#6559, aired 2013-03-07 | THE 18th CENTURY $600: 1780s Americans who advocated a strong central government used this name, today associated with states' rights Federalists |
#4987, aired 2006-04-25 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On Dec. 26, 1776 Americans killed Col. Johann Rall & captured about 1,000 Hessian troops in this battle the Battle of Trenton |
#4183, aired 2002-11-06 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: In 1775 he & a group of axmen cleared & marked the Wilderness Road for the Transylvania Company Daniel Boone |
#4183, aired 2002-11-06 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In the 1770s, this pamphleteer wrote "African Slavery in America", an article condemning slavery Thomas Paine |
#4183, aired 2002-11-06 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: In "The Federalist" No. 51, this future president put forth an argument for the separation of powers James Madison |
#4183, aired 2002-11-06 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: This Pennsylvanian's son William served as royal governor of New Jersey & remained loyal to the crown Ben Franklin |
#4183, aired 2002-11-06 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Mary Hays received this pseudonym for aiding her husband & other soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth Molly Pitcher |
#3617, aired 2000-05-02 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $200: This trailblazer held a series of political offices in Kentucky including sheriff & deputy surveyor Daniel Boone |
#3617, aired 2000-05-02 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: He was off Flamborough Head, England on September 23, 1779 when he said, "I have not yet begun to fight" John Paul Jones |
#3617, aired 2000-05-02 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $800 (Daily Double): He served jointly with William Hunter as Postmaster General of the colonies from 1753 to 1774 Benjamin Franklin |
#3617, aired 2000-05-02 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: Despite victories in the Northwest Territory, this general & his men received no pay for their services in the revolution George Rogers Clark |
#3617, aired 2000-05-02 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $1000: On September 27, 1779 this ex-chief justice of New York was named minister plenipotentiary to Spain John Jay |
#2576, aired 1995-11-13 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $200: When caught as a spy in September of 1776, he was disguised as a Dutch schoolteacher Nathan Hale |
#2576, aired 1995-11-13 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: During the last years of the revolution, he worked on his "Notes on the State of Virginia" Thomas Jefferson |
#2576, aired 1995-11-13 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $600: He protested the Stamp Act through his widely circulated copper engravings Paul Revere |
#2576, aired 1995-11-13 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: About 60% of the essays in "The Federalist" were written by him Alexander Hamilton |
#2576, aired 1995-11-13 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1770, this future president defended the British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre & won the case John Adams |
#8281, aired 2020-11-16 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: One eulogizer of this man noted, he "was able to restrain thunderbolts & tyrants" Benjamin Franklin |
#8019, aired 2019-06-20 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: "Essays to Do Good" by Cotton Mather inspired Silence Dogood, the newspaper pseudonym of this man Benjamin Franklin |
#7823, aired 2018-09-19 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: In a famous 1775 speech, he said, "Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!" Patrick Henry |
#5148, aired 2007-01-17 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: He preached, "The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider... over the fire, abhors you" Jonathan Edwards |
#2941, aired 1997-05-19 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: A military post & a Tennessee city are both named for this first U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox |