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Warm-up: Freedoms and Rights
Five President Notes
Five President Posters
Homework: Enjoy your weekend 
Objective:
• Content Objective: Students will review the
Bill of Rights. Students will also learn about
the first five presidents and discover their
major accomplishments.
• Language Objective: Students will research
and create Presidential Posters.
George Washington
As President
• Only President unanimously
elected
• Federal Court System started
while he was president
• Had no political party (political
parties started while in office)
• Bill of Rights added to
Constitution
• Only president to not live in
Washington, D.C. – but plans for
the city laid out while he was
president.
• Set many precedents
George Washington
In the Revolution
• Nominated as commander in
chief by John Adams
• Won and lost several early
battles
• Excellent military leader
• Accepted the British surrender
at Yorktown in 1781
• Born February 22, 1732 in
Virginia
• Died December 14, 1799
• Had no formal education
• Fought in the French and
Indian War
• Never had wooden teeth
• Married Martha Custis and
gained a lot of land
John Adams
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As President
Member of the Federalists
(two political parties
emerged while he was
president)
Had Problems with France
Thomas Jefferson was his
Vice President
First president to live in the
White House
Passed the Alien and
Sedition Acts
John Adams
• Born October 22, 1735 in
Massachusetts
• Grandparents landed at
Plymouth with the Pilgrims
• Went to Harvard College
• Defended the British soldiers
involved in the Boston Massacre
• In the Continental Congresses
• Signed the Declaration of
Independence
• During the Revolutionary War,
served as an ambassador
• Served as George
Washington’s Vice President
• Holds the record for casting
the most tie-breaking votes in
the Senate
• Lived longer than any other
president (90 years, 247 days)
– record broken in 2006
• Died on July 4, 1826
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Warm-up: Freedoms and Rights
Five President Notes
Five President Posters
Homework: Enjoy your weekend 
Thomas Jefferson
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As President
First president inaugurated
in Washington, D.C.
Purchased the Louisiana
Territory from France ($11
million, 3 cents an acre)
Sent Lewis and Clark to
explore the new territory
First president to shake
visitors hands
His Vice President, Aaron
Burr, shot and killed a man
in a duel
Thomas Jefferson
• Born in Virginia 1758
• Went to the College of William
& Mary
• Served in the House of
Burgesses and the Continental
Congresses
• Wrote and signed the
Declaration of Independence
• During the Revolutionary War,
served as an ambassador
• Wrote the Virginia Statute for
Religious Freedom
• George Washington’s Secretary
of State
• John Adam’s Vice President
• Founded the University of
Virginia
• Loved architecture - designed
his home at Monticello and the
Virginia State Capital building
• Died on the 4th of July (same
day as John Adams)
James Madison
• Served as President during
The War of 1812
(Washington, D.C. burned)
• First president to have served
in Congress (Representative)
• Shortest president (5’ 4”)and
the first to wear trousers
• Let the charter on the First
National Bank expire
• 2 states joined the Union
• Had two vice presidents die
while he was in office
James Madison
• Wrote the Virginia Plan for
the Constitutional
Convention
• Father of the Constitution
• Wrote the Bill of Rights
• Opposed Alexander Hamilton
and the National Bank
• Democratic-Republican
• Jefferson’s Secretary of State
• Born in Virginia 1751
• Graduated from College of
New Jersey (now Princeton)
• Portrait is on the $5000 bill
• Died in June 1836
James Monroe
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As President
Issued the Monroe Doctrine –
told Europe to stay out of the
affairs in the Western
Hemisphere
First Senator to be president
Signed the Missouri
Compromise (made states in
the South “slave” and states in
the North “free”)
5 states joined the Union
Daughter was married at the
White House (first wedding
there)
James Monroe
• Fought in the Revolutionary
War  wounded in the Battle
of Trenton
• Pictured in painting
Washington Crossing the
Delaware
• Born in Virginia 1758
• Graduated from the College
of William and Mary
• Democratic-Republican
• Cabinet member for James
Madison
• Only president other than
Washington to have a capital
city named after him
(Monrovia, Liberia)
• Died on the 4th of July, five
years after Jefferson and
Adams
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Warm-up: Freedoms and Rights
Five President Notes
Five President Posters
Homework: Enjoy your weekend 