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List a major accomplishment of each of these men: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin

Franklin, John Adams, John Hancock, and Roger Sherman. Then explain how these
people's views about government helped shape the new United States.

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(I)Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence.He drafted the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.He served as the third President of the United States.United States Military Academy was established during his presidency. Jefferson doubled the size of the United States during his presidency.
(2)Benjamin -Franklin was a Founding Father and a polymath, inventor, scientist, printer, politician, freemason and diplomat. Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and he negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War.10-Dec-2020
(3)John Adams-
John Adams was an advocate of American independence from Britain, a major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author of the Massachusetts constitution (1780), a signer of the Treaty of Paris (1783), ambassador to the Court of St.
(4)John Hancock-Some achievements of John Hancock are becoming the president of the Continental Congress, becoming the first governor of the Common Wealth of Massachusetts, and being able to sign the Declaration of Independence.
(5)Roger Sherman-Sherman is especially notable in United States history for being the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States, the Articles of Association, the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.
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were a group of American leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, led the war for independence from Great Britain, and built a frame of government for the new United States of America upon republican principles during the latter decades of the 18th century.
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