Beset by economic unrest, threatened from within by Indian nations and from without by overseas powers, the young country reeled in turmoil. But the gallant general who had commanded the Continental army in battle also agreed to guide the fledgling country - and his sure hand steadied the course.
George Washington
Martha Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Eliza Powel
James Madison
Edmund Randolph
Maria Reynolds
James Monroe
Henrietta Liston
Patrick Henry
Citizen Genet
General Henry Knox
Eban Krutch
John Jay
John Adams
William Duer
Christopher
Oney Judge
Oliver Walcott
Thomas Pickering
Betsy Hamilton (as Eve Bennett-Gordon)
James Reynolds
Hammond
Tobias Lear
Anne Bingham
Nelly - Age 16
Bradford
Philip Freneau (as Jeffrey Hayenga)