Benjamin Franklin To Alexander Hamilton

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Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin ( 1706–1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

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French & Indian War

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The common U.S. name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756 the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war. Jist of the story, Britain one, DAM'EM! Vive'le France!

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Betty Friedan

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Betty Friedan (1921- 2006) was an American writer, activist and feminist. A leading figure in the "Second Wave" of the U.S. Women's Movement sparked by her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique. First president of NOW.

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Robert Fulton

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(1765 – 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.

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G.I Bill

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(1944) Provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans as well as one year of unemployment compensation. It also provided many different types of loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses.

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Marcus Garvey

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Some black dude from Jamaica who was really good at being black he died in like 1940. He was black.

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Gentleman's Agreement

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A 1947 drama film about a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who goes undercover as a Jew to research antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut. The movie was controversial in its time.

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Gettysburg

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The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.

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Gilded Age

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The Gilded Age, a term coined by Mark Twain, refers to to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper class during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century (1865-1901).

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Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Samuel Gompers

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Fuckin asshole whose last name is Gompers, for christ sake. (1850-1924) An American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor

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Good Neighbor Policy

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The foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. The United States wished to have good relations with its neighbors, especially at a time when conflicts were beginning to rise once again, and this policy was more or less intended to garner Latin American support.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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The seventh and last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991. He was the only Soviet leader to have been born after the October Revolution of 1917.

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Granger Movement

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American agrarian movement taking its name from the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an organization founded in 1867 by Oliver H. Kelley and six associates

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Ulysses S. Grant

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1822–1885) He served as the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As general-in-chief of the Union Army during the American Civil War, he led the North to victory against the Confederate States in the Civil War.

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Great Awakening

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(1730s) A religious revival in American religious history. They were characterized by widespread revivals led by evangelical Protestant ministers, a sharp increase in interest in religion, a profound sense of guilt and redemption on the part of those affected, a jump in evangelical church membership, and the formation of new religious movements and denominations.

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Great Railroad Strike

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1922 and 1877

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Great Society

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The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Joint resolution of the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135 and the destroyer USS Maddox on 02 August 1964. Tonkin Gulf Resolution is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia.

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Alexander Hamilton

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1755 – 1804) was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher. Aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, he was a leader of nationalist forces calling for a new Constitution; he was one of America's first lawyers, and wrote most of the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation. He was the financial expert of Washington's administration; the Federalist Party formed to support his policies. He was the creator of the National Bank, which was opened in 1791 as part of his financial plan for the United States after the Revolutionary War.