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media type="custom" key="7167607" __Bulleted Summary (Sara, slides # 2-5)__

- Born in Virginia - Feb.22 -middle class family -Rules of Civility = book of manners and how to do things right -brother died -inherited family business = Mount Vernon Estate -soldier in French and Indian War -unanimously elected Commander in chief of the Revolutionary War -won war = won US freedom -first president of the US -left office in 1797 -whiskey rebellion -jay's treaty -treaty of greenville -pinckney's treaty -washington monument society = raised money to build GW monument -robert mills = architect of washington monument

__Bulleted Summary (Chelsea, slides # 6-8)__

-original design - 600 ft - tall obelisk (four sided column) - flat top surface -monument society = group who raised money for monument/ chose architect - Robert Mills - monument made of granite, marble, and sandstone - rocks from all over country - 555 ft tall - towers over nation's capital - monument took 36 years to make - total cost $ 1,187,710

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