| Fact | Founding Father [Last Name] |
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| Placed on US currency in the 1920s by a Republican led government interested in diminishing the status of this Founding Father | |
| He was the last pick to command the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War | |
| Wanted the US to maintain a large standing army and become a military state | |
| Was considered a true model of the 'American dream' [rags to riches story] | |
| Often silent during 'conversations' with others and avoided abstract conversations | |
| Anal to appear as a 'gentleman,' did not attend college, and re-wrote letters written during the Revolution to correct errors | |
| Was a compulsive shopper, believed in the natural ties of commerce [trade] among countries, opposed paper money that was not 'backed' by gold/silver | |
| Considered the least intellectual of the Founding Fathers by other Founding Fathers | |
| Felt that government was a 'device by which the few attempted to rob, cheat, and oppress the many' | |
| Did not know foreign languages and avoided going to France in 1787 to avoid embarrassment | |
| | Fact | Founding Father [Last Name] |
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| 'Flip-flopped' on whether the states or the central government should hold more power over the other | |
| Worried about the rights of minority [political] groups being trampled upon by the majority and feared that majority rule and 'democracy' was the 'problem' | |
| Avoided writing his recollections of the Revolution because of his lack of formal education | |
| Stated that America was 'more avaricious [greedy] than any other nation that ever existed.' | |
| Considered riots related to protest of the Stamp Act as 'madness' of the populace | |
| Believed strongly in the inferiority of African Americans and Native Americans and wrote about it | |
| Fiercely loyal to Britain, held job as a tax collector, believed that Britain needed to expand its empire | |
| Held the most authority after Washington as a member of the presidential cabinet and was not accountable to Washington | |
| Placed on US currency in the 1920s by a Republican led government interested in elevating the status of this Founding Father | |
| Bragged of his acquaintance with King George's chief minister, Lord Bute, and displayed Bute's picture in his home | |
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