Do the quiz. Only one of the following facts about George Washington is false. Which one?
1. You can see George Washington’s face on every US one-dollar bill.
2. Washington's Birthday is a United States federal holiday.
3. George Washington was a well–travelled man for his time having visited more than 15 countries including France, Egypt, Spain and Turkey.
4. George Washington was the only U.S. President who did not occupy the White House.
Read more about George Washington, who was the first and the second US President and is known as ‘The Father of His Country’.
Despite having got only an elementary school education, George Washington succeeded in making a truly brilliant career as a general, a president and a planter. At 21 he was sworn in as a major in the Virginia militia, an armed force whose main goal was to resist invasions and to enforce the laws of the colony. At 23 he was made colonel. When the American War of Independence broke out, the command of the colonial forces was given to Washington, who through a series of victories and defeats led his soldiers to the eventual triumph.
Being commander of the victorious army he could have seized power in the whole country but instead preferred to resign and return to the life of a planter. Washington was a successful planter: unlike other planters who concentrated only on growing tobacco, he raised different crops and attempted primitive irrigation techniques. He also engaged in flour milling, fishing, horse breeding, spinning, weaving and whiskey production. ‘Washington's Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, consisted of five separate farms on 8,000 acres of prime farmland run by more than 300 slaves and was worth more than half a billion in today’s dollars’.
The enormous respect George Washington had gained for his accomplishments and his personal virtues (courage, determination, leadership qualities, administrative talents, incorruptibility) made him the only man fit to be the first president of the ‘struggling young republic’. His presidency saw the foundation of the United States Navy, the establishment of the nation’s official currency and the creation of the State Department and the Supreme Court. When George Washington died, Congressman Henry Lee said that he was ‘first in war—first in peace—and first in the hearts of his countrymen’.
1. You can see George Washington’s face on every US one-dollar bill.
2. Washington's Birthday is a United States federal holiday.
3. George Washington was a well–travelled man for his time having visited more than 15 countries including France, Egypt, Spain and Turkey.
4. George Washington was the only U.S. President who did not occupy the White House.
Read more about George Washington, who was the first and the second US President and is known as ‘The Father of His Country’.
Despite having got only an elementary school education, George Washington succeeded in making a truly brilliant career as a general, a president and a planter. At 21 he was sworn in as a major in the Virginia militia, an armed force whose main goal was to resist invasions and to enforce the laws of the colony. At 23 he was made colonel. When the American War of Independence broke out, the command of the colonial forces was given to Washington, who through a series of victories and defeats led his soldiers to the eventual triumph.
Being commander of the victorious army he could have seized power in the whole country but instead preferred to resign and return to the life of a planter. Washington was a successful planter: unlike other planters who concentrated only on growing tobacco, he raised different crops and attempted primitive irrigation techniques. He also engaged in flour milling, fishing, horse breeding, spinning, weaving and whiskey production. ‘Washington's Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, consisted of five separate farms on 8,000 acres of prime farmland run by more than 300 slaves and was worth more than half a billion in today’s dollars’.
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| George Washington's Mount Vernon house |
The enormous respect George Washington had gained for his accomplishments and his personal virtues (courage, determination, leadership qualities, administrative talents, incorruptibility) made him the only man fit to be the first president of the ‘struggling young republic’. His presidency saw the foundation of the United States Navy, the establishment of the nation’s official currency and the creation of the State Department and the Supreme Court. When George Washington died, Congressman Henry Lee said that he was ‘first in war—first in peace—and first in the hearts of his countrymen’.
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