Ann Hutchinson--accused of heresy for her religious beliefs, was kicked out of Puritan New England and settled in Portsmouth, RI.
6) Homer Plessey--challenged the legality of separate but equal in the South
7) Ronald Reagan--his brand of Republicanism shaped a generation
8) Walter Cronkite--Uncle Walter, the most trusted man in America
9) Tecumseh--Shawnee leader during the early 1800s
10) Francis Cabot Lowell--established early industrial practices that revolutionized America
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This is so funny. As I was reading your description of Franklin, I was saying, "and tail chaser." You ended with "all-around ladies man." I guess great minds do work alike.
What? No FDR? NO ABE? I suppose it's almost impossible to limit yourself to ten.
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